Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Live at the Aladdin Type Live album Artist Floater band Floater Cover Floaterlive.jpg Released 2001 Recorded December 31st 2000 January 1st, 2001 Genre Rock music Length 68 55 Label Producer Elemental Records Reviews Chronology Live album Last album The Great Release br 2000 This album Live at the Aladdin Next album Floater Lives br 2002 Live at the Aladdin is a live album by Floater band Floater . The first three tracks were played with acoustic instruments, while the remaining tracks were played electric. Track listing Persecutor Pet Colorblind The Knowing Dirge American Theatric Medicine Woman Exiled Equinox The Feast The Beast Clean Plastic Baby Tell The Captain References Allmusic class album id r616136 pure url yes AMG http www.last.fm music Floater Live At The Aladdin Floater Live at the Aladdin Floater DEFAULTSORT Live At The Aladdin Category Floater albums Category 2001 live albums 2000s rock album stub ... more details
Bode Sowande born May 1948 is a Nigerian writer and dramatist , known for the theatric aesthetic of his plays about humanism and social change. He comes from a breed of writers in Nigeria that favors a post traditional social and political landscape where the individual is the creator and maker of his own history not just the subject of norms and tradition. Sowande is a member of the so called second generation of Nigerian playwrights , who favor a much more political tone in their writing and seek to promote an alliance or acquiescence to a change in the status quo and fate of the common man and farmers who constitute the majority of the Nigerian society. ref Osita Okagbue, African Writers Vol. 2 1997 ref Some members of this groups includes Zulu Sofola , Femi Osofisan and Festus Iyayi . Works The Night Before Babylon, 1972 A Farewell to Babylon and Other Plays, 1978 Flamingo and other plays, 1980 http tarotwithprayers.com TarotWithPrayers Notes reflist References Osita Okagbue, African Writers Vol. 2 1997 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Sowande, Bode ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1948 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Sowande, Bode Category Nigerian writers Category 1948 births Category Living people yo Bode Sowande ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Floater Lives Type Live album Artist Floater band Floater Cover FloaterLivesDoubleDisc.jpg Released 2004 Recorded 1998 1999, December 31st 2000 January 1st, 2001 Genre Rock music Length Label Elemental Records Producer Reviews Chronology Live album Last album Live at the Aladdin br 2001 This album Floater Lives Next album Acoustic Live at the WOW br 2008 Floater Lives is a double disc live album by Floater band Floater . It is a reissue of both The Great Release and Live at the Aladdin . Both discs featured new tracks . The bonus track from disc 2 was not played at the Aladdin Theater, despite its inclusion on the disc. Track listing Disc One The Great Release The Sad Ballad of Danny Boy Persecutor Aah Settling Out of Sheer Loneliness Endless I Persecutor Centerfold The Beast All the Stories But One Thin Skin Dead Disc Two Live at the Aladdin Persecutor Pet Colorblind The Knowing Dirge American Theatric Medicine Woman Exiled Equinox The Feast The Beast Clean Plastic Baby Tell the Captain Cold w Jen Folker of Dahlia References http www.last.fm music Floater Floater Lives Double Disc Floater Floater Lives Floater Category Floater albums Category Double live albums Category 2001 live albums 2000s rock album stub ... more details
Notability date April 2010 Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Angels in the Flesh... Radio Edits Type studio Longtype radio edit Artist Floater band Floater Cover Angels radio edits.jpg Released 1998 Recorded Genre Rock music Rock Length Label Typhon Records Typhon Compiler Reviews Chronology Radio Edits Last album Danny Boy plus three br 1995 This album Angels in the Flesh... Radio Edits Next album Angels in the Flesh... Radio Edits is a radio edit CD released by Floater in 1998. It was released under Typhon Records Typhon and supposedly only 500 copies were ever made. All tracks appear virtually as they do on the Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone album, except Medicine Woman which has a very minor extension with a couple of added lyrics by Rob Wynia. Track listing Mexican Bus 2 35 American Theatric 3 55 Settling 3 34 Medicine Woman 3 29 Floater DEFAULTSORT Angels In The Flesh... Radio Edits Category Floater albums Category 1998 albums ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone Type Album Artist Floater band Floater Cover Floaterangeldevel.jpg Released April 7, 1998 Recorded Genre Rock music Rock Length 62 38 Label Elemental Records Producer Robert Wynia, Floater Reviews Chronology Studio Last album Glyph Floater album Glyph br 1995 This album Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone br 1998 Next album Burning Sosobra br 2000 Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone is a Floater band Floater album released April 1998. It was a conceptual album that explores a personal saga through the storytelling of singer bass player Robert Wynia. The overarching story has strong messianic overtones. It obliquely describes the birth, life, death, and rebirth of an unnamed person, presumed to be a religious figure of sorts. Angels was re released in late 2001 with new artwork. Track 14 and 8 share a history of originally being one song originally called Oof . First, Our Hero s Resolve was played and at the end where it transitions to the acoustic track known as Zorba it would effortlessly shift into Nothing . Track listing Endless I 2 27 The Watching Song 2 53 American Theatric 6 32 The Feast 4 24 The Beast 1 37 Minister 4 53 Medicine Woman 3 19 Nothing 1 49 Mexican Bus 2 44 The Invitation 5 08 Golden Head 2 30 Settling 3 45 The Last Time 3 43 Our Hero s Resolve 2 37 Mosquito 7 40 The Possum s Funeral 1 52 Endless II 4 45 Image AngelsalternativeFloater.jpg Above The second version of the cover art for Angels in the Flesh and Devils in the Bone released in 2002. References Allmusic class album id r347896 pure url yes AMG Floater Category 1998 albums Category Floater albums 1990s rock album stub ... more details
Wikify date November 2010 File Zalet.jpg right 200px thumb The logo of ZALET Zalet stylised as ZA 73T are a collection of events occurring in Zaje ar as a need to initiate, organize and support cultural events, to affirm artists and to intermediate in transmission of diverse artistic expressions and tendencies. Besides organizing pseudo classical manifestations such as exhibitions, concerts, poetic evenings etc., the accent is put on innovative and progressive artistic expressions performances, comics, low fi videos, video art, conceptual art, as well as union of traditional fine art and conceptual art. Reactions from irritations to euphoria confirmed our belief assurance attitude that there is need for implementation contemporary artistic practice which provides different access to social and cultural values, life styles, new ideas, to uprise artistic taste and to provide specific interactions inside social environment. History First ZALET happened in 2005. ref http zalet.org zalet 2005.html Zalet 2005, Photo Gallery Program ref In the past five years the festival hosted more than 300 artists. ZALET organized 27 exhibitions, 2 theatric performances, 14 murals, 6 poetic evenings, 11 performances. ref http www.popboks.com vest.php?ID 7957 Zalet 2008 Program ref 34 bands played at the festival. There were also 8 projections of short films. ref http vesti.knjazevac.org.rs ?p 2805 Zalet 2009 ref References reflist External links http www.zalet.org Official page of ZALET http nihil.mojblog.rs p mikrob zalet festival 06 138582.html Sa a Markovi Mikrob about ZALET Fest 06 DEFAULTSORT Zalet Category Recurring events established in 2005 Category Music festivals in Serbia sr Zalet ... more details
Nihongo Shochiku Company, Limited Sh chiku Kabushiki Kaisha Kabushiki Gaisha tyo 9601 is a Japan ese movie studio and production company for kabuki . It also produces and distributes anime films. Its best remembered directors include Yasujir Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi , Mikio Naruse , Keisuke Kinoshita and Yoji Yamada Y ji Yamada . Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and loner directors such as Takashi Miike , Takeshi Kitano , Akira Kurosawa and Taiwan ese Cinema of Taiwan New Wave director Hou Hsiao Hsien . Image Shochiku headquarters .jpg thumb 200px The headquarters of Shochiku, in Tsukiji , Chuo, Tokyo Image Shochiku.jpg 200px thumb Shochiku The company was founded in 1895 by brothers Takejir Otani and Matsujir Shirai as a kabuki production company, and named in 1902 after the combined characters of take bamboo and matsu pine from their names, reflecting the traditional three symbols of happiness, bamboo, pine, and plum. The name was initially read as the kunyomi matsutake , but changed in 1937 to the onyomi sh chiku . Citation needed date July 2010 Shochiku grew quickly, expanding its business to many other Japanese live theatric styles, like Noh and Bunraku . The company began making films in 1920 and was the first film studio to abandon the use of female impersonators and sought to model itself and its films after Hollywood standards, bringing such things as the Star system film star system and the sound stage to Japan. By the early 1930s, Shochiku had begun to specialise in the Shomingeki shomin geki genre ref name Jacoby Alexander Jacoby, A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors , 2008, Berkeley Stone Bridge Press, p.381. ref in which Ozu and Naruse worked. In 1936, Shochiku closed its studio in Kamata, ta, Tokyo Kamata , Tokyo and relocated to nearby funa Station Ofuna this studio remaining in operation for 64 years. At the beginning of the 1960s, the studio was involved in the Japanese New Wave Nuberu bagu and laun ... more details
