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  • Physical and household activity improve sleep

    by Margery Gass | Apr 04, 2013
    Getting a good night’s sleep isn’t always easy for women at menopause. Exercise may help, but women have tough time carving out leisure time for it. The good news from a sleep and exercise study published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society, is that higher levels of physical activity from housework and caregiving may be the more important key to a better night’s sleep for many women who have hot flashes or night sweats. It is good to know that an active daily routine can have benefits.
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  • More Zzzs please: a menopause sleep seminar

    by Margery Gass | Sep 25, 2012
    When a woman’s sleep is diminished, so is her quality of life. It may even be a risk factor for future diseases and breast cancer recurrence after menopause, according to a new sleep/breast cancer study. No matter what the cause of the disturbance -- night sweats, feelings of midlife anxiety -- getting 6 to 9 hours of sleep each night is never easy.

    Improving sleep routine is the key in treating sleep disturbances:
    • Maintain an environment that is conducive to sleep. Think quiet, cool, and dark.
    • Limit use of the bedroom to sleep and sexual activities.
    • Try relaxation techniques. Relaxation-inducing CDs or meditation can help you fall asleep.
    • Abide by the 15-minute rule. Those who don’t fall asleep within 15 minutes should get up, leave the bedroom to engage in relaxing activities elsewhere, and return to bed when drowsy.
    • Follow a sleep routine. Try to wake up and go to bed about the same time every day, even on weekends.
    • Wake up with the sun, if possible. Sunlight helps set the body’s biological clock.
    • Bring back the bedtime snack. While a large, heavy meal before bed can interfere with sleep, a light snack with protein and carbohydrates is recommended. A glass of warm milk may also induce sleep.
    • Avoid stimulants such as alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine throughout the entire day, not just during the evening.
    • Exercise. Daily exercise may help ease insomnia for many women, but strenuous exercise close to bedtime can have the opposite effect.
    When lifestyle changes fail to alleviate sleep disturbances, a clinician should be consulted to discuss other options and to rule out medical causes of disrupted sleep. Women with serious sleep disturbances may benefit from referral to a sleep center.
    For more information about sleep disorders, check out the 70-page online booklet, Your Guide to Healthy Sleep, from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

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Food 2.8 Value 3.0
Service 3.0 Atmosphere 3.7

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(212) 207-3777
(212) 207-4511
Visa, MC, AmEx, Disc
Sun-Mon: 12pm-2am Tue-Sat: 12pm-4am
Dinner, Lunch
Accepts Credit Cards, Good for Groups, Late Night, Lunch Special, Outdoor Seating, Private Parties, Prix Fix Menus

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  • Sutton Place

    Posted by Great Food on 12/23/2007

    Great Food

    I just moved in to an apartment on east 56st, and I am suprised this place doesn't have more reviews. Only 4!! The food is awesome, and the service is so fast! I am happy that I found a place that I can order breakfast, lunch, or dinner from any night of the week.

  • Sutton Place

    Posted by newyorkgirl on 08/10/2005

    Subpar Service and Food

    I went here with a few friends for dinner/drinks on the rooftop - the service was poor - and so was my $880 bill! yes. that's right -- the waitress charged us $800 over and above what we owed - and the managers were not quick or apologetic in fixing the mistake of their work staff. Poor Food & Service, Overpriced - and the after work crowd is old and boring... I wouldn't recommend it.

  • Sutton Place

    Posted by MAV on 04/01/2004

    Great place to meet for drinks

    Great place to meet for drinks after work. The menu was small but decent to grab a quick bite. They have a cool rooftop bar where smoking is permitted. For all of you cigar lovers, they sell cigars from their in-house humidor.

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Arab, AL 35016 (Map & Directions)
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review_stars 02/14/2014 - Lucy Moderas
Most people dine here for the Mexican dishes but not me and my family. Sierras cooks the best Pork Chops around. You get two huge chops with your meal. So tasty........ Although I prefer another restaurant for standard Mexican food, I wholeheartedly recommend Sierra's Pork Chop plate. It is so good.

review_stars 10/12/2012 - Christina
Let me start by saying I have had Mexican food all over the states. Sorry to say but hands down this is the worst Mexican food I have ever tasted. Upon my arrival I was seated quickly which was nice. Unfortunately my drink order was wrong. Not a big deal but little annoying. I ordered the #1 lunch special this included a chile relleno and a taco instead of getting the salad with my order I requested rice and beans. Big mistake on my part. The chile relleno was half of a soggy chile with ground beef thrown on top sprinkled with cheddar cheese. The definition of a chile relleno is a chile stuffed with cheese. I m not sure what they were thinking putting this nonsense on the menu. I asked for the taco to come with a flour tortilla. The tortilla was not even warmed it came out cold with the same dry lackluster flavorless ground beef. The rice was dry seemed to me it was at least two days old. the beans I wouldn't even touch. My server however was the best part of my experience (besides the drinks). The owner was also present talking to a couple about politics and saying thinks inappropriate like ( my back has never been dry). He introduced himself to everyone except for my table humm. Also he has his young daughter running around the restaurant. Cute but not a daycare. My experience at Sierra s was horrifying. I really hope that Arab Al has a better Mexican restaurant then this. I will soon be reviewing other restaurants in this area but anything will be better than this. I sure hope so.

review_stars 05/05/2010 - Sheila
Our family loves Sierras. The food is always good, but it's the service that we appreciate the most. The owners work in the restaurant and personally ensure that the dining experience is what it should be. There are three Mexican restaurants in Arab. All are good, but Sierras is consistently great. I've stopped going to the others because they don't pay attention to their customers or seem to care if your order is right and the food good. Sierra's also has awesome steak and the menu includes burgers, fries, chicken fingers for those with family members who don't like Mexican food.

review_stars 09/16/2009 - Ricky
Best Steaks and Chops in town. As for the Mexican food not so good.

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June 30th

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June 29th

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New Project

I Scarf I made up using an elongated Chevron stitch pattern...Reckon it has a nice masculine quality about the pattern

June 28th

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My new favorite passtime

It all started last October during the World Series between the Cardinals and the Rangers. Ralf and I were in San Maguel, Mexico and made sure we were back at the condo every day by game time. It was huge fun listening to the announcers in Spanish and watchnng our team win - we're both native Saint Louisans so you can guess which team that was. Suddenly I was hooked.

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Some advice for my afghan!?

Okay so I recently picked up my crochet hook again and started playing around with stuff, and this time it finally stuck. It's like something clicked in my head and I really began to understand how it all goes together, and how the different stitches work etc. So I decided to crochet something "big", but relatively simple.

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Joann's Major Sale

The Joann near me in Columbus, OH is having a 50% off clearance prices sale right now.
I got wools, sock, and bamboo yarn and rosewood needles for really cheap (see pic).
I spent $43.00 on nearly $150.00 worth of stuff.
I think all Joanns might be doing it to refresh their stock. Check your local one out.

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Getting my knitting mojo back

So, after a particularly bad experience with someone, I discovered that besides leaving me emotionally depleted and having my trust in people damaged, I have lost whatever it is that fuels my desire to knit. It's been 2 months and I just can't bring myself to pick up my needles at all and work on anything.

June 27th

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A Fine Day

Last week, on our regular spinning day, I took the day off work so that I could enjoy our year-end outing. The ladies usually like to plan a little trip somewhere to spin and have lunch. This year, we travelled about an hour south of the city to a small farm of a lady that is also a spinner. It was a lovely day, with sunshine and gorgeous blue skies! We haven't seen that for ever so long.

