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The Art of Wine & Cigars
- April 1, 1998 |
- By Jeff Morgan
Chuck Wagner drives a vintage 1967 turquoise Chevy pickup alongside his Napa Valley vineyard, its wheels kicking up rust-colored Rutherford dust--a fine powder assigned mythical powers by certain local grape growers. "It's still got its original paint," the square-framed, sandy-haired winemaker says proudly of his vehicle.
Among automobiles it's a minor victory of tenacity over time, but if Wagner wants to talk perseverance and heritage, he need only look to his own family's history. Each generation has faced challenges--from the devastating 1906 earthquake that destroyed San Francisco, to Prohibition, and even a vicious attempt on Wagner's father's life--weathering them all through vision and hard work that have made the clan's Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon one of the most revered red wines out of Napa Valley today.
Wagner is a fastidious sort who pays attention to detail. The 46-year-old winemaker runs a tight ship at his family's renowned, yet spartan, winery in the checkerboard vineyard town of Rutherford. He carefully follows the progress of each aging barrel of valuable wine, which can sell for as much as $100 a bottle. "We know our Cabernet is
special," says Wagner. "The distinctiveness is partly related to soil and partly to wine-making techniques."
Wagner's simple, yet spacious, 15,000-square-foot barrel room is packed to the ceiling with quietly maturing wine. Next door to the impressive structure sits a tiny, unobtrusive cinder-block building 12 feet wide and 22 feet long--a modest 264 square feet. "This was our old barrel room," Wagner explains, leading the way to a cool, dark and windowless lair that now serves as his office. Family pictures line the walls. The ceiling is covered by a three-dimensional topographic map of California, where Wagner likes to point out what he considers will be the next great wine-growing regions of the state. (He's betting on Monterey County and the Paso Robles area.)
The old barrel room is also a good place to store cigars. Taking up a significant portion of Wagner's desktop is his custom-made humidor, by the French firm Elie Bleu. Part of a special edition (Bleu made only 20 such humidors in 1995), Wagner's is number 15. "A good cigar is like a great wine," he says. "Once you finish a glass, it calls you back for another." Wagner's metaphor is spoken with the authority of someone for whom good taste is a way of life. He then pauses like the proverbial kid in a candy store before his tidy collection of mostly Cuban cigars.
"There's nothing quite like a Cuban cigar," he says, lifting a smooth-wrappered Partagas from his humidor. Lined up neatly along the humidor's Spanish cedar interior lie rows of hand-rolled Cuban Bolivars, El Rey del Mundos, Cohibas, Montecristos and H. Upmanns. Visually, both humidor and its contents make an arresting display of fine artisanship.
Before purchasing his humidor, Wagner kept his cigars scattered about in small boxes. "I needed to either build another room or get a bigger box," he recalls. While the humidor wasn't cheap, it cost less than building an entirely new room. He'd already done that years ago to make space for more wine barrels.
The story of Caymus Vineyards' rise to prominence is part of the wine phenomenon called Napa Valley, a singular spot so well suited to grape growing that nearly every inch of the 30-mile-long valley appears to be reserved for vineyards. Napa's uniqueness has long been apparent; by the late 1800s, more than 150 wineries graced the valley. Some, like the once mighty Inglenook, made wines that were not only the toast of cities like San Francisco and New York, but also of Europe, where they won wine competitions and the attention of many curious consumers.
However, Prohibition nearly killed the California wine industry. When Robert Mondavi opened his eponymous winery in 1966--some 33 years after Prohibition's repeal--barely six wineries in Napa Valley had nationally distributed wines. Today, some 240 wineries dot the valley, making wines with reputations now beyond reproach.
In Napa Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon is king. This hardy grape, originally transplanted from Bordeaux's gravelly soils, has taken well to its adopted home in California. The hot, dry growing season and rocky, red dirt in Napa yield ultraripe grapes. It's safe, if controversial, to say that the best of the crop produce wines offering power and richness not regularly achieved by their counterparts from France. "We continue to look at Bordeaux [for inspiration]," Wagner says. "But we don't try to emulate what they do there. We try to make wine in our own style."
The Caymus style is one that has evolved with time. The lush, 73-acre vineyard that produces complex and dynamic Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon is planted on land once dedicated mostly to walnuts, and plums for prune-making.
Chuck Walker's Alsatian grandfather, Charles, arrived in California in 1885. He settled in San Francisco, working in a brewery until it was destroyed by the great earthquake of 1906. The family patriarch then took his life savings--$9,000 in gold coins--and moved to what he hoped would be more solid ground in Napa Valley. There, he bought land to grow potatoes, tomatoes, squash and hay. He grew grapes as well, and in 1915 he opened Wagner Winery. However, Prohibition soon closed the winery's doors, officially at any rate. "My grandfather continued to farm prunes, walnuts and some grapes," Chuck says. "He sold a little beer and wine illegally, too."
It wasn't until 1943 that Chuck's father, Charlie, now 85, bought the acreage known today as Caymus Vineyards. Charlie got a good price on farmland that he had been renting for several years. The spry octogenarian still knocks about the property in a big straw hat, blue jeans and suspenders.
The soil was rockier on the new land than at the old farm (which was sold in 1963). Rocky soils offer the kind of porosity that grapevines crave, and yet Charlie Wagner planted additional fruit and nut trees. Though Wagner had a taste for his own homemade wine (fermented from Pinot Noir picked at his neighbor's vineyard), grapes were not yet part of his grand design.
By 1965, the market for prunes and walnuts was weak. Grapes looked more promising, and Charlie pulled all his fruit trees up to plant a mix of Pinot Noir, Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon vines. Ultimately, it became apparent that Cabernet would yield the most exciting, full-bodied wine.
Before his new vines could produce a commercial crop, however, Charlie had a near-fatal experience that affected both his and his son's future. In 1966, a disgruntled, mentally unstable former employee showed up on the property with a .22 caliber rifle and pumped six bullets at point-blank range into Charlie's body. He then shot himself in the head. Miraculously, both men lived, although it took Charlie a year to fully recover.
Chuck, 14 at the time, was working only part-time for his father, and his two older sisters were not involved in the day-to-day operation of the vineyard. "We didn't have enough money to hire help," Chuck recalls, "and I realized I would have to help out a lot more." It was the beginning of Chuck Wagner's practical education as a grape grower.
By 1970, the Wagners were making a reasonable profit selling grapes to local wineries. But they had some financial reversals from natural causes like flooding. "We thought about selling out," Charlie recalls. He found a potential buyer who was ready to pay $3,000 an acre--not a bad price at the time, even though Napa vineyard land today is worth $40,000 to $60,000 an acre. The deal fell through.
