Stephanie Stein Crease is the first to fully tell Webb’s story in her biography, Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America…The book’s entire introduction is excerpted here. (featuring the art of Jennylynd James) The Sunday Poem “Jazz Within Me” by Jerrice Baptiste Book Excerpt “Chick” Webb was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the “Savoy King,” who reigned at Harlem’s world-famous Savoy Ballroom. Like all previous volumes, the beauty of this edition is not solely evident in the general excellence of the published works it also rests in the hearts of the individuals from diverse backgrounds who possess a mutual desire to reveal their life experiences and interactions with the music, its character, and its culture. In This Issue The Spring, 2023 collection of jazz poetry is the 14th edition published on Jerry Jazz Musician since the fall of 2019, when the concept was initiated. Click here to visit his website.Ĭlick here to learn how to submit your poetryĬlick here to subscribe to the Jerry Jazz Musician newsletter He lives and teaches in Seattle, Washington. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and Best of the Net and received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry. He is a regular contributor to Mythaixs, an online journal, where in addition to his fiction and essays, his interviews with notable writers, artists and musicians such as Daniel Wallace (Big Fish), Darcy Steinke (Suicide Blond, Flash Count Diary) and Tim Reynolds (T3 and The Dave Matthews Band) have been popular contributions. His work has appeared in several anthologies as well as journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review, Poetry International, The Galway Review, Bitter Oleander, Chiron, Louisiana Literature, Slipstream, as well Spanish translations of work (translated by Maria Del Castillo Sucerquia) in La Cabra Montes. ĭouglas Cole has published six collections of poetry and The White Field, winner of the American Fiction Award. Listen to the 2020 recording of “From Paris With Love” from Melody Gardo’t album Sunset in the Blue. Listen to the poet read “The Ghost Note” This note that is not the note we expected or wanted,īut the one we received, the blue note, the grace note. This note that points, this note that brings us close, It’s Plato’s realm of the forms: perfect chair, perfect justice, So I rate us on our splendid failure to do the impossible.” “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection, What’s possible, but still in the space of that note, It’s about “maybe one day I will see you…” what’s missing, It’s about “drink to life as if there is no end.” The song is not about success, not about happiness,Īchieving a goal, receiving the wish. The story is of longing, the way we reach and try. The slow, melancholy shuffle of the song begins,Īnd the poet tells her story. It holds there, going back and forth, but then, In that bright, predictable soundscape…nope. In a way that makes your heart sink a little. It’s not a simple C, not C-sharp flat, but off Instead, when the last note comes sliding in, Or expects to hear, that remains unclear. If I’m right, it’s F to F-sharp,Ī-sharp to C, and then a C-sharp your mind hears The note you almost hear and would expect,ĭoesn’t come. One step, two step, three, four…but the last note, Towards which the strings rise, climbing up, To Melody Gardot’s “From Paris with Love,” There’s a note at the end of the introduction “The Ghost Note” arises from the poet listening to “From Paris With Love” from Melody Gardot’s 2020 album Sunset in the Blue (pictured) Trading Fours with Douglas Cole is an occasional series of the writer’s poetic interpretations of jazz recordings and film
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He confessed to murdering an additional 11 people, most of whom were drug dealers, but his claims have not been substantiated. He later murdered another person in Russia, and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being declared mentally ill.īludgeoned a man to death in New Jersey and allegedly murdered four other people, including his ex-wife, in New Mexico. Suspected of murdering two people in Alicante, Spain, between August and November 2020. Serving an indefinite sentence in a psychiatric hospital. Raped, murdered two women and set their bodies on fire in 2004 paroled in 2014, but re-arrested for sexually abusing a disabled young girl paroled on a second occasion in 2020 and killed three more women in Taraz that year sentenced to 26 years imprisonment. He has now been charged with the murders of two more women committed after he was released from prison in 2020. Murdered four people, including his cousin, with two accomplices.Ĭonvicted of murdering sixteen women during three separate murder sprees due to his hatred of women. Serving a sentence of thirty years in prison He lured his last two victims through dating apps. Known as "The Psychopath of Meiggs" Murdered random homeless people by stabbing them in November 2020.