Converting a afghan pattern

Can anyone help me with doubling a pattern? I want to use up a ton of scrap yarn! The pattern says to cast on 137 stitches with the first and last 4 stitches being in seed stitch. I know this forms the seed stitch border. The zigzag pattern is 16 + 1.. I want to cast on 274 stitches. And double the border from 4 to 8 stitches. My concern is the zigzag pattern that is in between the border?

June 26th

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Looking for sanity...

Okay so this is my first time back on here in a while (well over a year I believe), but I've been knitting strong all the time. I'll actually need to take some photos of some of the work I've done. I've come on really well as a knitter and I've recently started crocheting. So, why am I back? Well, one word; sanity!

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A Summer Fling (Part II)

As I was finishing this first panel, I had another idea for the opposite panel pop up in my head. It would take some work to plan, but I think it would make the tote a little more fun. So I'm debating what to do. But here is a photo of the now-completed "face" of the tote.


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My 2-year-old was awake three hours earlier than usual. Blurry-eyed and not yet fueled with caffeine, I reached for the TV remote control.

"What should we watch," I asked, —‰'Super Why!'? 'Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood'? 'Sofia the First'?"

Carolyn shook her head. "One Direction."

"How about 'Mickey Mouse'?" I coaxed.

She shot me a dark, how-dare-you look. "I need my One Direction."

And that's how we recently came to watch five teenage heartthrobs singing "Best Song Ever" a half-dozen times at 6:15 in the morning.

How exactly did my toddler come to fall in love with One Direction? Full credit for that goes to her 16-year-old sister, Dana, who is the band's other big fan in our household.

Parenting a teenager and toddler at the same time is like seeing life s juxtapositions on a daily basis.
Parenting a teenager and toddler at the same time is like seeing life s juxtapositions on a daily basis. (Hector Casanova/The Kansas City Star/MCT)

Call this one of the many unexpected upshots of having two daughters separated in age by 14 years. My toddler is discovering boy bands a decade too early, while my teenager is rediscovering Duplo Legos and tea parties a decade later in life.

Parenting a teenager and toddler at the same time is like seeing life's juxtapositions on a daily basis.

Laundry is the perfect example. Pleading, bribing and even threatening to burn her clothes have yet to prod my teenager into keeping the dirty laundry from overflowing the hamper. My toddler, meanwhile, thinks the chore is one big game -- she gets excited transferring the wash to the dryer and "attempting" to fold the clothes.

It's also pretty surreal to teach one child to drive a car while showing the other how to pedal a tricycle.

The gigantic age gap between kids was not part of my original game plan. Dana was 7 years old when my husband and I started plotting our way to making her a big sister. Carolyn just took her sweet time coming into this world.

With each year of waiting, my expectations had to shift.

I always had a very Norman Rockwell image of parenting my girls. They would play Barbies together, share clothes and giggle long into the night on family vacations. They would have petty fights, argue over who had to do the dishes, but inevitably end up being each other's maid of honor. That's how it was for my younger sister and me, who are separated by only 27 months.

Watching my girls together is nothing like reliving my own childhood. In some ways, however, it's just an altered version.

My toddler already acts out real scenes with her dolls and Little People toys, largely because her older sister introduced her to the world of imaginative play. The girls often huddle on Dana's bed watching videos on YouTube -- which is how One Direction became a big hit. And the sisters actually had their first sibling spat not too long ago over a crayon -- it lasted 10 seconds and ended with both laughing hysterically.

Even more remarkable, the two girls have the kind of relationship I could never have had with my own sister because we were so close in age. If Carolyn scrapes her knee, she is just as likely to run to Dana for a hug and a Band-Aid. When Dana's had a rough day, she is more likely to want a comforting hug from her baby sister than her overprotective parents.

It would be easy to say Dana is like Carolyn's second mom. In reality, she's the ideal big sister, nurturing one minute and all-out-fun the next.

This past summer, Dana volunteered two days a week at her sister's preschool. The plan was to get some real-work experience. What she also got was a new perspective while watching Carolyn interact with children her own age.

"She's like a real little person," Dana said at summer's end. "She is so mature and really fearless."

Partial credit for that goes to Dana, for showing her how to be more than just a 2-year-old.

The other night I walked past the girls huddled around Dana's laptop. They were whispering and giggling.

Then I heard a familiar song: "Hot dog! Hot dog! Hot diggity dog!"

Dana just smiled. "She wanted to watch Mickey Mouse."

And that's how my teenager gets to remain a kid for a little while longer.

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SAN JOSE -- A bill spurred from parents' outrage over a convicted sex offender volunteering at a St. Frances Cabrini Parish festival last fall cleared its first hurdle this week, and supporters hope it will become a law that would prevent such a thing from ever happening again.

It would require school officials to consult with authorities before allowing a registered sex offender to volunteer at campus activities. If the offender is considered to be at risk of re-offending, the school would have to notify parents of its intention to allow the violator on campus.

The bill, which was approved by a state senate committee, was authored by Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose) after he was approached by concerned parents of students at the school.

"My bill is common sense," said Beall. "I think it would have really helped avoid all the confusion at St. Frances Cabrini, and I think the parents agree."

Last Oct. 6, molester Mark Gurries -- who was convicted in May 2010 on one count of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor under 14 -- was at the event attended by many children when he was spotted by a former student who knew his victim. Parents quickly demanded that Rev. Lieu Vu remove him from the festival.

It turned into a heated argument when Vu said Gurries, 51 -- who had a permission slip from the Diocese of San Jose — had a right to be there. Hours later, a sheriff's deputy asked the unwanted volunteer to leave.

In the wake of the incident, parents blasted the church for allowing a convicted sex offender to work the festival, Vu resigned as the parish priest in November, and Gurries was sentenced last week to 30 days in county jail for violating his probation.

His probation included an order that Gurries "not work, be self-employed nor do volunteer work in (an) organization that involves supervision of children under 18 years."

John Hernandez, the father of a 6-year-old boy who attends St. Frances Cabrini, said that if SB 326 had been in place, Gurries' status as a probationer would have been discovered and he would not have been allowed to volunteer.

Hernandez was one of the parents who approached Beall earlier this year. Hernandez was initially stunned to learn about a sex offender being allowed on campus, and then joined other concerned parents as part of the school's newly formed safety committee. His task was looking at what could be done to prevent what happened through legislation.

"Once I got clarification on (current) law, I thought there were too many loopholes and vagueness in the way it is written," he said. "We thought the right step would be to go to Beall's office."

The bill was approved by the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday, and next heads to the Public Safety Committee.

Beall and supporters are optimistic it will pass. Beall said they heard some opposition from the Los Angeles Unified School District on points not key to the bill and will work with them before it comes up again.

"My feeling is that yeah, we're on our way," said Beall. "We feel that this bill will clarify an ambiguous statute that doesn't make it clear how educational institutions go about dealing with this issue."

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Offensive tackle

Khalif Barnes is eligible for free agency, and the Raiders aren't sure if second-year player Tony Bergstrom is a long-term solution at right offensive tackle.

Defensive tackle

Richard Seymour is gone. Tommy Kelly might be a salary-cap casualty. Regardless, the Raiders need big-time help in the middle of their defensive line.

Defensive end

The Raiders are in sore need of a reliable pass-rusher off the edge. There aren't any promising candidates on the roster.

It's likely that the starting cornerbacks for the Raiders next season aren't even on the roster yet. This position has to be addressed.

Wide receiver

The Raiders still don't have a No. 1 receiver. It's also possible that Darrius Heyward-Bey won't be back next season unless he accepts a massive pay cut.


