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The second national juried exhibition of small works (12 inches or smaller in any direction) at Main Street Arts. This year's exhibition juror is Rebecca Rafferty, artist and staff writer for Rochester CITY Newspaper. $1,000 in cash awards announced at the opening!
My father was a writer for Pacific Stars and Stripes during the Korean War so I thought he might like this edition that came out while he was still in high school. Don't tell him yet though; it's in the mail now :)
day 14 // 11.24.13
dad is home && online shopping stuff is here && progress reports && i'm writer for silvia mag and i want to give up
April 9th, 2017
The photos in this gallery were taken at the YFN vs BMG Celebrity Basketball game held in Atlanta’s Pittman Gym. The event featured appearances by Lil Durk, Young Scooter, YFN Lucci, NBA star Shannon Brown and wife Monica Brown.
About Andre J. Thomas
Andre J. Thomas is a 5x Award Winning producer for the hit show, College Talk. Andre is a featured writer for Black Moguls Magazine, GumpTown Magazine, BeatsBangBlog, The Birmingham Times and SwurvRadio. Also is a contributing blogger for The Stardome Comedy Club and serves as the official publicist for rapper Q Dot Davis.
You can listen to #AndreTheBlogger on Superstation 101.1 FM on Saturdays from 4pm – 7pm CST as part of The Joe Lockett Show on-air team.
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There was a Brian K. Vaughan signing at Midtown Comics Grand Central. Brian K. Vaughan wrote some of the popular titles like Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex-Machina. He is currently one of the writers for Lost. Today is the release day of Y the Last Man Volume 10. The final installment of the series.
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Larissa MacFarquhar, staff writer for The New Yorker, moderates a panel discussion at Stanford University on January 30th, 2020 with Mary Felstiner, Leah Eskenazi, MSW, and Dr. Ranak Trivedi on how much should a spouse or adult child sacrifice to become a caregiver. Photography by: Christine Baker
The place were we had breakfast across the road from our Hotel. I had two days in Rome before starting my Comos tour, September 2012
Rome (Rōma) is a city and special comune ("Roma Capitale") in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and the capital of Lazio (Latin: Latium). With 2.8 million residents in 1,285.3 km2 (496.3 sq mi), it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. Between 3.2 and 3.8 million people live in the Rome urban and metropolitan area. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy. Rome is referred to as "The Eternal City", a notion expressed by ancient Roman poets and writers.
For more info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome
Marjorie Liu at the moment she is announced as a winner for the Eisner Award for Best Writer for Monstress (Image).
April 9th, 2017
The photos in this gallery were taken at the YFN vs BMG Celebrity Basketball game held in Atlanta’s Pittman Gym. The event featured appearances by Lil Durk, Young Scooter, YFN Lucci, NBA star Shannon Brown and wife Monica Brown.
About Andre J. Thomas
Andre J. Thomas is a 5x Award Winning producer for the hit show, College Talk. Andre is a featured writer for Black Moguls Magazine, GumpTown Magazine, BeatsBangBlog, The Birmingham Times and SwurvRadio. Also is a contributing blogger for The Stardome Comedy Club and serves as the official publicist for rapper Q Dot Davis.
You can listen to #AndreTheBlogger on Superstation 101.1 FM on Saturdays from 4pm – 7pm CST as part of The Joe Lockett Show on-air team.
#AndreTheBlogger
Brian Lamb speaks with students of Ambassador Carolyn Curiel's Presidential Speech class. Curiel was the White House speech writer for President Bill Clinton during his two terms.
Larissa MacFarquhar, staff writer for The New Yorker, moderates a panel discussion at Stanford University on January 30th, 2020 with Mary Felstiner, Leah Eskenazi, MSW, and Dr. Ranak Trivedi on how much should a spouse or adult child sacrifice to become a caregiver. Photography by: Christine Baker
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Brian Lamb interviews Ambassador Carolyn Curiel Sept. 23. Curiel was the White House speech writer for President Bill Clinton during his two terms.