Meanwhile, Chuck had entered junior college, but lacked direction. He wasn't sure he wanted to remain a farmer, and his studies were leading nowhere. "I was not a good student," he admits.
It was Charlie who first saw the importance of making wine at Caymus. With its higher profit margins, wine could take farming to a more lucrative level than grape growing and also bring his son back into the fold. Chuck went for the bait. He quit school and joined his father at the new Caymus winery, named after an Indian village once located near the vineyard. "Chuck didn't really know wine then," Charlie says. "I don't think he even cared much for it." But that would change, as the younger Wagner improved his tasting and wine-making skills. "You see the result today," says his father proudly.
Nevertheless, the early years at the Caymus winery were difficult. "It was hideous," Chuck recalls. Conditions were primitive at the fledgling operation, where the father and son team started out with a hand-operated grape crusher and three redwood tank fermenters. They bought used barrels from Beaulieu Vineyard and Inglenook. "We were like clowns. We wouldn't even run into town to buy a good screwdriver," Chuck remembers with a smile. He and his father preferred to forage around the property for old parts and tools. After all, it's a time-honored tradition for farmers. "I was ashamed to tell my friends about what we were doing. How could we compete with [big names at the time, like] Charles Krug and Spring Mountain?"
The Wagners made some good wine on their own, particularly in 1973 and 1974. In 1975, they hired Randy Dunn to help in the cellar for their fourth vintage. "In those days, [winemaking at Caymus] was by guess and by golly," Dunn reminisces. "Charlie was basically a farmer." The family's home-winemaking tradition had not fully prepared them for a commercial endeavor.
Dunn, who remained at Caymus for 10 more years and now makes his own highly regarded Dunn Cabernet, was an entomologist (a zoologist who studies insects) who had also minored in winemaking and biochemistry at the University of California at Davis. With the aid of Dunn's science background and additional help from various local winemakers, Caymus refined its cellar techniques while developing the smooth, sleek style that it is known for today. "That [decade with Randy Dunn] was our great learning curve," Chuck Wagner says today.
Dunn believes that the secret to both his own and Caymus's success stems largely from the high quality of each winery's raw materials--their Cabernet grapes. "We're not doing anything special [in the cellar]," he says modestly. "We're blessed with good fruit." Given the consistently favorable Wine Spectator reviews of Caymus Cabernets going back to 1973, Dunn's hypothesis rings true.
Caymus made 250 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon in 1972, its first vintage, and sold the wine for $4.50 a bottle. The 1994 vintage, its most recent, costs $36. Caymus Special Selection--a limited reserve production wine made exclusively from the home vineyard--weighs in at a hefty $100, and total wine production (which features wines like Sauvignon Blanc as well) is now up around 70,000 cases. The numbers do not include other wine ventures to the south in Monterey County and Paso Robles. Chuck farms a 100-acre vineyard in Monterey called Mer Soleil, from which he makes a richly textured Chardonnay. A newer partnership with longtime Paso Robles growers--the Hope family--will yield a red table wine called Treana, made from Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Sangiovese grapes.
Looking back over the years, Chuck says, "We tried really hard, and we haven't stopped." His expansion into Southern California is meant to assure not only his, but his four children's economic security. "When you come from humble beginnings, you don't want to return," he adds.
While hard work is clearly a factor in the Wagner family's success, they were fortunate to own a choice piece of land at a time when California Cabernet was about to take off. In the early 1970s, California was better known for Gallo and Paul Masson jug wines than its premier varietals.
A turning point occurred in 1976, when a contest was set up in Paris, pitting a group of California Cabernets and Chardonnays against famous Bordeaux châteaus and Burgundys. At the now famous Paris Tasting, California roundly trounced the French, much to the chagrin of the French judges, who had tasted "blind," without knowing the wines' identities. A Time magazine article about the tasting catapulted California--and Napa Valley in particular--into the public eye.
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, just a few miles down the road from Caymus (which also was a contestant in the Paris Tasting), placed first among the Cabernet-based wines. Its 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon beat out such stellar French châteaus as Mouton-Rothschild and Haut-Brion. "Ballistic is a word that has been used," says Stag's Leap owner Warren Winiarski to describe the Paris Tasting's effect on his own wine's reputation and sales. "People have never stopped talking about the event."
Given Napa Valley's inherent ability to grow extraordinary Cabernet Sauvignon, it's no wonder that a short drive from either Caymus or the Stag's Leap Wine Cellars leads wine travelers to any number of outstanding Cabernet producers: Mondavi, Opus One, Dominus, Dunn, Diamond Creek, Spottswoode, Chateau Montelena, Silver Oak, Heitz, Shafer--the names roll off the tongue as smoothly as the wines. Both Napa's vine-studded valley and surrounding mountains offer optimum conditions for coaxing exquisitely ripe, enduring flavors out of this assertive, domineering grape.
Great wines have brought even greater growth to the valley, and Napa is now a far cry from the sleepy farm region that Chuck Wagner's grandfather moved to in 1906. The towns of Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga sport trendy boutiques and restaurants that cater to throngs of travelers who have picked this area as their number one wine destination.
Yet Napa's valuable monoculture securely anchors the region's cosmopolitan airs to its agricultural heritage. Walk into Tra Vigne, for example. This polished Italian restaurant in St. Helena keeps a decidedly local spin on its excellent wine list, adding only a respectful nod to the wines of Italy.
On the walls hang photographs of early Napa Valley wine settlers. One turn-of-the-century image features a handsome group of vintners, one of whom was general manager at the time for the famous Inglenook winery. (Inglenook produced some of Napa's greatest Cabernet Sauvignon before its name became associated with a jug wine brand in the 1970s. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola now owns the Inglenook property, which was first planted in 1879 by a Finnish sea captain and fur trader named Gustav Niebaum. It is now called Niebaum-Coppola Estate.) The Inglenook general manager, Lafayette Stice, smiles at the camera. Originally from Scotland, Stice found his way to Napa, where he married a local girl named Sarah Belle Turner. Their granddaughter, Lorna Belle, married Charlie Wagner, and later gave birth to Chuck. Now, when Charlie or Chuck eats at Tra Vigne, he can order his family's wine while gazing at a piece of the family photo album.
Holding a neatly burning Partagas, Chuck is thankful for his and his family's hard-earned good fortune. He knows it rests on the continued success of Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon. In 1993--considered a weak year in Napa Valley--Chuck decided that quality was not high enough to release a Special Selection Cabernet. The best lots from the vintage were declassified and blended into the regular Cabernet. It was a difficult decision, but one that preserved the integrity of the label.