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What is Homeschooling?

Dr. Idarraga

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The question most people ask me when I tell them that my children are homeschooled is, “I don’t really know what that is. Can you tell me more about homeschooling?” If I could explain homeschooling in one sentence I would consider myself exceptional or fortunate. I will attempt here to give you an inkling of what homeschool is like for my family, but I also want you to know that homeschooling, by its very nature an individualized approach to education, is unique in every homechooling family. We are fortunate here in Wisconsin to have one of the best homeschooling laws in the country, and as a consequence, we have a unique variety of homeschoolers in our state.

For some people homeschooling consists of a small area in the home set up like a miniature classroom, complete with a small chalkboard and all the other paraphernalia we associate with school – desks, textbooks, etc. One or both parents may share in the teaching responsibilities and the children may take tests and do homework, just as they would in a brick and mortar school. Many families will purchase a prepackaged curriculum and some will even enroll in accredited online schools. An example of this would be the Wisconsin Virtual Academy (often referred to as WiVA). If this is your idea of what homeschoolers do, you are both right and wrong, because while this model may exist in many home schools, it does not represent all of us.

For many families homeschooling consists of no fixed curriculum. They approach teaching through a child-focused, self-directed form of education in which a mentor offers guidance with minimal restriction in what a child is free to explore. This form of homeschooling is oftentimes referred to as unschooling. Unschoolers believe that children have inherent learning abilities that are frequently stifled and even corrupted by traditional schooling. They believe that learning is a social process that can occur naturally and continually through collaborative activities. Just as children learn to walk, to interpret spoken language and to compose their own thoughts and speech, so too can they learn to read and write and do math with the guidance of their parents (and without being forced to do it). What’s that you say? “But how can children learn unless we force them to learn? Isn’t learning supposed to be work? Isn’t it supposed to be unpleasant?” Well, ask yourself. Do you ever have to be forced to do things you are really interested in? If you enjoy quilting, or gardening, or even physics, do you ask someone to force you to do it? Have you found yourself enjoying going to the library to read up on something because you want to “learn” more about it? If so, you are guilty of unschooling. In a sense, then, unschooling is learning by living, and discovering your path through the guidance of a loving parent.

There is a third type of homeschooler, and though I don’t have anything more than anecdotal experience to back me up, I think it is where most homeschooling families are, and that is somewhere in the middle of the two examples I presented above. Many of us start on one end of the spectrum and end up taking elements of both philosophies and integrating them in an approach that works for our respective families. This is kind of where our family is. It works well for us. I feel fortunate that my kids are excited about the things they are learning, that they are becoming critical thinkers and that they are being given the chance to find and pursue their passion in life. If you would like to read more about homeschooling I recommend The Homeschooling Book of Answers: The 88 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling’s Most Respected Voices by Linda Dobson.

Dr. George Idarraga
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2275 Deming Way, Suite 220
Middleton, WI 53562

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    Hairy Tales is a weird one, that's for sure. But if you're looking for something fun that's not quite like anything else on the App Store, this one's real gem.
  2. Oct 31, 2012
    This is a game whose core competencies prove too compelling for the peccadilloes to derail the experience fully. A vibrant, quirky world ripped seemingly out of an off-brand fairytale, a jaunty folk soundtrack, and a complete lack of sleazy monetization all add to the rock-solid puzzle mechanics.
  3. Oct 31, 2012
    Tough, entertaining, and slightly mad, Hairy Tales is a decent puzzler that definitely deserves some attention.
  4. Oct 30, 2012
    Hairy Tales certainly has a few elements that make warding off the corruption a bit more taxing than it ought to be, but it's still a very entertaining puzzle game with loads of bushy cuteness. So go ahead; grab a crystal and start running. Just mind the gaps.
  5. Oct 26, 2012
    Hairy Tales is still an enjoyable puzzler and a great example of how to integrate a variety of puzzle elements with real-time action, all in a title wrapped in a fantastical weird shell. Suffice to say, puzzle fans should take heed at this latest addition, as I don't think you'll be disappointed.

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Dorothea Lange on historical impact of images
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2-part KQED documentary about Dorothea Lange, from 1965. Lange meditates on the historical impact of images and how they can be used to examine/change society

Towards the end of Part II she declares: "The visual mind has a very great contribution to make ...
This is a peculiar and a powerful instrument for this purpose of saying to you or saying to the world in general. This is the way it is. Look at it. Look at it!"

SF Bay Archive found the prints at the Oakland Museum, who loaned them and copyright holder WNET granted permission to stream them online.
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For those interested, this lecture directly examines the nation building aspirations of Dorothea Lange and the other Great Depression photographers.
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Too bad I don't have an extra $80,000, because this underwater imaging system could really help my fishing (and I could also tell even better stories about the one that got away.)
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While you are looking for the one that got away, Dinzie, I might turn my attention to the discovery of troves of sunken treasure.

I think you would have to, given the price of this baby :)
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The Small House Half-way Up in the Next Block
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When people think of Old Time Radio, they usually think of the standards: Amos 'n Andy, Burns and Allen, Dragnet, etc. etc. I won't link to them because they are all over the 'net, and you can find them easily. But you almost certainly don't know about Vic and Sade ... and you should.

Read the good Wikipedia article first, to whet your appetite even more, then go listen! [more inside]
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From one commentator: "... [each] story was told in thousands of 12-minute sketches without dramatic continuity, the best of them standing alone like fine short stories. Each was a little slice of life, an American original, in a category of its own making, as inimitable as its author's fingerprint."

Time magazine described the show (in the '40s) as one in which nothing much ever happened although it had seven million listeners and was drawing thousands of fan letters a week. It was a favourite of Ray Bradbury, Stan Freberg, Ogden Nash, Jean Shepherd, James Thurber ... do you need any more recommendations? :-)

If I were to tell you that it was a daily radio 'soap', you wouldn't click the link, thus missing out on this treasure, so I won't. A guy, his wife, and the boy who they are bringing up - for most of the life of the program, these are the only characters we heard. Nothing actually 'happens', at least not in the way that modern soaps have endlessly contrived plots. In Vic and Sade it's all about these three people, and if you like 'em, you'll love 'em.

Here are a few of my favourites:
Office Work at Home | Rotten David Telephones | Two Tons of Coal

The bad news is that out of the more than 3000 shows produced, just around 300 survive. The recordings were tossed out during a radio network cleanup session.
posted by woodblock100 at 4:15 PM on June 25, 2007

Thank You!
posted by RecordBrother at 4:26 PM on June 25, 2007

The 1970s probably seem like it would qualify for Old Time anything to a lot of MeFi'ers, but it was the heyday of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which I'd listen to very quietly late at night so as to avoid getting in trouble for staying up on school nights. This site has an episode guide. It's apparently featured these days on, too.
posted by pax digita at 4:54 PM on June 25, 2007

You need to listen to it on this for full effect.
posted by caddis at 5:15 PM on June 25, 2007

pax digita, I was born in '65 and I had exactly the same experience as you. I'm press my ear against the radio so that I could keep the volume way down low, and I'd listen to "The CBS Mystery Theatre." This was in Bloomington, Indiana, and the closest station that carried "Mystery Theatre" was WBBM in Chicago. From my location, that station was crackly and would fade in and out, which added to the romance and spookiness. And I had no friends who listened to it. No one I new seemed to know about it. So it felt like a private thing between me and my radio. It almost felt like dreams.