Calvin Trillin, Humorist, New York Times best-selling author, former writer for The New Yorker, and former columnist for The Nation and Time at a reception in Mead Hall, Drew University, prior to speaking at The Drew Forum lecture series Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Photo by Karen Mancinelli Paige
This tattoo meant a lot to me. I got it in LA at Sunset Strip Tattoo. All the rockstars have gotten ink done there. Motley Crue, Areosmith, Guns N’ Roses, Buckcherry who’s lead singer was there getting a cross tattooed on his neck, the night I went. So, it always my dream to get tattooed there. I got the tattoo done by the then 19 year old son of the most famous artist in the place. He told me how as kid, he had been to Nikki Sixx’s (bassist and writer for Motley Crue) house with his father. He described Nikki as the most laid back millionaire in the world. He said Nikki was standing in the kitchen, talking to them eating macaroni and cheese out of a pot. For my tattoo I chose this eye that the 19 year old had drawn him self. I got the color of the iris the same color as the girl I was with at the time. Later in London I had the color redone to match a girl I was fooling around with then. After the tattoo I looked at my arm under the lights of Sunset Strip, beside the House Of Blues, and said to the girl I was with “I can’t fuckin’ believe this!”
Veteran journalist Joe Klein, current affairs writer for Time Magazine
and author of Primary Colors, works his cell phone as he waits for John
McCain to come out of the Town Hall in Peterborough, N.H. Read about the work of University of Vermont student volunteers on the campaign trail.
(Photo: Jon Reidel)
Calvin Trillin, Humorist, New York Times best-selling author, former writer for The New Yorker, and former columnist for The Nation and Time at a reception in Mead Hall, Drew University, prior to speaking at The Drew Forum lecture series Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Photo by Karen Mancinelli Paige
(I'm falling behind, but still posting ! ) 9/18/11 EMMY AWARD, JULIAN FELLOWES, BEST WRITER (MINISERIES) 10.10pm: GONG! The award for best writer for a miniseries, movie or drama special goes to Julian Fellowes. A Brit. With a fabulously posh accent. It's going down well. Great timing – the second season started in Britai
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Vanderbilt Student Medial Hall of Fame Ceremony.Inductees include:.Willie Geist, MSNBC morning show host and contributor to several NBC programs; Clay Harris, London-based journalist who spent much of his career at the Financial Times; and Lee Jenkins, senior sports writer for Sports Illustrated..(Vanderbilt Photo / Daniel Dubois)..
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This from Contemporary Writers: " Zoe Heller was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford University and Columbia University, New York. She is a journalist who, after writing book reviews for various newspapers, became a feature writer for The Independent. She wrote a weekly confessional column for the Sunday Times for four years, but now writes for the Daily Telegraph and earned the title ‘Columnist of the Year’ in 2002. She is the author of two novels: Everything You Know (2000), a dark comedy about misanthropic writer Willy Miller, and Notes on a Scandal (2003) which tells the story of an affair between a high school teacher and her student through the eyes of the teacher’s supposed friend, Barbara Covett. It was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize for fiction, and was recently released as a feature film, starring Cate Blanchett and Dame Judi Dench."
We met recently in Ottawa to talk, ‘companionably’ about her latest novel The Believers.
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from The Complete Letter-Writer for gentlemen, published by Ward Lock & Co. Ltd, London & Melbourne, 1924
one of my late father's books
Two of my very favourite pens! These were my daily-writers for nearly 15 years (now they're in the weekly rotation!). The Officinas are the plumofile equivalent to a "power suit": when you deploy one of these to write with, everybody around pauses to take notice.
Handcrafted in Italy, the Officina collection was inspired by Mazzuolli's memory of the tools used by his Grandfather in his bicycle frame building shop. The pen bodies are polished aircraft-grade Aluminium. The fountain pen is the "Puntino" (Marker Point) and the rollerball is the "Maschio" (Tap). These two are both clip-less, as all of the original Officinas were. Later Officinas featured a riveted clip, which I think spoils the lines of an otherwise elegant design.
