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Queenstown Airport is outgrowing an airspace classification
meant for quieter airports and the Civil Aviation Authority
(CAA) is proposing a change to ensure safety.
The CAA has decided the airspace classification for the
airport should change from class D to C.
The change will mean more air traffic control management and
less self-management by pilots within the airspace - putting
it into the same league as Auckland, Wellington and
A CAA spokesman said the change in classification would mean
passenger aircraft which were able to fly in cloud were
separated from all other aircraft by air traffic control.
''At present, these aircraft are only given traffic
information about flights which are operating under visual
flight rules [and must keep clear of cloud] and the pilots
are responsible [for] ensuring that they do not get too
close,'' the spokesman said.
Queenstown Airport chief executive Scott Paterson said under
classification D there was more self-management by pilots and
classification C would mean a move to more air traffic
control management.
In class C airspace air traffic control separated instrument
flight rules (IFR) aircraft from all other aircraft.
The consultation document released by the CAA notes that
passenger numbers have trebled in the past 20 years and there
had also been a major shift in the type of aircraft used,
from turboprop to turbojet.
It also states that the increase in traffic at Queenstown
required ''action to ensure aviation safety'' and there had
been a ''fivefold increase, in recent times, of airspace
safety occurrences''.
The consultation was initiated this month and discussions
with Queenstown users and Airways are planned for next month.
A final decision on the airspace classification is expected
in April.
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The Afro-Cuban sounds of Melena rocked Farnsworth Park Saturday night in the Sheriff's Support Group concert series. Bill Westphal was there, camera and all, and filed this illustrated report:
It was a pretty good (and enthusiastic) crowd. Lots of people were dancing and enjoying themsleves.
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The Witch won the best director award for Richard Eggers at this year's Sundance Film Festival
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I have been off Warfrin for about a month, my INR was always too high or too low, so the Dr's took me off, but my INR was so high that I had to have a plasma transfusion. Could my body of been storing this?
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The Warfarin should be out of your system by now. It sounds like you may have a blood clotting disorder possibly factor 8 issue. I have a factor 5 leiden issue where my blood clots too much and I have been on Coumadin for many years and will be on it for the rest of my life. It is hard to control so you really need a Hematologist to monitor it. Why didn't they just give you a Vitamin K shot that may of worked some. I would have the blood factors checked in your blood to see if you do have a factor issue. Good luck, hope this info helps some, marjorie zych
Thank you for your comments, I have had my blood sent to the local Toxicology Center, as it seems to still be in my system. I also had a vitamin K shot, which all worked for about 5 days and then my INR went up again. I was thinking that maybe my body was storing the warfrin somewhere from before, as when a began taking it a year ago, I was up to 18milligrams of warfrin and my INR was still below 2... and then all the sudden it would spike, and then I would have troubles getting it to go up again... wondering if it is all related, the doctors seem persistant with the fact that I am still taking the meds, which I am not.
Again my friend I really thinks you need to have your factors checked for a bleeding disorder. I went through this and it was a factor 5 leiden but I think yours may be another one of the factors so I think you need a second opinion from a Hematologist and get those factors checked. Good luck please don't take no for an answer as this condition can be life threatening. Take care and let me know how it goes, marjorie zych
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String of legal wins bolsters same-sex marriage
WASHINGTON -- One after another and in sometimes evocative language, judges appointed by Republican and Democratic presidents are declaring it's too late to turn back on the topic of same-sex marriage.
The unbroken string of state and federal court rulings in support of gay and lesbian unions takes in every region of the country, including states of the Confederacy, and brings to 26 states where same-sex couples can get married or a judge has ruled they ought to be allowed.
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- Virtual colonoscopy is not as accurate as colonoscopy at finding flat cancers or premalignant lesions that are not protruding, that is, are not polyp-like.
- Small pieces of stool can look like polyps on virtual colonoscopy and lead to a diagnosis of polyps when there are none.
- Virtual colonoscopy cannot remove polyps. Thirty to forty percent of people have colon polyps. If polyps are found by virtual colonoscopy, then colonoscopy must be done to remove the polyps, and, therefore, many individuals having virtual colonoscopy will have to undergo a second procedure, colonoscopy.
- There have not been studies to compare the discomfort levels of colonoscopy versus virtual colonoscopy, and comparisons will be difficult to do. The discomfort of colonoscopy is from the insertion of the colonoscope and air being pushed into the colon to inflate or open for viewing areas that might otherwise be collapsed. This technique is called air insufflation. The discomfort of virtual colonoscopy is from air insufflations. Patients' perceptions of discomfort from both procedures are highly variable. What makes the discomfort difficult to compare is that patients undergoing colonoscopy usually are sedated intravenously, while patients undergoing virtual colonoscopy are not sedated. As a result, patients may actually find colonoscopy more comfortable than virtual colonoscopy. On the other hand, sedation increases the risk of complications from colonoscopy.
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Letters have been mailed to more than 200 workers within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice whose administrative and recreation supervision jobs will be eliminated by May 15.
The cuts are the result of a statewide budget reduction required of all state agencies by the Legislature.
The prison system is scheduled to hold two meetings next week in Huntsville to discuss unemployment benefits, insurance and payroll. The jobs set for elimination are at units throughout the state, but a majority of the administrative reductions will take place in Huntsville.
More than 120 administrative jobs in Huntsville and Austin will be eliminated, said Carol Blair Johnston, deputy director of TDCJ human resources.
The prison system also is cutting 81 recreation specialist jobs, Larry Todd, a TDJC spokesman, said Thursday. The specialists supervise inmate recreation.
"We are not cutting correction officers; we are not cutting parole officers," Todd said.
The William P. Clements Unit in Amarillo will possibly lose one job, Todd said. Keith Price, the Clements warden, could not be reached for comment.
Because of the state's budget crisis, more prison administrative and support jobs will be eliminated in the future, Todd said.
A Senate Finance Committee bill would cut 20 percent of the prison's school system budget. That would mean a loss of 450 jobs statewide, Todd said.