My first AskMe question ever -- wish is still unanswered -- was about a mystery that happened to me as I listened to "The Mystery Theatre."
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posted by cortex at 5:38 PM on June 25, 2007

Thank you for this. Best of the web.

"Office work at home" has moments that remind of of the better parts of The Big Lebowski. The kid alternating between eloquence and imbecility is a great touch.
posted by anthill at 5:40 PM on June 25, 2007

I'm gonna need a bigger mp3 player.
a thousand times thanks!
posted by Busithoth at 6:11 PM on June 25, 2007

His voice bears an unfortunate resemblance to the stapler guy from office space.
posted by BrotherCaine at 6:26 PM on June 25, 2007

This is wonderful. I'd never heard of it before. Thank you!
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 6:54 PM on June 25, 2007

Thank you for this!

If I may nominate another show of interest -- Martin and Lewis had a radio show. It's pretty formulaic in spots, but I like it a lot, even more than their much-lauded TV show. (And I find it no hardship to listen to Dean sing a couple of songs!) Some of the radio episodes can be found here, but there are more out there.

I also find Lucille Ball amusing in My Favorite Husband.
posted by tomboko at 7:37 PM on June 25, 2007

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posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:47 PM on June 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

I had been a bit afraid that this post would fall pretty flat - most MeFites seem to be on the rather youngish side - but as there has been positive reaction to it, here is a bit more material of interest:

Instead of downloading the programs one by one from the page I linked earlier, you can get them on an mp3 CD from these people.

Two books full of original scripts have been published:
Vic and Sade: The Best Radio Plays of Paul Rhymer. New York: Seabury Press, 1976. (30 scripts). Jean Shepherd's foreword is here.

The Small House Halfway Up in the Next Block: Paul Rhymer's Vic and Sade. Rhymer, Paul, ed. by Mary Frances Rhymer, foreword by Ray Bradbury. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. (30 scripts). Bradbury's foreword is here. Don't miss it.

The scripts contained in those two books are online here.

Even though only a small fraction of the programs survive, there are plenty of scripts left. Once you've heard enough of the original episodes, and are thus familiar with the sounds of their voices, you can 'reconstruct' the missing programs, by reading the scripts with the sound of the original voices in your head ...
posted by woodblock100 at 9:34 PM on June 25, 2007

My mom didn't know about Vic and Sade out in the hinterlands of Kansas; but, I have some of the Ogden Nash & James Thurber books she and her parents 'generation-gapped' about. She remembered how they listened to the radio every night. One of her favorite shows was Lights Out the heart beats still haunt her...
posted by taosbat at 9:45 PM on June 25, 2007

I don't think the Out nor heart links work as I hoped. If the heart link works this time, the Out link was supposed to be External Chicken Heart mp3.
posted by taosbat at 10:10 PM on June 25, 2007

Also: I was about to say that tomboko's link to deserved it's own fpp, but then I found that it was already posted nearly a year ago. Still, definitely wort a visit, especially now that they've added some shows from the Columbia Workshop and the Mercury Theater, including Welles' original version of War of the Worlds.
posted by thecaddy at 10:12 PM on June 25, 2007

Great post! Thanks!
posted by vacapinta at 10:59 PM on June 25, 2007

I'm an OTR fanatic,so I certainly have heard of "Vic & Sade". I just never warmed up to it much. It's an acquired taste.

If you want great stuff that's been all but forgotten, check out The Judy Canova Show, or Danny Kaye.
posted by RavinDave at 11:15 PM on June 25, 2007

Careful with that "Vic & Sade." It's strangely compelling. I initially didn't think too much of it three-four years ago when I first starting listening, but whenever I do listen, I tend to listen to several in a row.

Old-Time radio is certainly a passion of mine! (self-link :-)
posted by grubi at 5:55 AM on June 26, 2007

most MeFites seem to be on the rather youngish side

I'm 19 and I'm loving these old radio programs.

I'm going to need a bigger iPod...
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 6:29 AM on June 26, 2007

I loved the Jack Benny stuff. They're going down Hollywood Blvd in the Maxwell. Rochester's driving, Mary's in the front. Benny and Dennis Day are in the back seat. They see a billboard: "Orange Juice on sale -- 10 cents a gallon." Suddenly, there's a tremendous screech and Mary screams: "Rochester! Why'd you slam on the brakes like that?" "I didn't!" he protests, "that was Mr. Benny."
posted by RavinDave at 9:23 AM on June 26, 2007

I wish I could enjoy Jack Benny. The jokes were often so funny. But Rochester and his caricature of black servitude makes me feel so -- embarrassed that I can't comfortably listen to the show. Am I overreacting? Of course the times were different, but though I don't turn a hair at women-driver jokes, and can merely shake my head with rueful amazement at brazen cigarette jingles ("Chesterfields are best for YOU!") -- listening to Rochester just makes me feel bad for him, and I can't laugh.
posted by tomboko at 10:04 AM on June 26, 2007

Tomboko, you're not overreacting. I'm sure many people feel the same way. There is another way to be, though I don't know if it's a way one can choose to be.

I'm rarely embarrassed or offended or outraged by bigotry from the past, though I'd be totally appalled if, say, a co-worker or friend said something racist. So what's the difference?

First of all, I'm totally secure that I'm not a bigot and that I'm never going to become one. I'm not saying that I'm immune to the odd, fleeting ugly thought. I'm human. I'm saying that I'm 100% secure that, at core, I'm an accepting, loving person. I never worry that something is going to make me racist or sexist or whatever. I'm not saying that you worry about this happening to you. But if, by chance, there's a small part of you -- even an irrational part -- that feels this way, it makes sense that you'd be uneasy listening to Rochester.

I'm also not part of a "liberal" group that has rituals of speaking out against prejudice. If you are, you're going to feel an urge to react against prejudice wherever you find it, because you've been under social pressure to do so -- maybe for a long time. Such social pressure is good! I just happen not to be under it. I dislike prejudice, but it's not something I talk about with my friends in general.

But the big issue has to deal with how you view the past. I've a huge history buff. And if you spend a big percent of you life reading and studying history, you can't escape from the fact that the past was, in many ways, an ugly time. The present can be ugly too, but it's possible to make changes in the present. You can't change the past. It is what it is. I know that you know that, but is it in your gut?

Another issues is what sort of model you have in your head for art or entertainment or artists. Does an artist have to be a good person? Does art have to be "pure"? I don't expect artists to be different or more enlightened than other people, and I expect art to represent the time when it was created. Before I even start delving into something from say, the 1950s or the 1800s, I expect to find certain attitudes (just as I expect space ships and laser battles when I go to see "Star Wars"), so I'm not surprised when I encounter those attitudes.

Finally, there's the issue of what harm, if any, it causes for bigoted stuff to be floating around in the world. I don't think anyone's ever proven a causal link between bigotry in art and bigotry in life. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I bet it's complicated and has more to do with the way art is viewed than art itself. If we're interested in learning about REAL history, and if art is part of history, then we should embrace it, warts and all, or we're not facing the reality of the past.

I want to see "Merchant of Venice" complete with anti-semitic parts; I want to see "Taming of the Shrew" complete with sexist parts. I know those parts won't make me sexist or racist; I doubt they'll make the world more racist or sexist; and though I think Shakespeare was a great genius, I don't expect him to be "right thinking" in all ways.