Ĭonvicted of murdering three people in the United States and Germany and suspected of an additional one. Previously convicted for murdering a neighbor in 1980 and two children in 2001. Known as "The Novorossiysk Maniac" violent recidivist and sex offender who raped a woman and killed another in Krasnodar shortly after being released from prison. She is accused of having tried to murder ten people, including her mother and brothers. Poison" murdered her children and her boyfriend, and is believed to have killed two more men. Serving a sentence of fifty-six years in prison Released in 2016 just to kill the daughter of his new girlfriend in 2020. Murdered his girlfriend her son in 2005 and hid their bodies in a metal barrel. He later murdered his girlfriend in 2020.Īlong with other two men, they murdered an agricultural producer in June of 2020, and were later linked to two other murders who took place between November 2019 and January 2020. Murdered two people with a saber in 2010 and was arrested, but escaped in less than a year. He murdered an acquaintance of his, and a couple for whom he had worked for as a tree trimmer. Stabbed three people to death in Oroville, California. Serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole A month after he was arrested, he hanged himself in his jail cell. Known as "The Kashirsky Maniac" linked to nine sexually-motivated attacks against young girls, seven of which were fatal. After murdering his third victim, he drowned himself in Horseshoe Lake. Murdered three members of a family in the same house from 1996 to 2020. Robbed and murdered six people from 2019 to 2020 in Wayne County, Michigan, later dying by suicide. He is suspected of the disappearances of three neighbors. Murdered his wife in 2004, then murdered and dismembered a girlfriend in 2020. Murdered at least three women between December 2018 and January 2020. Serving a sentence of seventy years in prison The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial murder as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone". A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who murders three or more people, with the murders taking place over a month or longer and including a significant period of time between them. This is a list of serial killers who were active between 2020 and the present. 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Though I still wish It gave the more emotional moments the right amount of breathing room. Its not using comedy to hide its bottom tier writing and characters Like Jitsu wa watashi wa often did. The manga also isn't excessive in comedy. The jokes aren't all amazing but most of them do land unlike other romcom like Nisekoi or Love Hina or Maison Ikkoku. The romantic Comedy aspect of the series is actually very good. The manga is 18 volumes yet it works because the core of the series. Rare for a romcom unlike the many garbage ones that get praised. The money difference also allows for some actual funny gags. Despite being 26 the Male lead is more immature, despite being 16 the female lead is the more mature one. But it works because of the equal mental pairing of the characters. This results in the push and pull dynamic as I mentioned earlier. They both want the other one to fall in love first whilst both of them due to there constant teasing, affection and various situations mostly romantic than sexual they slowly start gaining feelings for each other. The MMC is full of himself but it works because the FMC pushes back hard. If you couldn't tell this is some Kaguya shit going on. Hence the Push and pull relationship starts and However falls in love first LOSES. She annoyed with him though finding him funny due to extravagance she intends to make him fall in love with her instead. However with his pride being hurt and horrified how a women hasn't fallen for him cuz of his existence being existing, he will now try to woo her constantly through the weirdest way possible. However immediately he's rude to her so she also is rude to him and leaves in a huff. You've read shoujo manga you know the type. A story about a Teenage girl who replaces her sister (Flaked due to having a boyfriend) with an arranged meeting with a high profile CEO of the largest corporation in Japan. In 2010, Grover starred in a parody of an Old Spice Commercial called "Smell Like a Monster" based on " The Man Your Man Could Smell Like", albeit a clam with "two tickets to the thing you love" bit his nose and he rode a cow rather than a horse. Global Grover is a more recent series of segments, in which Grover hosts a trip to a foreign country to learn about their culture and customs. He is often a source of slapstick humor and often accidentally injures himself.