I'm pretty sure these were also the first screw-post pens I ever used, making me a huge fan of that feature.
The McGill Symposium annually brings together students, faculty and leading journalists to consider what journalistic courage means and how it is exemplified by reporters and editors. Journalists who participated in the 2017 symposium included Peter Sterne, senior reporter at the Freedom of the Press Foundation; Beth Reinhard, a reporter at The Washington Post; D. Orlando Ledbetter, a beat writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Steve Wyche, a reporter for NFL.com; and Billy Howard, an award-winning photojournalist who is known for his photography of people with HIV/AIDS.
The 2017 McGill Symposium was held on Nov. 15.
(Photo/ Stephanie Moreno, s,moreno@uga.edu)
in Athens, Georgia, on Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Arthur Rothkopf, head of the U.S. Chamber’s Education and Workforce initiative; David Hoff, associate editor of Education Week; and Lisa Caruso, staff writer for the National Journal, discuss No Child Left Behind legislation.
He is the writer for the band Bullyclub, they did a great set today on the show.
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Two of my very favourite pens! These were my daily-writers for nearly 15 years (now they're in the weekly rotation!). The Officinas are the plumofile equivalent to a "power suit": when you deploy one of these to write with, everybody around pauses to take notice.
Handcrafted in Italy, the Officina collection was inspired by Mazzuolli's memory of the tools used by his Grandfather in his bicycle frame building shop. The pen bodies are polished aircraft-grade Aluminium. The fountain pen is the "Puntino" (Marker Point) and the rollerball is the "Maschio" (Tap). These two are both clip-less, as all of the original Officinas were. Later Officinas featured a riveted clip, which I think spoils the lines of an otherwise elegant design.
I'm pretty sure these were also the first screw-post pens I ever used, making me a huge fan of that feature.
The photos in this gallery were taken at the Men In Black Awards held in Atlanta on August 21st, 2016.
Andre J. Thomas is a 5x award-winning producer for the hit show, College Talk.
Andre is also a featured writer for Black Moguls Magazine, GumpTown Magazine, The Birmingham Times and SwurvRadio. Andre is a also a contributing blogger to the Stardome Comedy Club in Hoover.
You can listen to @AndreTheBlogger on The Joe Lockett Show which airs on Superstation 101.1 FM & 1260 AM WYDE (Alabama) on Saturdays from 4pm – 7pm CST. If you liked this story and want to read more by Birmingham’s Favorite Entertainment Blogger, visit andrejthomas.com.
Malcolm Gladwell is an English born Canadian author of a series of bestselling books on social conscience and the circumstances that result from various scenarios. From the age of 6, Gladwell grew up in Elmira, Ontario, about ½ hour from where I live. He is also a writer for the New Yorker magazine.
The Postcard
A Yes or No Series postcard that was posted in Kensington, London using a ½d. stamp on Thursday the 15th. September 1904. It was sent to:
Miss T. Elliott,
Church Lane,
Witley,
Nr. Godalming,
Surrey.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"1, Melbury Road.
Dr. T,
Shall be down next
Monday week for a
fortnight.
Hoping you are all
well.
With love,
Yours to a cinder,
Lily."
The Lynmouth Flood
On the 15th. and 16th. August 1952, a storm of tropical intensity broke over south-west England, depositing 229 mm (9 inches) of rain within 24 hours on an already waterlogged Exmoor. Debris-laden floodwaters cascaded down the northern escarpment of the moor, converging upon the village.
The River Lyn running through the village had been culverted to gain land for business premises; this culvert soon choked with flood debris, and the river overflowed to a great height as it ran through the village. Much of the debris was boulders and trees.
