PIRANHAS is their athletic team.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a long one-act musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman with
music and lyrics by William Finn, a book by Rachel Sheinkin and
additional material by Jay Reiss. The
show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous
Putnam Valley Middle School. Six quirky
adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally quirky grown-ups. The 2005 Broadway production, directed by James Lapine and produced by David Stone, James L. Nederlander,
Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company and Second Stage
Theater, earned good reviews and box-office success and was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two, including Best
Book. The show has spawned various other
productions in the U.S., including a national tour with performances in Canada,
and Australian productions. An unusual
aspect of the show is that four real audience members are invited on stage to
compete in the spelling bee alongside the six young characters. During the 2005 Tony Awards, former Presidential candidate Al Sharpton competed. Another amusing aspect of the show is that
the official pronouncer, usually an improv comedian,
provides ridiculous usage-in-a-sentence examples when asked to use words in a
sentence. The
musical was based upon C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, an
original improvisational play created by Rebecca Feldman and performed by The
Farm, a New-York-based improvisational comedy troupe. Sarah Saltzberg, Wendy Wasserstein's weekend nanny, was in the
original production, and Wasserstein recommended that Finn see the show. Finn brought Rachel Sheinkin on board, and
they worked together with Feldman to transform "C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E"
into a scripted full-length musical. Spelling
Bee was
workshopped and developed at the Barrington Stage
Company (BSC), Massachusetts, where Julianne Boyd is
the Artistic Director, in two different stages . In February 2004, a workshop
was done in which a first act and parts of a second act were created--this
stage of the process was directed by Michael Barakiva and Feldman. The script was fleshed out and the show was
given a fuller production in July 2004, directed by Feldman and Michael Unger. See characters, musical numbers and awards at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_25th_Annual_Putnam_County_Spelling_Bee
CICADA is the school mascot.
("You can stomp us, you can squish us, kill us by the pound,"
goes the college fight song. "In
another 17 years, we'll be back around.") in At the Reunion, a play with audience participation presented with a
gourmet dinner served in courses. We sang a cicadas fight song at a production in
Chicago when we pretended to be alumni
at a college alumni reunion. When we
"registered" for the reunion, we made up our own dialogue as actors
asked us questions.
Peter
Steiner is an American cartoonist, painter and novelist. Steiner
has contributed cartoons and other material to The
New Yorker since
1979. His
cartoon captioned 'On the internet nobody knows you're a dog' is the most
reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker, Steiner
also is well known for his daily cartoons on contemporary events for the Washington
Times, which he created for over 20 years, starting in 1983. Steiner
has published four novels, all featuring a former CIA agent named Louis Morgon
who has retired to the Loire Valley in France.
Chef
is a 2014 American comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by
and starring Jon Favreau, and co-starring Sofía Vergara, John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Downey, Jr. Favreau
plays a professional chef who, after a public altercation with a food critic,
quits his job at a popular Los Angeles restaurant and returns to his home
town of Miami to
fix up a food truck.
He reconnects with his ex-wife and invites their young son to join him
in driving the truck back to L.A. while selling Cubanos in various cities along the way. Favreau wrote the script after directing
several big-budget films, wanting to go "back to basics" and to
create a film about cooking. Food truck owner and chef Roy Choi served as a co-producer and oversaw
all of the menus and food prepared for the film. Principal photography took
place in July 2013 in Los Angeles, Miami, Austin and New Orleans. Chef premiered
at South by Southwest on
March 7, 2014 and was released theatrically on May 9, 2014 by Open Road Films. Jon Favreau, the writer, director and star of Chef,
wrote the film's script in about two weeks. He had long wanted to make a film
about food and chefs, and felt that the subject was suited to a small-scale independent film rather
than a big-budget production. He cited Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Eat Drink Man Woman and Big Night as
inspirations for creating a food-centric film. The script was
semi-autobiographical, incorporating parts of Favreau's life into the main
character, such as being a father while having a busy career and coming from a
"broken home". Favreau also drew a comparison
between his career as a director and Carl's career as a chef in the film,
noting that he stepped down from directing major studio films to go "back
to basics" and create Chef on
a smaller budget, much like Carl's resignation from a popular restaurant to
work in a food truck. Favreau contacted Roy Choi, a restaurateur who created the Kogi Korean BBQ food
truck, to serve as a consultant on the film; Choi was eventually promoted to
co-producer. While the film was in pre-production, Favreau shadowed Choi in his
restaurants and worked as part of Choi's kitchen crew after training at a culinary school. Choi
oversaw all of the menus prepared for the film and created the Cuban sandwiches
that formed a central part of the storyline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(film)
See Chef (2014) Movie Clip "Tired Of
Being Alone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0f0FM6Uvew 0:59
Hominy is
dried white or yellow corn kernels from which the hull and germ have been
removed. When dried hominy is broken or
very coarsely ground, it is called samp. When ground, it is called hominy grits or
simply grits and is usually available in fine, medium or coarse grinds. Hominy grits are generally simmered with water
or milk until very thick.