Įarly in the series, Grover would often greet Kermit the Frog by running up to him and shouting, "Hey, froggy babeee!" and then giving him a hard slap on the back, which knocked him over. Combined with the failings of the Super Grover character, this means that Grover can be very self-conscious and timid. His lessons are often wrong, leaving himself open to correction by a group of Muppets. Grover also has an instructional persona who wears a cap and gown to provide educational context for simple, everyday things. The play is, of course, a complete calamity and finally comes crashing down on both of them. Johnson is the only patron, and Grover is the only actor, for a production of Spider-Monster: The Musical, a parody of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Johnson's home despite his express wishes. One sketch parodied the ABC television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in a segment where Grover began remodeling Mr. Grover's jobs have ranged from a taxi driver and a photographer to a flight attendant and singing telegram artist. Johnson recognizes Grover as "that waiter from Charlie's". Johnson sketches have been produced, with Grover taking other customer service jobs and Mr. Repeats of the "Charlie's Restaurant" series of sketches aired for many years on Sesame Street. Naturally, Alistair Cookie introduced this performance as "Much Ado About Nothing". This was even parodied in an episode of Monsterpiece Theater, where Grover had to keep rushing out of the kitchen to tell Johnson that they had run out of parts of his order. Under this backdrop, the sketches served to teach the childhood audience basic concepts such as same and different, big and little, hot and cold, the alphabet, following directions and patience, among other things. Johnson would order a menu item, Grover would serve the customer, a disagreement results (usually) as a result of Grover's mistakes, and Grover attempting (often, more than once) to correct the mistake with varied degrees of success. The sketches followed the same basic premise: Mr. Johnson series of sketches, set at "Charlie's Restaurant", aired in the early 1970s here, Grover is employed as a waiter and Mr. Johnson, a balding, mustachioed customer who invariably becomes frustrated at Grover's bumbling service and/or his (Grover's) insistence that he is serving him properly. One of the more frequent sketch segments featuring Grover involves him taking a series of customer service jobs. The Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) meets with Grover to talk about refugees at the United Nations in New York City, 2016. The true Grover "officially" debuted in the second season of Sesame Street. In this appearance, Kermit the Frog tried to sing " What Kind of Fool Am I?" (accompanying himself on piano), but Grover repeatedly interrupted him. In an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 31, 1970, the character acquired his present appearance with blue fur and a pink nose. The puppet first received the name "Grover" on May 1, 1970. In his book The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell notes that the character "was used in promotional films for IBM". The muppet was not yet the "cute" character he would become, and he was not all that different in personality from the other monsters with whom he interacted. During the first season of Sesame Street, the character was nicknamed "Fuzzyface" or "The Hairy One", though neither would be used for his actual name. In 1969, clad in a necktie, he appeared in the Sesame Street Pitch Reel in the board-room sequences. He later made a cameo appearance in The Muppets on Puppets in 1968 with the Rock and Roll Monster. The monster was referred to as "Gleep", a monster in Santa's workshop. He also had a raspier voice – somewhat like Cookie Monster's – and was played a bit more unkempt than Grover would later behave. This puppet had greenish-brown fur and a red nose. Eric Jacobson has performed the character regularly from the year 2000 onwards.Ī prototype version of Grover appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on Christmas Eve in 1967. Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz from his earliest appearances. Self-described as lovable, cute and furry, he is a blue monster who rarely uses contractions when he speaks or sings. Grover is a blue Muppet character on the popular PBS/ HBO children's television show Sesame Street. “You almost need a showrunner to deal with Covid and someone who can only focus on creative.”īut the early days of the pandemic did allow a lot of time for development, and she has reconnected with a number of network buyers. Every show takes 50% more time,” she said. Salsano, who also produced Peace of Mind with Taraji for Facebook Watch during the past 12 months, said that it is “shocking” the amount of time that Covid takes up. “We had not done big outdoor adventure shows, so we were taking on something brand new for a new streamer, with probably the most dangerous, exciting, psychotic thing I’ve ever done.” SallyAnn Salsano “That was a show that was so different for us as a company,” Salsano added. She calls it “if Jersey Shore had sex with Free Solo and they had a baby” and joked that sometimes they didn’t have electricity in the desert - but they had Covid tests. The show follows a group of people who are walking across 900-foot gorges during the day, and they’re campsite is a party at night. “If we’d have taken the Jersey cast in Season 4 and locked them in a house and said, ‘You can’t go out to a club at night,’ they would have tied us up.”