Chuck applies the same premium on quality to the cigars he smokes. "One inch of a bad one--and you've got to put it down." That's why he prefers Cuban cigars. "I don't know if other cigar regions will find the magic of Cuba," he sighs, wistfully.
Nonetheless, Wagner appreciates variety in a smoke. "I don't know anyone who enjoys just one cigar or just one wine." Where does he get his Cubans? "Everyone has his sources," the winemaker responds coyly. "I don't smoke them daily, but I enjoy them regularly."
With Napa Valley as his backdrop, Chuck Wagner's regular smoke would be the envy of most cigar aficionados. "My favorite memory is of a Montecristo No. 2 Cabinet selection , a torpedo," he says. The winemaker describes a quiet evening on his porch by the vineyard that has been so good to him. The cool night air, the whispering vines and the history under his feet conspired with the flavors of the gently burning torpedo. "It was truly a great cigar," he remembers. "Kind of like that great bottle of Burgundy that you can never find." Clearly, Wagner has found his niche in the world of wine. It, too, is filled with superlatives.
Jeff Morgan is the West Coast Editor for Wine Spectator magazine.


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'Reign' Recap: 'A Chill in the Air'
Mistresses run amuck on this latest episode of 'Reign.'
First, Pagans attack the carriage of Francis's ex-lover Olivia, back to French court because her reputation with the prince has broke up her engagement. Mary tries to be open-minded about the whole thing, even after Bash admits that Francis had feelings for the oddly-accented blond beauty. But after Olivia rudely confronts our petite Queen (while borrowing a dress, no less), saying she's going to get Francis back, Mary is like, get that B-word out of court! Francis plays the good boy for a hot minute, but Olivia's offer of basically whatever he wants from her seems to tempt him, especially after her plans to leave for Paris mysteriously fall through.
Yes, I mentioned Pagans. I'll get to that in a mo'.
Second in mistress territory, Greer still has eyes for the dreamy kitchen boy, but to make any moves would ruin her reputation and prevent a good marriage to the boring pepper lord who has come a-courting. To protect her virtue, Greer cuts ties for good.
Thirdly, that new bobble around Kenna's neck used to belong to Queen Catherine, and Mary's future mother-in-law is all too happy to point out the royal affair that's happening right under their noses. Instead of being pissed at Kenna, Catherine uses the information to pull a "look into your future! A future full of MISTRESSES I.E. OLIVIA!" card, prompting Mary to get drunk at the Harvest festival, confront Francis, and then finally -- FINALLY -- kiss Bash. Immediately she says it was a mistake. Not for the audience, Queenie!
Sadly, Francis sees them and walks off arm in arm with Olivia, which is a bitchy move. Mary is full of regret, even after launching her little "regret" ship into the pond at the never ending Harvest Festival. Will she ever be able to repair her delicate relationship with Francis? One good thing to come of the event: Greer decides that regrets are bad and makes out with KB (kitchen boy). No one must ever know!
Anyway, the Pagans. Yes. They live in the wood… sorry, the blood wood… and sacrifice humans to honor a cave creature that lives in a cave. Or so claims Nostradamus. Apparently, because Bash cut down Colin (COLIN WILL NEVER DIE! Or at least his storyline won't) and now the driver of Olivia's carriage, he's interrupted the sacrifice and the Pagan's are going to come after him. And do they ever! Well, one redheaded guy sitting very casually on a ledge shows up in the night and tells Bash that he owes them a sacrifice before diving to his death because he's "been seen."
All in all, a pretty good Harvest Festival.
Oh, lord, also, Queen Catherine is behind Olivia showing up in court and wants her to get pregnant by Francis. Also, Mary suspects this and has triple crossed Catherine by letting her think that Aylee is spying for her. For Catherine. On Mary. You know what I'm saying. Damn, Nostradamus couldn't figure out this plot.

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With football season here, we're all looking for game-day treat recipes. The easier these recipes are the better. It doesn't get much better than delicious hot meat on your favorite team's game day.
If you love cocktail weenies marinating in special sauce all through your football game, then you'll love meatballs. You can either substitute these meatballs for weenies, you can mix them together and let them both stew in their delicious crockpot juices.
Crockpot Football Meatballs
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2 eggs
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1 jar of grape jelly
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In a bowl, mix together water, eggs, burger and stuffing until combined. Form into 1 to 1 1/2 inch balls, and then bake on a foil covered cookie sheet at 400 degrees until they reach 160 degrees with a meat thermometer.
You can put these straight into your crockpot from here, or if you are making these ahead of time, you can freeze them and take them out on game day and throw them in your crockpot then. Add the grape jelly and chili sauce and put your crockpot on low (if meatballs were frozen) or warm (if coming straight from the oven). You can add the cocktail weenies at this time too.
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of the University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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The market for Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Flynn could finally be heating up after remaining lukewarm so far this offseason.
According to Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com, the Jacksonville Jaguars are the most likely destination for the Seahawks backup quarterback to end up if he's traded this offseason. The Oakland Raiders and Buffalo Bills are also expressing interest.
New Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley is familiar with Flynn as he served as the Seahawks defensive coordinator prior to being hired in Jacksonville. Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie was with Flynn in Green Bay and is aware of his abilities as well. Buffalo traded for another Seahawks quarterback last year in Tarvaris Jackson late in the preseason to serve as backup to Ryan Fitzpatrick.
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Rekindling the debate about Danica Patrick's racing skills, legendary NASCAR champion Richard Petty reportedly said she could win only if she was the sole driver on the track.
While appearing at the Canadian Motorsports Expo in Toronto on Sunday, Petty was asked if she would ever visit Victory Lane in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series.
"If everybody else stayed home," Petty replied, according to a story on the website Wheels.ca. But Petty, 76, who won a record 200 NASCAR races and co-owns his own Cup team, said Patrick nonetheless was good for stock car racing.
"If she'd been a male, nobody would ever know if she'd showed up at a race track," Petty said. "This is a female deal that's driving her. There's nothing wrong with that, because that's good PR for me.
"More fans come out, people are more interested in it," he said. "She has helped to draw attention to the sport, which helps everybody in the sport."
Patrick, 31, is a former IndyCar Series driver who had one victory in seven years in that series, during which she also became one of the nation's most famous and well-paid sports figures. She then moved to NASCAR and last year completed her first full season in the Cup series.