Globe-News Staff Writer Max Albright and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
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Claiming the date for the 5th Annual Grafton Country Music Roundup. Guaranteed to be even better this year with great entertainment not only on the stage but also off it.
Love traditional country music and bush balladry or "the fastest sport on legs"? Then make a date for the Grafton Country Music Roundup being held in late July..
Performers from far and wide will be converging on the Clarence Valley to sing their songs, play their instruments and recite their poetry.
Plus this year the "early birds" will be treated to a night of action packed greyhound racing on Monday Juy 25. Have yourself a little wager on your favourite coloured chaser, favourite coloured rug, favourite number but definitely not your favourite jockey !!!!!
Whether it's a yodel, a guitar, a fiddle or a yeehaa, a flutter or a punt, you're sure to find it here in the Jacaranda City this July.
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Blue Ridge Community College has joined a growing list of America's Healthiest Companies as judged by the national nonprofit Wellness Councils of America.
BRCC has achieved the Well Workplace Silver Award. It recognizes companies that are creating supportive organizational environments and policies to support employees' efforts to modify health risks and improve over health and well-being. The award was announced at the Wellness Council of Western North Carolina annual awards luncheon at the Grove Park Inn on July 8. BRCC received the Bronze Award in 2001.
The origins of the wellness program at BRCC date to 1992 when the Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation funded a project for employee wellness. It was designed to provide assessment, education and group activities that would promote a healthier lifestyle for the staff and faculty. "We are proud to belong to the elite list of America's Healthiest Companies," said Dr. David W. Sink Jr., President of BRCC. "We know that the good health and wellness of our employees contributes directly to the accomplishment of the college's mission as it serves citizens of Henderson and Transylvania counties."
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Investors Dump Closed-End Funds
Prices Drop Below Value of Underlying Holdings Amid Mortgage Ills and Other Fears
Closed-end funds are trading at large discounts. That's ordinarily a buying opportunity, but these days it's more of a warning signal.
These funds differ from standard mutual funds in that they issue a fixed number of shares. Closed-ends, unlike their open-end brethren, are traded on stock exchanges.
Usually, closed-end funds change hands at a small discount to the underlying assets, which typically aren't traded very often.
Over the past three months, though, the weighted average discount for the 650 U.S.-listed closed-end funds has widened from 6.2% to 15.6%, according to Morgan Stanley research.
Since 1997, the average has been 4.4%.
Investors are bailing out of closed-end funds, so their prices have dropped far below what their underlying holdings are worth. One big reason: Two-thirds of these funds focus on debt -- mortgages, corporate, foreign -- which has deteriorated rapidly in recent weeks.
The market is signaling its profound unease with these vehicles.
Price returns for a wide array of closed-end fund groups are down between 20% and 42% in the past year through September, according to some estimates.
While the deep discounts might seem tempting, experts caution in many cases it's not a wise idea for investors to dive in. That's because these days, "there may be a good reason that a particular fund is trading at a wider discount than another fund," notes Citigroup research.
There have been wide discounts in the past, but they haven't persisted for long. When the market sold off sharply in August 2007, for instance, the average discount widened to 9.7%. It then closed to less than half of that about two weeks later. A similar phenomenon occurred last winter, according to Morgan Stanley.
Yet now many discounts are lasting for months and, in many cases, rapidly ballooning. Of all closed-end funds, 90% were recently trading at a discount, according to Wachovia research. Funds like the Nuveen Diversified Dividend & Income Fund at times had 35% discounts in the past few weeks.
"My career specializing in closed-end funds spans almost five decades, and it has been over 30 years since I have seen discounts at such wide levels sustained for days on end," notes closed-end fund researcher Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors Inc. in a report this month.
A big concern is that 72% of closed-end funds use leverage. Investors worry that heavily leveraged funds will have a hard time rolling over the debt, much of it short-term, and will resort to more expensive financing, which cuts into returns.
Unleveraged Castle Convertible Fund this past week has seen its net asset value decline 27% from the end of August through last week, adjusted for dividends. Nicholas Applegate Convertible and Income Fund II, a convertible fund that uses leverage, declined 36% in the same period and recently announced a partial redemption of its auction-rate preferred shares, reducing its leverage.
Even higher yields aren't drawing investors. Equity closed-end funds recently boasted 12.4% yields, up from 8% on average last year, according to Thomas Herzfeld. But many investors are still rushing for the doors in a rapid flight-to-quality.
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The parents accused of starving their 2-year-old son to death are in police custody.
Officers escorted Matthew Dotson into the Roane County Jail around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Sheriff Jack Stockton said Amanda Dotson was picked up in Cocke County. She was booked into the Roane County Jail around 10 p.m.
The Dotsons were indicted for first-degree murder by the Roane County grand jury.
Authorities said their son, Clifford, died of severe malnutrition.
Madison Rossi-Dupas shows off her football skills at last week's FAST Football Academy at Roane State.
Madison was among the more than 50 children who attended the camp that was put on by area coaches Wiley Brackett, Brian Pankey and John Webb.
Roane County's proposed budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year should give taxpayers and county employees a reason to feel good.
There will be no increase in the property tax rates — and county workers are in line to get a 2-percent raise.
The budget committee voted to recommend the raise at last Thursday's meeting.
It came in like a lion and left like a lamb — like March in the middle of June.
After many long nights of accounting, some testiness and wrangling, and several meetings in which a few city residents (and a couple of non-residents) voiced their displeasure over a proposed 9-cent tax-rate increase, Kingston City Council passed its budget appropriation for 2012-13 on second reading with hardly a ripple of protest.
The passage brings Kingston's property tax rate to $1.17 per $100 valuation.
Kingston United Methodist Church members will soon return to their sanctuary for the first time since a fire damaged the building on April 30, 2011.
The newly renovated sanctuary includes a new stained-glass front window. The chancel area, which was destroyed by the fire, has been rebuilt larger than before with expanded space for the choir, a grand piano and new organ.
"It's an exciting time," said church member Judy Rose. "You just can't believe how excited we are. It is kind of like a totally new beginning."
Angie Vittatoe, an employee at the District Attorney General's Office, was suspended for two days without pay last week for using an office computer to register a domain name for Roane County road superintendent candidate Dennis Ferguson.