A culvert is a structure that channels water past an obstacle. Typically embedded so as to be surrounded by soil, a culvert may be made from a pipe, reinforced concrete or other material. However the culvert has to be wide enough to cope with extreme flows of water.
Overnight, over 100 buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged, and 38 cars were washed out to sea. 34 people died, and a further 420 were made homeless.
After the disaster, the village was rebuilt, and the river diverted around it.
Sheilah Graham
So what else happened on the day that Lily posted the card?
Well, on the 15th. September 1904, Sheilah Graham was born.
Sheilah was a British-born, nationally syndicated American gossip columnist during Hollywood's "Golden Age".
In her youth, she had been a showgirl and a freelance writer for Fleet Street in London. These early experiences converged in her career in Hollywood, which spanned nearly four decades, as a successful columnist and author.
Sheilah Graham also was known for her relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald, a relationship which she played a significant role in immortalizing through the autobiographical Beloved Infidel, a bestseller that was made into a film.
-- Sheilah Graham - The Early Years
Sheilah Graham was born Lily Shiel, the youngest child of Rebecca (Blashman) and Louis Shiel's eight children (two died). Her parents were Ukrainian Jews.
Her father, a tailor who had fled the pogroms, died of tuberculosis on a trip to Berlin while Sheilah was still an infant. Her mother and siblings moved to a basement flat in a Stepney Green slum in the East End of London.
Her mother, who spoke little English, struggled to provide for her children by cleaning public lavatories. Sheilah's mother was forced by these circumstances to place her in the Jews Hospital and Orphanage.
In Recollections of Sheilah Graham, her daughter, Wendy Fairey, wrote:
"Entering this institution at the age of six,
my mother had her golden hair shaved to
the scalp as a precaution against lice.
To the end of her life, she was haunted by
the degradation of this experience.
Eight years later when she 'graduated,' she
had established herself as Norwood's
"Head Girl": captain of the cricket team
and recipient of many prizes, including
both the Hebrew prize and a prize for
reciting a poem by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning".
Graham, then still known as Lily, had been trained for a career in teaching. However when she left the orphanage, her mother was dying of cancer, and Graham returned home to care for her.
-- Sheilah Graham's Marriage to John Graham Gillam
Upon her mother's death, the 16-year-old took a job in a department store demonstrating a speciality toothbrush, and moved into a tiny flat in London's West End.
In 1925, at the age of 20, she married Major John Graham Gillam (1884 - 1965), a decorated Great War officer, published author and eye-witness to the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 - 1916.
Sheila's daughter describes Gillam as:
"A kindly older man who proved impotent,
went bankrupt, and looked the other way
when she went out with other men."
During this marriage, largely through the tutelage of her husband, she improved her speech and manners. She also enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, changed her name, and became a music hall dancer as a "Cochran's girl."
It was during her time in the British musical theater that Graham began to write professionally, receiving two guineas (£2.10) from the Daily Express for an article entitled "The Stage Door Johnnies, by a Chorus Girl," which she wrote on a challenge by her husband.
While still in Britain, she attained some success as a freelance writer and published two novels, both of which sold poorly.
-- Sheilah Graham's Early Career
In 1933, John Gillam sought his fortune in the U.S., followed by Lily. (She arrived on the Queen Mary in 1937 as Lily Gillam, with her occupation as writer.)
Her modest, youthful success as a writer enabled her to land jobs as a staff reporter in New York City, working successively for the New York Mirror and the New York Journal American.
She energetically pursued scoops and wrote features with sensational headlines like "Who Cheats Most in Marriage?," a survey comparing the infidelities of various nationalities of men.
John Neville Wheeler, head of the North American Newspaper Alliance, which was becoming the pre-eminent press service, recruited her to write NANA's syndicated Hollywood column.
She describes having "landed in the film capital on two left feet," and needing to temper her brash outspokenness with film industry sensibilities.
