CAIRO -- For days after Egypt's culture minister, Farouk Hosny, failed in his bid to lead the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Egyptian newspapers and government officials presented the defeat as a sign of Western prejudice against Islam and the Arab world, the product of an international Jewish conspiracy.
"America, Europe and the Jewish lobby brought down Farouk Hosni," read a headline in an independent daily newspaper, Al Masry Al Yom. The foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, criticized "international Judaism and Western powers" in a television interview. Mr. Hosny himself helped stoke those sentiments, saying, "There was a group of the world's Jews who had a major influence in the elections who were a serious threat to Egypt taking this position."
All of Egypt, indeed all of the Arab world, was talking with one voice of outrage and insult.
Or so it seemed....
The defeat provoked a degree of quiet soul-searching here. The state's retreat to anti-Zionism and to some extent, anti-Semitism, underscored for many here the region's collective political impotence, a failure of Arab leaders to form a powerful regional bloc capable of winning support from power brokers in Washington, London or Paris that has lasted decades.
The pan-Arab daily newspaper Al Quds Al Arabi wrote that Mr. Hosny's loss "comes as yet another confirmation of the Arab world's -- and Egypt's in particular -- backslide on the international arena, and the general lack of respect towards it in all areas, not exclusively culture."
Mr. Hosny, 71, is a well-known figure in Egypt. He has been the minister for more than two decades. Oddly enough, considering the charges of anti-Semitism that derailed his candidacy, he has never been known as a strong opponent of normalizing ties with Israel.
True, he has resisted a warm peace, refused to visit Tel Aviv and was quoted as saying that he would burn Israeli books if he found them in a library. But proponents say he took these actions as the bare minimum to defend himself from a population that views Israel as the enemy.
Throughout his candidacy, Mr. Hosny struggled to mute the charges of anti-Semitism, efforts that caused many people in Egypt to wince as they watched a stalwart of the state apologize, to Israel no less. And they winced again, when he blamed a Jewish-Zionist conspiracy for his loss.
"He did not take an anti-normalization stand until the end," said Hossam el-Hamalawy, an independent Egyptian blogger and journalist. "The moment he lost he came back and started saying some of the most foul anti-Semitic statements against the Jews, confirming what the West had said about him."
Mr. Hosny lost his bid for Unesco, but tried to turn that into a victory at home, returning as a victim, and for the state-run media a hero. The charges of a Western, Jewish-Zionist conspiracy may have been amplified by a government eager to limit its embarrassment after having staked its credibility on Mr. Hosny.
But they are not new, said Hala Mustafa, editor in chief of the weekly magazine Democracy and a member of Mr. Mubarak's governing party. When it comes to domestic politics, she said, Egyptian officials often try to present themselves as anti-Israeli, even while serving as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians.
Ms. Mustafa has been squeezed by that dual identity.
In her capacity as an editor and academic in the state-financed Ahram Center, she recently met with Israel's ambassador to Egypt, Shalom Cohen. She has since been tarred in the press as a "normalizer," and the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate has tried to blacklist her. Ms. Mustafa said she saw the state's rush to blame Israel for Mr. Hosny's loss as stemming from the same forces busy attacking her.
"We have been under this propaganda for 30 years," she said. "Like Egypt doesn't have a peace treaty with Israel? Like Egypt does not play a peace role between Israel and the Palestinians? If that is Egypt's role, why are we not allowed to play the same role?"
There is another view, too, one that was published in English, allowing, perhaps for a degree of candor not found in the Arabic news media. Writing in the English-language Daily News, the chief editor, Rania al-Malky, suggested that Mr. Hosny might have done as well as he did because he was Arab and Muslim, not because he was qualified. His defeat, she wrote, should not surprise anyone.
"I will say this at the risk of being branded unpatriotic, but no matter where you stand on the political spectrum," she wrote, "you must admit that the Egyptian administration did not deserve to win this bid. How can a 22-year minister of a country where culture, education, health and science have regressed to the Dark Ages become the head of Unesco.