Image Villa Durazzo Pallavicini the lake.JPG thumb right 300px Villa Durazzo Pallavicini The Villa Durazzo Pallavicini is a villa with notable 19th century park in the English romantic style and a small botanical garden . The villa now houses the Museo di Archeologia Ligure, and is located at Via Pallavicini, 13, immediately next to the railway station in Pegli , a suburb of Genoa , Italy . The park and botanical garden are open daily. The estate was begun in the late 17th century by Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi , who established the Giardino botanico Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi at that time. Today s remarkable park was created by her nephew Ignazio Alessandro Pallavicini after he inherited the property. The park was designed by Michele Canzio , set designer for the Teatro Carlo Felice , and built between 1840 and 1846. It covers some 97,000 m of hillside behind the villa. Although recognizably in the English romantic style, the garden is highly theatric, to the point of being organized as a series of scenes forming a play with prologue and three acts Return to Nature, Memory, Purification . Structures and statues through the garden form focal points to this libretto. When the park opened in September 1846, on the occasion of the VIII Congresso degli Scienziati Italiani, it quickly gained national fame. In 1928 its current owner, Matilde Gustinani, donated both park and botanical garden to Genoa for use as a public park. Through the remainder of the 20th century, the garden fell into some disrepair, and indeed was threatened in 1972 by construction of a nearby highway. Its restoration began in 1991, however, in honor of Columbus discovery of America. As of 2006 about half of the park is open for visitors. The park contains two ponds, a dozen notable structures, various statues, and an extensive grotto . The grotto represents a Dante sque Inferno, with walkways and subterranean lake through which the visitor may ascend to Paradise. In former years, visitors could explore the ... more details
orphan date September 2009 While made famous by his many plays, the German playwright Bertolt Brecht 1898 1956 also wrote hundreds of poems throughout his life. Brecht began writing poetry as a young boy, and his first poems were published in 1914. Brecht s most influential poetry is featured in his Manual of Piety Devotions , establishing him as a great poet. His poetry was influenced by folk ballads, French chansons , and the poetry of Rimbaud and Villon . Throughout his theatric production, poems are incorporated into the plays with music. In 1951, Brecht issued a recantation of his apparent suppression of poetry in his plays with a note titled On Poetry and Virtuosity . He writes blockquote We shall not need to speak of a play s poetry... something that seemed relatively unimportant in the immediate past. It seemed not only unimportant, but misleading, and the reason was not that the poetic element had been sufficiently developed and observed, but that reality had been tampered with in its name...we had to speak of a truth as distinct from poetry...we have given up examining works of art from their poetic or artistic aspect, and got satisfaction from theatrical works that have no sort of poetic appeal...Such works and performances may have some effect, but it can hardly be a profound one, not even politically. For it is a peculiarity of the theatrical medium that it communicates awarenesses and impulses in the form of pleasure the depth of the pleasure and the impulse will correspond to the depth of the pleasure. blockquote Several of Brecht s poems were set by his collaborator Hanns Eisler in his Deutsche Sinfonie , begun in 1935 but not premiered until 1959, three years after Brecht s death. Themes Brecht used his poetry to criticize European culture, including Nazis , and the German bourgeois. Brecht s poetry is marked by the effects of the First and Second World War s. Many of the poems take a Marxist outlook, celebrating the defeat of a capitalist system. A ... more details