The state elected earlier this week not to prosecute Tammy Ellen Rosado on a charge of aggravated domestic assault.
The 43-year-old woman is not in the clear, however.
Defense attorney Mike Ritter said he expects prosecutors to seek an indictment against his client with the Roane County grand jury.
"I think there's a good possibility that's going to happen," he said.
Rosado allegedly shot her boyfriend, James R. Cobb, on April 4 at the couple's home on Rosedale Avenue in Kingston.
Harriman officials are moving forward with a plan for expanding the city's boundaries into Midtown.
Though officials are asking Harriman Regional Planning Commission to develop a plan of service for the Hwy. 70, they are stopping short at putting an annexation referendum on the ballot for August.
"We think we've got four yeses and a whole bunch of people who don't live in their houses," said Harriman City Council member J.D. Sampson.
My mother loves watching court-type TV shows.
She also loves keeping up with area legal cases — both criminal actions and lawsuits.
Now and then, she will hear about a particularly outrageous lawsuit or a criminal case and call me in a tizzy about the allegations.
"Wait a minute," I sometimes tell her when she takes a side. "You haven't heard all the facts yet."
Over my many years as a journalist, I have covered many a seemingly air-tight case, only to see it unravel in court.
Some people will go all out for a cause.
For Steven Jacoby, that means walking from Prescott, Ariz., to Washington, D.C.
He's protesting reprisals against whistleblowers and what he said is corruption at a Veterans Administration hospital in Arizona.
His 2,300-mile trek took him through Roane County earlier this week.
"I camp most of the time, but I've had people put me up on their couches, let me tent out in their front yard and sometimes let me sleep in a spare bedroom," he said.
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Update: This just in — excerpts from the recordings taken during the MDW Fair will be broadcast on Episode 300 of the podcast!
Bad at Sports is setting up camp at the MDW Fair (pronounced Midway, like the airport) – come check us out over the weekend of April 23 and 24th! Richard, Duncan et al. will set up a casual recording booth area in the style of Storycorp's DIY reportage. Bring someone you want to interview – or someone who wants to interview you – and take 7 to 10 minutes to discuss your project your own way, in your own voice. The MDW Fair promises to be the Chicago art event of the season — check out all the details below:
The MDW Fair is a gathering of independent art initiatives, spaces, galleries and artist groups from the Chicago metropolitan area. Held April 23-24, 2011 at The Geolofts, 3636 S. Iron Street, Chicago and organized by Version 11 Festival, Threewalls, Roots and Culture and the Public Media Institute, the MDW Fair aims to highlight the "diversity, strength and vision of the people/places making it happen in the art ecology of our region" and is "a manifestation of the collective spirit behind the region's most innovative visual cultural organizers, focusing on the breadth of work done here by artists and arts-facilitators alike." The fair features for-profit, 501(c)3, and commercial and unincorporated galleries, independent curatorial projects and publishers and media groups in over 25,000 square feet of exhibition space that includes a 8,000 square foot sculpture garden with work by local artists.
X Marks Detroit
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We received an email from Carlie Dennis, the exhibitions assistant at MOCAD, containing a few corrections to the piece below concerning the number of visual artists represented in the Art X exhibition at MOCAD. The correct numbers have been noted in bold in the piece, and Dennis' letter to Bad at Sports containing further clarifying details, etc. follows the post in an effort to ensure the corrections are clear. In addition, please note the following exhibition sponsorship information provided to us by MOCAD: The Art X Detroit: Kresge Arts Experience is sponsored by The Kresge Foundation, in partnership with the College for Creative Studies, Artserve Michigan, the University Cultural Center Association (UCCA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
— Claudine Ise
It was in 1909 that Marienetti first recounts his fated car crash in the pages of Le Figero. He describes an evening where late-night mythologizing veers poetically into an early morning drive. Three "snorting machines†are caressed and brought to life, and he writes, "a great sweep of madness brought us sharply back to ourselves and drove us through the streets, steep and deep, like dried up torrents.†Torrents, indeed. Of course we know how this ends: one shiny, red roadster meets two cyclists, ("like two persuasive but contradictory argumentsâ€), and crashes grill-first into a gutter filled with the muck of industrial runoff. Overcome by his encounter with the speed and power of mechanical ingenuity, Marienetti emerges from the factory sludge a Futurist—belligerently positioned towards a new era, first will and testament in hand.
Coincidentally, it was this same year that Henry Ford's Model T made its debut at the Detroit Auto Show, and thusly set into motion the chain of events that would result in the creation of Motor City—a figment of Detroit's identity that persists over a century later. Artists in Detroit are consumed by the context of the post-industrial, post-urban cityscape. Like Marienetti, they are influenced by the concrete motorways and roaring engines that have shaped the physical space, economy, and consciousness of the city for decades.
Art X Detroit, an exhibition featuring
19 17 of the 36 Kresge Fellowship recipients, opened April 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Wire Car Cruse, an event and subsequent video work, (titled "a dance for Diego,â€) by Chido Johnson, deliberately mines the history and present of car culture in Detroit. The Woodward Dream Cruise, now in its 16th year, is an annual event, where more than 40,000 classic cars and roughly 1.5-million spectators assemble along the 16-mile stretch of Woodward Avenue to observe and tailgate, while restored antiques and custom muscle cars takeover the arterial. I will say, that from someone who is admittedly more of a public transportation enthusiast, this weekend-long spectacle does not disappoint. Beer, barbeque, and tricked-out mechanics?! Um, yes, please.
Johnson uses the performance of Dream Cruise as the foundation for his own event, which combines the ritual of the Detroit car cruise with the practice of creating wire cars, a pastime from Johnson's childhood in Zambia and Zimbabwe. The performance articulates a hybrid cultural activity, which represents the artist's own negations with subjectivity living between two cultures. Moreover, Johnson's event cultivated a community of wire car enthusiasts, and in so doing, opened up this history of Detroiters and their cars to new audiences who may have been previously excluded from this specific cultural phenomenon.