Of course, none of this can stop you from having a gut feeling and none of it implies that your feeling is "wrong" or "unsophisticated." We all interpret art in our own unique ways, and those ways aren't fully under our control.
posted by grumblebee at 9:53 AM on June 27, 2007 [1 favorite]

I think you'd have to look long and hard in the Jack Benny opus to find any sort of genuine racial slurs -- and if you find ANYTHING at all playing off Rochester's race, it'd probably be a throw-away line on one of the absolute earliest shows. Benny made a conscious decision NOT to go down that route. Unless you mean that the mere existence on the show of a black character working as a valet is, in and of itself, a harmful stereotype. Then, I suppose, Benny should be excoriated for hiring Phil Harris and perpetuating the hurtful myth that all Irishmen are drunks. In short, there are far, far greater targets for your ire. Indeed, most ANY way that Rochester is portrayed could be slammed by someone determined to find racism. Did Benny pull a gag on Rochester? Oh, my!! -- he's portraying blacks as stupid. Did Rochester pull a gag on Benny? Oh, my!! -- he's portraying blacks as devious.
posted by RavinDave at 12:29 AM on June 28, 2007

Thanks for your perspective, grumblebee. I'm interested in history, too, but hearing voices on the radio, actually from the past, feels quite different than reading about, say, slavery in the Roman Empire.

RavinDave, I believe my response is primarily to Rochester's fawning, "Yes boss" manner. That is what embarrasses me. It's not the 'stupid' or the 'devious' or any such, it's the 'servile' I'm reacting to. Reading about it, I am aware that it was the policy of the show to have Rochester himself, not other characters, make the racial jokes. But does that make it OK? It still makes me squirm.

Did I say that the Jack Benny show was bad? I did not. I said I couldn't enjoy it and I explained why. I was not expressing ire. I was expressing sorrow.

I know it's my loss. I love comedy, and I hate to miss out on good jokes. But I can't seem to travel in time and unlearn what I know.
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I've got yer terroir right here

Scientists create toe cheese from human toe bacteria. "Cheese is known for its stinky odor. But, cheeses at one exhibit at the Science Gallery Dublin in Trinity College Dublin come from an especially smelly source -- human toe, armpit, belly button and mouth bacteria.

"Selfmade, which is part of the Grow Your Own…Life After Nature exhibition, features different “microbial sketches” of cheeses created with bacteria samples from various people. Each cheese supposedly smells similar to the donor’s body odor."
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Trolls For FREEDOM

Early this morning (midday in the Middle East), al-Qaeda launched a hashtag on Twitter to solicit advice on "suggestions for the development of jihadi media". JM Berger, writer of the national security/terrorism blog IntelWire, noticed this, and decided that they could use some help. The good word was spread across the national security and terrorism Twitterspace, and they successfully hijacked the hashtag from al-Qaeda. [more inside]
posted by Punkey on Aug 13, 2013 - 32 comments

“Are you saying I’ve committed the unpardonable sin?”

Inside The Meltdown At America’s Most Conservative, Most Christian Political Consulting Firm
Rex Elsass built a Republican empire on his faith. But he found himself battling his closest allies over his immortal soul.
posted by andoatnp on Jun 13, 2013 - 39 comments

They Did it for Science

Experiment: To determine the efficacy and adaptability of pop-culture hook-up guides. Can a woman use the rules of "the game" on other women? And how will dudes respond to pick-up techniques that were designed to hustle ladies into bed? Kate Ray investigates what happens when a woman plays "the game" for Nerve, and she does it for Science (All links potentially NSFW, I mean come on its nerve, but most are either OK to OK-ish or obvious from context) [more inside]
posted by Blasdelb on Dec 11, 2011 - 29 comments

Secret Messages In Your Underwear

The 4th Amendment Underclothes are a way to send a message to the TSA. Next time you undergo an X-ray body scan, wear these and let the law enforcers know you won't be scanned without at least reminding them what they violate when they do so.
posted by fantodstic on Dec 28, 2010 - 64 comments

Gimme an F! PH! Gimme an E! I! Gimme an A! S! Gimme a T! H!

"There was hookers, and hustlers, they filled up the room." It's a Phish Halloween tradition to play a costume set as another band. Last Sunday at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall, they paid tribute to Little Feat's 1978 live album Waiting for Columbus. "Phish are repaying," David Fricke says in his Phishbill essay [pdf] "a lifelong debt to the band that has inspired and influenced them above all others." [more inside]
posted by muckster on Nov 6, 2010 - 23 comments

Ze Frank's Social Network for Two

Hey, let's join Ze Frank's social network for two.
posted by rageagainsttherobots on Apr 30, 2010 - 8 comments

Bike vs. Cars War

In light of the recent tragic death of a cyclist in Toronto, even normally well-balanced MeFites have polarized in the bikes vs. cars war”. But according to Guillermo Penalosa, the fight is really about better urban design. He helped to radically reinvent the transit and parks infrastructure of Bogata, making it of the best cycling cities in the world. The recent changes to Broadway in New York were influenced by Bogota's success. Gil now advises the Project for Public Spaces and is Executive Director of Walk & Bike for Life. Their solution to the pedestrians vs. cars vs. bikes battle is simple: better urban planning (previously on MeFi) that gives everyone their own safe space. Not sure if your city's infrastructure is up-to-snuff? Apply the 8/80 rule. In the meantime, keep safe out there.
posted by nometa on Sep 3, 2009 - 175 comments

Cash for clunkers

How to destroy an engine. (slyt) [more inside]
posted by nervousfritz on Jul 31, 2009 - 134 comments

Remember that cool house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

Remember that cool house from Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Yeah...well it's for sale. Great house as long as you don't have a frustrated teenager and a Ferrari.
posted by punkfloyd on May 26, 2009 - 76 comments

The Typography of Change

Vote for Hope [more inside]
posted by clearly on Oct 20, 2008 - 43 comments

2008 Nobel Prize for Physics

Nobels for Physics announced. The prize will be shared between three individuals, including one American teaching at the University of Chicago. The other two winners are from Japan, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa .
posted by leybman on Oct 7, 2008 - 19 comments

Space, to lick the very fuzzy navel of the heavens

Ever wondered what life is like on the International Space Station? Wonder no more. [more inside]
posted by oxford blue on Apr 25, 2008 - 25 comments

For Better or For Worse

For Better or For Worse has become a hybrid. Lynn Johnston has been making some changes to FBOFW gearing up for the time when the characters will stop aging in the strip. Unlike most comics which are frozen in time, the characters in For Better or For Worse have gotten older, made changes in their lives, fallen in love, and had children. Some people aren't so happy with this fundamental change in the strip. However, FBOFW is no stranger to controversy. Michael, the oldest child of the Patterson family, had a gay friend who came out in the strip prompting some papers to run completely different strips on the days the homosexuality issue was mentioned. In recent years, however, the internet has been abuzz over the issue of middle child Elizabeth's love life. Thankfully we can read all about it from youngest child April's perspective. (Previously)
posted by josher71 on Oct 27, 2007 - 87 comments

Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema

Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema - David Bordwell
posted by hama7 on Oct 16, 2007 - 9 comments

No one really misses Angelfire.

So, are you feeling nostalgic? There's also an, uh, adult section. Of course. [more inside]
posted by converge on Oct 6, 2007 - 39 comments

CensusScope: graphical and tabular display of US Census 2000 data

CensusScope. US Census 2000 data displayed through maps, rankings, and charts. [more inside] Warning: some pages render funny, but usable, under Firefox
posted by Slithy_Tove on Aug 18, 2006 - 7 comments

slippery slippery slope

All those in favor of a mandatory web labeling law, say "ay!"
posted by trinarian on Apr 22, 2006 - 23 comments

proof that lisa frank products contribute to brain damage

some lunch boxes have a DEADLY SECRET
stolen from metaefficient
posted by LimePi on Sep 16, 2005 - 13 comments

Competitive rabbits.