Driving for the Stewart-Haas Racing team, she finished 27th in the point standings without a victory and one top-10 finish.
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The unique power of social media is its dearth of gatekeepers. This unfettered access to people and information allows the world to converse, connect and collaborate with individuals who have different ideas. Perhaps ironically, this openness to disparate voices also makes social media subject to an economic principle called "the tragedy of the commons."
Tragedy of the Digital Commons
The ability for individuals, because of limited oversight or gatekeepers, to act independently—establishing branded profiles on social networks according to each one's self-interest—can create the risk of polluting the space to a point where noise prevents anyone's voice from being clearly understood. In economic terms, this "… depletion of a shared resource by individuals, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group's long-term best interests," is what is referred to as the tragedy of the commons.A few years back, IBM conducted an audit of branded profiles across social channels and discovered that we too had a 'tragedy of commons,' with thousands of what appeared to be "IBM brand-owned" profiles. Some were real, others illegitimate. But, when everyone tries to create a "one-stop-shop" on the Web, you get a messy, messy mall. Those who established these branded profiles likely embarked with good intentions, however, they unfortunately put self-interest (quite rationally) at the forefront of their thinking. Rather than considering how this new profile fit into a broader brand strategy, they wanted to create a pipeline of information from IBM that showcased their interest in the product or initiative they were responsible for, perhaps without sufficient regard to the broader brand presence.
How to Solve the Problem
For every organization, the social media landscape is a commons. Protecting it is an ongoing effort that will require the ability to bring together different viewpoints and make the optimum trade-offs, by promoting cooperative collaboration, creating incentives for users to invest in the social media landscape and—when absolutely necessary—restricting access.
- Cooperative Collaboration: Integration and collaboration around a single strategy to deliver high-value experiences for customers and members.
- Creating Incentives: Build an active, engaged membership that respects the values and philosophy of the organization.
- Restricting Access: Create a curatorial team that determines who has access to the resource and when.
Cooperative Collaboration & Creating Incentives
We developed a dynamic and personalized internal system called The Digital IBMer Hub to educate and enable IBMers about how to better integrate and collaborate in service of authentic, open, and trustworthy communication about the work we do for clients at IBM. We also published Social Brand Engagement guidelines that offered IBM's marketers and communications staff clear instructions and resources for operating profiles and pages on third party social sites that represent IBM in an official capacity.
We have empowered as gatekeepers, a select few (Social Business Managers) who possess the critical thinking and training necessary to accurately evaluate and use social media's constant flow of information to lead IBM in being essential to every client's success. As trusted gatekeepers, they're responsible for shaping how the public interacts with the IBM brand, properties and IBMers on social media. Individuals in this role also empower colleagues to make the most of social – but also to restrict its use when it goes off the rails. In the digital commons, think of them as Smokey the Bear – encouraging you to enjoy the forest, but also warning against the perils of thoughtlessly burning it down.
Perhaps most importantly, we have developed a means to celebrate the most effective individual IBMers and managers of official brand profiles – IBM Voices, a visualization of our best social media content from across the globe. By celebrating these top performers, we set the cultural precedent for the right kinds of behaviors through a positive incentive.
Restricting Access
Because "failure to offer employees full access to social media seriously threatens an organization's competitiveness," it's important that we temper our use of restricting access. At IBM, we published Social Computing Guidelines in early 2006, encouraging IBMers to participate. We intuited (and later learned first hand) that, as my colleague, Susan Emerick puts it in The Most Powerful Brand on Earth, "Brands need to respect the employee's desire to develop their own reputation…the greatest impact occurs when both the brand and the employee understand and integrate each other's strategies."
In many ways, data is the new natural resource – and when it comes to your brand presence in social, this is just one way that marketers and professional communicators must be the stewards of a whole new environment.
How does your business protect its' digital commons and what can brands do to avoid tragic mistakes?


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The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers
January 7, 2018
1. The Rooster Bar
John Grisham
Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
2. Origin
Dan Brown
A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
3. The People vs. Alex Cross
James Patterson
Detective Cross takes on a case even though he has been suspended from the department and taken to federal court to stand trial on murder charges.
4. Artemis
Andy Weir
A small-time smuggler living in a lunar colony schemes to pay off an old debt by pulling of a challenging heist.
5. The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel
Lee Child
Jack Reacher tracks down the owner of a pawned West Point class ring and stumbles upon a large criminal enterprise.
6. Year One
Nora Roberts
When a pandemic strikes and the world spins into chaos, several travelers head west to find a new life.
7. Tom Clancy Power and Empire
Marc Cameron
President Jack Ryan seeks to identify the hidden forces escalating the tensions between China and the United States.
8. End Game
David Baldacci
Jessica Reel and Will Robie fight a dangerous adversary in Colorado.
9. Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King and Owen King
Women who fall asleep become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another.
10. Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
11. Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks
Seventeen short stories, each incorporating a typewriter, by the Academy Award-winning actor.
12. Hardcore Twenty-Four
Janet Evanovich
When a homeless man is murdered, the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum searches for the killer.
13. A Column of Fire
Ken Follett
A pair of lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.
14. Two Kinds of Truth
Michael Connelly
While he investigates the murder of two pharmacists, an old case comes back to haunt Harry Bosch.
15. Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
The first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during World War II tries to understand why her father disappeared.
© 2018 All rights reserved by New York Times Syndication Sales Corp. This material may not be published, broadcast or redistributed in any manner.
A version of this list appears in the January 7, 2018 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending December 23, 2017.
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236 acres preserved at ranch
Landowners create first conservation easement in North Routt's Little Snake River Valley
Steamboat Springs — Pat and Sharon O'Toole have become the first landowners in North Routt's Little Snake River Valley to place land in a conservation easement.
The easement will be held by the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust and was aided by $381,000 from Routt County's Purchase of Development Rights Program.
"There aren't many places like the Little Snake River anywhere in Colorado," Chris West, executive director of the land trust, said in a news release. "It is an untouched valley and we applaud efforts of the local ranchers to protect this special landscape."
The river parallels Routt County Road 129 on the Colorado-Wyoming border.
"We're pretty excited about this project," said Carl Vail, a member of the PDR Advisory Board. "It gets things going up in North Routt. : We think it's a very appropriate place for our PDR funds."
The Routt County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the county's contribution to the project Tuesday. The O'Tooles brought their grandson, Seamus Lally, who represents the family's sixth generation in the valley, to Tuesday's meeting. The family has been ranching the Little Snake River Valley since 1881.
"It's been really a pleasure for us to go through the process," Pat O'Toole said. "It's a good example that the process works."