The video documenting Wire Car Cruise is juxtaposed with a sculpture entitled, "me me me,†which is a self-portrait of the artist as a carved African statuette installed on a deconstructed cardboard box on the gallery floor. This work further accentuates the search for a sense of identity between cultural spaces—a literal unpacking of the artist as subject. What interests me most about the video, statuette, and their installation at floor level, is their child-scale. The overall impression of the work is a sense of playfulness that Johnson associates with the practice of making. The video work, "a dance for Diego,†takes as its title a sentiment from Diego Rivera who said that the city of Detroit is of makers and dreamers. Johnson's work at its essence is about making, and reinvigorating this type of creative industry with a sense of joy and wonder.
Abigail Anne Newbold's work, "Home Maker,†addresses the urban frontier as an expanse to be explored via bicycle and wagon. In the tradition of the pioneer settlement, the Airstream mobile trailer, and the popup house, this project is comprised of an intricate toolkit with which even the least adept outdoorsman can create a makeshift home. The foundation of the piece is a custom-made bicycle and covered wagon functioning like a rickshaw trailing behind. The accompanying toolkit is exhibited in an arrangement both in the wagon and on a gallery wall, which operates like a hybrid one-bike garage meets REI store display. The literal use of the tools is ambiguous; however, the rugged, weather-ready materials in hazard yellow and orange renders the objects explicitly for outdoor survival.
Perhaps this work is a statement on the changing nature of settlement and domesticity given the shifting housing market, or maybe Newbold is supplying tools, (such as a three-fingered pot holder, a bouquet of tent stakes, and wilted bow and quiver of arrows), to the urban ethnographer. Regardless, "Home Maker†is a response to a city in transition, where the untamed urban prairie is an opportunity to develop and implement re-imagined infrastructures for living for the coming century.
Photographer Corine Vermeulen is the spiritual offspring of Dorthea Lange and Buckminster Fuller. Her series, "Your Town Tomorrow, Detroit 2001-2011,†explores the identity of place through portraiture of the everyday Detroiter. Vermeulen's imagery, through documentary, ventures beyond the sensation-hungry media snapshot of blighted landscape and broken home. In fact, Detroit as an urban, city-subject is barely recognizable. Her subjects are framed by a landscape that has an immediate, visual association with the southern rural rather than the rustbelt. Families and haphazard communities are depicted in the liminal spaces of Detroit—in front of ailing fences, amidst the tall grasses of overgrown urban lots, and on rebuilt bicycles. It is from this ambiguity of place that Vermeulen achieves the futuristic sensibility referenced in the title of the series.
The artists refers to her portrait series as "memories of the future.†Like the work of Newbold, Vermeulen portrays a city in transition—its citizens picking up the broken detritus left in the wake of post-industrialzation to re-cultivate land, rebuild homes, and re-imagine communities. Her portraits contain the "new topographies of urban life,†and function as an alter-narration of what urban space can be, and indeed, may be, in the uncertain future of Detroit.
Other artists featured in Art X Detroit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit are Shiva Ahmadi, Hartmut Austen, Lynne Avadenka, Kristin Beaver, Susan Goethel Campbell, Ed Fraga, Tyree Guyton, Rod Klingelhofer, Gordon Newton, Russ Orlando, Senghor Reid, Michael E. Smith, Gilda Snowden, Cedric Tai, and Sioux Trujillo. The exhibition will be on view April 6-24, 2011.
Sarah Margolis-Pineo is a curator and writer. She is currently the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Collections Fellow at the Cranbrook Art Museum.
Corrections from Carlie Dennis, PR Coordinator/Exhibitions Assistant at MOCAD:
There are a few clarifications that I would like to highlight regarding the Art X Detroit exhibition that is currently on view at MOCAD. First, there are a total of 18 Visual Arts Fellows, 19 if one includes Eminent Artist award recipient Charles McGee. Neither Charles McGee, nor Tyree Guyton (one of the 18 Visual Arts Fellows) have work in the exhibition on view at MOCAD, as they each have public installations elsewhere in the Midtown neighborhood. Additionally, it is misleading to say that the exhibition features 19 of the 36 Fellowship recipients, as the other Fellows are in the Literary and Performing arts fields, and are therefore not included in the exhibition but are included in the week's series of public programs and events. This statement makes it appear as if the exhibition was curated, when in fact it is an artist-driven showcase and includes all of the Visual Arts Fellows (please click here to read a lengthier description of the context of the exhibition: http://mocadetroit.org/). Finally, while MOCAD is the venue for this showcase, it is important that proper credit is given to those who produced, organized and funded the exhibition: The Art X Detroit: Kresge Arts Experience is sponsored by The Kresge Foundation, in partnership with the College for Creative Studies, Artserve Michigan, the University Cultural Center Association (UCCA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)."
"Teach 4 Amerika aims to empower artists to create the education they need and not beholden them to a system that professionalizes them out of their own specificity,†— Bruce High Quality Foundation.
Lots of buzz surrounding the arrival of The Bruce High Quality Foundation in Chicago for two related events this week. The first–a limited capacity, intimate discussion on education and the arts that will be held at Roots and Culture tonight–is already booked solid. Maybe you can still sneak in? Or peek through the windows? The next event can accommodate more bodies: BHQ's Teach 4 Amerika Rally–billed as "a rally for anarchy in arts education"–starting at 6pm on Thursday, April 7th at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Lecture Center Room A-1, 821 South Morgan Street. These events are presented by Creative Time and hosted by Gallery 400 and Three Walls in Chicago. Below, full details; oh, and can someone snag me a t-shirt please?
Teach 4 Amerika is a five-week, 11-city, coast-to-coast road trip that
crosses state lines and institutional boundaries to inspire and enable
local art students to define the future of their own educational
experience. Traveling the byways of America in a limousine painted as a
school bus, BHQF will bring together concerned educators, artists, arts
administrators, and—most importantly—students to brainstorm on the future
of art schools.
The project calls for a national rethinking of the current art education
system, and will provide an opportunity to discuss issues facing artists
seeking an education, as well as catalyze discussions with students. The
Teach 4 Amerika tour is a rallying effort to begin this conversation on a
national scale and to encourage a new generation of students, artists, and
educators to imagine what is possible for art education in America.
