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As you can probably tell from my colon-enriched title, I'm in academic mode… inspired by a visit with UC Berkeley researchers connected to the Institute for the Study of Social Change's Digital Youth Project. I presented to this group a couple weeks back, and then two from their team came and spoke at my UC Berkeley class, which was cool. Last weekend, they held a gathering centered on their varied research projects, most ethnographic, studying digital media and learning among online and offline youth communities.
The conversation about the collaborative dimensions of youth media production really got me thinking. There's obviously a whole lot of interest among practitioners and scholars alike in collaboration. Non-profit folks tout its benefits as a pro-social competency and marketable skill young people acquire by making media. Researchers explore the fine-grained, moment-to-moment processes that promote what Henry Jenkins calls "collective intelligence."
All of this I find really interesting. But still, I'm struck that so often, we continue to recognize collectivity, or multiple voices, only when groups of young people gather together (digitally or face-to-face) to make media. What we sometimes miss are the ways that even an individual young person, when contributing ideas, making suggestions, offering critique, or framing arguments as a media producer, always speaks, as Erving Goffman says, "in the name of we." Young people's speech gets distinctly "crowded," even when just one person is talking. They smuggle in multiple voices, by filling their talk "to over-flowing" as Bakhtin says, with other people's words. Like what I just did, by folding Goffman and Bakhtin, two world-famous scholars, into my discourse. It's an attempt–at this point deeply ingrained through academic training–to bring texture, influence and history into my "own" words. Young people do this kind of thing all the time when they're producing media–citing what someone else has said about their work, aligning their opinions or arguments with powerful (or silenced) others, presenting their critiques as if they came through someone else's mouth (thus cushioning the blow).
What's the significance of all this linguistic detail? This probably isn't the place to answer that question fully (I've tried to do so in some of my academic writing–like an article called Beyond Literacy and Voice in Youth Media Production in the McGill Journal of Education). But here I just want to say when we think and talk about "collaboration" as a property of youth media production, it might be really interesting to focus not only on how young people connect and communicate in groups, but also how they are always talking with, for, and against others, real and imagined, even when they apparently just speak for themselves.


text: The weekend is off to a wonderful start for fifth-grader Tori Salinas! She and her cousin Gina have been invited to spend the night with their Peruvian-American grandparents, and on Monday, a new girl will be joining their class! Tori and Gina can't wait. But when Monday arrives, they're in for a big surprise. Anastasia Adams is nothing like anyone had expected. She's rich, beautiful, dresses like a princess?and treats Tori and Gina like garbage. Tori can't figure out why Anastasia is friendly to all the girls except for them. It takes a shocking conversation with a newfound friend to make Tori realize that Anastasia is racist! Hurt and horrified, Tori discovers for herself the ugliness of racism. But, with the help of her family and friends, she soon learns to handle her problems with strength?and becomes prouder than ever of her Latin-American heritage. Tori and the New Girl is part of a three book series. The other two books in the series are Just Tori and Tori's Wish.


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Hulk's had a difficult time of late. He's been betrayed by his friends and shipped off across the universe where he was forced to play Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator. Then he came back to Earth with a gang of friends to take part in Gangs of New York before, this Summer, being possessed in The Exorcist and went about hitting people with a hammer. He even ended up in a side project as Van Helsing in Coppola's Dracula. And on top of that he's been franchised – by Walt Disney, no doubt – into a spectrum of different colours that rival the range of Care Bears. No wonder he's more than angry… he's well-and-truly fed up and has dumped Bruce Banner (literally, out of his head at one of the many ends of Fear Itself #7) before going off and growing a beard. A beard? you ask. Yes a rather stylish 60s beat-like shaggy beard. He's also gone for a Mad Max III-outfit sporting some nifty-looking necklaces. After all, he's Hulk and he can do what the hell he likes.
Hulk's a difficult character to sell. He's a giant green monster who, well… smashes things. There's only so much a writer can do to before the trope of monster-with-a-heart-who-is-misunderstood-and-smashes-things reasserts itself and the title becomes tired again. Jeph Loeb's had some reasonable success with his multicolured War of the Hulks recently but arguably that success was down to the novelty factor and Loeb's skills as a writer rather than anything inherent in Hulk as a character. Personally, the only Hulk I can remember enjoying was the strange black and white Rampaging Hulk title from the 1970s when I was a kid and first reading comics. Read More »


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New buildings, spacious, sunlit patient rooms and modern technology greeted dozens of visitors to the grand opening of the expanded Southwest Memorial Hospital campus on Monday.