Link to
recipes at http://www.food.com/about/hominy-553
Find more hominy recipes at http://allrecipes.com/recipes/16090/fruits-and-vegetables/vegetables/corn/hominy/
seer noun 1. one
that sees 2. a : one that predicts events or
developments b : a
person credited with extraordinary moral and spiritual insight 3 : one that practices divination
especially by concentrating on a glass or crystal globe http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seer
sere adjective 1 :
being dried and withered 2 archaic : threadbare http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sere
The three-dollar
piece was
a gold coin produced by the United States Bureau of
the Mint from
1854 to 1889. Authorized by the Act of
February 21, 1853, the coin was designed by Mint
Chief Engraver James B. Longacre. The obverse bears
a representation of Lady Liberty wearing a headdress of a Native
American princess
and the reverse a wreath of corn,
wheat, cotton, and tobacco. In 1851,
Congress had authorized a silver three-cent piece so
that postage stamps of that value could be purchased without using the widely
disliked copper
cents. Two years later, a
bill was passed which authorized a three-dollar coin. By some accounts, the coin was created so
larger quantities of stamps could be purchased.
Longacre, in designing the piece, sought to make it as different as
possible from the quarter eagle or
$2.50 piece, striking it on a thinner planchet and using a distinctive design. Although over 100,000 were struck in the
first year, the coin saw little use. It
circulated somewhat on the West Coast,
where gold and silver were used to the exclusion of paper money, but what
little place it had in commerce in the East was
lost in the economic disruption of the Civil War,
and was never regained. The piece was
last struck in 1889, and Congress ended the series the following year. Although many dates were struck in small
numbers, the rarest was produced at the San Francisco Mint in
1870 (1870-S); only one is known with certainty to exist. Read much more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dollar_piece
More Than A Game is a documentary that focuses in on 5 young basketball
players--LeBron James, Dru
Joyce III, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton, Willie McGee--and
their coach, Dru Joyce II, performing on an AAU team
with the growing stardom of the future NBA superstar, LeBron James. Taking them through their pre-teens to high
school, this film follows their incredible journey as the unknown Ohio team
rises to the top of youth athletics. The
music is mainly inspired by A .J. Mighton and John Colwill. An executive producer of
the movie, Harvey Mason, Jr., also
is an executive producer of the soundtrack album, Music
Inspired by More Than a Game.
The soundtrack features songs from Ester Dean, Drake, T.I., Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z,
and HamSquad
Ft. Soulja Boy amongst others. The album also features additional vocals or
raps from Chris Brown, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Toni Braxton, JoJo, Jordin Sparks, Ya Boy, Omarion, and Faith Evans plus others. A number of songs were released as singles. First, "Stronger"
by Mary J Blige is the soundtrack's lead single and was released on August 4,
2009 to support the film and later on August 21, 2009 as the second single from
Blige's ninth studio album also titled Stronger.
"Drop It Low"
by Ester Dean (with Chris Brown) was released as a single on August 9, 2009
while "Forever"
by Drake (featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne, & Eminem) was released as a
single on September 15, 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_than_a_Game
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1360
October 9. 2015 On this date in 1701,
the Collegiate School of Connecticut
(later renamed Yale University) was chartered in Old Saybrook,
Connecticut. On this date in
1812, in a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces captured two
British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. Word of the
Day: fictionary noun A parlor game in which participants invent
definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person
reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition.
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