Competitive rabbits. They are even cuter when they win prizes!
posted by Viomeda on Jun 15, 2005 - 22 comments

The art of Double Dutch

The art of Double Dutch: Whatever happened to the that tricky urban past time Double Dutch? The savvy dames from Harlem made it famous and continue to keep it competitive. How about the Double Duchess' jumping in schoolgirl plaids and kitty suits? Even Fat Albert can keep the legacy hip. Video's galore.
posted by Viomeda on Apr 8, 2005 - 25 comments

For A Better Life

The Foundation For A Better Life. A non-profit, non-partisan, non-religious, organization that doesn't want your money, but that simply believes, "the values we live by are worth more when we pass them on." What kind of values? Strength. Dedication. Vision. Sacrifice. Soul. Persistence. Commitment. Compassion. Hard Work, Class & Courage, and more. Their billboards and TV ads are all around, but if you're like me, you probably had trouble figuring out who they were from...
posted by NotMyselfRightNow on Nov 5, 2004 - 32 comments

The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head

The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head. "With its mind enhanced by Internet connective tissue, and international law as a venue to work with others for progressive action, the Second Superpower is starting to demonstrate its potential." Starry-eyed Wired-era cyber-bull? Or are bloggers and texters (plus peace activists) the vanguard of the revolution? Douglas Ruskhoff concurs.
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English 111 / Comp Lit 115

Experimental Writing Seminar: Constraints & Collaborations. In addition to setting out a few dozen writing exercises, the online syllabus for an introductory course taught by Charles Bernstein (poet and co-editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) links to a variety of poems, poetry generators, and prose experiments on the web. [more inside]
posted by Monsieur Caution on May 20, 2015 - 4 comments

"It has been your lot to achieve that the obedience to manifold rules should not hamper poetry."

During the reign of Constantine the Great, the Roman senator and poet Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius was sent into exile for crimes unknown. He succeeded in regaining favor and his good name by composing a series of poems in praise of the emperor which looked like nothing else. His poetry was an evolution of the Greek tradition of pattern poetry, but he took it a much more complex level, as Arrigo Lora Totino explains. In an illustrated article, John Stephan Edwards goes through the poetry of Porphyrius, showing the evolution of his craft.
posted by Kattullus on Oct 25, 2012 - 14 comments

"these little songs, and many like them, were made for the comfort of my friends, in their sorrow, doubt and suffering"

An internet search, even in these days of abundant information, yields only that the pamphlets can be found in various library collections, and that they continued to be produced into the '70s. And that Edmund Wilson once sent one, "Mr. P. Squiggle's Reward," to Nabokov, calling it "one of the oddest of many odd things that are sent me by unknown people." He also got the title wrong, dubbing it "Mr. P. Squiggle's Revenge," which is probably significant. But that’s it: nothing about Volk or McCalib.
Epitomes was a series of pamphlets published by Elwin Volk and Dennis McCalib. Few traces of Volk's life are to be found, but he seems to have been a lawyer, and wrote at least a couple of pamphlets about law, which he self-published in Pasadena. McCalib is equally elusive. A man by that name contributed to an issue of One: The Homosexual Viewpoint in 1964. A Dennis McCalib also used the pseudonym Lord Fuzzy. The aforementioned "Mr. P. Squiggle's Reward" got a curt, two half-sentence dismissal in Poetry Magazine, otherwise these pamphlets seem not to have troubled the literary world. Someone donated their manuscripts to UCLA where they rest undigitized in fourteen boxes. But Library of Congress has scanned a total of twenty-six pages in high resolution.
posted by Kattullus on Jan 27, 2012 - 9 comments

Scottish artist Robert Montgomery and his billboards and neon signs

"Robert Montgomery works in a poetic and melancholic post-situationist tradition. He makes billboard pieces, recycled sunlight pieces and drawings." This one's my favorite but I like others too. Here are a few more examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
posted by Kattullus on May 20, 2011 - 14 comments

Frank O'Hara

Frank O'Hara was a New York poet, even though he lived less than half of his 40 years in the city. He grew up in Grafton, MA, was a sonarman in WWII and roomed with Edward Gorey at Harvard before moving to the city he would forever be associated with. Naturally, there was am article on him in The New Yorker a couple of years ago. We're lucky enough to have a number of videos of O'Hara, including a reading of the lovely "Having a Coke with You. There's also quite a bit of audio of him, and I can't but recommend this mp3 of John Ashbery, Alfred Leslie, Bill Berkson and Michelle Elligott reminiscing about O'Hara at the MOMA, where he worked. And there are quite a few of his poems available online, as well as five of the poem-paintings he did with Norman Bluhm. [more inside]
posted by Kattullus on Feb 15, 2010 - 16 comments

visual poetry, today

Visual Poetry Today collects various forms of visual poetry, today. It includes Peter Ciccariello, who wraps text around computer-modeled landscapes. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Jan 20, 2009 - 4 comments

Artists' Books Online

Artists' Books Online is a collection by the University of Virginia of artists' books. Artists' books are works of art that take the form of books and are often both text and visual art. Either way, they're awful interesting to look at. Here are some artbooks to get you started: How to Humiliate Your Peeping Tom by Susan Baker, The Word Made Flesh by Johanna Drucker, Life in a Book by Francois Deschamps, A.A.A.R.P. by Clifton Kirkpatrick Meador, opuntia is just another name for a prickly pear by Todd Walker and Black Dog White Bark by Erica Van Horn
posted by Kattullus on Dec 28, 2008 - 7 comments

Vispo is a site dedicated to visual poetry, both static and animated, run by Jim Andrews (though there's also a sound section). Among my favorites are bpNichol's First Screening (made in Hypercard), poem game Arteroids, the works of Ana Maria Uribe, Oppen Do Down (warning: audio starts immediately), Enigma M, strings and a selection of typographic works by Clemente Padin
posted by Kattullus on Jan 27, 2008 - 5 comments

Discarded technology artfully redeployed into gadget visionistic notions of independence.

Mat Bevel Company is a gizmotronic fanfare of spunk, funk and kinetic junk. [lots of small embedded qt movies]
posted by carsonb on May 5, 2006 - 10 comments

Is this poetry?

Is this poetry? How about this, this or this? They're all examples of visual or concrete poetry, which has a long history. The modern version grew out of Lettrisme and helped give birth to the worldwide mail art movement. Two leading visual poets, Uruguayan activist Clemente Padin and Argentinian Edgardo Vigo, both had serious run-ins with dictators during the 1970s. The huge Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry puts gem after gem at your fingertips. Another great collection: Brazilian Visual Poetry. [more inside]
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METAL ON ICE – Tunes From Canada’s Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Heroes Companion Album And Live Shows

July 5th, 2013
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PledgeMusic campaign in support of project launched

Inspired by the soon-to-be-published book by Billboard-charting guitarist Sean Kelly, the Metal on Ice – Tunes from Canada’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes companion album tells the tale of Canadian hard-rock through the rerecording of chart-topping heavy metal hits from the 1980s. Slated for release in October 2013, the album will include new recordings of original hit songs by celebrated Canadian artists Brian Vollmer (Helix), Carl Dixon (Coney Hatch), Darby Mills (Headpins), Lee Aaron, Nick Walsh (Slik Toxik) and Russ Dwarf (Killer Dwarfs). The project will be supported by an extensive PledgeMusic campaign, which launches today.