Anchoring the south side of campus, the $32 million project features a two-story medical office building that puts 18 medical providers under one roof and includes a retail pharmacy. On the north side, a modern 13-bed inpatient wing was built along with a new front entrance and lobby and new EMS station.
The 25,000-square-foot medical office building improves patient care and access to doctors, and provides improved facilities and workspace for staff, said tour guide Lindsay Yeager.
"It is a one-stop shop for medical services. Patients can see their physician, have lab work done and fill their prescriptions all in the same vicinity," she said. "It was designed with enough room to add specialists."
Rows of exam rooms will mean less time in the waiting room. The layout also accommodates staff needs, including a row of private cubicles with views of Mesa Verde, conference rooms, a shower for those who bicycle to work, and ample work space and storage.
The new 26,000-square-foot inpatient wing has larger rooms with bathrooms, more advanced intensive care units, updated patient monitors and beds, and a modern nurse call system, said tour guide Chuck Dennis.
For infectious patients, some rooms have negative-pressure technology and specialized venting to prevent diseases from spreading into the hospital.
The new layout also separates patients and critical medical services from public traffic areas, Dennis said.
"The patients, imaging and nurse stations are all in the same area, with improved access to surgery," he said. Patients will be moving in on June 20.
The new patient wing also includes an updated family birthing center. The large, sunny rooms include tubs for mothers, scales, infant-washing sinks and baby warmers, plus a nursery is nearby. Security features are extensive. Each baby wears an electronic band, and alarms go off if it is removed or falls off. Access to the center is tightly controlled.
What will become of the hospital's second floor where the previous patient rooms were is still being decided, hospital officials said.
The hospital upgrade was completed on time and under budget, said project manager Rick Fleming, of Nunn Construction. The final piece is completion of the new main entrance and lobby, expected to be done in August.
"It was a team effort and a real source of pride for the community," he said. "The technology and natural light throughout the buildings are standout features."
Of the 45 subcontractors, 65 percent were from the region, including several from Cortez.
"It's beautiful and a real testament to the people of Cortez who supported the project," said tour participant Suzanne Butterfield.
Steve Fusco, of the Southwest Health System board, said the goal of more modern facilities and medical services is to attract patients and keep and recruit staff.
"It is so important in the health industry to stay competitive with state-of-the art facilities," he said. "The community supporting the project with a sales tax shows their long term commitment to health care."


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The first Mayor and first City Manager of Rohnert Park Pete Callinan is with Mickey Zeldes looking at a bicycle up for auction at the Bark After Dark event held at the Community Center Sat. evening. Photo by Robert Grant
Entering the Rohnert Park Community Center Saturday evening was a treat to the eyes. Six long rows of tables were laden with donations which became silent raffle prizes. Some of the loot included Sonoma Raceway tickets, Christmas items, wines, ceramic figurines, a dandy bicycle, quilts, gift certificates and so many more delightful items but too numerous to mention.
The center was filled with people who are supporters and volunteers for the Rohnert Park Animal Shelter. Dinner was donated by Art Ibleto, the Pasta King, and delicious as usual. The lines for the dinner and special desserts were very long and exuberant.
A live auction was also held with some of the prizes being two tickets to Disneyland, a fine piece of art from the Jud Snyder collection, a Madrone Manor dinner and again too many items to list. Pat Kerrigan, the morning talk host on KSRO, was Master of Ceremony and her comments about everybody having eaten garlic bread received loud laughter.
During the evening a check for $2,500 from FAIRE was presented to the RP Shelter which will be used to remodel the clinic and surgery area. All proceeds benefitted the Rohnert Park Animal Services.
A few "doggies" were also present at the event and were available for adoption. A guestimate was around 205 people were served during the evening meal.


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This case study outlines the strategy behind an app designed for Pizza Express by holdings group Gondola Group. The app allows customers to pay without having to wait for a bill to be brought to their table. The app was awarded Best App at the Social Buzz Awards 2011.