The O'Tooles said the residents of the Little Snake River Valley are committed to preserving its agricultural heritage.
"We have high hopes and expectations that some of our neighbors will be coming before you," Sharon O'Toole said to commissioners.
The land the O'Tooles are placing under conservation is a 236-acre bull pasture. According to the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust, "the undeveloped ranchland provides valuable habitat to a wide array of wildlife species including elk, pronghorn, sage grouse, bald eagles, cutthroat trout and mule deer. Sandhill cranes nest nearby and the Little Snake River Valley hosts one of the largest populations of this species in Colorado."
When a landowner donates a conservation easement, they are permanently protecting the land from development. This reduces the value of the restricted land, but landowners' compensation isn't just the knowledge that the land will never be turned into a subdivision or shopping mall. There are significant tax breaks associated with the move, sometimes worth millions depending on the details of the easement.
Also, some entities – such as the PDR program – will compensate landowners for the land-value loss to encourage more people to enter into conservation easements.
"The purpose is to compensate the landowner with cash to preclude development," Ron Roundtree, chairman of the PDR Advisory Board, said last year.
The O'Tooles themselves are contributing about 50 percent of the easement's value, which means they are not being reimbursed for about 50 percent of the property value lost by placing it in a conservation easement.
At a cost of about $5 million, the PDR program has completed 20 conservation easements totaling 11,760 acres. An additional 4,512 acres currently are under review. The program is funded by a 1.5 mill property tax approved in 2006, nine years after the program was first approved for a 10-year period. The 2006 renewal is good for 20 years. Voters exempted the program from the state's revenue growth limitations. Its tax revenues increased 34 percent last year, from $1.2 million in 2007 to $1.6 million in 2008.
The Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust holds seven easements totaling 3,500 acres on working ranches in Routt County. An additional 8,000 acres are under review.
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Ion Hazzikostas Interview
Today's interview is with Ion Hazzikostas (Lead Encounter Designer) by Method. A summary of the main points is below, but reading the full interview is worth it if you want to see the full answers!
- Item upgrades will have an effect similar to the Dragon Soul nerfs, making raids easier over time.
- The raid Feat of Strength achievements will be removed in Patch 5.2. It isn't clear yet if there will be progressive nerfs or not this time, as players are not stuck yet.
- Upgrading your items is meant to be a progression, but the new raid gear in Patch 5.2 will be better than your upgraded items, so upgrading everything isn't mandatory.
- In Asia, all 25 player bosses have 8% more health and do 8% more damage. They also drop gear that is 8 item levels higher.
- Balancing all of the progression systems for alts is something that is being looked at.
- Daily quests are being used to tell the story and get players involved with the conflict between factions.
- For now, daily quests will remain the only source of Lesser Charms.
- Ion is working on a post about some of Blizzard's philosophies in regards to tuning and raid hotfixes.
- Patch 5.2 information is coming Soon™.
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SWTOR Patch 1.6 Live
Patch 1.6 went live this week, with a new Warzone, heroic Space Combat missions, new Cartel Market items, and other new items. See the full notes or Darthhater's coverage guide for more info.
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How to Use
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Inquiry Question
Reading 1: The Growth of a Symbol
The following quotations demonstrate the symbolic importance of the Liberty Bell.
James Silk Buckingham visited Philadelphia around 1840 when the bell's reputation as a relic of the American Revolution was beginning to grow.
This bell [the Liberty Bell] though no longer used for general purposes, still occupied the place in which it was originally hung, and, like the great bell of St. Paul's in London, used on special occasions such as the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and visits of distinguished visitors such as Lafayette...it will no doubt be preserved as a national treasure.
Preparation for the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence led to a resurgence of interest in the American Revolution and in the Liberty Bell.
This is true, there appears to have been no first jubilee to all the inhabitants on our fiftieth anniversary--too many millions of our inhabitants were then in slavery--we then could not fully carry out the text and proclaim liberty to all. But now upon the second fiftieth year we are able to do so. Cracked and shattered as the bell may be, the base upon which that motto is cast remains firm and solid, and shaken has our country been with the din of battle and bloody strife, that principle remains pure and perfect for all time to come and the whole text, Liberty Jubilee, will be literally carried out in 1876. 'Liberty can now be proclaimed throu [sic] all the land to all inhabitants thereof.'
In the early 20th century there was a debate about the advantages and potential problems of allowing the Liberty Bell to travel the country by rail.
The Liberty Bell is undoubtedly of most interest--for those that can see it there at home in Philadelphia, where it made its never to be forgotten announcement that a new nation had been born....But even in Philadelphia, the bell is only near, not in, its original station, and it can go further afield to teach its lessons of history and patriotism....Wherever displayed it will set people, and especially young people, to thinking and studying in a way that cannot have other than good results. The chances that the bell may be lost on one of its journeys or actually destroyed in a railway accident are so few as to be negligible.
Katherine Ruschenberger purchased a replica of the Liberty Bell called the "Women's Liberty Bell" or "Justice Bell" to promote the women's suffrage movement. The bell's clapper was chained so that it could not be rung. The chain was to be removed when women gained the right to vote. The Justice Bell was rung for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919.
The original Liberty Bell announced the creation of democracy, the Women's Liberty Bell will announce the completion of democracy.
Philadelphia officials considered moving the bell to Fort Knox, Kentucky, for safekeeping during World War II.
But while American morale is of the best, while American patriotism burns bright, it still is good to have within view this evidence of the struggle of America for liberty. It will be an inspirational shrine. It will comfort those who may weaken during the struggle. It will be a constant reminder of the great American heritage of one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Civil rights protestors claimed they chose the Liberty Bell as their symbol because of its association with American freedoms and the struggle for black equality.
On March 12, 1965, twenty-five civil rights demonstrators entered Independence Hall and began a sit-in around the Liberty Bell. The demonstration was to dramatize the need to send Federal authorities to Selma, Alabama, to protect the rights of African Americans.
Questions for Reading 1
1. Using a dictionary, look up the definition for "symbol." What are some symbols that you are most familiar with?
2. What did the bell represent in 1876?
3. What did the bell represent to suffragists?
4. Would you have supported the proposal to move the Liberty Bell during World War II? Why or why not? What does the proposal say about the importance of the Liberty Bell as a symbol?
5. Why do you think abolitionist groups selected the bell as their symbol? How did later civil rights groups use the bell?
Compiled from David Kimball, Venerable Relic: The Story of the Liberty Bell (Philadelphia: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1989); and John C. Paige with David A. Kimball, "The Liberty Bell: A Special History Study," National Park Service, Denver, unpublished manuscript, 1986.