In her autobiographical book A College of One, she relates the dichotomy between dealing with "notoriously ignorant" filmmakers and the discomfort she felt over her own limited education and background in the company of her colleagues in journalism and screenwriters, mentioning Robert Benchley, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to whom she would soon become an intimate, longtime companion.
-- The Hollywood Years and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Although marked by an inauspicious start, Graham quickly rose to fame through her column, "Hollywood Today," which she wrote daily for over 35 years, interrupted only by serving as a war correspondent during World War II.
The column at its peak was carried in 178 papers in 1966, compared to 100 papers for rival Louella Parsons and 68 for Hedda Hopper. Along with these two rivals, Graham came to wield sufficient power to make or break Hollywood careers—prompting her to describe herself as "the last of the unholy trio."
Sheilah divorced John Gillam in June 1937 to become engaged to the Marquess of Donegall (Dermot Chichester). A month later, she met F. Scott Fitzgerald, with whom she relates having immediately fallen in love, and the engagement with Chichester was broken soon thereafter. Ruthe Stein quotes her as saying:
"I'll only be remembered, if I'm
remembered at all, because of
Scott Fitzgerald."
They shared a home, and were constant companions while Fitzgerald was still married to his wife Zelda, who was institutionalized in an asylum.
Nonetheless, Graham protested at being described as his "mistress" in her book The Rest of the Story on the basis that:
"I am a woman who loved Scott
Fitzgerald for better or worse until
he died."
It was she who found his body in 1940 in the living room of her West Hollywood apartment, where he had died of a heart attack. They had been together only three and a half years, but her daughter reports that:
"My mother never really
got over him."
During those three years, Scott outlined an educational "curriculum" for her and guided her through it, which she later wrote about in detail in A College of One.
Graham also later wrote of her years spent with Fitzgerald in the 1958 book Beloved Infidel, which was later adapted as a movie.
Upon Fitzgerald's death, seeking a respite from the social demands and frantic pace of her life, Graham arranged for an assignment as a foreign correspondent in NANA's London bureau. This afforded her the opportunity to demonstrate her abilities as a serious journalist.
Her first major story from the UK was an in-depth interview with George Bernard Shaw, and she later filed another with Winston Churchill. Her brief respite from Hollywood lasted until the conclusion of World War II.
In the UK, she met Trevor Cresswell Lawrence Westbrook, whose company manufactured Spitfire fighter planes for the Royal Air Force. After her return to the United States in late 1941, they married.
Graham's two children, Wendy and Robert, were born during this marriage, which ended in divorce in 1946. Wendy, in her autobiographical book One of the Family, writes of discovering as an adult that her father was, in fact, British philosopher A. J. Ayer; Ayer reportedly suggested that Robert Westbrook's biological father was probably the actor Robert Taylor.
In August 1947, Graham was naturalized under the name Sheila Westbrook with her arrival in US dated 1934, as a United States citizen.
In February 1953, Sheilah married her third husband, Wojciechowicz Stanislavovich, known in Hollywood circles as "Bow Wow". During their divorce proceedings, she accused him of, among other things, running a restaurant out of their home, which he denied.
In her autobiography, Graham dismissed Wojtkiewicz as:
"That nut whose name you
can't pronounce".
Neither her foreign correspondence nor motherhood prevented Graham from achieving her ambitions. She demanded $5,000 per week to resume her column, an amount comparable to that of the stars she was covering.
In addition, she was a regular contributor to Photoplay and had her own radio program, which moved to television in 1951, whereon she delivered commentary and celebrity interviews—a forerunner to the talk show.
From 1952 to 1953, Daily Variety carried a separate daily gossip column by Graham that differed in content, style, and attention to precise accuracy, from that which she wrote for the general public.
-- Sheilah Graham - The Later Years
In 1957, Graham guest-starred as herself in "Academy Award," an episode of the CBS situation comedy Mr. Adams and Eve.
In April 1969, Graham changed the name and format of her syndicated column, citing waning public interest in Hollywood gossip. Retitled "Hollywood Everywhere," the scope included celebrities, public figures, and diverse commentary.