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THE Tipping Point, a store in Houston that calls itself a sneaker lifestyle shop, does not just sell a collection of differently colored rubber soles, along with books, music and apparel. No, its Web site declares, the store its merchandise.
Promoters at Pianos, a nightclub on the Lower East Side, announced on their Web site that they will curate a night of Curious burlesque.
Eric Demby, a founder of the Brooklyn Flea swap meet, does not hire vendors to serve grilled cheese sandwiches, pickles and tamales to hungry shoppers. He personally curates the food stands, according to New York magazine.
And to think, not so long ago, curators worked at museums.
The word lofty and once rarely spoken outside exhibition corridors or British parishes, has become a fashionable code word among the aesthetically minded, who seem to paste it onto any activity that involves culling and selecting. In more print-centric times, the term of art was as in a boutique edits its dress collections carefully. But now, among designers, disc jockeys, club promoters, bloggers and thrift-store owners, curate is code for I have a discerning eye and great taste.
Or more to the point, I belong.
For many who adopt the term, or bestow it on others, s an innocent form of self-inflation, said John H. McWhorter, a linguist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. re implying that there is some similarity between what you do and what someone with an advanced degree who works at a museum does.
Indeed, these days, serving as a guest curator of a design blog, craft fair or department store is an honor. Last month, Scott Schuman, creator of The Sartorialist, a photo blog about street fashion, was invited to curate a pop-up shop at Barneys New York.
The term was not intended to be hyperbole, said Tom Kalenderian, the mens fashion director for Barneys. Consulting closely with the photographer, a former fashion retailer, the store stocked just the right items to help shoppers achieve the elegant, eclectic look The Sartorialist regularly features on its site.
It was precisely his eye that made the store want to partner with him, Mr. Kalenderian said. It was about the right shade of blue, about the cut, about the width of a lapel.
Curtis Macdonald, a Brooklyn musician, also says that precisely describes his job: hiring bands for a local site.
When given to opportunity to curate an evening of music, choosing the right bands is very similar to curating a museum, Mr. Macdonald explained in an e-mail message. Since I, the choose personnel based on a particular aesthetic, I am able to think of creative ways of presenting music beyond the traditional call-up a venue and ask for a gig way of presenting.
Indeed, invoking the word can be good for ones image and business, said Karuna Tillmon James, 30, who has a background in fine-art photography and recently opened a consignment shop selling designer clothing in Brentwood, Calif. Its name: Curate Couture.
I knew that people in the know would gravitate toward it, Ms. James said. The name signals that hers is not just another secondhand-clothing shop, she said, selling stuff that was gross and old and had been crammed in trunks for years. It would have very specific pieces, selected purposefully.
Summon the word she added, and people know youre going to get it.
Pretentious? Maybe. But its hardly unusual for members of less pedigreed professions to adopt the vernacular of more prestigious ones, said Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley.
For instance, he said, the term originally tended to connote a partner or a work colleague who shared a position of authority with another, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it. The description has expanded to include employees at all levels of the organization, including sales and customer service associates.
In the case of curate, which the Oxford dictionary simply defines as to look after and preserve, its standard meaning dominated until the mid-90s, when references to curating hotel libraries and CD-of-the-month clubs started to pop up in periodicals, said Jesse Sheidlower, a lexicographer with the Oxford English Dictionary.
After 2000, nontraditional usage of the word took off. And as it continues to grow in popularity, others must adopt it, too, or face the consequences. For example, if all the rival nightclub promoters are parties, Mr. Sheidlower said, you dont want to be the one left one.
On the Web, the word and the concept have taken particular hold, not a surprise given the Internet clutter. Etsy, the shopping Web site devoted to handmade and vintage goods, routinely brings in shelter magazine editors, fashion designers and design bloggers to serve as guest curators.
Even news-aggregator Web sites, like Tina Browns Daily Beast, promote themselves as cultural curators.
The Daily Beast doesnt aggregate, Ms. Brown says in a statement on the site. It sifts, sorts, and curates. Were as much about whats not there as what is.
In fact, curatorship of photos culled from Flickr pages, or of knitted scarves on Etsy, can be an artistic pursuit in itself, said Virginia Postrel, a cultural critic and the author of The Substance of Style.
Because there are more things to put together, she said, the juxtapositions become a big part of the interesting experience of those things. It is a creative activity in itself.
The talent for choosing among countless objects is not very different from the work of collage artists or top D.J.s, explained Scott Plagenhoef, the editor-in-chief of Pitchfork, the music Web site.
Certainly things like structure, flow, revelation, juxtaposition and other elements of D.J.-ing and mixing are considered an art, said Mr. Plagenhoef, who served as an unpaid for the All Tomorrows Parties music festival in England. Remix culture is a form of creative expression in its own right.
And what of actual museum curators themselves? Are they offended by the democratization of their title?
Maybe the use of to refer to extra-museum activities is just metaphorical, akin to the way we use the word as a verb, Laura Hoptman, a senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, wrote in an e-mail message. If we doctor a script, we are only theoretically operating on it.
It doesnt really bother me, she said of the trend. Actually, Im hoping its popularity will spawn a reality television show maybe Top Curator.

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Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns with an all-baseball night on Thursday, October 1, at 7:30 p.m, a week before the season kicks off. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Joe Posnanski, Jennifer Ring, and Larry Tye will read from and talk about their work, and take questions. Posnanski will relate the history of the Big Red Machine, perhaps the greatest lineup ever; Ring will explain the shameful history of baseball closing itself off to girls at a young age; and Tye will describe the colorful and groundbreaking life of Satchel Paige. Plus, Jonathan Hock will present scenes from his film The Lost Son of Havana.

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Attention all you aspiring National Geographic photographers, the chance for you to hone your skills is almost here. Sony have announced that the long anticipated photography game, Afrika has gone gold and is soon to be heading to stores near you!
We are thrilled about Afrikas upcoming release in North America. And its certainly been a pleasure working with Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios on the project, said Hiro Maekawa, President and CEO of Natsume. Afrika is a truly unique gaming experience. Anyone can pick it up and enjoy its beauty, but it has enough depth and challenge to satisfy even the most hardcore players.
While a release date is not yet announced, we do have a price point at an MSRP of $49.99 and an E for Everyone rating. Keep your eyes peeled for this one.

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NEW DELHI - Is India's security establishment at odds with the foreign policy establishment over the threat perception vis-a-vis China? Even as the government sought to play down reports of Chinese border "aggression", saying there was nothing alarming about them, there are sections of the strategic establishment, whose views are articulated through retired armed forces personnel and strategic experts, who appear to think that the government is underplaying the Chinese "threat".

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looking-glass 'Zzzonked') into sharper relief. You'd have to be one black-hearted bastard not to smile when Reynolds bellows earnestly, 'It's glorious outside.'" (Dan LeRoy, August 2009)
For COMMON DREADS--the follow-up to their 2007 U.K.-gold-certified album Take To The Skies, which debuted at #4 on the U.K. charts--the group teamed with veteran producer Andy Gray (U2, Tori Amos, Korn, Gary Numan). The album is a soundtrack for the current generation on a mission to define the era in which it was born: one of recession, paranoia, state control and the fallout of decades of accelerated capitalism; and on the other side, an era of hope, creativity, humanity, hedonism, irreverence and fun. COMMON DREADS has already garnered the group new fans and widespread critical acclaim from outlets as diverse as the BBC and Absolute Punk:
BBC: "Highlights are fabulously catchy first single 'Juggernauts,' swelling grower 'Wall,' teenage anthem 'Hectic' with its computer-game-esque melody and the unexpectedly twinkly and lovely 'Gap InThe Fence.' The album is packed with anthems too--'The Jester' is Blur's Parklife... And 'No Sleep Tonight' is a hardcore reply to Faithless' 'Insomnia."
--Sophie Bruce, (6/8/09)

Absolute Punk: "Everything about COMMON DREADS is bigger and more realized. "Antwerpen" is catchy whilst still scraping our knees with pissed-off "La La Las"; "Hectic" moves forward on the legs of Reynolds' much-improved electronics. It's a dance party for the end of the world. And f**k me for typing that, but COMMON DREADS reminds me why loud music succeeds so readily. It's an avenue to let it all go, and COMMON DREADS is an outlet of mammoth proportions."
--Blake Solomon, (5/31/09)

Mojo: "A portentous Star Wars-styled spoken intro about the evils of consumerism segues into big metal riffs on 'Solidarity,' Mike Skinnerish raps on 'Juggernauts,' then drum'n'bass breaks, euphoric rave keyboards, church choirs and anthemic choruses, all sung with a committed vocal ferocity by Roughton Reynolds. The end effect is like an ADD-compiled mixtape about the ills of globalization, and therefore possibly the true sound of the British suburbs, 2009."
--Ben Myers, (7/2009)
This week on FUEL TV's "The Daily Habit," the group--ROU REYNOLDS (lead vocals/electronics), RORY CLEWLOW (guitar/backing vocals), CHRIS BATTEN (bass/vocals) and ROB ROLFE (drums performed the COMMON DREADS lead single "Juggernauts" as well as the genre-bending "Antwerpen.