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Mike Pouncey missed the past two starts with what started as food poisoning, developed into some mysterious gallbladder issue and included a hospital stay. Well, it'll soon be time to get back to normal.
Pouncey practiced today at least on a limited basis and said he'll be in the starting lineup against the New York Jets Sunday.
"I' feel great," Pouncey said. "I'll be out there."
Pouncey, who looked extremely thin since his illness, said he has regained all of his weight. Pouncey had previously said he'd lost only five pounds. It looked like more than that. And he still looks on the thin side.
But sometimes you have to take a man at his word.
Cornerback Dimitri Patterson, who missed last week's game against Carolina with the season-long groin injury, worked at least on a limited basis in practice today.
The Dolphins signed defensive tackle A.J. Francis off the New England practice squad last night. If the name sounds familiar, it's because Francis was with the Dolphins during training camp. He was cut and picked up by the Patriots, who eventually put him on practice squad.
"It was tough going up to New England because it was tough learning the system on the fly," Francis said. "They're not teaching the system, they're preparing for a game. So you have to learn while they're going. It took me to be honest, a couple of weeks and closer to a month to be completely familiar with the system and get where I was down here."
Catching back up with the Dolphins should be hard for Francis. He said a couple of calls have changed but otherwise catching up was easy.
"I got the call yesterday morning, packed up my bags and studied my old notes on the flight for thre-and-a-half hours and I'm pretty much back to where I was when I left," he said.


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In Christianity Today, LaTonya Taylor offered the definitive look at "The Church of O" 10 years ago. There are many reasons why I'm not the type of woman to get into Oprah Winfrey, but her religious views always intrigued me. Earlier this week, Tmatt looked at some of the coverage of Oprah's goodbye show. He wrote "She led the way in creating what I have long called 'OprahAmerica,' it's a culture defined by emotion, feelings and stories, not by acts of creeds, doctrines and sacraments that have eternal consequences." But how many articles got at that issue?
In the New York Times this weekend, Mark Oppenheimer looked at "The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering." And as you might expect of a religion column, it's all about the unique religion advanced by Oprah, "at once Christian and pantheistic." The first part of the article talks about some of the Christian strains in her theology, with interesting quotes from Eva Illouz, a sociologist:
While respecting Ms. Winfrey's use of her Christian heritage, Dr. Illouz ultimately concluded that the talk-show host might be something of a false prophet. That is because, she said, Ms. Winfrey and her cadre of self-help experts treated suffering as something beneficial. Ms. Winfrey turned the black church's ethos of self-reliance in the face of suffering into an exaltation of suffering itself.
"By making all experiences of suffering into occasions to improve oneself," Dr. Illouz wrote, "Oprah ends up -- absurdly -- making suffering into a desirable experience."
And if, as Ms. Winfrey's teachings suggest, strong women "can always transcend failure by the alchemy of their own will and of therapy, then people have only themselves to blame for their misery," Dr. Illouz said.
Very interesting. We then get an intriguing discussion of Charles Grandison Finney and the "anxious bench."
But I also enjoyed the part of the article that looked at the non-Christian aspects of Oprah's theology:
Yet the Church of Winfrey is at most partly Christian. Her show featured a wide, if drearily similar, cast of New Age gurus. As Karlyn Crowley writes in her contribution to "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture," an essay collection published last year, Ms. Winfrey excelled at offering "spiritual alternatives to the mainstream religions" in which many of her followers grew up. Ms. Winfrey presided over something like a "New Age feminist congregation," Dr. Crowley writes. ...
In her earnest spiritual seeking, Ms. Winfrey gave platforms to some rather questionable types. She hosted the self-help author Louise Hay, who once said Holocaust victims may have been paying for sins in a previous life. She championed the "medical intuitive" Caroline Myss, who claims emotional distress causes cancer. She helped launch Rhonda Byrne, creator of the DVD and book "The Secret," who teaches that just thinking about wealth can make you rich. She invited the "psychic medium" John Edward to help mourners in her audience talk to their dead relatives.
Oppenheimer's reported column ends with this type of criticism of Winfrey's religious exuberance and failure to ask tough questions of "psychics and healers and intuitives." Whether you agree or disagree with Oppenheimer, this is a thoughtful and well argued analysis of Oprah's theology and its limitations. It's nice to read something of this nature in the weekend paper.


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Academics . Photography + Video . Faculty . Mary Jo Toles
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Courses Alternative Photographic Processes | Digital Color | Digital Photo Imaging I for Non-Majors | Photo 3: Advanced Digital Projects | Photo Archive, Book + Portfolio | Photo Major 2.1: Narrative Structures | Photo Major 2.2: Digital Photo Imaging I
Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Toles has contributed in her field as an arts educator for over two decades. Recognized for her development of experimental processes related to high-voltage photographic imagery, she is an inventive contributor in her field. Her work can be located in collections nationally, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, First National Collection in Chicago, State of Illinois, State of Florida. Her work has been published in the US, Japan and Germany. Exhibitions include the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C, Boston Photographic Resource Center, SPACES Gallery, MOCA-Cleveland, and the Kohler, Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, and Grand Rapids Art Museums. Current work engages digital print technologies with early nineteenth century photography and optics, often combining photographic images with sculptural components. She creates digital negatives from an assortment of optical equipment and inventions, coupling these with unique alternative processes for both chemical and digital output. Inspired by her experiences in Provence, heart of photography's early inventions, with a love of art, science, and critical thinking, she is an alchemist among photographers, with a desire to engage the multidisciplinary scope and interconnections inherent in this media.
Prof. Toles is a recipient of Ohio, Florida and Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and National Endowment for the Humanities project grant. She represented the state of Ohio as an Artist in Residence at Cimelice, in the Czech Republic.
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Firebug Docs: Using Chromebug on FirebugWednesday, December 17th, 2008
I wrote a short tutorial on one way I use Chromebug when developing Firebug.
The job was to find the code for the source link in the Style side panel for the HTML panel. By using inspect, I find the HTML div for the Style panel entry, then search the source for the CSS class name on the div. That gets me close a lot of the time.


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When The Iron Bird Flies
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The Buddhist Center of Steamboat Springs and Bud Werner Memorial Library present a new documentary about Tibetan Buddhism in the West.
This special free community film screening is in honor of Tsoknyi Rinpoche III's August 16-18 visit to Steamboat Springs. Tsoknyi Rinpoche III is one of the most highly regarded of the contemporary generation of Tibetan meditation masters.