Īnother show that Salsano and her crew shot during the pandemic was Pushing the Line for Discovery+. “We’ve become a little more self-contained, they really feed off each other and they’re definitely a bit more senior and experienced that the Floribama crew,” she said. Shooting Jersey Shore, whose cast members have been making reality television for a long time, was a little easier creatively than Floribama Shore, which is more predicated on the single cast members going out and partying. “Because of the frequency of the testing schedule, it was annoying but no one was at risk and that was because of the amount of support and resources that came to us,” she said. That show, which returned in February, was shot in Montana and Arizona and was forced to shut down for two weeks in November after a crew member contracted Covid. She also shot the fourth season of Floribama Shore, which was a bit more challenging. If I don’t feel like I can do this myself, I can’t tell my staff that it’s OK.” “I was talking to people in the military, in the government, people at the NBA, wives of NBA players. “As the NBA was talking about their bubble, I was studying it like a crazy person,” she said. She said that she was pleased that her first show back was Jersey Shore, given her long and close relationship with the cast.īut she was still very well prepared and said that they received the financial support from the network to make it happen safely. Salsano’s first Covid shoot was the fourth season of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, which was shot in a quarantine bubble at the Hilton Lake hotel in Las Vegas. It was really difficult shooting in the pandemic was not for the weak and at times it’s not for the strong, there are days when I think, ‘What in God’s name are we trying to figure out’.” ‘Jersey Shore: Family Vacation’ MTV “The truth is you want to stay in your house and ride out the pandemic and stay healthy and safe, but we have a business to run and there are a lot of people that count on us - not only the buyers but my staff. “I feel like reality producers, much like reality contestants, if you put us in a box, we’re going to figure out how to get out of it, and I feel like the tables have turned and this is like us being on a challenge show,” she said. Salsano told Deadline that she’s been “amazed” by what the non-scripted community has been able to achieve during Covid.Ĭancellations/Renewals Scorecard: TV Shows Ended Or Continuing In 2020-21 Season The State Of Non-Scripted TV: Networks & Streamers Optimistic In 2021 As They Seek Post-Pandemic Stability & Noisy New Hits Read our full report to find out how all the new tech translates into still image and video results. The new iPhone’s hardware and software specifications make for impressive reading. In addition, the camera can shoot footage with expanded dynamic range when the frame rate is limited to 30 fps The faster sensor readout allows for better video stabilization and a reduced jello effect. In video mode, the iPhone XS Max can shoot 4K video at 60 frames per second and 1080p Full-HD at up to 240fps. Again, to our knowledge, this preview function is not currently available from any of the new iPhone’s close competitors. During still image capture, the camera continuously captures a multi-frame buffer at different exposures, allowing for simultaneous zero shutter lag and HDR processing, something that is unique to the new iPhone at this point. This also means the iPhone XS Max is capable of displaying HDR images in real-time in the preview image, so what you see is what you get. On the software and image processing side of things, the improvements are more obvious. But like the previous version, the new lens channels light onto the sensor through a 6-element lens with an f/1.8 aperture, and as before, the 2x tele-camera comes with 1.0µm pixels and an f/2.4 aperture in a six-element lens. For example, the 12MP sensor in the dual-camera setup’s wide-angle module is now larger than before, featuring 1.4 µm pixels compared to 1.22 µm on the iPhone X. A closer look reveals important changes, however. For more information, please see the articles about our new Wide and Night test protocols.Īpple’s brand-new iPhone XS Max features the company’s largest smartphone display ever - a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED variant - but otherwise comes with camera specs that on the surface look pretty much identical to last year’s iPhone X. We have retested this device using the new Wide and Night test protocols and updated the scores in this review, but we have not changed the text from the original review. We also expanded our low-light testing and created the new Night sub-score, which incorporates the previous Flash score. Please note: In September 2019, we updated the DXOMARK Mobile test protocol to cover ultra-wide-angle performance and renamed the protocol DXOMARK Camera. Mission takes design inspiration from the original 770 speakers launched in the 1970s, but has improved and modernised every other element: from the cabinet design to the drivers and even new dedicated stands. 