reimprove date October 2011 Alizeh Imtiaz born 10 November 1986 in Karachi , Pakistan is the first Pakistani people Pakistani to have successfully had her debut short film Shades of Black screened at the London Filmmakers Convention 2007. Her short film also won the award for Best Film at the London Filmmakers Convention which screened 80 films from all around the world. Her short film will once again be screened at the London Portobello Film Festival in August 2008. She is one of the youngest directors in Pakistan, and one of the very few to have gained international acclaim. She has completed her BA in English and Film and TV Studies from Brunel University , London , and is also currently serving as a trustee on the board of DSRA Schools for the underprivileged. Her short film was an experimental piece which focused on the journey of a prisoner released from Karachi Central Jail . Her style is very dependent on detail to music and photography. Her d but short film Shades of Black gained much attention after Alizeh appeared on one of Pakistan s most famous comedy talk show called Azfar Mani show . The short film was produced by Media Tech Films Pvt Ltd, for http www.aag.tv AAG TV Channel. Her previous experience in direction include a high profile celebrity based TV show called FLASH for Hum TV HUM TV channel in Pakistan which she directed before returning to complete her degree. Before her venture into direction, Alizeh Imtiaz had also been active in several theatre productions in Karachi from acting to direction. Alizeh has attended several workshops to aid her acting talent, from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , London. In addition, Alizeh has been trained in acting by Rahat Kazmi , a famous Pakistani actor, director, teacher and theatric. In 2010 Pakistan was deeply affected by the flooding on the Indus River, Alizeh along with a team of people travelled across the Province of Sindh and rehabilitated flood affectees suffering from the devastation. CNN Intern ... more details
Other uses Xu Zhen disambiguation Xu Zhen Multiple issues BLP sources March 2011 notability April 2008 more footnotes March 2009 Xu Zhen is a Shanghai based artist. ref http www.nytimes.com 2009 10 09 arts design 09galleries.html? r 1 Xu Zhen Lonely Miracle Middle East Contemporary Art Exhibition ref Biography Xu Zhen s art making has crossed over various disciplines, from installation, photography, video to performance and painting. Executed with a critical intelligence, low tech subtlety and often in forms of theatric pranks, Xu s work focuses on human sensitivity Rainbow , 1998 In Just a Blink of an Eye , 2005 07 and dramatizes the humdrum of urban living ShanghArt Supermarket , 2007 . His recent pieces have employed more provocative lexicons and social interventions so as to confront sociopolitical issues and taboos within the context of contemporary China 8848 1.86 , 2005 . Over his decade s long career, Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally, at museums and biennales, such as, Venice Biennale 2001, 2005 , The Museum of Modern Art New York, 2004 , ICP 2004 , Mori Art Museum 2005 , MoMA PS1 PS1 2006 , Tate Liverpool 2007 , etc. Xu Zhen s curatorial experiments and engagement with an alternative art space and a website has complements and extends his conceptual practices. Xu Zhen lives and works in Shanghai and is represented by ShanghART gallery in Shanghai and James Cohan Gallery James Cohan gallery New York . Solo exhibitions 2008 Impossible is Nothing , Long March Space, Beijing, China Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong, Martha Colburn , James Cohan Gallery , New York Just Did It , James Cohan Gallery , New York 2007 In Just the Blink of an Eye , James Cohan Gallery with PERFORMA, New York Art 38 Basel, Art Unlimited Xu Zhen 18 Days at B3 , Art Fair Switzerland 2006 8848 1.86 , ShanghART H Space, Shanghai 8848 1.86 , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands An Animal , 2577 Longhua Road, Xuhui district, Shanghai 2002 Careful, Don t Get Dirty , Galerie W ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Subject to Change A Compilation Of Northwest Artists Type Compilation Album Artist Various Artists Cover SubjecttoChange.jpg Released 1997 Genre Compilation Length 60 minutes Label Airforce Records Producer Garry Egan & Karl Anderson Director Bill Clodfelter Compiler Karl Anderson & Bill Clodfelter Reviews Chronology Last album This album Next album Image Airforce records pdxplosion.jpg thumb left 125px PDXplosion Production Guide Subject to Change is a compilation album released in 1997 and the first by Airforce Records . It features artists from the Pacific Northwest interwoven with spoken word prose from Alyssa Burrows. There are 20 tracks available on the CD from 19 different artists. The insert cover art is a 4 panel double inset lined with black and white photographs taken by a Northwest photographer provided by Artists For A Hate Free America. The album was produced by Garry Egan and Karl M Anderson . The Audio engineering Audio engineer for the compilation was done by Matt Messing with additional engineering by Garry Egan for the original compact disc release. Promotion marketing Promotional marketing was handled by Bill Clodfelter . Different tracks of this album were recorded by Garry Egan during the first three quarters of 1996 with final production and mixdown ending in early 1997. Track listing Big Boys and Bruisers Alyssa Burrows 0 34 We Don t Want It Sweaty Nipples 1 39 Not Your Bottle The Dandy Warhols 3 59 Hate On Mine Cool Nutz 4 53 Underwear Carmina Piranha 2 48 Heroin Girl Acoustic Everclear band Everclear 2 54 From The Inside Daylights, The 2 56 Hot Summer 1991 Truly 4 25 Lids, Nails And Screws Eric Matthews 2 13 Sunspot Stop Watch Live Pete Droge 4 37 Get Up & Get Dissed 5 Fingers Of Funk 4 00 I Never Get Any Alyssa Burrows 0 57 Cheap The Jimmies 2 06 American Theatric Floater band Floater 4 47 Babble Pilot Pacific Northwest band Pilot 4 01 Nudie Hike Donut Hole Smile 2 47 Smile Super Deluxe b ... more details