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Date: September 2009 Contact: Lynn Hayes (602) 790-5829

Arizona's own Willy Northpole goes South?!
DTP Artist takes a "swing" at emerging artist over release of diss-track

Phoenix - Labor day weekend started off with an unusual twist that some would say was a "childish act of retaliation" by DTP (Disturbing Tha Peace) artist Willy Northpole Friday, September 4, 2009 at PHX Nightclub (PHX) in downtown Phoenix.

During Willy Northpole's event at PHX, the artist took a sucker punch at Tajji Sharp, former member of the group "Survivalist" and childhood peer. Why would Willy Northpole, a DTP artist with national following, lash out so violently in a public forum without provocation? With the release of his album, "Tha Connect", Willy took a lyrical shot at his home city of Phoenix without regard for anyone taking offense to his lyrics. Several people did, but Tajji Sharp, an emerging solo artist preparing to debut his upcoming album, "Beast Status", released a track as a response to Willy entitled, "Tha Diss-Connect".

Tajji Sharp's track took immediate flight and gained attention at a rapid pace amongst his peers, as well as nationwide. "Tha Diss-Connect", was most recently played on Sirius radio's popular hip-hop station Shade 45. http://www.youtube.

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As of 2007 we were spending $7290 per person for health care. That is not an average of $7290 for each person lucky enough to have health care coverage, that is the average for everyone in the United States. Take the total amount we spend on health care and divide it by the number of people in the country and you get $7290.
But for all that money we arent even covering everyone.
For reasons that used to make sense most people that have health insurance get it through their employer. Most people that dont have employer-based health insurance are either on Medicare, Medi-caid or have no health insurance. Some self-employed people purchase health care insurance but the cost is prohibitive especially for the working poor.
This is how we pay for health care now:
Employer contributions
Employee contributions
Self-insured premiums
Co-pays
Deductibles
Cash payments for uncovered/excluded treatments/medicines
OTC medicines
Taxes
Employer contributions are a non-taxable benefit your employer may choose to provide to you. Its logical to assume that if they werent paying health care premiums with that money they could add it to your salary since they are spending it on you anyway. This is a point I will come back to in a bit.
Right now some people have good health care insurance, some have bad health care insurance, and some have no insurance at all. People with insurance or lots of money can go see a doctor for minor problems and routine exams. People without health care insurance or piles of cash are limited to urgent and emergency care. For too many people the local emergency room is their primary care physician.
When people go to the emergency room for non-emergency care the chances are they cant afford to pay the bill. If they could afford to pay the bill they would go somewhere cheaper. So not only are premium services being used to treat minor illnesses and injuries, but those services end up being paid by tax dollars or by passing the cost on to the paying customers. (Basically the same thing)
When someone declares bankruptcy on medical bills the medical providers do what all businesses do they raise their prices to compensate. Whatever your doctor charges for his or her services includes a calculation for bad debts. Thats just business.
There aint no free lunch. If we reform health care we still have to pay for it. But were already paying for it. If we took all those same dollars were spending now and applied them to a single payer system we would almost certainly far pay less than were paying now.
I can say this with assurance because every civilized nation with single payer or socialized medicine pays far less per person than we do. I qualified my statement by saying almost certainly because given half a chance our government will let the foxes into the henhouse.
The logical way to pay for single payer health care is through taxes. It would be similar to the current Social Security and Medicare people already pay. But even if we were able to cut our current costs in half that would still mean a cost of $300 per month per person. ($3600 divided by 12)
Poor people wont be able to pay that amount. They cant pay it now, and passing a law requiring them to purchase insurance wont make them able to afford it either. The only people who can pay are the people with money.  That means that people with higher incomes will have to pay more. But they are already paying more. The trick is to figure out where that $7290 is coming from now.
Theoretically we could come up with a tax that would take the money we are paying now from the same people that are already paying it. Ideally it would be a progressive tax on all income. We should eliminate the artificial distinction between and income. (Ever since the Sixteenth Amendment was passed the rich have been trying to get out of paying their fair share.)
If single payer became a reality it would sure be helpful if employers were to pass on all the money they are currently spending for health insurance coverage to their employees as a pay raise. Some would, but many would figure out a reason to keep it for themselves.
When someone starts yapping about the cost of health care reform and claims that Social Security and Medicare are going into the red, point out that we already pay twice as much as the civilized world pays and were getting less than they are for our money. If we do it right well spend less than we are now and get more for it.
And point out that the problem with Social Security and Medicare is one of execution, not design. The Republicans want to bankrupt all the New Deal and Great Society entitlement programs so they can justify repealing them.

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Last day here in Vancity and I am as happy as ever, except for the hives or allergic reaction I got from this bloody cat that co-exsists in this house...bitch! Thanks to Leonard Imagery, Mikey D, Peter Taylor, and Randy Plett for taking the time to do some photo shoots with yours truly. It was a pleasure for me to meet all you incredible human beings. Contiued success to you all.

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This headline  would be perfect for the Kavkaz Center, a pro-Chechen independence news website. They might even have used it at some point.
The point of the headline, however, is still valid. Abkhazia is seemingly very happy under Russian control at this time. As is South Ossetia. Both are apparently glad to have effectively seceded from Georgia.
The question is how much better, or rather, beneficial, will the Russians prove when compared to the Georgians. Russia hasnt taken dissent in the Caucasus lightly before. For almost 200 years, the Russians fought to subdue the Chechens and the Daghestanis. For most of the 90s, the Russian military wrecked havoc in the North Caucasus just to prevent the secession of tiny little states that provided little benefit to the Russian Federation. The only benefit was to send the message to whoever was listening that Russia would not give up an inch of its territory.
Georgia did the same with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In fact, Georgia might even have been more brutal than the Russians because fewer outsiders cared about the human rights violations in an inconsequential little republic in the hind quarters of Europe. The Chechen wars invited thousands of journalists and observers from across the world. Abkhazia and South Ossetia not quite as many.
Abhazia and South Ossetia have both suffered in Georgia just as Chechnya, Daghestan and Ingushetia suffered in Russia. Astonishingly, both of them have now taken refuge with Russia. It just doesnt make any sense.
Both states have shown a very independent streak. With Georgia, they had Russia as a backer. What if the same story repeats itself? Who will now protect them from the Russians? The Iranians.