Teach 4 Amerika will combine the spectacle and energy of a political rally
with the substantive dialog of a conversation series, featuring a
multimedia presentation, balloons, t-shirts, and music. In addition, on
April 6 at Roots and Culture, BHQF will also organize an intimate
conversation between students and a group of arts professionals to
transform the ideas and optimism of the rallies into real change (RSVP to
that event is required).
- Recently, I had the great pleasure of talking with Betsy Odom about her latest show Sis Boom Bah currently on view at the Hyde Park Art Center. Betsy, who lives and works in Chicago, received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale in 2007. Her fascinating body of work examines gender and sexuality in the sports world, highlighting the various ways in which these social constructs become public spectacle. Considering the nature of Betsy's subject matter, we both agreed that there couldn't be a more aptly named blog to host such a discussion.
Sis Boom Bah is on view until June 19th. For more information on this and other upcoming shows, please visit Betsy's website.
Elizabeth Corr: One of the things that I find so striking about your work is your deliberate use of materials – leather, sporting equipment, auto paint – materials that traditionally evoke the masculine. You take these materials and incorporate them through feminine decorative traditions such as sewing and weaving, while also utilizing established masculine practices like leather tooling. Suddenly, everyday sporting objects are transformed. It's like this "Ah-ha†moment, where the absurdity of society's gender roles is highlighted and you realize just how much these notions permeate our daily lives. Can you talk about your fascination with the politics of gender and why you choose to use sports as a metaphor to investigate these issues?
Betsy Odom: I am extremely conscious of seeking out materials, techniques, and objects that I think contribute to that tacit construction of gender. Sex is infused in tooling leather. We drink from faucets that have grown ever more phallic as time has moved on. Decoration, carving, stitching, tooling – I suspect that many of these activities grew as a way to busy "idle hands.†And some of my own assumptions are way, way off, which I also enjoy. Like, I'm pretty sure that not many people see Emmylou Harris, a straight older country singer, as enough of a queer icon to merit her own sports-team. But my hope is that as soon as you start looking for signifiers, which are abundant in sports, you can conceivably see them everywhere.
In some ways I am trying to act out a fantasy where you can be aware of the absurdity of our cultural influences and still enjoy them, slipping in and out of social constructs like gender, class, race, and sexuality as you please. It's sort of like the fun of mixing all the different sodas together to see what comes out. (Am I the only one who still gets a kick out of that?)
EC: I want to talk about your piece Double Whistle. To me this piece was so overtly sexual (all I could see was a double sided dildo, but that may say more about me than about your work…). I was fascinated by the fact that you chose to exhibit it within a Plexiglas box – essentially rendering it off limits. What are your intentions with this piece and what does say about female sexuality in the context of sports?
BO: The way I approach intentionality is a bit loosey-goosey. While I hate it when people say, "your interpretation is just as important as mine, my intent is not important, etc.â€, at the same time, I do like to start from some pretty obscure or perhaps entirely invented associations. My take on it is this: not everyone reads the piece as a double dildo, or a curmudgeonly old man gym coach, or a tantric musical instrument, or an opulent and rare conjoined artifact. But hopefully, most people do read it primarily as one of the dozen or so things it can reasonably be. Then maybe the other interpretations seep in as well, showing how complicated even a simple gesture can be.
But, where Double Whistle actually came from: I had been mulling over the way my coach's mouth seemed unnecessarily emphatic on her whistle. I tried a lot of things to express that such as playing with scale, materials etc. It took me a year before the idea of mirroring the whistle finally hit me. I suppose one of the cool things about interviews is that you can get into the stories about a piece's process or origins, and about the artists themselves. On the other hand, I've had many an artist ruin my opinion of their work by revealing where they are coming from.
EC: Walking through the show, I was couldn't help but think about the work of Judith Butler and her theories about gender and gender performativity. Butler, in a distinctly postmodern approach to gender, calls into question the idea that certain feminine and masculine behaviors are "natural.†She argues instead that the ideals that constitute 'feminine' and 'masculine' are socially constructed, in essence making one's gender a complicated ritual of performance. Sis Boom Bah draws our attention to one of the places where gender is regularly performed – the playing field. Talk about the ways in which you and your work have been influenced by postmodern feminist and/or queer theories about gender?
BO: This is probably going to be my longest answer, as I am casually passionate about gender theory. But, before I get into it, I'd be interested in your take on the notion of making art that talks to bigger issues. I personally needed a big dosing of queer and gender theory to even get comfortable with even the idea of making work that is explicitly about sexuality and gender. This is probably a bit of an aside, but I think a lot of artists have to deal with the discomfort that comes along with sometimes wanting to make work that is queer or political.
My discomfort is basically this. I had to face a fear of self-ghettoizing or even pandering in order to participate in a cause I care about, but I also had to cope with the awkward phase of early queer art, and more than that, a fear of continuing in a tradition that tends towards the cheesy. But, at the same time, there is a lot of great stuff actually going on by artists who are able to move in and out of a queer dialog pretty comfortably: Nicole Eisenman's fan drawing of Shane from The L Word with a fist coming out of her vagina, Collier Schorr's cover on the latest Aperture, Girls Like Us: Lesbian Quarterly for whatever that's worth. Do you think I'm just paranoid in still worrying about this stuff?
EC: Paranoid? Absolutely not. Actually, the feelings you mention constitute a real rift within in queer theory relating to feminist standpoint theory and identity politics as useful paradigms for understanding the world. As you point out, while there is this element of freedom and empowerment in being able to speak from a certain perspective (queer or female in this case) there is also the very real threat of alienation and co-option (while certain commonalities may exist, certainly not all queer or female perspectives are universal). And so, as the artist, your worry about viewers taking one perspective (yours) and extrapolating into some kind of universal political statement about said groups (queer and/or female) is very real.
