Vincent William Pernicano (1943 – 2016) would joke that his father
had him working the family pizzeria/catering business from the time he could
reach the sink on a wooden box.
Actually, Vince began working for the Sears Corp., becoming
a department manager which led to management positions in Washington, Oregon and
Montana. He opened the Southgate Mall Sears store in 1978 and in doing so he
fulfilled a childhood dream of coming to Montana after writing a story about the
state in elementary school.
Hunting wild game was everything to Vince who also made it
his mission to teach hunters how to properly dress and cook their wild game so
as not to waste any of the meat. To accomplish that mission Vince belonged to
the Outdoor Writers Association of America writing numerous "Cooking With
Vince" cookbooks, and offering cooking seminars and TV wild life cooking classes
KECI-TV. Vince's weekly recipes under the title, "Wildlife Chef
Vince" were carried in several Montana newspapers.
It wasn't until age 26 that Ron Hunt tried his hand at painting, and
it wasn't for fun. He was working for a loan company that was opening a new branch
office. The supervisor gave him $40 and told him to buy art to fill a huge,
blank wall in the new building. It quickly became clear to Hunt that the money
wasn't going to go far.
So, he improvised. He gathered some of his favourite photos
he took while serving in the Army in Hawaii, Japan and Germany and displayed
them on canvas with a projector. He sketched the images as best he could and
began painting. It was then he learned a basic fact about colours — blue and
yellow mixed together makes green. He finished the paintings and hung them on
the loan office walls.
"I wrote myself a check for $40," Hunt recalled.
That first foray into art led to a 57-year passion for
painting and drawing. But the moustachioed artist, known for his trademark
black beret, has had to put away the brushes and paint. Five years ago, Hunt
was diagnosed with macular degeneration — an incurable eye disease that causes
vision loss.
He can no longer see well enough to do the landscapes he so loves
to put on canvas. He has also been diagnosed with prostate cancer and lymphoma,
a cancer that affects the lymphatic system, which is part of the body's immune
system. In addition, he is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
His partner of 34 years, Billie Hunt, decided to open a
temporary art gallery in downtown Lake City to feature the painter's work.
Hendrika Geertruida (Riek) Milikowski-de Raat (1918) is a
Dutch painter who was born in a working-class family in the Amsterdam Jordaan
neighbourhood. She attended a training course in 1936 at the Institute for
Applied Arts in Amsterdam and then at the New Art School, with Jan Havermans
also in Amsterdam. This training, founded in 1933 by artist Paul Citroen, was
strongly anti-fascist and inspired by the Bauhaus in Germany. In the Second
World War she was active in the resistance.
De Raat was married in 1947 to sociologist Herman
Milikowski, who died in 1989. Their son, born in 1947, is the photographer and
graphic artist Efraim Milikowski. Her first marriage was with the resistance
fighter Antoon Winterink, who was executed in Belgium by the Germans after he
was arrested for illegal acts.
Herman Milikowski
In 1953 she became a member of the Leiden painting and
drawing society Ars Aemula Naturae and took classes at the Vrije Academie and
at the Academy for Visual Arts in The Hague, where Paul Citroen was one of the
most important teachers.
Since 2011 she lives in the Rosa Spier House in Laren. where
many notable Dutch artists live out their final years.
Carmelo Kyam Anthony (1984) is an American professional
basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball
Association (NBA). Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School and Oak Hill
Academy before playing college basketball at Syracuse. In Anthony's freshman
season, he led the Orangemen to their first and only National Championship and
was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Since entering the NBA, Anthony has been named an All-Star
ten times and an All-NBA Team member six times.
Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant getting fitted for the Olympics
Anthony has been a member of the USA Olympic basketball team
a record four times, winning a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and
gold medals at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics. He is the United
States Olympic men's national basketball team all-time leading scorer, leader
in rebounds and games played.
Anthony has recently advocated various social justice
causes. He is also being criticized by South Bronx community activists for
aligning himself with Mott Haven developer Keith Rubenstein's efforts to build
luxury apartment buildings in the neighbourhood, which could lead to
gentrification.
From the website of John Yewell: "I was born in the six-room Santa Clara Valley Hospital in
Santa Paula, California. It's now an old folks home, so maybe I'll go out
through the same door I came in".
"I grew up as a simple southern California
surfer boy ten miles down the road in Ventura".
"Who knows when, or where, or why the need to write things
down will first strike. I'd been going to the mountains since I was eight. But
in the summer of 1971, when I was 17, something special happened. My cousin and
I crossed the Sierra east to west over some pretty rugged, mostly trackless,
terrain. It was then I first experienced how vital a sense of place was to me.
When I returned, I started writing stories".
Hundreds of women's police stations have been set up across
India to combat domestic abuse and sexual violence, following the Delhi rape
case in December 2012.
Parmila Dalal is second-in-command at the women's police
station in Sonipat, in the northern state of Haryana. Every day she must deal
with the cases the public bring to her.
Some days she works as a typical police officer,
investigating crimes or managing matters of public order. But much of Parmila's
time is spent mediating in family disputes, in which she acts more as a counsellor
or social worker.
She encounters family members at war over such contentious
matters as caste, dowry payment and relations with abusive in-laws. The Al
Jazeera documentary “India's Ladycops” reveals how women's lives are changing
in India today, and how they often struggle to reconcile the conflicting
demands made upon them.