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The Secretary who Changed the World
The Legend of Woodstock before the Festival.


The legend and the legacy was set before the festival was even envisioned.

It's hard to say exactly where to begin, New York, Somers Point, Montreal, but the Woodstock myth began in the Manhattan office of Albert Grossman, the entertainment manager whose stable of acts included one Bob Dylan, folk singer extradonaire on the rise.

Dylan had come in to the office excited recently, and made Grossman sit down and listen to this - "Once upon a time you dressed so fine, didn't you......?"

They knew "Like A Rolling Stone" was a hit right off the bat, without even having to test it on somebody else's ears.

The Byrds had taken Dylan's folkie "Mr. Tamborine Man" and made it a rock and roll song with drums and electric guitars, and now with "Like A Rolling Stone," Dylan was writing rock roll, and you could sense the direction he was going, and it wasn't to Woodstock.

As the legend goes, Dylan asked Grossman, his manager, about getting a rock and roll band to back him on his next tour, and who would Grossman recommend.

I don't know if they asked her opinion, or if she overheard the question and volunteered her feelings, but being from a small town in Canada, she knew that the Hawks were the best rock roll band she had ever seen.

Rockabilly Ronnie Hawkins had left the band, and they continued on the road under the name of Levon the Hawks, after drummer Levon Helm, from Arkansas, the only American in the Canadian band who had toured with Hawkins for years.

Grossman asked where the Hawks were playing and found out that their manager, Colonel Kutlets, had booked them into a nightclub in Somers Point, New Jersey - Tony Marts.

Without ever having seen or heard of them, and based totally on this unknown secretary's opinion, Dylan got the phone number for Tony Marts and gave them a call.

Levon had never heard of Bob Dylan, and when Dylan asked them to back him at Carnege Hall, Levon asked who else was on the bill.

"Just us," Dylan said, incredulously.

So Levon and the Hawks went up to New York and met with Dylan and Grossman and agreed they would get out of their contract at Tony Marts and back Dylan at Forest Hills, a tennis stadium just outside New York city.

Although Anthony Marotta, aka Tony Mart, didn't like the idea of the "best rock and roll band on the East Coast" breaking their contract and leaving before the Labor Day weekend, he let them off the hook, gave them a cake and fairwell party and wished them luck. He called Colonel Kutlets and asked for a new band to replace the Hawks and Kutlets sent Tony a new band, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, who had a hit, "Devil With the Blue Dress."

But luck the Hawks didn't have.

When Dylan plugged his guitar in at Forest Hills, the old folkies booed him, but he played on.

Levon really didn't like it however, and after a few gigs he left and went back home to Arkansas.

Then Dylan was in a motorcycle accident, and rumors were he died, or was on life support, and then that he was okay but just really banged up and in seclusion while recouperating.

Word eventually filtered out that Dylan was recouperating at Al Grossman's house at Woodstock, New York, an historic artists community with a history that dates back to the turn of the last century.

Joining Dylan at Woodstock were some of the Hawks, who leased a pink duplex in nearby West Saguarties, and jammed in the basement. Around town they became known simply as "the band," and eventually adopted that name. Their first album, "Music From Big Pink," showed the Big Pink house on the cover, and featured a painting by Bob Dylan on the back. A few of the songs were written by Dylan as well.

Then came bootleg recordings, pressed into bootleg LPs with a plane white cover, known as "The Basement Tapes," ostensibly recorded in the basement of Big Pink, and featuring Dylan, not only singing old and new songs, but talking and telling jokes.

The one joke from the original Basement Tapes I remember, that didn't make it to the official release years (decades?) later, is the story of the Checkmate Coffee House of East Orange, New Jersey.

Dylan says he went there once, and paid for his coffee with chess piece, a rook, and got a knight and pawn for change. Or something like that.

But "Music from Big Pink" and "The Basement Tapes" put Woodstock on the map in the back of a lot of people's minds, a year or so before they began to put the festival together.

And after the festival was moved to Bethel, fifty miles from Woodstock, and The Band performed the festival, both the original town of Woodstock and The Band, got left in the festival's wake.

For some reason, and I think Grossman advised The Band not to permit it, but The Band is conspiciously absent from the Woodstock movie and soundtrack, which is not an accident. I don't think they, The Band, at Grossman's advise, permitted them to use them in the Woodstock film, just as The Band's version of "The Weight" is not used in the Easy Rider film or soundtrack, but a cover band's version. And I think that decision was Grossman's.

Around 1986, after seeing the Band and the Band minus Robbie Robertson, and Danko and Manuel together a few times, I helped arrange for the Band to return to Somers Point for a Tony Marts reunion at Egos, the new disco nightclub that was built on the Tony Mart site.

After we booked the Band, but about six weeks before the show, Albert Grossman, Tony Marotta and Richard Manuel all died within a few days of each other.

The show however, went on. And while they were in town, I got to know Rick Danko, Levon and Garth Hudson a little bit on the personal level.

While Rick passed on a few years ago (after playing the Good Old Days Picnic at Kennedy Park), both Levon and Garth returned to Woodstock and live there today.

The Woodstock museum and arts center is not in Woodstock however, but in Bethel, where the festival was held.

There is no doubt however, that rock roll history was made when Bob Dylan joined forces with the Hawks - electrified Forest Hills and the music scene, and then hibernated at Woodstock, establishing the Woodstock legend years before the festival.

And it only happened because Albert Grossman's secretary knew the answer to the question of who was the best rock roll band on the East Coast.

Why that would be the Hawks.