BO: At any rate, I am pretty revved up by Foucault's idea that our discourse around sexuality tends to be, in truth, the total opposite of what it claims (i.e. the confession of sexual sins propagates more sexual sins for which to confess). I translate this into something of a bait-and-switch in my work: a lot of my pieces try to draw you in with materials, content, color, etc., only to bring you close enough to see something a bit more provocative, then question why you were attracted to the object in the first place. Sort of like your question about interpreting Double Whistle. I very much like the idea of the viewer wondering, "Maybe it's just me?â€
Judith Butler's work on the performance of gender and her thoughts on sameness and otherness were a driving factor in me getting into this work. I'm especially interested in the way Butler points out gay and lesbian creative use of gender performance. But I wonder if queer play with gender comes from a larger cultural desire (imperative?) to point-out a hegemony, or does it fall into the same heteronormative fallacy of a sense of "naturalness:†i.e. "but I really feel like an androgynous jock,†which I often do, by the way, minus the actual athletic prowess. The need for consciousness of gender as a construct goes both ways I guess. And then there's the whole other question of how this applies to the very real social issues riding on a perception of queer difference. How do we negotiate all this information?
EC: For me, part of what is so appealing to Butler's approach to gender is how radically it disrupts normative ideas of heterosexuality. Can you tell me a little bit about how your works challenges these notions, and the ways in which queer culture and sexuality inform your practice and use of language?
BO: Butler is pretty convincing in pointing out that our focus on the biologically gendered body (or that gender is born of the body) encourages us to chain a big ol' leash on the much wider and more interesting discourse around gender formation. I use sport as place to play with the body, joking with the unnecessary weight we give the body in connoting gender. I enjoy digging into ideas like Butler's and others that gender is mostly relationary (the concept of female exists in relation to the concept of male, and vice-versa.). I am conflating those relations and projecting them back onto the body – in gear, skin-like materials, etc. What comes out may be a glimpse into what would happen if the performance we have all agreed upon as a society just suddenly ended.
EC: There is a long history of uneasiness with ambiguous gender and sex in sports, and this is partly because the sporting world so heavily relies on neatly packaged ideas of what constitute "female†and "male†especially as they relate to athletic ability. Your drawing, the only drawing in the show actually, references the most recent example of sex testing, which concerned Caster Semenya, a South African runner whose sex was called into question after her gold medal performance at the 2009 World Championships. What did you make of this story and can you talk about your appropriately named piece Un-titled (for Caster)?
BO: I was really blown away by this story because it is one of those instances where I really cannot get my head around what the "right†answer should be in terms of oppression vs. the roles of normativity in culture. Obviously the way this was dealt with is atrocious and inexcusable, which strangely seems to happen a lot when women's sports are finally noticed. (Imus, anyone? Or the constant focus on the fact that you don't see dunking in the WNBA?)
But, I don't know for sure. Is it fair for Caster to run? Can we just think of her mildly intersexed physiology as a genetic advantage similar to height or big lungs? Or should there be events for men, women, and "in-betweens?†I love that this story made the world deal with how complicated gender actually is. Caster is now officially allowed to run in women's sports and kept her title, by the way, but many speculate that there must be a caveat about testosterone suppression.
But honestly, my main interest in Caster's story was a glaring omission in the coverage. Namely, no one seemed to publicly care about her sexuality! It is such a rare moment in our culture where gender and sexuality are kept separate. I've always thought that separating these is something I would like to see; but in this instance I think it is another form of imposed gender-enforcement. I personally think that, whatever we feel about Caster's eligibility in sport, we should all agree on one thing, which is that s/he is amazingly sexy. So with the drawing, I simply wanted to celebrate her, well, hotness, the way we do with other athletes. Something like fan art meets the life-sized Michael Jordan poster for the back of your door.
EC: I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but after seeing Sis Boom Bah I started thinking a lot about the lingerie football league! To me, your work represents one side of the spectrum of gender and sexuality that, excuse the pun, gets played out in sports. And, lingerie football it seems must exist on the exact opposite side of that spectrum. Here we have women sexualized in an overtly heteronormative manner, whose athletic ability and prowess are undermined by uniforms (or lack thereof) and (tit)illating team names like Philadelphia Passion, Dallas Desire and San Diego Seduction. What do you make of this? And, can you talk about how the queering of well-established sexual mores in your work relates to (or makes necessary?) this type of performance of sexuality.
BO: Oh boy is that funny! I'd love to see actual women's contact football teams doing lingerie football- pitting the Chicago Force against the Dallas Desire. I think it would put an end to the practice forever. Or maybe start a whole ancient Greco-Roman revival of naked athletics. Who knows!
Elizabeth Corr received a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree in African Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her graduate work focused on contemporary African art in post-apartheid South Africa. She lives in Chicago and works at NRDC, an environmental nonprofit.
Interview with Mindy Rose Schwartz
March 13, 2011 · Print This Article
Guest Post by Dan Gunn
Artist Mindy Rose Schwartz has shown her sculpture and installations throughout the United States with exhibitions in Houston, TX; Brooklyn, NY; St. Louis and Kansas City, MO; Miami, FL and Chicago. Her work has been written about in artnet Magazine, Beautiful Decay (online), Time Out Chicago, The Chicago Tribune, Newcity, ArtForum, Frieze Magazine, Art in America and Whitewalls. Schwartz earned her MFA at the University of Illinois, Chicago. I caught up with her after the close of her most recent show of work at Threewalls. The following is our conversation.
DG: How do you think about your materials?
MRS: The materials and processes I use have to make sense in relation to the meaning of the piece. So, for example, in this body of work, one of my reference points are remembered objects from the house I grew up in. So my use of ceramics, macramé, white stones, and gold chain are materials I came in contact with in my past and have resurfaced to add to a palette of materials for sculpture. I am also interested in processes and skills that I learned while growing up, before I made it to art school. Why do I know how to make every type of lanyard key chain, or a macramé belt, or to crochet a yarmulke, or to paper mache? They are a window into specific class, cultural and gender specific moments that shaped my experience.
DG: What else makes up those "reference points�
MRS: As I was developing my proposal for Threewalls, I wanted to transform the gallery space into an idealized and symbolic domestic space. There is a smaller room as you enter, a large grand space in the center and a smaller more intimate space at the end. As you walk through, I thought of the first room as the foyer, the next as a living room and the last, a sunroom. In a home these are the spaces that you pass through, or only use on occasion or special occasion, not the every day living spaces.