- Deliver something new and innovative
- Give customers what they had asked for at the start of the project
- Increase level of customers visiting the restaurants by a) giving more choice and convenient to customers so they would return; and b) allowing our customers to book a table at any time on the App
- The app was featured on BBC Click, a tech programme on BBC World which has around 14 million viewers worldwide. The feature ran seven times on Friday, seven times on Saturday and seven times on Sunday over the launch weekend – and it was also shown on BBC Breakfast over that weekend.
- News of the app stretched across the globe, with editorial coverage in the New York Times (a first for PizzaExpress) and Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily.
- The app was also featured in The Guardian (as consumer app of the week), The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times 'Planet of the apps', City AM and topped Star magazine's 'What's Hot' barometer and Marketing Week's 'Top 10 most read' stories.
- Over 170 articles have appeared to date.
- Pizza Express attracted 22,000 new 'likes' on its Facebook page through a competition to celebrate the launch of the app.


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UCLA computer science and mathematics Professor Rafail Ostrovsky has been elected as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea for the class of 2019. Professor...
UCLA math professor Tim Austin has been awarded the 2020 New Horizons Prize for his "multiple contributions to ergodic theory, most notably the solution of the weak Pinsker conjecture." The prize is worth $100,000 and honors individuals for their early-career achievements in physics and math.
Los Angeles Math Circle (LAMC) student establishes her own satellite math circles, reaches over 130 studentsJun 24 2019, 4:01 pm
Aditee Prabhutendolkar attends the Los Angeles Math Circle (LAMC) program, a free enrichment program of the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Now a junior in high school, Aditee is using her LAMC experience to share her passion for math with others.
Every two years, SIAM presents the Ralph E. Kleinman Prize to one individual for "outstanding research, or other contributions, that bridge the gap between mathematics and applications."
On Sunday, June 16th, UCLA Math alumnus Vladimir (Vlad) Tenev came to campus to give the commencement keynote address to over 400 graduates, their families and friends. His inspirational speech urged students to follow their passion, even if it means switching the path that you started on.


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"Anything worth having is worth working hard for," said Stephanie Morales, during her remarks at The Glass: Evolving the Business Woman, a Hampton Roads Chamber event on March 9th.
Morales joined panelists Linda Johnson, Mayor of Suffolk; Carletta Waddler, VP of Talent Curve; and Julianne Worden, General Sales Manager of Sinclair Communications in sharing what they learned throughout their different career paths about leadership, success, and change. Morales is the Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Portsmouth and she recounted running for office after she couldn't convince her mentors to do so, "They said 'why don't you do it?' and I thought, why don't I do it?" said Morales. She stressed the importance of being ready to move on to challenging positions, "you're going to be uncomfortable, and you should," she said, "you need to get out of your comfort zone."
The importance of being prepared to take the next career step was a continued refrain for the panelists.
"You have to have a blueprint," said Carletta Waddler, " we take time to plan a menu, but we don't take time to look at ourselves and plan our lives." The panelist all participated in a question and answer session where the audience of women posed questions about equal pay, children and their impact on career growth, and finding balance.
One participant posed a question about the aging workforce and how women who are further in their careers can continue to adapt to a changing business world. Mayor Linda Johnson mentioned the importance of taking care of body and mind. "Stay relevant," she said, make sure you're ready to adapt and change." Panelists Julianne Worden and Carletta Waddler agreed, "it's hard work to keep up, but you have to keep looking for what's next, you can't become complacent."
Another point the panel all agreed on was the need to get more women involved as a means of leadership. "We have to be involved in politics and leadership," said Morales, "We have to be willing to negotiate for ourselves."
Attendees of the event were very engaged in the discussion portion of the presentation. "It was invigorating," said Holly Williams of Sinclair Communications, "I feel like I can get out my own way now." Katrice Stancil of The Barry Robinson Center mentioned how The Glass provided her with valuable insights as she starts a new career path, " the panelists are very empowering," she said. The Hampton Roads Chamber is committed to empowering and advocating our female business leaders in Hampton Roads. The Glass: Empowering the Business Woman offers an opportunity for women in Hampton Roads learn and grow in their careers.