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One of the key things that separates him from all of the other local media is that (a) he's a huge hockey fan and (b) he grew up in Montreal and graduated from McGill University before moving to the U.S. for graduate school and his journalism career. He also spent time living in Chicago and has followed White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf's dealings to an extent.
So, as someone who has lived and worked in the Phoenix area for about 10 years and covered bankruptcy proceedings many times over, he has a good handle on both sides of what's happening here.
The first thing I'll ask you is how long do you think there's been a problem with the Coyotes and how long have you been paying attention to this as as real business issue?
Resnik: When I moved here in 2000, almost from the very first day, we were paying attention to it. That's when you had Richard Burke who wanted to sell and Steve Ellman who apparently wanted to buy, and that for me was Day 1 on the Coyotes, the whole Ellman saga when they used Glendale to get a pretty nice deal on the arena.
I think the original sin here was Steve Ellman. I don't know how the NHL found him as an owner; his struggles to get financing were enormous, enormous, and even today if you talk to investment bankers, they still wonder how he did it and all kinds of questions about that. So this has been a struggle from Day 1 with this team. Pre-Jerry Moyes. This goes back almost 10 years, and I've been following it that long, and not just the team but the associated development (Westgate City Center) around the arena.
The arena is connected to Westgate, which is a struggling entertainment/retail complex next door. Westgate was the only reason that Steve Ellman wanted this team. He was using the arena to get the land there, as a way to pay for Westgate, essentially.
What a lot of people forget is that Steve Ellman put this team up for sale almost as soon as he moved into the arena.
Can you talk just a little bit more about Westgate what is it exactly?
Resnik: All the land out there is former farmland, and it's really remarkable what they've build out there, a world-class football stadium, the arena, Westgate, shopping, retail. Westgate is an outdoor complex, mainly restaurants and bars, entertainment, because you always want entertainment near sports venues. There's a big movie theatre there, modest retail. They thought it was going to be a big retail centre but the problem is, when there are no games or concerts going on, there's nobody there. There's just nobody there. When there are some games going on, it's packed, and you really can't survive that way as a business. Several have failed. It's struggling, it's really struggling.
They also built a pretty nice hotel right next to there... Glendale again subsidized that. Out of desert farmland, you have what is a pretty spectacular location. It's spectacular to the eye, but if you looked at the books, you wouldn't be that impressed.

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Israels outspoken foreign minister has said he will resign if formally charged over corruption allegations that emerged over the weekend. Our Jerusalem correspondent, Rory McCarthy, charts the meteoric rise of an immigrant baggage handler who has become the countrys most controversial far-right politician
Three decades ago he worked at the airport carrying luggage, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union who had landed in a new country, speaking a new language, even changing his name. Since then, Avigdor Lieberman has carved hims elf out a political career built on uncompromising, far-right positions, culminating in his propulsion into power at the heart of the political establishment as Israels foreign minister. That position is now jeopardised by allegations of corruption.
In typically blunt terms Lieberman has called for the trial and execution of Arab fellow MPs. He has warned that Israel faces a threat from within its own borders far greater than any outside and he has dismissed calls for a Palestinian state and the right of return of refugees as no more than a cover for radical Islams attempt to destroy the State of Israel.
His promise of strong leadership and new curbs on Israels Arab citizens has won him huge popularity at home. His admirers say Lieberman offers straight talk and strong leadership in a country where people are disillusioned with the vagaries of politicians. But his critics warn that his stunning rise is symptomatic of a disturbing movement to sil ence those who challenge Israels identity. There are also increasingly serious questions about his integrity. Yesterday police detectives recommended he should be charged with bribery and fraud after a major corruption investigation dating back several years.
Behind the populism, Lieberman, 50, has been a genuine and unexpected political success. He managed to craft an important political party out of the large Russian-speaking Jewish community, which grew rapidly in Israel after the waves of migration in the early 1990s. He read the mood of a growing rightwing element and offered an agenda, often with an anti-establishment character, that appealed not just to the Russians but to others disenchanted by the traditional politics of the right.
In large part this agenda is shaped by its anti-Arab message, insistent on maintaining Israels Jewish character while a fifth of its population are Arab Muslims and Christians. But it is also secular, with its challenge to t he influence of rabbis on personal life, strongly supportive of the idea that all citizens should complete military service and in favour of a more presidential style of government. His message resonates particularly well with young Israelis, even children who are not yet voting.
Liebermans reference often seems to be that of modern Russian politics. This model is not very democratic, said Yitzhak Brudny, professor of political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He doesnt like balancing government with checks and balances. He wants a kind of imperial president, an executive authority. This is why he is dangerous.
Lieberman, originally Evet, was born in Kishinev, in what is today Moldova. He emigrated and took Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return in 1978. He served in the Israeli military and studied at the Hebrew University, where he became active in student politics, aligning himself with the rightwing Likud party and working alongside f ellow students who went on to become prominent political figures. While others gave speeches and led rallies, Lieberman was a bouncer at a student nightclub.
It was quite violent at that time. The rise of the Likud on the campus was coinciding with the rise of an extreme Arab nationalist movement, said Brudny, who was then a student at the university. Lieberman was always in the shadows but it helped him start.
He went on to a job organising for Likud, working his way up behind the scenes. Eventually the party leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, made him director general of the party and then, when Netanyahu was elected prime minister in 1996, head of his office.
By then Lieberman, a cigar smoker, keen tennis player and supporter of the Beitar Jerusalem football club, lived in Nokdim, a small Jewish settlement on a hilltop deep in the West Bank, beyond the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. Eventually perhaps feeling constricted by the party hierarchy, or outnu mbered by big political egos he left Likud and struck out on his own, forming the party Yisrael Beiteinu, Israel Our Home.
In its first election, in 1999, the party won only four Knesset seats. A decade later it had stretched out beyond its original constituency of immigrant Russians to win 15 seats in last Februarys elections. It became the third largest in the Knesset, displacing the Labour party, which dominated politics for the first three decades of Israels history.
Lieberman found himself a kingmaker. But in typical form he headed off for a weeks celebratory holiday in Minsk, leaving the political establishment at home fuming. In the end Netanyahu, prime minister for a second time, brought Yisrael Beiteinu into his coalition and gave his old friend the job of foreign minister.
From the start, Lieberman pulled no punches. He disavowed the most recent round of US-led peace talks, known as the Annapolis process, and told a roomful of diplomats: T hose who want peace should prepare for war and be strong. Last month he stood next to the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in Washington, heard her repeat her administrations call for a stop to settlements and replied curtly: We cannot accept.
Privately, some western leaders have spoken of their frustration. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, reportedly told Netanyahu: You must get rid of that man.
Behind Liebermans rise was a hugely popular campaign slogan: Without loyalty, there is no citizenship. He promised a new bill which would require all citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state or lose their citizenship. It was clearly aimed at enforcing the loyalty of Israels Arab citizens.
But when the bill went to a ministerial committee it was soundly defeated, even by traditionalist rightwing MPs. Then Yisrael Beiteinu introduced another bill which proposed a ban on anyone commemorating Naqba Day, on which Palestinians mark the that the 1948 war represents for them, but which for Israel is celebrated as the victorious Independence Day, the creation of the state of Israel. Again it seemed designed to stifle political expression among Israels Arab minority.
This bill was the brainchild of Alex Miller, 32, an MP from the party who shares a strikingly similar background to Lieberman: he left Moscow with his parents in 1992 and arrived in Israel aged 15. He too struggled with his new surroundings, learning Hebrew and serving in the military, where he was posted as a guard at the settlement of Nokdim and through which he came to know Lieberman himself. He describes him as one of the most brilliant people I have met and attributes the partys popularity to his strong leadership. We are a party that speaks clearly, that projects leadership, that never zigzags from its original agenda, Miller said.
He says the point of his bill was to stop radical Islam using the Naqba demons trations to promote hatred among the people. I dont think there is a single state in the world that on the day of independence celebrations can put up with thousands of people going to the streets to demonstrate and to deny the existence of the state, Miller said.
Yet this bill too has proved controversial. It is still under review and seems likely to be toned down before it is put to the Knesset for approval. But the thinking behind it captures the partys position on Israels Arab citizens, a position that appears to be steadily growing in popularity. This view argues that Israel must above all remain both democratic and with a firm Jewish demographic majority, and that citizenship brings with it both rights and responsibilities.
It is difficult to overestimate how much this concerns Arab leaders in Israel. Although their community has full citizenship, including the right to vote and stand in elections, for years they have faced routine discrimination. A few corridors away from Millers office on the ground floor of the Knesset sits Jamal Zahalka, an Arab MP and head of the Balad party, which argues that Israel should not be a Jewish and democratic state but, in their words, a democratic state of all its citizens.
Zahalka bitterly opposes any attempt to stamp out commemoration of the Palestinian Naqba. If you dont save the victims of the past, you cannot save the future of the coming generations.
Zahalka was also a student activist at the Hebrew University at the same time as Lieberman. The latter sometimes, and with a heavy note of irony, refers to Zahalka as his . He was one of those people who was inciting, shouting, pushing for confrontation, said Zahalka.
He says the right grew in strength after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. There followed the failure of the Camp David talks in 2000 and the subsequent second intifada, then the war in Lebanon in 2006 and in Gaza earlier this y ear. Lieberman didnt suddenly appear like Minerva from the head of Jupiter, Zahalka said. He rode the wave and hes not alone.
Hassan Jabareen, who heads Adalah, an Arab human rights organisation in Haifa, agrees that Lieberman read the political situation well. He didnt establish racism in Israel ... This product wasnt shaped by him. He just got the fruit of the others, he said. Jabareen argues that the Israeli state is tumbling into a crisis, brought on by a lurch to the right.
They try to suppress our identity. But the state wont be more Jewish if we stop commemorating the Naqba. The state wont be more Jewish if we stop criticising Zionism, he said. When segregation becomes ideology, ideology has only one place to be translated the law. Here in Israel segregation is becoming ideology. The Jews want to live alone without Arabs.
Lieberman is not a traditional Greater Israel rightwinger. He is more often pragmatic than ideological and a lthough he wants to hold on to as many Jewish settlements in the West Bank as possible, he does seem to accept an eventual two-state solution to the conflict. He favours giving up land in Israel south of Galilee, which is home to a large Arab population, in return for holding on to major settlements an idea that still has not gained currency and which is bitterly opposed by Israels Arabs, who would lose their citizenship purely on the basis of their race. He is not religious either, advocating civil marriage, which has long been opposed by his religious coalition partners.
Yet his political rise comes with a backdrop that is ever familiar in Israeli politics allegations of corruption. The biggest challenge in Liebermans immediate future is not shaping policy but surviving a high-profile police investigation that has resulted in the recommendation he be charged for bribery, fraud, breach of trust, money laundering and obstruction of justice in a complex inquir y dating back nine years. If he is charged, he would almost certainly have to resign. If convicted on all counts he could face up to 31 years in jail. Lieberman continues to insist he is innocent of all allegations and says the case is politically motivated, but the case may still derail his new-found political success.