The Spiders (German: Die
Spinnen) is a German silent serial adventure film written and directed by
Fritz Lang. It was released in two parts in 1919 and 1920. Two more parts were
originally planned but never made. It was believed to be a lost film, but has
been rediscovered and restored.
Part 1. Der goldene See ("The Golden Lake"):
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman, adventurer and
traveller Kay Hoog announces to his club that he has found a message in a
bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The
message tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure.
Hoog starts an expedition to find the treasure, while the crime syndicate
"Die Spinnen" sends out a rival expedition led by the beautiful but
dangerous Lio Sha.
At the Golden Lake, Hoog saves the Inca priestess Naela and
falls in love with her. He takes her home with him after discovering a
mysterious clue about a diamond ship. Back in San Francisco, Lio Sha declares her
love for Hoog but he rejects her in favour of Naela. Lio Sha has Naela murdered
and Kay Hoog swears revenge.
Part 2. Das Brillantenschiff ("The Diamond Ship"):
The search is on for a Buddha-head shaped diamond that has special powers. Carried in the hands of 'a princess' it will bestow the power to rule Asia. In San Francisco, Hoog discovers a hidden city underneath Chinatown but he is found out and taken prisoner. Eventually the hunt brings Kay Hoog to England, where the Spiders kidnap Ellen, daughter of diamond king Terry whom they suspect of owning the stone. When Kay Hoog arrives on the scene, he and Terry discover (with the help of an ancient log book) that Terry's pirate ancestor concealed a map in a painting.
Hoog follows the map to the Falkland Islands to find the diamond, but Fourfinger-John, who has spied on Terry and Hoog, manages to inform the Spiders by carrier pigeon. Lio Sha and her henchmen catch up with Hoog in the cave where the pirate treasure is hidden and take him prisoner. However, poisonous fumes from a volcano enter the cave and all the criminals die. Only Kay Hoog manages to escape with the stone. Back in England, he works with the police and Terry to free Ellen from the clutches of the Spiders' hypnotist master.
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They are Russian musicians, middle-aged and older, who play
for thousands every day. But who knows their names? Who even lifts weary heads
to see them?
The pairing of their instruments, violin and accordion, may
be unusual in Canada, but they go together like flashing eyes and a rose in the
teeth. But who notices?
Not the morning commuters charging between the GO station
and the TTC subway at Union, immune to the waltzes, the polkas and folk songs,
the Bach and the Mozart. Their heads are down, and mentally they are already at
their desks, fretting about spreadsheets and bottom lines.
Andrei Denga, 53, is celebrating 20 years as a subway
musician this year. He started his musical training as a 7-year old in St.
Petersburg. Alexander Popov, 70, is an accordion player who toured the world as
an accompanist for a Ukrainian choir and a ballet company.
Their audience is huge. In a single hour during peak time,
19,400 GO passengers cross the breezeway into Union Station to get on the
subway. The TTC has some 150,000 passengers in and out of Union Station daily.
Peter Mielniczek works in Theatre, Circus, Art Galleries and
Street Theatre. His Art practice is mainly in Film, Installation and Painting. He
performs around the world.
The show is a 45-minute series of fiasco, visual comedy, broken
plates and a nail biting finale. Peter Mielniczek is known around the world for
his individual and very funny brand of physical comedy and being a contemporary
clown.
"Stupid, non-sensical, indulgent, pathetic and insulting to the intelligence. I loved it." according to the Wellington based Capital Times, N.Z.
Hugh Morgan Hill, (1921-2009) who performed as Brother Blue
was an African American educator, storyteller, actor, musician, street
performer and living icon in Boston, in Cambridge, at Harvard University, MIT,
and in the global oral storytelling community.
After serving as First
Lieutenant from 1943 to 1946 in the segregated United States Army in World War
II and being honourably discharged, he received a BA from Harvard College in
1948 (cum laude in Social Relations), was accepted into the Harvard Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) before transferring to receive a MFA from
the Yale School of Drama and a Ph.D. (Divinity with pastoral sacred
storytelling) from the Union Institute, having delivered his doctoral
presentation at Boston's Deer Island Prison, accompanied by a 25-piece jazz
orchestra, with a video recording for his dissertation committee's further
consideration.
While performing frequently at U.S. National Storytelling
Festivals and flown abroad by organizations and patrons from England to Russia
and the Bahamas, Brother Blue regularly performed on the streets around
Cambridge, most notably in Harvard Square. He was the Official Storyteller of
Boston and of Cambridge by resolutions of both city councils, a most unusual honour.
Black Honey is a high-octane indie rock band led by Izzy
Baxter, a vocalist with a coaxing delivery often compared to Lana Del Rey.
The band was formed in Brighton, England with guitarist
Chris Ostler, bass player Tommy Taylor, drummer Tom Dewhurst, and Baxter, who
also plays guitar. The quartet created a buzz with a series of singles released
on an eponymous debut EP in late 2014 by Duly Noted Records. That led to
touring opportunities across the U.K. in 2015, soon followed by dates in
Continental Europe and airtime on BBC Radio 1.
In the meantime, the group released more catchy, stand-alone
singles including the surf guitar-tinged "Madonna" and
"Corrine." A much-anticipated second EP, Headspin, arrived in the
spring of 2016.
Daan Kolthoff is a writer, living between the hills of Wellington, New Zealand and, when not writing, meditating or walking the hills, he is usually researching, reading about or ordering berets from around the world.