Recognizing that Canadian heavy metal and hard rock artists of the 80s were pioneers in the expansion of Canadian music internationally and therefore influenced the lives of many, Kelly has partnered with Coalition Music to crank up the volume on the project. Together the team has created a list of unique opportunities for fans via PledgeMusic, allowing them to play an integral role in the recording of the Metal on Ice – Tunes from Canada’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes companion album and get an insider’s look into the upcoming live shows.

Accessible to fans today, the Metal on Ice – Tunes from Canada’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes PledgeMusic campaign offers fans the opportunity to support this important project all while gaining incredible behind-the-scenes access. Options are provided to pledging fans at all price points and include: advance copies of the album, guest list to live performances, Skype guitar lessons with participating musicians, access to a pre-show cocktail reception, a signed drumskin used at a live show, autographed guitars/microphones and the ultimate prize of spending a day in the Coalition Music (Studios) in Toronto when all six artists will be present to record (earning those in attendance the chance to have their names included in the coveted liner notes!).

“The Metal On Ice project is a chance for fans to hear the stories behind the songs while reconnecting with the songs that helped shape the Canadian music landscape,” said Kelly. “It also presents an opportunity for lovers of Canadian hard rock and heavy metal to come together in support of the genre and recognize the importance of celebrating its successes. We wanted to give true fans access to incredible experiences and believe we have done just that with the exclusive opportunities available through our PledgeMusic campaign.”

With the support of an anticipated book, an album in process and a list of soon-to-be announced live performances there is no question that the Metal On Ice project will bring the stories of Canadian hard rock and heavy metal to life. Fans are encouraged to stay tuned for updates as the project unfolds via www.metalonice.com and Facebook.

About Metal on Ice – Tunes from Canada’s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Heroes and the Metal On Ice Project To be released in September, 2013 and written by Billboard-charting guitarist Sean Kelly, Metal On Ice (Dundurn Press) draws on interviews with original artists such as Helix, Anvil, Coney Hatch, Killer Dwarfs, Harem Scarem and Honeymoon Suite, as well as prominent journalists, VJs and industry insiders. Reliving the lives of those striving to land the coveted record deal, Metal On Ice presents a new perspective on the dreams of musicians shooting for an American ideal of success and discovering a uniquely Canadian voice in the process. Supporting the book, the Metal On Ice Project sees author Sean Kelly partnering with Coalition Music to provide fans of Canadian hard rock and heavy metal an insider’s look into the creation of an album and the celebration of its release through the excitement of a live show.

About Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly is a Billboard-charting guitarist of his own band, Crash Kelly. He has released several classical guitar albums and tours as lead guitarist for Grammy Award-winning superstar Nelly Furtado. Kelly has also performed with Helix, Carl Dixon, Gilby Clarke and Carole Pope, among many others. He lives in Toronto.

About Coalition Music
Established in 1991, Coalition Music is a full service music company that includes artist management, music licensing, online creative, publicity departments along with a fully functional record company, Coalition Records. The company’s current artist roster includes: Simple Plan, Our Lady Peace, Finger Eleven, Justin Nozuka, Faber Drive, Incura, , These Kids Wear Crowns, The Balconies, Ben Caplan, Barlow, Raine Maida and USS. Since its inception, Coalition Music has been involved in the commercial release over 50 albums with combined worldwide sales exceeding 15 million albums. For more information on Coalition Music, visit www.coalitionmusic.ca

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Enslaved Wins Norwegian Grammy Award

ENSLAVED has been honoured with a Grammy Award for their latest album, ISA. The Norwegian Grammy ceremony was held in Oslo, Norway at the Spectrum for the 33rd time on Saturday the 26th of February, and was broadcasted live on national TV. This is was the band´s third Grammy nomination. The other nominees in the metal genre ware MAYHEM and BLACK DEBBATH. Enslaved was not able to attend the actual ceremony as they are currently touring Europe, but guitarist Ivar Bjørnson had the following comment:

"This Grammy Award means very much to the band and reflects the recognition of our efforts not only for this record alone, but for years of hard work. After two nominations, it felt extremely good to get the recognition from the mainstream music circus and to finally finish first for a change."

Ivar Bjørnson's father took the stage, and received the Award on the band's behalf with the following statement: "there is more to the picture than meets the eye... Rock'n'Roll will never die!"

Enslaved has also received the independent Alarm Award for best metal album in 2004 for ISA. The other nominees were SUSPERIA, KHOLD, RED HARVEST and MAYHEM.

Enslaved is the first Norwegian band to be confirmed for this years Roskilde Festival (June 30th - July 3rd) in Denmark. Enslaved will also play the Fury Fest in France (June 24th - 26th in Le Mans) and Graspop in Belgium (June 24th - 26th in Dessel) this summer. Upcoming Enslaved dates with openers VREID are as follows: More...

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Windir DVD Postponed

Due to some technical problems with the printing of the "Sognametal" DVD, the release will be postponed to April/May. Since Vreid are currnently on a 6 week European tour with Enslaved, the problem can not be fixed before they return to Norway in the middle of March. An exact release date will be given ASAP.

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Enslaved Confirm European Tour Dates

Norway's ENSLAVED have confirmed the first dates for their upcoming ISA Europe Tour 2005, which will include support from VREID.

Also, Enslaved's latest album "ISA" ( due out through Candlelight Records in North America on February 8th) has been nominated for the "Bergen Album Of The Year 2004" prize by Norway's biggest regional newspaper Bergens Tidende. Head here to vote.

Back to the tour, here are the official dates:

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Vreid Set Debut Album Release Date

Candlelight Records has set a January 25, 2005 U.S. release date for "Kraft," the debut album from Norway's Vreid (Norwegian for "wrath"). Formed earlier this year, the band features the surviving members of Windir (Hváll on bass, Steingrim on drums and Sture on vocals/guitar), disbanded due to the unexpected death of singer/founder Valfar.

"Kraft" was recorded during the summer at Hváll's Studio 1184 and was mixed at Subsonic Society Studio (Susperia, Windir, Red Harvest, Darkhrone) in Oslo.

Vreid's music is being described as a continuation of the sound and style Hváll had created with Windir and Ulcus, but with "its own personal sound — a mixture of the ambience of Windir, the rawness of Norwegian black metal and the rocking groove of Motörhead." The lyrics are written both in Norwegian and English. Rounding out Vreid's lineup is a guitarist named Ese — a close friend of the Vreid members for years, and co-engineer on Windir's "Likferd" album.

Windir, founded by Valfar in 1994, leave behind four recordings, all recorded for Head Not Found Records. The band graced stages at Inferno, Quart and Hole in the Sky European Festivals plus an appearance (and now only U.S. show) at the Milwaukee Metal Fest. The band were set to record their fifth album and first to receive worldwide release via Candlelight/Tabu Records before Valfar's death.

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Former Windir Members Resurface In Vreid

Following the tragic death of WINDIR frontman Terje ”Valfar” Bakken who died of hypothermia on January 17th, 2004 in Reppastølen, Norway, the rest of the band decided to move onto other projects.

The memorial concert for both Valfar and Windir occurred at the Rockefeller in Oslo, Norway on September 3rd. Vried (Norwegian word for wrath) is one of the new projects that has been formed which features three ex-Windir members - bassist Hváll, drummer Steingrim, vocalist/guitarist Sture Dingsøyr (vocals/guitar) - and new guitarist Ese. Ese has been a close friend of the Vreid members for years, and he was co-engineer on Windir's Likferd album from 2003.

More information will surface soon regarding a release date and label for Vreid's debut.