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Gesshel-Green, Seth Benjamin
'Jodie Foster' (qv)'s production company, Egg Pictures, is named after Green's character in _The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)_ (qv), in which she also starred., Has an older sister, 'Kaela Green' (qv)., He had a part filmed for _Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)_ (qv); the part was left on the cutting room floor, but a still from the scene appeared on the read or the commercial release videocassette box. Seth eventually got to be in Buffy, though, on the TV series., At 13-years-old he played 'Alyson Hannigan' (qv)'s boyfriend 'Fred' in _My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)_ (qv). Ten years later, at the age of 23, he played her boyfriend again when he landed the role of 'Oz' on the TV show _"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)_ (qv)., Seth is thanked in the sleeve notes of 'Blink 182' (qv)'s "Enema of the State". Blink also thanks _Idle Hands (1999)_ (qv) and _Can't Hardly Wait (1998)_ (qv) -- both movies featuring a 'Blink 182' (qv) song and coincidentally both have 'Seth Green' (qv) in them. Seth also had an uncredited role in Enemy of the State (1997)., Shares a birthday with 'Mtley Cre' (qv) singer 'Vince Neil' (qv), his _The Trumpet of the Swan (2001)_ (qv) co-star 'Mary Steenburgen' (qv), 'James Dean (I)' (qv) and 'Ethan Phillips (I)' (qv)., Was once room-mates with crooner 'Brian Evans (I)' (qv) in California. In Macleans Magazine (Canada), Evans called the experience "Unfortunate for Seth", adding that "I wasn't stable enough to live alone, never mind have a roommate.", Named #7 of the Top Ten Sexiest Men of the Buffy / Angel universe in a fan poll by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanzine (2004)., Not many people know that he was responsible for one of the most overused catchphrases of the 1990s. In 1992 he appeared in a commercial for Rally's Burgers as an obnoxious drive-thru cashier who kept repeating the line "Cha-CHING!!" over and over again and the line entered the popular culture., Based the gravelly voice of Chris Griffin in _"Family Guy" (1999)_ (qv) on the Buffalo Bill character from _The Silence of the Lambs (1991)_ (qv)., He played Lyle in _The Italian Job (2003)_ (qv). His _Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)_ (qv) co-star 'Michael Caine (I)' (qv) appeared in the original _The Italian Job (1969)_ (qv)., Has made his entrance in two separate films to two separate 'Clay Aiken' (qv) songs. They are "Invisible" in _Without a Paddle (2004)_ (qv) and "The Way" in _Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)_ (qv)., Was among the guests at 'Jessica Simpson (I)' (qv)'s 25th birthday party., Revealed in a 2005 "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" interview that he had auditioned for the _American Beauty (1999)_ (qv) role that eventually went to 'Wes Bentley' (qv), and he was the runner-up for the _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)_ (qv) role that went to 'Elijah Wood' (qv)., Seth is not related to 'Bruce Seth Green' (qv), who directed some episodes of _"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)_ (qv). On occasion, some sources confuse the two and have credited Seth as the director., In the movie _Mallrats (1995)_ (qv), the studio had prepared to replace 'Jason Mewes' (qv) with Seth Green to play the character of "Jay". Director 'Kevin Smith (I)' (qv) insisted that Mewes reprise his part from _Clerks. (1994)_ (qv) so the studio had Green on stand-by and ready to fly to the mall where they were filming while they viewed Mewes' first scene. In the end, all parties agreed to Mewes keeping the part., 1998: Named on Entertainment Weekly's "It List" of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment., In his free time enjoys playing pool and seeing as many films as possible., Graduated high school with honors., He is an avid fan of the NFL team New Orlean Saints., Besides 'Joss Whedon' (qv) and 'Fran Rubel Kuzui' (qv), he is the only other person to have been involved in _Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)_ (qv), _"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)_ (qv) and _"Angel" (1999)_ (qv)., Attended the same middle school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as pop artist 'Eve (II)' (qv)., Has been long time friends with actress 'Sarah Michelle Gellar' (qv), and has collaborated with her quite a few times. They can be found together in _Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)_ (qv), _"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)_ (qv) and _"Robot Chicken" (2005)_ (qv).