Join us in September for part two of The Glass: Evolving the Business Woman on September 28th at the Waterside District Harbor Club. Susan Jacobs, VP of Human Resources and Administration for Newport News Shipbuilding-Huntington Ingalls Industries will be the keynote speaker.
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(Pictured left to right: Linda Johnson, Mayor of Suffolk; Stephanie Morales, Commonwealth's Attorney, City of Portsmouth; Priscilla Monti, Hampton Roads Chamber; Carletta Waddler, VP of Talent Curve; and Julianne Worden, General Sales Manager of Sinclair Communications.)


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Mombasa, KenyaI am very happy to be with you today, on the occasion of the 35th edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, which is taking place in Kenya, for the first time in the long history of this event.
Personally, It is a great pleasure to be here for a World Cross competition because Kenya has dominated long distance running in the past 20 years as no other country in the world has done. They have made a massive contribution to the global development of athletics, which is one of my main missions as President of the IAAF. Although Kenyan athletes are outstanding at track events from 800m upwards, and also on the road, it is cross country that seems to have been their favourite pastime since 1986 when John Ngugi won the first of his 12 gold medals. But there have been other greats like William Sigei, Paul Tergat and Ismael Kirui as well as a succession of excellent women and junior teams. By coming to Mombasa, cross country is certainly "Coming home" as the competition slogan says.
It's clear that Cross country has changed totally since its origins in the early 1900s when a few European athletes dominated. Today, it is the African athletes who are now the ones to beat, but we can still look forward to a truly international festival tomorrow, with athletes from every corner of the globe chasing for honours in both individual and team competitions. Since the first IAAF World Cross in 1973, participation of athletes and participating countries has more than trebled, which shows the increased global reach of our sport. The IAAF received entries from 65 different Member Federations, and we expect a total of 486 athletes entered for the various races – Long Course and Juniors (men and women). Of last year's six individual winners in Fukuoka, five are entered for Mombasa, the three Ethiopians Kenenisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba, and Gelete Burka, and the Kenyan junior Pauline Korikwiang.
Although you will have a chance to speak to some stars of the event shortly, I would like to say a special welcome to one of the legends of cross country, Kenenisa Bekele, has changed his mind about retiring from this event. By coming here, and accepting the challenge to take on the Kenyans again in their own garden, Bekele is showing the heart of a true champion, and I am very happy that he has made the effort to come. For me, Bekele is one of the most outstanding athletes in history, and his presence in Mombasa is great news for the sport.
As well as Bekele, we can count on many other individual stars, but should also remember that the added team element at the IAAF World Cross Country always makes it an annual festival of long distance running.
Finally, I would like to say thank you not only to the Local Organising Committee, supported by Athletics Kenya, but to the Kenyan authorities for all their efforts to meet the needs of athletes, spectators, TV, sponsors and Media, and especially to ensure a safe and peaceful competition. We all know that there have been many challenges about security, and we deeply appreciate the serious efforts that have been made to ensure that ALL those taking part in this competition enjoy the legendary Kenyan hospitality in a calm, secure environment.
The World Cross Country will always be a very special competition for the IAAF, and it only remains for me to wish all competing athletes the very best of luck here tomorrow. I would now like to pass the floor to my colleague from the IAAF Council Mr Isaia Kipklagat, and will be happy to answer any questions later.
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Richard C. Francis
For more than 10 years, scientists
have known nearly every letter in the
human genetic instruction book. But
perhaps more interesting than those
letters are the doodles in the margins
and the highlighted passages — chemical modifications to DNA and its associated proteins known as epigenetic
marks. These scribbles may actually
control how genes function, and thus
how a person looks and acts. And these
changes are passed along to future
generations, like carbon copy overlays
in new editions.
Researchers are only beginning
to decipher this cryptic language,
but already it's clear that whatever
these graffiti have to say is going to be
important. Such epigenetic modification may be at the root of many diseases, for example. Epigenetics links
external experiences to the molecular
machinery inside cells. Francis' book is
Emma Marris
What does it mean to be wild, and canhumans restore wildness to a planetthey've spent their history trying totame? Marris hauls out a wheelbarrow-load of research indicating thathumans have altered nearly every inchof the terrestrial landscape at one timeor another (even ignoring the globaltransport of air pollutants and pertur-bation of the climate). So any claimthat a place is "pristine," she argues,Marris recountsefforts under way across the globe to"rewild" various sites to conditionsthat existed a century — if not 10 mil-lennia — ago. Such projects invariably
intended as a guided tour of this mysterious new landscape.