WPMIXInfobox iba name Whynatte Bomb image Classic Whynatte1.jpg caption A shot of J germeister dropped into a Whynatte Latte creates a Whynatte Bomb . type J germeister beer no garnish drinkware pubshot notes footnotes The Whynatte Bomb is a cocktail that is mixed by dropping a shot of J germeister into a glass of Whynatte Latte . ref name explosive Whynatte Bomb Buzzworthy Rolling Stone Magazine, April 2008. ref The terms depth charge and bomb shot refer to cocktails that are made by dropping a shot glass filled with liquor into another drink. Commercial preparation Image WhynatteB1.jpg left thumb 350px The preparation of multiple Whynatte Bombs. A Whynatte Bomb is usually sold with a can of Whynatte Latte 8 oz or a half can of Whynatte Latte 4 oz poured into a pint glass and separately accompanied by J germeister in a shot glass . The glass of J germeister is then dropped into the Whynatte. Alternatively, some drinkers will pour equal amounts of J germeister and Whynatte into an oversized shot glass, or pub glass. J ger trains A J ger train is a culinary theatre theatric method for preparing the drinks when multiple Bombs have been ordered. Glasses of the mixer are lined up, and an empty glass is placed at one end. Shot glasses of J germeister are then balanced on the lips of the glasses. The first shot glass which is on the empty glass end is pushed over it falls into the mixer in the next glass and if the glasses are correctly positioned it will simultaneously knock over the next shot glass. A domino effect will be created, causing each shot glass to fall into a glass of the mixer. The world record for a J ger train is 672, set on June 22, 2008, at the Vegalou Ultra Bar in Omaha , Nebraska , made with the original J gerbomb . Media American Producer Director, Tanya Ryno is currently in producing, a documentary film on the origins of the Whynatte Bomb phenomenon and how it led to the creation of a beverage company. Effects on the drinker The effects of a Whynatte ... more details
orphan date August 2010 File Dolphy.jpg thumb right Dolphy , considered by Filipinos as King of Pinoy Comedy Majority of Filipinos, Comedy in the Philippines are considered as the best cinematography in the Filipino society. Contrast to American and European comedies, Pinoy Comedy is done by series of non profane comedic languages although they use words like tanga , sira ulo etc. they didn t use English profane words or the 7 dirty words face shape, body type, and comedic sound effects to excite people from the movies punches, fighting etc. . Pinoy Comedy started not by the Filipinos but by the Spanish people Spanish colonist in the 16th century until 19th century by a series of theatric plays called Comedia . Comedy scripts in the colonial times are written in Spanish language because the official language of that time is Spanish . Few Illustrados , a Filipino middle class of the colonial period, work at theaters as actors and actresses and become comedians at the theater. They are considered as the first Filipino Comedians. Comedy before Comedia When Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and his men colonized the Philippines, a comedy theatre already exist. Well not necessarily a theatre but a ethnic ritual of dances and jokes. Ethnic Groups in the Philippines such as the Ifugao , Ibaloi etc. created these comedic dances but are being outlawed by the Spanish when they colonized the Philippines to prevent the rise of Revolts or anit Spanish Propaganda. Rakugo and the Philippines Japanese and other Foreign kingdoms or countries went to the Philippines to trade their merchandises. Japanese merchants entertain Filipino buyers by doing comedy. This kind of entertainment is called Rakugo . Japanese Immigrants settled in what is now called the city of Paco, Manila and entertain Filipinos Rakugo and some Japanese teach Filipinos Rakugo until the Spanish replace local entertainment to European style theaters. Local comedy Filipinos during the pre colonial times created their own ritual ... more details