This screening is free, however donations gratefully will be accepted for the Buddhist Center's ongoing project in support of the Tsoknyi Nepal Nuns.
About the film
In 1959, the Chinese invasion of Tibet threw open the doors to the mysterious realm of Tibetan Buddhism and suddenly this rich, ancient tradition was propelled into the modern world. Half a century later, Padmasambhava's prophecy has come true and the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism are found in every corner of the earth.
WHEN THE IRON BIRD FLIES takes us on an up-close and personal journey following the astounding path of one of the world's great spiritual traditions from the caves of Tibet to the mainstream of Western culture. Along the way, the film tackles the provocative exchanges between Buddhist practitioners and scholars and Western scientists, psychologists, and educators now at the heart of the emergence of a genuine Western tradition of Buddhism.
And the film investigates the question: In these increasingly challenging times, can these profound teachings help us find genuine happiness and create a saner, more compassionate 21st century world?
Through candid interviews with contemporary teachers and practitioners, rare archival footage, and striking images of modern life that illuminate and make accessible the Buddha's core teachings, the film creates a vivid and entertaining portrait of the world of Tibetan Buddhism, as it is manifesting in America and the West.
Run time: 96 min.
"Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love"
For more information about participating in an evening talk and morning meditation retreat with H.E. Tsoknyi Rinpoche on Friday & Saturday, Aug. 16-17, please visit the Buddhist Center's web page. This is an open community teaching.


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Extending the traditional Festivus ritual, "The airing of the grievances," beyond December 23rd is just one example of my piety and personal reverence for the holiday created by Seinfeld's Frank Costanza. As Frank would say, "I got a lot of problems with you people."
But one Orange County inmate has taken it a step further, citing belief in Festivus to make his life in jail just a little bit better. Perhaps at the taxpayers expense.
According to Kimberly Edds at the Orange County Register, inmate Malcom King – a body builder and convicted felon – was sick and tired of the unhealthy, salami-laden jail meals and he saw only one way out: have his lawyer tell the court he was a religious follower of Frank Costanza's teachings and that this required a more expensive double portion of the jail's kosher meal.
The judge granted the meal request: another Festivus miracle.
Kings attorney via OCR:
Judge [Derek G.] Johnson pulled King's lawyer and the prosecutor aside and said he needed a religion to put down on the order to make it stick, explained Thiagarajah.
"I said Festivus," said Thiagarajah. The order was granted – three non-salami meals a day.
County Counsel researched Festivus, arguing the holiday was the creation of writer Dan O'Keefe to celebrate his first date with his wife in 1966. The holiday was introduced to the world by his son Daniel, a screenwriter for Seinfeld, who wrote it into the show. (read more)
Inmate King has been released to ICE custody, where the Feds probably take a much dimmer view on citing sitcom-based pseudo-religion beliefs in court. And a six foot aluminum pole is definitely contraband.


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News release on WilcoHess website, www.wilcousa.com:
"After working for his father-in-law at Taylor Oil Company in Winston-Salem for six years in the late 1950s, Arthur T. Williams branched off on his own and created A. T. Williams Oil Company in 1963. With no formal business training and a degree in agriculture from N. C. State University, the then 37-year-old Williams plunged into the new business and bought six full service stations.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, AT Williams enhanced his stations to include a new concept cropping up across the country -- self-serve gasoline pumps. Initially, the company offered full and self-service. When Williams discovered that about 95 percent of the gasoline dispensed was self-serve, the company converted fully to self-service. The next trend in the industry was what the industry refers to as the "C" concept, or convenience store concept, which appeared in the mid-1980s. By 1982 the small chain of stores had grown to number 67.
In the late 1980s Mr. Williams decided to try his hand at gaining some diesel volume. The first facility with "diesel bays" was built in Suffolk, VA in 1988. This was shortly followed by the company's first venture into the travel plaza arena. In the winter of 1990, Wilco #735, Raphine, VA opened its doors to the world of professional trucking. This facility offered multiple diesel bays, traditional truck company payment methods, showers and a restaurant.
The company continued to build both travel plazas and convenience stores throughout the nineties, expanding outside the Carolinas and Virginia into Georgia and Pennsylvania. By the turn of the century, the A.T. Williams Oil company had grown to 140 stores which pumped over 420 million gallons of fuel annually. The company continued to add variety to their restaurant offerings, and began franchising operations with Wendy's, Dairy Queen, Bojangles, Taco Bell, Subway.
Due to the increasing uncertainty of of fuel supply availability and the increased number of major oil company mergers, the Williams family decided it was time to partner with a major independent supplier. This would not only guarantee a steady supply of fuel at a reduced cost, but standardize the company's offering of fuel to the public.
In the Spring of 2001, the A.T. Williams Oil Company joined partners with Amerada Hess, the leading independent oil company on the eastern seaboard, in a joint venture company. WILCOHESS, LLC was born on April 1, 2001. Save for a few Exxon stores, the entire company was re-branded to sell Hess fuel by year's end. This joint venture partnership now allowed the company to be much more competitive in their fuel pricing, and also take advantage of the Hess buying power.
In the January 2004 WILCOHESS made its most bold growth move ever by acquiring 50 locations from the former Service Distributors based in Albemarle, NC. These locations were incorporated into the WILCOHESS infrastructure in January and were remodeled throughout 2004. Located from one end of North Carolina to the other, these stores greatly expand the Hess brand exposure throughout the state.
On June 1st, 2005, WILCOHESS announced a company merger with Trade Oil Company based in Greenville, NC. Trade Oil was founded in 1984 by Walter L. Williams and operated 101 convenience stores all throughout the eastern part of North Carolina. Trade Mart stores have been known for over a generation for offering fast, friendly service at a convenient location in dozens of communities.
Today, WILCOHESS is 300+ stores strong and growing. From new travel plazas to convenience stores, the Hess flag is now flying over Wilco stores in seven states. The company continues to build new facilities and reinvest in existing stores. Wilco stores have been serving the public now for 42 years, and continue to do so daily by following the basic principles on which it was founded: providing a good product at a great value. "
Stay tuned to WITN-7 News at 6:00 for more information.


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Olivia Giovetti is the former Classical & Opera contributing editor for Time Out New York and a regular contributor to Gramophone and Classical Singer magazines. She has also written for the Washington Post, Ariama.com, Playbill, Paper and other outlets. Olivia also blogs at http://oliviagiovetti.wordpress.com, where one of her ongoing (and admittedly ill-advised) projects is listening to every opera in chronological order.