In 1971, Graham wrote her last syndicated column and moved to Palm Beach, Florida, where she continued for several years to make celebrity guest appearances on television, wrote on a freelance basis for magazines, and authored nine more books. She co-starred in the 1978 talk show America Alive!, in its "gossip check" segment.
Graham died on the 17th. November 1988, in Palm Beach, Florida, of congestive heart failure at the age of 84.
Calvin Trillin, Humorist, New York Times best-selling author, former writer for The New Yorker, and former columnist for The Nation and Time at a reception in Mead Hall, Drew University, prior to speaking at The Drew Forum lecture series Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Photo by Karen Mancinelli Paige
Stephen Lipps (l): writer for Mid-Atlantic Brewing News;
Barrett Lauer (r): brewer for District Chophouse (Washington, D.C.).
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A pre-opening visit to brewpub Gordon-Biersch Navy Yard.
The brewpub officially opens to the public on Monday, 1 April 2013, which is also Opening Day for the Washington Nationals baseball team. Nationals Park is a block away.
Washington, D.C.
30 March 2013.
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#oobfest #atxtheatre Hideout Theater Downstairs, September 2, 2016 11:00 PM Amber Ruffin and Ryan Archibald met in 20004 in Amsterdam at the legendary Boom Chicago.
Amber Ruffin is currently a writer for Late Night With Seth Meyers. She's also Second City Chicago Mainstage Alum. She's a narrator for a season 2 episode of Drunk History. She wrote RobotDown's "Faced With Danger" which was selected for the upcoming L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival. Her TV credits include Key and Peele and Totally Biased.
Ryan Archibald is a veteran performer and teacher for the Second City, a former touring actor and resident member of the Second City in Las Vegas. Ryan currently directs for The Second City’s Touring Company . Ryan has also taught and performed at Chicago’s iO Theater for almost twenty years, now playing with 3033, GDFG and Search Engine with Craig Uhlir. Over the years, Ryan has directed many independent sketch comedy and improv shows including: Live! Network! Showcase!, Four Square & That Just Happened.
Keynote Address from Jeremy Kinsman, Head of the Council for the Community of Democracies & former Canadian Ambassador to Russia, Italy, UK, and EU.
Ambassador Kinsman retired from the Canadian Foreign Service in 2006. Over his 40 years of service, he was Chairman of Policy Planning and later Political Director before being named Canada’s Ambassador in Moscow in 1992. He was subsequently Ambassador in Rome (1996-2000), High Commissioner in London (2000-2002), and Ambassador to the EU in Brussels (2002-2006). Earlier postings abroad included being Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York and Minister for Political Affairs in Washington.
Today Ambassador Kinsman is Lead Writer for Foreign Affairs for Policy Options magazine, a regular commentator for CBC News. He holds current positions as Resident International Scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and as Distinguished Visiting Diplomat at Ryerson University, Toronto.
Vanderbilt Student Medial Hall of Fame Ceremony.Inductees include:.Willie Geist, MSNBC morning show host and contributor to several NBC programs; Clay Harris, London-based journalist who spent much of his career at the Financial Times; and Lee Jenkins, senior sports writer for Sports Illustrated..(Vanderbilt Photo / Daniel Dubois)..
We meet up with Brad Hawkins, a Seattle Writer, for a quick Intersection Conversation. Read one of Brad’s bike stories on Kent’s Bike Blog.
Ros Wynne-Jones
Ros Wynne-Jones is a journalist and author who has had articles published in The Guardian and The Mirror amongst others, and is currently Senior Feature Writer for the Daily Mirror. Ros has covered stories ranging from the HIV crisis in southern Africa to the Darfuri refugee camps inside Eastern Chad.