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Intronaut Uploads Fifth Studio Webisode Online

Los Angeles progressive post-metallers Intronaut have posted a fifth studio webisode online. The video documents the recording of the band's new studio album "Valley of Smoke." "Valley of Smoke" was released on October 12, 2010 through Century Media Records.

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After The Spire Calling It Quits, Announces Final Shows

Chicago's After the Spire has issued the following announcement about calling it quits:

"After the Spire is no longer. Due to a person ready to move on and step away from music we are regretfully calling it quits. There is no hate amongst us, and we will continue to remain friends and support each other.

"We made one hell of a fucking run in just one year of being together. We recorded two awesome albums, met and shared the stage with tons of musicians. We toured with Sumerian and Metal Blade artists, we were featured on countless websites/blogs/magazines you name it. For this we have to thank you guys, our dedicated fans. We wouldn't even have made it this far without you guys.

"Due to the sudden change of things, the band as a whole and individuals will more than likely move on from music and start focusing on a life and career for ourselves and families. It truly breaks my heart typing this right now, and I feel even worse for our fans awaiting our next tour, or album or whatever. This band was my life, it was our lives and we've all sacrificed a great deal to make this get to were it is today. I've posted all our songs up for listening and download.

"Our next and last show will be July 28th at the Badabrew in Crest Hill, IL. Come out for one last time, hang out and say goodbye. To our non local fans we truely love you, and everything you've done for us. Metal bleeds through our veins, it will continue to be part of my life, as well as the other musicians. I will not put down my guitar as well as anybody else give up their respected instruments. Thank you guys again, we had a fucking awesome time! These will be the last shows that we play:

July 21st Jj Kellys Lansing, Ill 21+
July 28th Bada Brew Crest Hill, Ill 21+

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Human Hate Releases "Agony Rose" Music Video

Human Hate has released a new music video for "Agony Rose," which is taken from the band's debut EP, "Chapter 13 – We Came For Blood."

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Enjoy a day of dance performances and learn simple ways to be heart healthy at the Southland Mall, hosted by Methodist South Hospital.

Come to the Southland Mall, just off Elvis Presley Blvd., to enjoy a day of dance performances, celebrate heart health and learn simple ways to be heart healthy. Bring the entire family to enjoy exciting dance performances like:

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Pharoah Sanders

Trane Kept a Rollin': Pharoah Sanders is still, as his friend John Coltrane put it, dealing in energy, integrity and essences.

The Ascension of Pharoah Sanders

John Coltrane's musical and spiritual collaborator talks about a few of his favorite things

By Bill Forman

When it comes to Pharoah Sanders, three especially transcendent experiences come to mind. One was hearing him and John Coltrane pushing each other into the stratosphere on the four-CD Live in Japan set, featuring an hour-long rendition of "My Favorite Things." Another was Sanders' seemingly telepathic collaboration with Sonny Sharrock (along with Elvin Jones and Charnett Moffet) on the guitarist's final album, Ask The Ages, a 1991 masterpiece that remains a work of supreme beauty. And the third was seeing Sanders live a few years ago in Sacramento, where he managed the nearly impossible feat of getting the crowd to forget the Kings (who were in the middle of a playoff game at that moment) and pay attention to the man onstage coaxing music out of both ends of his tenor saxophone.

"Yeah, well, I try to get as much as I can out of it before I put it down and go to bed," says Sanders with a self-effacing chuckle. "I hum into it. Sing into it. Whatever, you know? But I remember that show--they had a big festival in a park, and Yancy [Taylor] came from Oakland and sat in on vibes and we had those two drummers. They were all friends of mine that I been knowin' for a long time. And they can play, you know? They just never left Sacramento!"

Sanders has never been one for restrictions, be they of genre or geography. From Little Rock, Ark., where as a teen in the '50s he played with bluesmen Junior Parker and Bobby Blue Bland, Sanders packed up his tenor and headed out to Oakland as soon as he'd finished high school. Staying with relatives and attending junior college for art and music, he gigged around town with musicians like Dewey Redman and began exploring the outer boundaries of jazz before moving, in 1962, to a decidedly less-hospitable New York City. Creativity and challenge came hand in hand as Sanders found himself living in the city's Lower East Side and playing with the likes of Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman, while also going through periods of extreme poverty in which he had to pawn his horn and sleep on the subway.

That struggle payed off in 1965 when John Coltrane brought Sanders on board in time for his Ascension album, signaling an incredibly prolific and creatively unbridled period that produced some of the most groundbreaking recordings of all time. While more conservative observers may have longed for the less avant recordings of years gone by, Coltrane was not among them. He and Sanders went off on a quest to find the spiritual dimension that was so integral to African music, but largely lost in its Western counterpart.

In his biography of Coltrane, author Cuthbert Simpkins quotes the bandleader's assessment of the new colleague who would accompany him on nearly a dozen records: "Pharoah is a man of large spiritual reservoir, always trying to reach out to truth," said Coltrane, who could just as accurately have been talking about Sanders today. "He's trying to allow his spiritual self to be his guide. He's dealing, among other things, in energy, in integrity, in essences. I so much like the strength of his playing. Furthermore, he is one of the innovators, and it's been my pleasure and privilege that he's been willing to help me, that he is part of the group. ... He has will and spirit and those are the qualities I like most in a man."

Onstage, that will and spirit translated into songs that could easily top the one-hour mark--although Jimmy Garrison's willingness to take a 15-minute bass solo made the going a bit easier for the horn players.

"I don't know that I could play a song for an hour," says Sanders when asked about the 1966 concerts in Tokyo, "but Trane, I think he could play maybe two or three hours! I always wished I could be that creative, the way he was. Some people just come here with all that, you know? But I keep falling back on some of the old stuff."

Well, yes and no. When John Coltrane died a year later, Sanders and Alice Coltrane briefly continued on in a more conventional musical direction, an ironic turn of events given that Sanders--with his penchant for harmonic distortion and ventures outside the 12-tone Western scale--had been the group's edgiest player. But the intervening decades have seen him explore seemingly limitless musical directions as both bandleader and collaborator. A particularly fertile period followed his hooking up with producer Bill Laswell in the '90s; the reunion with Sonny Sharrock (who had played on Sanders' stunning 1967 album Tauhid) and a return to world music exploration soon followed.

"My experience is, you listen to a person play and hear how creative he or she can be," says Sanders when asked about his criteria for collaborators. "The discipline and all that, those are qualities that I need, but ... I look for more than just the musicianship, it's the person."

Currently living in L.A.--in body, if not in spirit--Sanders says, "I'm just passing through. I came here because my wife, she didn't want to live in New York City anymore. But I play with people from all over the world."

Sanders' upcoming plans include a performance with pianist William Henderson--who will also accompany him during his Kuumbwa gig--at Grace Cathedral as part of the San Francisco Jazz Festival. "We're going to do some duo things," says Sanders. "I don't know how it's going to sound myself, but that's what we're going to do. The Grace Cathedral show will be different because of the echo--we have to let that play also! So we're gonna use whatever we can use in the Grace Cathedral; whatever they got in there, we're gonna use it."

Sanders calls Northern California "like another home for me. I don't like living down here. I don't like the way they drive. It's weird."

So is the wife amenable to relocation? "She probably would, you know? Probably would. It's a little cooler, but all you need is some thick socks and some turtlenecks."

And an umbrella. "That's what I been hearing on the news," says Sanders of the record rainfalls. "But I know it's gonna be clean when I come up there. It's gonna be clean."

Pharoah Sanders plays the Kuumbwa April 20 at 7 and 9pm, $23/adv $26/door.

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