Olivia Giovetti appears in the following:
Shock and Awe
Friday, October 05, 2012
The question that seems to be pervading the world of art and creative thought, as we approach the centenary of The Rite of Spring, is one that could be responded to in over 10,000 words and still not fully answered: Does art still shock?
Autumn in Opera
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Are there operas you associate with autumn? For blogger Olivia Giovetti, they include Lucia di Lammermoor, Tannhäuser, Rigoletto and Russian operas.
'Dog Days' Brings a Post-Apocalyptic Era to New Jersey
Friday, September 28, 2012
Some of the greatest works in opera deal with the end of some form of civilization or another, writs Olivia Giovetti. The latest example is the new opera Dog Days, which gets its premiere on Sunday.
The Top 10 Opera Fans from Film and Television
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
From Nicolas Cage's character in Moonstruck to Frasier Crane in "Cheers" and "Fraiser," we look at film and television's greatest opera lovers. Check out Olivia Giovetti's list and share your own favorites.
Tell Us How You Really Feel
Monday, September 24, 2012
The Making of a Cult Opera
Monday, September 24, 2012
Just Like an Opera
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Visual Music
Monday, September 17, 2012
This week on the New Canon, we hear new recordings from composers Kenji Bunch and Valgeir Sigurdsson, along with cellist Mariel Roberts.
Lyric Opera of Chicago Goes on the Couch
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The Second City comedy troupe is teaming with the Lyric Opera of Chicago to produce short films about a therapist named Dr. Opera who counsels famous opera characters. Olivia Giovetti gives her review.
How Political Conventions are Similar to Opera
Monday, September 10, 2012
With the fall political conventions now over, blogger Olivia Giovetti reflects on the similarities between these staged spectacles and those involving arias, divas and high musical drama.
Beach Body
Monday, September 10, 2012
This week on the New Canon, we celebrate the return of Einstein on the Beach to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a listen to the opera's 1984 recording, recently reissued in highlights form on Orange Mountain Music.
Ten Recordings We're Looking Forward to This Fall
Friday, September 07, 2012
From a Mario Lanza tribute to a new Don Giovanni, there are also a number of recordings to devour before winter. Here are ten albums blogger Olivia Giovetti is most looking forward to hearing this fall.
Fifteen Performances to Catch this Fall
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
This fall, Emperor Titus returns to the Met, Philip Glass returns to BAM, Simon Keenlyside returns to Berg and VOX returns to City Opera. Here are our picks for the upcoming New York opera season.
Out of Somewhere
Monday, September 03, 2012
Passion Plays: Joan of Arc on the Opera Stage
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Joan of Arc has been portrayed as a villainess by Shakespeare, an angel by George Bernard Shaw, and has seen her share of operatic representation, figuring into more than 20 works, writes Olivia Giovetti.
Operatic Clarinet and Episodic Mass at Mostly Mozart
Monday, August 27, 2012
Music Married to Rhythm
Monday, August 27, 2012
This week on the New Canon, we sample new recordings of works by Bartók, Balakirev, Beata Moon, and Philip Glass. We also go in-depth with MSR Classics's John Cage: A Tribute, a compendium of historic re-releases of the composer's canon in celebration of his centennial. It's our Album of the Week.
Mark Morris's Four Best Uses of Baroque Music
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Choreographer Mark Morris has made memorable dances out of works by Monteverdi, Bach, Handel and Purcell, among others. Olivia Giovetti looks at why he's got such a thing for the Baroque.
Nine Operatic Tweeters to Follow
Monday, August 20, 2012
Social media trends come and go (remember Friendster?), but Twitter remains a stalwart presence. With that in mind, we take a look at some of opera's best tweeters.
Mythical Sounds, Historical Figures
Monday, August 20, 2012
This week on the New Canon, we give a listen to new recordings from Magnus Lindberg, Per Norgard, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Bent Lorentzen, and — on our current album of the week — Viktor Ullmann.


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Last Friday I found out I would be traveling to New York for a Climate Action Prayer Rally at the second presidential debate. I barely slept all weekend, I was so excited. I've never been north of Washington, D.C., before, never seen cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore, or New York. But I wasn't just excited to see these cities, I was excited because of the reason I was going to see these cities.
I accompanied our Creation Care Campaign Director, Alycia Ashburn, and our friends from Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA) to Long Island, where we would make our presence known at the debate.
Creation care is something I feel very passionately about. As a person of faith I think it is my responsibility to protect this beautiful planet that God has given us. To advocate for creation care at such an important venue is truly an honor and privilege; as I joined my brothers and sisters in sending forth a ripple of hope in the water and offering a witness that is faithful and just.
Our morning started off at the National Press Club in D.C., where I met Ben Lowe, YECA's national organizer and spokesperson. He was appearing on a panel of young evangelicals who are finding a common ground on a range of issues, including immigration reform, hunger, creation care, and others.
After the panel discussion concluded, our group loaded into our van, and six hours later we arrived on Long Island. The moment I stepped out of the van I felt the excitement and energy all around me. It felt like hopping off the bus when arriving at an opponent's stadium for a big football game. There was just an electric feel in the air.
We loaded up boxes of Sojourners bags, backpacks full of vibrant orange YECA T-shirts, and refreshments and set off for the site of the rally. Our arrival at the site was anticipated by newfound comrades from pissedoffpolarbears.com who had elegant polar bear hats and who were also advocating for climate action. The range of protestors assembled for the debate was far and wide; from non-profit Chinese media outlets, to marijuana legalization spokespeople, Sudanese sympathizers, Tea Partiers, and Occupy protestors. Interesting conversations were had, often inspired by our bright orange T-shirts, which were attention grabbers, and our Sojo gift bags, which were conversation starters that offered an alleyway for me to talk with folks and share our story and mission and calling.
Were we successful? It's impossible to say right now. We gathered as a group and prayed that the candidates would begin to look at the challenge that climate change poses to our generation. Neither candidate really mentioned climate change or what they'd do to address it. They talked energy, but mostly the discussion stayed on the economy and the middle class, with scant attention to the poor.
Still, our presence made a difference. As long as we continue in this fight, good things will happen, and I truly believe that our generation will be the one that finds real solutions to this complex global threat. As Robert F. Kennedy once said "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
That is what we did Tuesday night, we stood up for ideals, we stood up for God's Creation, and we told the world that there is a movement amongst those of faith for creation care.
Knox Robinson is a semester intern at Sojourners. He's currently a senior at LaGrange College, where he's majoring in Sociology and Political Science
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