Mockney a portmanteau of wiktionary mock mock and Cockney is an affected accent and form of speech in imitation of Cockney or working class London speech, or a person with such an accent. A stereotypical Mockney comes from an upper middle class background. ref http www.rogalinski.com.pl jezyki obce british accents cockney and mockney British Accents Cockney and Mockney , rogalinski.com.pl. Retrieved 18 December 2011 ref Mockney is distinct from Estuary English by being the deliberate affectation of the working class London Cockney accent. A person speaking with a Mockney accent might adopt Cockney pronunciation but retain standard grammatical forms where the Cockney would use non standard forms e.g. negative concord . Details The first published use of the word according to the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1989. ref http www.oed.com public cockneyc Cockney at oed.com 8 ref It is an affectation sometimes adopted for aesthetic or theatric purposes, other times just to sound cool , generate street cred ibility or give the false impression that the speaker rose from humble beginnings and became prominent through some innate talent rather than the education, contacts and other advantages a privileged background tends to bring. Britpop band Blur band Blur was said to have Blur s mockney, down the dogs blokey charm . ref http www.oed.com Entry 245968 citing Face magazine issue 78, Jan 1995 ref Mick Jagger is often accused of having been the first celebrity in modern times to overplay his regional accent in order to boost his street credibility. ref http www.guardian.co.uk tv and radio tvandradioblog 2010 jun 03 radio mick jagger charlie brooker Radio catchup Jagger s Jukebox, Adam Buxton s breakup tips and the power of Charlie Brooker , guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2010 ref One explanation of dialect adoption given in social linguistics is Prestige dialect prestige . A person is likely to adopt speech patterns including accent, vocabulary, dialect or even langu ... more details
Garfield Kennedy is a documentary and fiction film maker and producer based in Somerset, England. He was elected as a Liberal Democrat District Councillor for the Shepton West Ward of Mendip District Council in a http www.bbc.co.uk news 10486707 by election in July 2010. Kennedy attended school in Ireland and studied Architecture at Edinburgh University where he edited The Student newspaper and founded the long running Festival Times newspaper with now broadcaster Sheena McDonald . Festival Times was the first publication to give dedicated and extensive coverage of the Edinburgh Festival Edinburgh Fringe Fringe , Edinburgh International Festival International Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival Film Festival . He then joined Granada Television in Manchester in 1975 and later formed his own independent production company. div Filmography Kennedy s films include a series of documentaries on Sir Richard Branson and adventurer Per Lindstrand s successful flights across the Atlantic in 1987, then Pacific in 1990, and their series of attempts to fly non stop around the world in a Rozi re balloon in the late 1990s. He shot the film of the world s first circumnavigation of the world by balloon when Swiss psychiatrist, Bertrand Piccard , and English balloon pilot, Brian Jones aeronaut Brian Jones , flew their Breitling Orbiter 3 Rozi re balloon over the Mauritania n coast completing the flight in 19 days, 21 hours, and 55 minutes. This series of films won the Grand Prix at the Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival in Paris and the Audience Award at the same Festival. Deleted image removed File granpa.jpg right 200 px thumb Theatric documentary The Grandparents He produced and directed the Emmy Award winning 9 11 documentary for the BBC and Public Broadcasting Service PBS WGBH TV WGBH Boston, Massachusetts Boston , Why the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers Fell and has completed a series of fiction shorts including the British Academy of Film and Televisi ... more details
Infobox person name Jazzmun image caption deletable image caption Thursday, 1 October 2009 date December 2011 birth date Birth date and age 1969 2 10 birthname Nichcalo Dion Crayton birth place San Diego, California San Diego , California occupation Actor, Drag Performer, years active 1984 present awards spouse Jazzmun is the stage name of Nichcalo Dion Crayton Nic , an United States American actor and nightclub performer specializing in Drag queen female impersonation in the Los Angeles, California Los Angeles area. Background Originally from San Diego, California , Jazzmun made his first national television appearance on the talent variety show Puttin on the Hits in 1984 in which he split his body half in male drag and half in female drag, lip sync hing as a duet . Finding work immediately after that appearance for his theatric and modeling talents, he moved to Los Angeles and secured an agent. Since then Jazzmun has performed all over the world performing as either his stage character Jazzmun , his trademark Whitney Houston which he performed as in the female stage revue La Cage stage revue La Cage , Grace Jones or any number of other characters. In the late 