The sculptures in each of the spaces are an amalgamation of the furniture, objects and people that would reside there. They reflect the kind of pictorial or fictive aspect that each of those rooms implies.  Some of the sculptures in the living room space are: Chandelier, Credenza, and Vanity. I mean the credenza, what is it for? Who has room for the credenza? It's a piece of furniture that's purpose is to hold and display decorative objects and fancy dishes. The Chandelier too has a type of aspiration to it, a light that is dressed up in its finest jewels. These objects and what they represent become starting points to imagine their transformation into something else.
DG: Then what about the sunroom?
MRS: I was trying to create a space that was sort of mournful and had a kind of longing to it, but peaceful too. The sunroom has a sun in it, of course. It is created through a technique called, string art, which was a craft process I learned in fifth grade. It was supposed to teach that straight lines create a curve. The piece is called The Tender Light of Hope. In the living room space, it has its counter part in a piece called, The Depths of Bleak Despair. These two pieces provide a kind of emotional bracketing for the show.
Two other pieces in the space are called Friends, and A Peaceful Man.  Friends are two, coil pot, heads sitting on the remnants of my grandmother's mink coat. The coat was handed down through the family, repurposed, refashioned and redistributed as: a sporty jacket, a hat and some earmuffs. A Peaceful Man is also just a head, but his beard and mustache swoops down to form his legs and sprout a flower. I thought of it as my "Giacometti momentâ€.
DG: You mentioned collectibles, how do they factor in? What kind of symbolism lies within them?
MRS: I was trying to find a way to get the figure back into my sculpture, in an effective way. As a sculptor, you're kind of off the hook. You don't really have to use the figure, because the viewer is the figure. The sculpture exists in the same space as your body. There is this uncanny weirdness when you perceive your body in relationship to this representation of one. That begs the question. How does it get in there and not be a statue. Statues are hil-ar-e-ous! They're so heavy. There is funniness to them. How to show the body… I tried to think of them along those lines then, to not be "figurative†but "figurine-ativeâ€
Figurines and decorative objects have a strange life span to them, right? They sit in the home in one spot for a whole lifetime. Then they get handed down, auctioned off or go to a thrift store and go to another house to sit in one spot for another lifetime.
The collectible object is really a way many people experience sculpture in their everyday lives. It is like the three dimensional version of a Picasso poster or, depending on your taste, a Margaret Keen poster. That is how I experienced it mostly, more often through home decorating than a trip to the art museum or a stroll through a sculpture park. So there are these mass-produced objects that one way or another make it into your life and stay. Over time it will look very different and mean something very different to whoever has it. In fact two identical objects become fundamentally very different things. I'm trying to show how my history with specific objects morphs their form and how I perceive them with the their stories still attached.
Of the definite genres of collectible figurines some interest me more then others. I particularly admire ones that address the landscape or nature. I made my versions of this type for Credenza. There are also characters that reoccur across many different brands of collectible objects; the CLASSIC mainstays of every family of Precious Moments, Lladro, or Royal Dalton are the harlequin, mime and ballerina. I made a series of those characters for the "Vanity†piece.
Aside from the emulated realism of collectible objects, I love the sincerity of those that adopt a modernist "look†as their most prominent style.  There is nothing like the grace or elegance of an abstract dancer's elongated neck or the motion of flowing dance attire captured in porcelain or electroplated aluminum.
DG: So you see the forms of décor as the remnants of Modernism?
Well, I guess this comes back to how and when I experienced Modernism as a trickle down influence in popular culture during the seventies. I saw a lot of Hollywood musicals growing up. Most of these movies started out on Broadway and one of the byproducts of their translation into cinema, seemed to be these inexplicable dance sequence that would interrupt the regular narrative of the story to express some kind of emotional drama or conflict in the story. The Dream Sequence Ballet in Oklahoma and the Rumble scene in West Side Story are real stand- outs. The main characters come onto these angular abstract sets and work it all out through Modern dance. The piece Dream Sequence Ballerina has a little stage set and dancer's graceful head as a fantasy interlude atop a modernist piece of ceramics.
DG: As you think about the decorative object, is there also a kind of spiritualism, mysticism or "pop-religion†that is also reflected in it?
MRS: Objects are very powerful, especially in how they can absorb meaning or deflect it, depending on the context. There are a couple pieces in the show that allude to religious Jewish objects. For instance The Hands of God in the foyer, references a religious object call the "yadâ€. "Yad literally means 'hand' in Hebrew. It is an object that is used to read from the Torah because you are not allowed to touch the scroll. It is an ornate stick about seven inches long with a very realistic hand on the end of it. They really are amazing looking objects. I made two yads. These long skinny arms with big hands swoop down from the ceiling. They are the hands of God giving birth and from their palms emerge people. The figures are these half formed little homunculus men.
Other figurative references are more specific to cultural or historical milieu. I'm thinking of the Credenza, actually, it's feet are the "keep on trucking†foot and it's pointing hand is from the "I'm with Stupid†Tee Shirt.
DG: Ha! So how does humor function in your work, is it important?
MRS: I try to combine several different emotions in one object like: Sad and pretty, or funny and strange, so there is more than one way to read the work at the same time. Humor is definitely in the mix. I think through humor and often, unlikely connections result in something amusing. Another aspect to humor in my work is through bad taste. Humor itself often has a double edge to it. It can be really nice and really mean at the same time.
DG: Can you discuss your relationship to process and craftsmanship?
MRS: The finished object shows the history of how it's made. There is a particular look to materials when you first learn a skill that I happen to really like. There is a type of enthusiasm and inventiveness that translates to the work as you try and form it into something. This has a unique type of meaning that is very different then something that has no loose ends. The final look of the work has to support the meaning of it.
DG: How do you know when you've gone too far, or haven't gone far enough with your sculptures?
