Loudoun Community Events Week
The News Review:
- Loudoun Community Events Week
- Rap, Heard Round The World
- Meitus: Flavor of Colorado captured
- The Hills Have Eyes - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - theage.com…
- Fan loyalty stretches only so far when players bounce around
- Wednesday 19/04/06 M Craft @ Too2Much, London
- Van is just the man for Perth arts festival.
Loudoun Community Events Week
Washington Post - Apr 19, 2006
-noon Saturdays through November, Fifth and Lee streets. Home-grown and homemade items by local producers. FAUQUIER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT, 8 a… , live auction at 6. Music during preview by In One Accord. $25 per couple; $15 per person. CABOOSE TOURS, all ages, 9-11 a.
Rap, Heard Round The World
Washington Post - Apr 19, 2006
Yet they find ways to express themselves, performing live or, when they can jury-rig a system, recording with no-tech aplomb. They seem to have a different attitude toward poverty — in stark contrast to the victimized fury that spits out from so many of their American counterparts. And their music seems to be more inclusive and user-friendly than the sturm-und-bling outbursts from Compton, Philly and the Bronx. When Alexey Rodriguez of the band Fabri_K takes a tour of America, his first trip beyond Cuba, you can feel his elation as he raps in Spanish on a New York subway train. "I’m kickin’ it here with a cellular phone," he improvises. " He has transformed the burning embers of American rap into something else, something cheerier… " That’s right: His boombox is a woman. But the movie also provides perspective, showing how rap was affected by such political events as the collapse of Cuba’s already flimsy economy after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the exodus of 1994 in which 34,000 Cubans, including Soandry’s brother Vladimir, fled the country. Hip-Hop 4 Reel also includes home-grown films. Thomas Gibson’s "Letter to the President," produced by Quincy Jones III, portrays rap as the only revolutionary means of expression for young black men and women who felt they were living in a parallel universe during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. It exposes, too, the schism between those rappers and the older generation who had come through Jim Crow and the civil rights movement and found these rhyming epithets ungraceful. Maori Karmael Holmes’s short movie "Scene Not Heard" is a testament to the passion and brilliance of female rappers in Philadelphia. Among these musicians is Bahamadia, a poet and musician with a Buddhalike face, whose delivery is so rapid, smooth and fluid, it seems to come at you subliminally.
Meitus: Flavor of Colorado captured
Rocky Mountain News - Apr 19, 2006
Denver freelance writer and author Eliza CrossCastaneda reveals all in her Food Lovers’ Guide to Colorado(Insiders Guide series, The Globe Pequot Press, $14. The book,which has 30 Colorado-related recipes, lists farmers’ markets, foodfestivals and home- grown products in addition to landmark restaurantsand cooking classes, for those who just want to be out and about. Castaneda compiled her first guide in 2002. “One thing that wassurprising to me was that the second one was more work than the firstone, because things are changing so rapidly. The number of wineries hasmore than doubled; the ones that were here before are doing new winesand adding tasting rooms. “Also, there’s a kind of explosion of artisan food makers andorganic food growers, many more farmers’ markets and (although) thisbook is not a restaurant guide, that’s an area where there’s been a lotof change, with great new restaurants opening.
The Hills Have Eyes - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - theage.com…
The Age - Apr 19, 2006
One of the Alsatians is the first to go, and then it’s survivalof the fittest, in increasingly gruesome encounters that force atleast one Carter family member to exhibit some of the ruthlessindifference to life that their would-be predators display. The Hills Have Eyes is an efficient remake of WesCraven’s 1977 movie of the same name: Craven is a producer of thenew movie, which is co-written and directed by French filmmakerAlexandre Aja. One of Aja’s new elements is an explanation of the cannibals’origins: they are shown to be victims of a home-grown, Cold Warnuclear-testing policy in the New Mexico desert. We are shown, inthe title sequence, images of atomic explosions and birth defects,assembled in a grim yet oddly sprightly montage, and there arefaint traces of poignancy in a couple of the glimpses we are givenof the hill-dwellers behind the scenes. But it’s a fleeting compassion from the filmmakers. The special effects and make-up departments have been givenlicence to go to town, and, for the most part, this parallel familyis shown to be brutal and brutalising. There’s a definite relish in the way their assaults on theCarter family are depicted (as well as a certain amount of relishin the Carter family’s response, once they get their acttogether).
Fan loyalty stretches only so far when players bounce around
SI.com - Apr 19, 2006
“If you lose a popular player it all depends on how many other popular players a team has that fans can bond to,” Fassikoff said. “If it’s the Red Sox or Yankees, there’s a fair roster of guys that people still like. ”Surprisingly enough, the Yankees have two home grown prospects who have made careers in the Bronx. Bernie Williams is in his 16th year as a Yankee, and Derek Jeter his 11th. Still, there are so many players bouncing among so many teams that players end up celebrating career milestones far from places where they made their mark. Martinez became the second pitcher to get his 200th win as a Met, but who remembers the first? That would be Orel Hershiser, who spent a year making some late career money with the Mets but probably now wishes he would have been able to celebrate that mark while still a Los Angeles Dodger. Wade Boggs had a great career with the Red Sox and Yankees, but got his 3,000 hit playing in a crummy dome in Tampa Bay.
Wednesday 19/04/06 M Craft @ Too2Much, London
Gigwise - Apr 19, 2006
It’s truly a bizarre venue and one that doesn’t immediately lend itself to the style of music that tonight promises, or so you might think. First on stage is Barbarossa, a young man with a big but well tempered voice and bigger collection of musicians. Starting his set as a solo piece, Barbarossa is a believer in creating a show with an organic home grown quality, and as one song finishes another starts, each with an additional band member joining him on stage. By the fifth song there are seven people on the platform, all playing their part in tonight’s laid back performance. It’s great and just as you start to drift off his creation pulls you back. But despite the rhythmic soothing qualities of