1990s Jazzmun co starred in the stage play Ask Any Girl as the character Mahogany Saint Ross, a name play on words to singer Diana Ross . Latina singer Gloria Estefan hired Jazzmun to perform in the music video of her remake hit Everlasting Love after seeing one of Jazzmun s performances. Later, drag icon RuPaul hired Jazzmun to also perform in his music video A Little Bit of Love which spoofed drag queens as aliens out to conquer the world. Jazzmun then released two of his own dance singles in 1997 on the Aqua Boogie label I m Gonna Let You Have It and That Sound, That Beat . And Later produce another hit 2 Tired 2 B Shady later to be featured in Patrik Ian Polk highly anticipated and accomplish show Noah s Arc . Select film resume Dreamgirls film Dreamgirls 2006 Studio 54 Drag Queen The 40 Year Old Virgin 2 ... more details
Infobox Person name Cybele Andrianou birth date 1887 birth place Smyrna , Ottoman Empire nationality Greek death date 26 May Death year and age 1978 1887 death place Athens known for Actress Children 4 spouse Mistos Myrat 1st , Unknown 2nd , and Georgios Papandreou 3rd Grandchildren 3 Great grandchildren 6 Great great Grandchildren 5 Cybele lang el was the stage name of the famous Greek actress Cybele Andrianou lang el . She was born in 1887 to an unmarried couple in Smyrna and spend the first two years of her life in an Athens orphanage. At the age of two and a half, she was adopted by Anastasis and Maria Andrianou. The family of a famous Athenian lawyer of the time, who had recently lost their only child, helped Cybele s adoptive parents financially. In 1901, at the age of 14, she received her first award for her stage performance. Career Cybele was one of the main actresses of Nea Skini from 1901 to 1906. There, she had the chance to perform the only roles of her life based on ancient Greek tragedy Euripides Alcestis play Alcestis and Sophocles Antigone Sophocles Antigone . She later became known for her performances in plays of Leo Tolstoy , Carlo Goldoni and Henrik Ibsen . In 1908, she worked for the first time with Gregorios Xenopoulos , who wrote her the theatric play The Red Rock , based his short novel written of the same name. The play was of huge success, and was repeated by Cybele s theatrical group for many years to come. Xenopoulos continued to write her at least one play a year, until 1925. Cybele also worked with the father of Dimitris Horn from 1910 to 1934. In 1932, she joined forces with Marika Kotopouli , her stage enemy , in order to compete the newly founded National Theater of Greece. After the Battle of Greece German invasion , she fled along with her husband, George Papandreou senior George Papandreou , and the Greek government and royal family to the Middle East. After the war, she returned in Greec ... more details
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Image NWTBOX V2.jpg 150px right thumbnail Cover of The Best of David Jove s New Wave Theatre, Volume 2 New Wave Theatre was a television program broadcast locally in the Los Angeles area on UHF KSCI channel 18 and eventually on the USA Network as part of the late night variety show Night Flight TV series Night Flight during the early 1980s. The show was created and produced by David Jove , who also wrote the program with Billboard magazine editor Ed Ochs . It was noted for showcasing rising punk music punk and new wave music New Wave acts, including Bad Religion , Fear band Fear , The Dead Kennedys , 45 Grave , and The Circle Jerks . Deleted image removed Image New wave theater 2.jpg 125px left Peter Ivers , a Harvard educated musician with a gregarious personality and a flair for the theatric, was the host for the entire run of the show. The format was extremely loose, owing partly to the desire to maintain the raw energy of the live performances and partly to the limited production budget. The program was presented in a format dubbed live taped , in which the action was shot live and the video was then interspliced with video clips, photos, and graphics of everything from an exploding atomic bomb to a woman wringing a chicken s neck. The show started with a montage of clips from punk new wave acts while the title appeared and the theme song, an abrupt mixture of Fear s Camarillo and The Blasters American Music , played. Ivers would appear at the beginning and end of each show wearing dark glasses, spouting a stream of consciousness spiel about life, art and music. Besides the top billed music acts, short skits were shown, including Sri Maharooni, a chain smoking Indian fakir speaking about the meaning of life, and Chris Genkel played by actor Robert Roll , a pitchman hawking bizarre products for gherkins from his company, Genkel Wax Works, in Adonai , Illinois . Celebrities, including Debra Winger and Beverly D Angelo , were known to show up at NWT s tapings. New ... more details
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