Each chapter starts with an enter-taining or intriguing example of howepigenetics affects human and animalbiology and inheritance. It's not oftenyou find José Canseco, mouse moth-ers, Dutch faminevictims, sea urchins,identical twins andTasmanian devilsall in the same book,but you will here.Francis just man-ages to save his storyfrom crossing intotextbook territory by weaving theseexamples throughout the chapters.
It's still early days for the science of
epigenetics, and researchers keep discovering layer after layer of epigenetic
wallpaper plastered over DNA. Francis
hits the highlights here, but stay tuned
for more installments in this fascinating new science. — Tina Hesman Saey
W. W. Norton & Co., 2011, 234 p., $25.95
require compromises. Once-keystone
species may no longer walk or slither
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Unurbanized spaces may be too small
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If no place is pristine, determining
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becomes a judgment call. So does
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None of these constraints argue for
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go untended has brought back species
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A collection of astro-nomical images takenby telescopes and spacecraft of allkinds gives brief explanations ofthe science behind each highlightedobject. Firefly Books, 2011,
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A neuroscientist givesan entertaining lookinto the brain's hard-ware and softwareflaws and how theyaffect everyday life. W. W. Norton & Co.,2011, 310 p., $25.95
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A physicist exploresthe elaborate relation-ship between scienceand other realms ofhuman endeavor, with a focus onphysical, biological and social phe-nomena. Viking, 2011, 487 p., $30
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The first thing to know about Conan O'Brien Can't Stop is that – though the subject matter is alluded to – Conan never really comes clean about the dirt that happened to him when NBC ousted him from The Tonight Show and brought Jay Leno back. Instead, Rodman Flender's documentary is about O'Brien creating and performing the "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour." The film lives up to the title – Conan is a ball of energy throughout, going from date to date and engaging with his fans. Our review of the Blu-ray of Conan O'Brien Can't Stop follows after the jump.
The documentary starts with Conan and his team coming up with the idea for the tour, and announcing it on Twitter after some brief comments about The Tonight Show fiasco. The shows start selling out quickly, and then Conan realizes he has to actually come up with material for the damn thing. Interested in playing music as much as comedy, it shows him hiring back-up singers, and then hitting the road. Here also is as much as O'Brien will say about the situation with NBC, and how he's hurt and pissed off at how he was treated.
But once he this the road, it's about the grind. The grind of getting on buses and planes and talking to people backstage. The grind of getting asked to do more at an event than he originally thought he was supposed to. The grind of bitching to his assistant Sona Movesesian – who he treats with some mock insults but is shown to be relatively nice to – and the writers, who he likes to punch for whatever reason.
If you've ever wanted to see Conan swear, then this documentary is for you. O'Brien is uncensored, and – when not under the spotlight – shows a side of himself that seems slightly removed from the talk show host. That side comes across as a tightly wound as O'Brien both loves and hates his incessant need to keep working and going. Some nights are better than others – probably the meanest thing is that O'Brien seems annoyed at the Coquettes (his back-up singers) for having so many family members. There also are brief celebrity cameos with Jon Hamm, Jack McBrayer, Jim Carrey, Jack White and Nick Offerman all stopping by or participating in his shows.
As a whole, the documentary is compelling and funny, and that's enough. O'Brien is amusing, but it's hard to tell how much is behind the curtain, and how much of Conan O'Brien, performer is Conan O'Brien, person. Likely they are very close, but you can see him being "on" just in talking to people. Perhaps that's symptomatic of being a talk show host for twenty years. Flender finds his narrative drive, which is that O'Brien is a workaholic and follows it through the tour as even events where O'Brien should be near passing out he rallies on. The show flirts with suggesting his voice might be an issue (which I believe was a plot point in Madonna: Truth or Dare), but there is no great internal drama to the show, and that's to the benefit of the movie. O'Brien is the whole show, and though he does peel the curtain back some on his nature and his work habits, the documentary is more engaging for having funny incidents than penetrating insights. O'Brien obviously has some demons and he's obviously not happy with what happened to him, but most of that is kept bottled up. That's likely the man, who sees no value in airing his frustrations more than they've already been put out there.