Meeting at GMB Halesowen: GMB Midlands Regional Office Will Thorne House, 2 Birmingham Road, Halesowen, B63 3HP
name:
Date: 17/03/2017
Event: Mary MacArthur Lecture
location: GMB Midlands Regional Office Will Thorne House, 2 Birmingham Road, Halesowen, B63 3HP
Calvin Trillin, Humorist, New York Times best-selling author, former writer for The New Yorker, and former columnist for The Nation and Time at a reception in Mead Hall, Drew University, prior to speaking at The Drew Forum lecture series Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Photo by Karen Mancinelli Paige
Calvin Trillin, Humorist, New York Times best-selling author, former writer for The New Yorker, and former columnist for The Nation and Time at a reception in Mead Hall, Drew University, prior to speaking at The Drew Forum lecture series Tuesday, September 29, 2015. Photo by Karen Mancinelli Paige
OJ Howard sponsors back pack giveaway at his high school alma mater.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie tight-end, OJ Howard sponsored a book pack giveaway to for three hundred K-12 students in his hometown. The widely anticipated event the Alabama NFL star a chance to give back to the community that helped supported him from the beginning. Howard remains humble and embraced his fans throughout the day and granting photo-ops. Howard was surrounded by his family for the event.
At press-time, Howard shared hat he hopes to be able to continue the backpack giveaway annually via his O.J. Howard Got Da Juice Foundation. The 2017 NFL first-round Draft Pick further commented,
“No Child Should Attend School without their supplies. I want to start their school year off right!” ~OJ Howard
Howard, a product of small Autauga Academy, a small private Christian Academy. Viewing the small field Howard played on as a kid, I couldn't help but to reflect on the fact that Howard’s success proves that it doesn’t matter where we begin the journey, but where we finish. Howard definitely is an inspiration to other aspiring athletes in his area. Howard has much to live up to and I believe that as long as he remains with his close knit family, he will forever be grounded and remain a hero to millions.
Best Wishes to OJ Howard as he represents Alabama with pride.
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About Andre J. Thomas
Andre J. Thomas is a 5x Award Winning producer for the hit show, College Talk. Andre is a featured writer for Black Moguls Magazine, GumpTown Magazine, Grip Magazine, Magic City Radar, SwurvRadio, and BeatsBangBlog. Andre is a contributing blogger for The Birmingham Times and The Stardome Comedy Club.
Andre serves as the official publicist for rapper Q Dot Davis and the official blogger for both Birmingham AFT and the AFT Strategies for Students Success division. You can listen to #AndreTheBlogger on Superstation 101.1 FM on Saturdays from 4pm – 7pm CST as part of The Joe Lockett Show on-air team.
We're freelance writers for buzzfeed and finally got to visit their Buzzfeed NYC Office! Read more on the blog >> localadventurer.com
Here is a candid shot of Chicago comedians Matt Kissane and Bill Bunker at a recent comedy show in Elmhurst, IL. Kissane is host of his own internet show called "Live From Chicago It's Matt Kissane" and Bunker is a regular opening act and writer for Jim Gaffigan. www.mattkissane.com
#oobfest #atxtheatre Hideout Theater Downstairs, September 2, 2016 11:00 PM Amber Ruffin and Ryan Archibald met in 20004 in Amsterdam at the legendary Boom Chicago.
Amber Ruffin is currently a writer for Late Night With Seth Meyers. She's also Second City Chicago Mainstage Alum. She's a narrator for a season 2 episode of Drunk History. She wrote RobotDown's "Faced With Danger" which was selected for the upcoming L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival. Her TV credits include Key and Peele and Totally Biased.
Ryan Archibald is a veteran performer and teacher for the Second City, a former touring actor and resident member of the Second City in Las Vegas. Ryan currently directs for The Second City’s Touring Company . Ryan has also taught and performed at Chicago’s iO Theater for almost twenty years, now playing with 3033, GDFG and Search Engine with Craig Uhlir. Over the years, Ryan has directed many independent sketch comedy and improv shows including: Live! Network! Showcase!, Four Square & That Just Happened.