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The sun sparkled on the flowing water and apple blossoms fluttered through the air as young Frodo Baggins cast his line into the water yet again. He had promised his Uncle Bilbo freshly caught trout for their second supper that evening, and he was not about to make himself a liar. He knew that Uncle Bilbo had not made any other plans for second supper because he was counting on the river trout. Should the young hobbit fail to come through, they would both go hungry that evening.
Feeling a tug on his line, Frodo grabbed his fishing rod and gave it a quick tug, hoping to set the hook firmly in the mouth of the nibbling fish. He pulled once and felt some resistance. Definitely a good sign. He pulled a second time and saw a large rainbow-bellied trout leap out of the water, his hook and line firmly embedded in its mouth.
Frodo yelped with boyish excitement and held on to his pole tightly, his fingers clenching as hard as he could, his eyes opened wide. Even though the suns reflection was sending painful reflections into his eyes, Frodo refused to look away or even to blink. He just knew that, should he look away for even a moment, the fish would escape, and he just couldnt let that happen.
He watched as the line began to move erratically through the water. Though it was difficult to get a clear view of the trout in the quickly muddying river, his sharp young eyes were locked on to the large fish and refused to be distracted. Water splished and splashed onto his feet, the fine hair on their tops going limp with the weight of the water.
Hauling with all of the strength in his small arms, Frodo slowly but inexorably dragged the struggling trout onto the bank. Once the fish was securely on land and was in no danger of leaping back into the water, Frodo collapsed onto his knees and admired his catch. The trout was beautiful. Its body was covered in shiny silver scales that sparkled on land like sequins; its belly was colored with splotches of colors like a rainbow, blue, red, and yellow dominating the scaly palette. In total, counting its head and tail, the trout would have to measure five feet.
Frodo punched the air in triumph and laughed, his head thrown back to look up at the sky. If only his dad could have been there to have seen that! An avid fisherman before his death, Frodos father would have been amazed and proud of his sons angling abilities. He had often spoken of taking his son fishing once he was old enough to hold a rod. Unfortunately, both of the boys parents had died in a boating accident before that could happen. But still, he was happy with his Uncle Bilbo and thats all that mattered now.
Cleaning the fish quickly at the rivers edge, Frodo swung the two trout fillets over his shoulder and began the walk back to Bag End, his uncles and his residence. As he neared the edge of The Shire, though, he walked past old Mr. McGrubbers house. He saw the elderly hobbit sitting outside and watching the other hobbits go about their business. Frodo knew that Mr. McGrubber lived alone and rarely had visitors. Stepping up to the old hobbits gate, Frodo greeted him and regaled him with the tale of his recent victory over the trout. Mr. McGrubber laughed and congratulated him. He told Frodo about his own fishing exploits and said that he hadnt tasted trout in many years since he was unable to make the walk to the river anymore.

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Love it, Hate it ones gotta make do with it! If you are the sort, who gets bemused by the various types of Governments and Systems that are in power today, heres a simple way to help you out!
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone elses cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone elses cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. You try to sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
actual source: unknown, courtesy: www.sjgames.

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Step by step (bonus beat)
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Lesotho
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Between distress and relief
Cherry-where there is smoke there is fire
Ticket (interlude)
The bright side
Orion
Intro
Footprints
Tea for the tillerman
Since i met you
Mad live (prod. by drawzilla)
A good bra
Perfums esthers
Angel
Saturday night special (part i plus (part ii))
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Do you featuring dez
Estupidos intrepidos
Take my love with you
Juliette
Anna is a stool pigeon
Sixteen
Its london calling (live in de kuip)
Your dress
Nostalgia
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Crazy paris (klaas remix)
Cock back
The talk (featuring double s) (prod. by double a)
Mammaire
Home (featuring joe scudda)
Im on
Its ok
Wheelz spin
Razr
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Slave to space (xandex mix)
Mr dry (jakob hilden m right remix)
Intro
The rain
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Le soleil se couche
Homie lover friend
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Lhistoire se repete
The very thing that makes you rich (makes me poor)
Major alternations
After youve gone
Homozygote
Go ahead on (with that funky broadway sound)
Cobweb
All together now (maxpop radio)
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Innovative solutions in media
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Infection
La lutte libere
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Sola
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Genocide
Intro to sisters of avalon
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Flummi
Losing you
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Girls just want to have fun
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Silent night
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Casa del grillo
Where i can turn to
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You know i dont
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The hard way
Till the feelings gone
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Lovers
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Vift an bort
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Two to make it right (remix)
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Mieux les hommes vivent
Tender affender
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Sleep with me
Too late to turn back now
Ive seen (raw)
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Midnight (maxime dangles remix)
Jam
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Nube viajera
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Piss in 50s mouth
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Falludjah car
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No peace no love no unity
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3rd cycle
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Manorisms
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Feel like spittin
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Living up to you
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Toute premiere fois
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King of my castle (mischa daniels long full vocal edit)
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Airmail special
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Clear my mind
High roller
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So she dances (live)
I got mine
Arab money (promo only clean edit)
Prison bound
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Sometimes
Saiji. konin gi
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Holy sorry for the long time without an update! We've been busy since we landed on Crete and this hotel doesn't have internet access in the room can you belive it?!! Ah well, more reading.