Magnolia's Blu-ray presents the film in widescreen (1.78:1) and in DTS-HD 5.1 master audio. The transfer starts looking grainy and not great until they hit the road– it's as if Flender didn't know he was going to make it into a documentary until the tour started (though that could be an aesthetic decision), but once they're going from state to state, the image quality improves dramatically. The sound is surround, but it's a documentary. The film comes with a commentary by director Rodman Flender, Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Conan's head writer Mike Sweeney and Conan's assistant Sona Movsesian. O'Brien is the main contributor to the track, and there are jokes throughout. Also included are ten additional scenes (42 min.) that are okay, but unneeded, an interview with Conan (14 min.) where he is incredibly flirtatious and "on" and interview outtakes (4min.). Also included are bonus trailers.


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Thursday, 22 June 2017
The sound of lions eating a dead giraffe.. absolutely gross but also amazing to see. Alex and I went on a new adventure together and this time to Johannesburg, South Africa! We booked a night away in a safari lodge called Leopardsong Safari. Its about 2 hours away from the crew hotel which to be honest was good I needed that 2 hour nap in the car after the long 10:30 hour night flight..
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So finally, im off somewhere that isn't the Caribbean or the States! I know our Delhi flights are known to be seriously hard work however it wasn't putting me off in the slightest! I've always wanted to visit India as I just love their culture and how beautiful everything is. Not all of India is like this which I know and saw for myself, but it was still amazing to visit.
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During the war of 1812 Fort York was the focus of a significant battle, but in 2018 the only battles being waged on its grounds are for the spots closest to the stage.
Field Trip returns to the historical site for its 2018 edition, making use of Fort York's flatlands and berms to situate its two stages.
Running alongside the Gardiner Expressway with the CN Tower seen peeking behind towering skyscrapers, Fort York serves as a reminder of the past and a green oasis amid its urban surroundings.
The festival itself serves as an unofficial celebration of women in music, featuring two headlining acts: Metric and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, both fronted by female vocalists. But the celebration doesn't end there, with 14 of the 26 acts performing being led by women.
Day 1
Festival-goers were greeted by plenty of sun during Day 1 of Field Trip, with clear skies and searing heat.
Toronto singer-songwriter, Maddee, was the first to take to the stage, having the honour of kicking off Field Trip 2018. The combination Maddee's smooth vocal delivery and her band's downtempo instrumentation was the perfect way to ease festival-goers into a day packed with great live-music.
Sydney, Australia's Middle Kids didn't let a recent bout of jetlag prevent them from delivering a great set on the Fort York Stage. The three-piece performed their unique blend of indie rock and pop hooks, getting the Toronto crowd dancing.
Closing out the festival's first day was another local act, that needed no introduction in Metric. Emily Haines and company took to stage to perform a very special setlist, featuring a performance of the band's 2009 album Fantasies in its entirety.
Day 2
While the opening day of the festival went on with barely a cloud in the sky, Field Trip's second day opened with dark clouds looming overhead, and along with it the pending threat of rain.
Louisiana's Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue got the crowd gathered at the Garrison Stage dancing, with Troy Andrews' soulful vocals and skillful trombone and trumpet playing. The dancing wasn't merely contained to the Garrison mainstage crowd, with the band themselves joining in on the fun. The saxophone players created their own breakdance circle in the middle of the stage, complete with everyone's go-to wedding dance move "the worm."
While the threat of rain had loomed overhead for half of the festival's second day, the weight was too much for the sky to bare. In oddly fitting fashion the rain began to fall just before Vancouver's Japandroids took to the stage, prompting the band to apologize for "bringing the rain with them." The band's garage sensibilities and anthemic choruses made the crowd forget about the rain, which subsided at the conclusion of their set.
Closing out the festival's two days was no one other than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, celebrating the 15th anniversary of their debut album Fever to Tell. Frontwoman Karen O was electric, jumping around the stage with ease. The singer always knows how to put on an interesting performance, whether it be spitting a blast of water from her mouth or singing with the microphone in her mouth (as well as swinging it above her head). The band treated the audience to favourites such as "Gold Lion," "Maps," "Heads Will Roll" and "Zero."
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