MRS: If it doesn't have a kind of balance between emotional responses it's not finished. For example I made a piece for the show where I wanted to reference something whimsical but to actually express a totally different feeling. The piece t ended up just being whimsical. There was no tension in it. I'll still work on it, but it definitely didn't make the cut. There is a fine line between trying to make work about something and just making the thing in and of itself.
Dan Gunn is an artist, writer and educator living in Chicago.


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You probably arenât familiar with Joshua Williamson. As a comics writer, heâs only got four professional projects to his name, all published since 2007. But while comics readers may not be that familiar with Williamson, Hollywood is. This week, Kickstart Productions announced theyâre optioning Williamsonâs all-ages title âDear Draculaâ â and since his Desperado Publishing series âNecessary Evilâ is already in development with Cartoon Network, that makes Williamson two for four at getting his projects picked up by Hollywood.
CBR News caught up with the 28-year-old Oregon resident to talk about his comics series and the media deals for âNecessary Evilâ and âDear Dracula.â
At the end of January, Cartoon Network announced they were developing Williamsonâs âNecessary Evilâ as part of the networkâs new live-action TV initiative. The comic book tells the story of two brothers, the sons of the worldâs greatest supervillainess. After the boysâ mother is killed by a superhero, the brothers are enrolled in the Necessary Evil Academy â a school for supervillains.
Williamson and artist Marcus L. Harris published nine issues of âNecessary Evilâ through Desperado Publishing in 2007 and 2008, with a tenth issue planned for an online release. Williamson said the storyâs jump from page to airwaves is pretty straightforward; that his manager took the property to some people in television, who took it to Cartoon Network, who liked it.
âI hate making it sound so blah, but thatâs how it happened,â Joshua Williamson told CBR.
The âNecessary Evilâ show is still pretty early in its development, but Williamson is liking the experience so far. âEveryone at Cartoon Network is great to work with,â he said. âThe scripts have been super exciting and Iâm really happy with how itâs all turning out. The main charactersâ translations from comic to screen so far have been awesome. I didnât completely believe it until Mark Sable [writer of Imageâs âGroundedâ and BOOM! Studiosâ âUnthinkableâ] e-mailed me congratulating me. Heâs friends with one of the showâs writers, so he knew ahead of most people. That was when it actually set in.â
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Since his work on âNecessary Evil,â Williamsonâs had several projects picked up by Shadowline, Jim Valentinoâs imprint at Image Comics. His most recent Shadowline books are âJohnny Monsterâ and âOverlook,â two very different projects. ââJohnny Monsterâ is a three-issue miniseries that just ended, about a kid who was raised by huge subterranean monsters,â Williamson explained. âNow he fights them to protect them.â What that means precisely, Williamson said, readers will just have to find out by picking up the book.
âOverlook,â on the other hand, âis about a dirty loser prize-fighter, Mickey, who takes a job to kill a mobsterâs wife and return the money she took,â Williamson told CBR. Once again, thereâs a twist. âIf he pulls off the job, in return the mobster will kill off anyone of Mickeyâs choosing.â
Williamsonâs found his two 2009-debuting projects fun to write, especially because theyâre such opposites. âWith âJohnny Monsterâ being superhero fun and âOverlookâ a crime story, it helped me challenge myself and to stretch out two different types of writer-muscles.â
Williamsonâs first book with Valentinoâs branch of Image was âDear Dracula,â published through all-ages sub-label Silverline and illustrated by Vicente Navarrete. âDear Dracula,â the story of a little boy who writes to Dracula on Halloween the way other children write to Santa Claus on Christmas, has now been optioned for development by Kickstart Productions.
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Most comics fans are probably familiar with Kickstart, or at least their projects. The company produced the film adaptation of Mark Millarâs âWanted,â the âWolverine and the X-Menâ cartoon series, and even an animated pilot based on Mike Mignolaâs cult comic book âThe Amazing Screw-On Head.â Kickstartâs interest in âDear Draculaâ is long-standing. âLast year, long before the book was out, [Kickstart founder] Jason Netter came to us with interest in the book,â Williamson said. âLike all things Hollywood, [the deal] just took a while to come together.â
The âDear Draculaâ creators and Netter briefly talked about producing the film in stop-motion animation, but theyâve settled on releasing it as a computer animated cartoon instead, with Williamson and Navarrete writing the first draft of the screenplay. âJason has been really good about letting us keep our vision and tone for the story,â Williamson said.
Writing the screenplay has turned out to be an opportunity to add some elements of the story that were cut in the original book, and itâs letting Williamson and Navarrete pick up where the original story left off. âWeâve taken the book and just added a whole new level to it,â Williamson said. âWeâve kept everything from the book and expanded on it. If people enjoyed the book, theyâre going to love the movie.â
Fans will be seeing more of Williamsonâs work soon, both in comics and in Hollywood â but right now, the writer isnât allowed to say where. âPretty much everything Iâm working on now, I canât talk about yet,â he said. âIt drives me nuts that I canât share it, but itâs better off a secret for now. Lately, my time has been pretty evenly split between the comic world and the film/TV one. Once a few things are announced, Iâll be able to talk more openly. The next few years are going to be very interesting and exciting!â


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Upcoming Riders' Advocacy Event
SC State Senator Marlon Kimpson and Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit, Inc. invite the people of the SC Lowcountry to the first Citizen's Hearing on Public Transit on Tuesday, August 4 from 6 to 8 pm. at the International Longshoreman's Hall at 1142 Morrison Dr, in Charleston, SC. The Longshoreman's Hall is on the CARTA 11, 10, 20 & 104 Bus lines.
This will be an old fashioned type of public hearing. Anyone present will be given the opportunity to speak to the entire gathering, to put up images for everyone to see and to file written comments in a publically available internet archive.
Local organizations and campaigns will be offered the opportunity to setup information tables. However we're asking political candidates to present their thoughts at public forums to be held in the fall and to use this opportunity to hear from the public. We record the entire hearing and stream it to the internet.
Food trucks will be available in the parking lot to provide evening meals for those present.
Input received at this hearing will be used to help Senator Kimpson and Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit shape their respective plans for moving our region towards more efficient and useful public transit in the next year.
Full information on this effort can be found at http://hungryneckstraphangers.com/?p=3785