First of all it's been fantastic here and we've done so much that we're going to do back order updates since we can't cram all of it in just one update!

The beginning of our trip was interesting. First off, apparently I'm nerotic when it comes to reaching our destination on time and in one piece! The things you find out about yourself when you're travelling. I was stressed out because we arrived at night and we had a long bus to take from Iraklio to Hersonissos and he didn't have a clue where in Hersonissos this hotel we were staying at was, we were counting on a Taxi once we reached it.

So lets start with the bus! The kid loading our luggage was trying to get us to put our backpacks on the bus as well as the suitcases we had, which was a first time ever on this trip that we were being not only asked but demanded to put these below. First of all we had all our memory cards and cameras and exsessories in there for them so I'm thinking over my cold dead body are these leaving my sight. So Bonnie and I refused to leave them and he said that the "Busdriver demands it!!" So when he left we asked the busdriver and he said "Ok take them on the bus." So we did. But that wasn't the last we heard from the kid, he was the ticket ripper also on the bus (the guy who hands out and sells tickets once you're on there and rips them if you already have one) anyhow, so he comes down the aisle to rip our tickets and sees we still have our bags! This did not make ticketripper happy so he's all like "What is that!?" We said the busdriver said it was ok so he runs down the aisle back to the busdriver and says something and the busdriver says something to him and he's doesn't talk much to us after that.

When we arrived in Hersonissos we were like "Oh god, where in the hell are we?!" There were drunk 20 something guys and gals staggering all over the place and the street was hopping with music and cars and busses and people of all sorts. Luckily we found out from the cabby that we were staying just up the hill from the town which is much more quiet and quaint.

So our hotel here is awesome and big and we make our own breakfasts and coffee, but the coffee I'm finding in greece isn't so good as in Italy so when I get home I'm having the biggest cup of joe that a barista will make me!

So anyhow, we made it here safe everything is fine and we'll update again with what we did next as soon as we can.

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Death has a way of putting the kibosh on immortal longings, but as Michael Jacksons recent passing makes clear, legends ultimately belong to their fans. And My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, which opened Saturday at the Laguna Playhouse, is a groupies dream.

Conceived by Todd Olson and the shows director and choreographer, David Grapes, this revue, performed by a cast of two men and two women, pays homage to Americas all-time coolest crooner by trotting out a few dozen of the more than 1,300 songs Ol' Blue Eyes recorded in his unbelievably prolific career.

Conceding that Sinatra's mighty trumpet of a voice and gift for naturally taking ownership of lyrics are inimitable, the singers shy away from impersonation. Of the four performers, John Fredo (Man No. 1) is the most similar, but even he can only vaguely approximate the seemingly effortless magic of the Chairman of the Boards belting a tune with the alacrity of a saloon dweller throwing back a scotch.

So instead of imitation, we get two hours of genial flattery. Sinatra die-hards, easily singled out by their undulating shoulders, lapped it up like yummy tapioca pudding. For the rest of us, there was an extensive (maybe too extensive) offering of old standards to enjoy.

True, the production, marked by crisscrossing couples and church-social amiability, occasionally invoked the strolling banality of The Lawrence Welk Show." But who could complain about a treasure-trove of hits that includes such Sinatra signatures as ve Got the World on a String, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) and Fly Me to the Moon"?

Fittingly, the set, designed by Bruce Goodrich, situates us in a nightclub, with a bar on the left, a jazzy trio on a raised platform in the middle and an intimate booth on the right for a little cozy serenading. Biographical details (concerning Sinatras origins, storied romances and all-important likes and dislikes) are sprinkled throughout, but the overarching narrative is about saluting an icon.

"My Way" seems pitched, reasonably enough, to a graying demographic. After the group performs Strangers in the Night, Casey Erin Clark (Woman No. 1) observes, I bet everyone in this audience has a memory associated with that song. Hard to imagine those words being spoken at a Black Eyed Peas concert, but if theres anything to the notion that half the U.S. population over 40 was conceived while their parents were listening to the music of Frank Sinatra, the younger generation may owe Sinatra more than it realizes.

The quartet harmonizes pleasantly. Clark has a seductive high range and a sophisticated air that contrasts nicely with Fredos guyish charmer. His snappy deep voice and tap dancing panache are the liveliest elements of the show; her torch-song sound is the most haunting.

Karen Jeffreys, as the bubbly ingenue (Woman No. 2), and Jason Watson, as the energetic fellow raring to reap adulthoods rewards (Man No. 2), offer glimpses of Sinatras early years. They seem less seasoned than their counterparts, but they provide endearing, if less distinctive, company.

Theatrically speaking, however, this visit to the Sinatra shrine doesn't amount to much more than a breezy musical survey. In fact, there are moments when it felt as though the show could be unfolding in a hotel lobby bar, albeit one with a first-rate band. (James Leary on bass and Drew Henwall on drums both thrive under pianist and musical director Vince Di Muras passionate conducting.)

Drama isn't part of the equation. Like Jackson recent memorial at the Staples Center, theres a willful innocence to this endeavor that would prefer to deflect dicey realities. Apparently, Sinatra liked dry martinis and leggy broads the way Jackson liked Peter Pan and Ferris wheels. If theres a dark side, it gets glossed over by the extolling script.

As Watson explains, For those of you who followed Sinatras career, you know that there were as many as there are states in the union. There was the husband, the father, the jilted lover, the skinny Dorsey crooner, the gutsy Capital swinger, the lion in winter, the life-liver, the rat-packer, the drinker, the guys guy. The only man in America who could wear a tuxedo the way John Wayne wore chaps.

We should all be so lucky to have our earthly legacies so winningly summed up. But then this is a portrait in music that is meant to be adulatory, a thank-you to the man who, as Clarks father told her, had sung the soundtrack to his life.

A hat-tipping finale of My Way along with (what else?) a reprise of the theme from New York, New York reseals the myth of an undeniable master.

-- Charles McNulty

"My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra," Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach. 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. (Call for exceptions.) Ends: Aug. 23. $40-$70. (949) 497-2787.

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