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Are you after a large pair of speakers, or have an extensive budget for premium standmounters? Whatever the case, remember to also factor in speaker cables and the demands of the rest of your hi-fi system.Īs far as audio quality goes, it's definitely important to find a great-sounding pair of speakers, but how your speakers sound is naturally tied to what you're using to drive them. Budget and size are the biggest considerations. Imaginative powers that he was able to do so, and serendipitously, to come up with one of the best bovine puns in literary - or should that be cinematic? - history. I hadn't considered the possibility of a world in which cows became ruthless, libidinous killers, but it is a tribute to Michael Logan's I was looking for books set at any time, in any place. So step inside the world of the Manse, and watch it unravel around you.Īnd of Apocalypse Cow Terry had the following to say: Once you start to question the laws and promises that hold your world together, the whole thing can start to come apart. Which requires the audacity not just to make a new world from scratch, but to unmake it too.Īfter all, getting a second opinion on the rules of reality can be a dangerous thing - as you'll know if you are familiar with the poemįrom which Half-Sick of Shadows takes its name. I'll go with neutral.Terry had the following to say about Half Sick of Shadows:ĭavid Logan's anomalous world, the world of the Manse, is an unsettling place to be, precisely because he springs that shock on his unsuspecting characters - an uncommon trick, I enjoyed this very much, but am still not certain how I feel about the ending. However there is also and opening for another sequel, without the absolute necessity for one. It would have been hard to create a truly good ending choosing either side. Based on how the plot played out, it makes perfect sense. In the end members from both sides seem to see reason, but will the powers that be agree? It's a bit of an open ending, h. The problem is that each side is only seeing things from their own viewpoint. Geldolf invites himself on the mission, Both to escape his grandfather and to see his mother again-not positive that the rescue mission will work.There are a lot of shenanigans by both sides, threats and posturing and both secretly plan to destroy the other. When the man learns that his daughter is still alive on the island, he tasks his grandson with hiring a team of mercenaries to infiltrate Scotland and rescue her. Geldolf learns that his mother was right to hide him from his grandfather, who is a greedy old man concerned only with profits and securing his legacy. Both positions are understandable and even defensible.Our heroes are thrust back into the thick of things. The fear is that the infection will eventually escape the island and infect the rest of the world. Meanwhile the rest of the world believes they have the right to make the decision about whether or not these infected people have the right to live. There is an entire island of infected people trying to make the best of the life they've been cursed with. The virus, which was engineered for animals, has now mutated and made the jump to humans. Now the secret is out that the British Government created a biological weapon, and that they inadvertently let out of the laboratory. We are reunited with the survivors of Apocalypse Cow and are met with some new characters. I'm not sure how I feel about that ending, but I also do not think it could have ended any other way.Note To Self: Write a better review after the readathon.Updated Review (too many days later):So this was a bit more serious that it's wackier predecessor. The success of The Mandalorian, built on through Season 2, has been parlayed into an aggressive slate of new "Star Wars" shows, virtually all of them still pending amid a slow pandemic-era production schedule.ĭuring Disney’s four-hour-long “Investor Day” presentation on Dec. Sustaining growth will come down to making hits. Perhaps most importantly, there are hits like “Star Wars”-based series The Mandalorian, which span audience age demo, race and economic brackets. For the more musically-inclined, there’s also High School Musical: The Series.įor more mature audiences who are less interested in things that go “bang,” Disney Plus offers classics from the Fox archives and the entire suite if National Geographic programming. That means Disney Plus is nearly half the price of Netflix. In an era of ever-escalating programming costs, how long can Disney Plus afford to keep its price point so low?Īlso: Iger: Disney Plus Needs to Move Beyond Spandex … and Pump Up the Volume Disney Plus' Broad AppealĪ big part of Disney Plus’s early success has been its “four-quadrant” appeal-its ability to bring in all major audience demographics. Most major streamers depend on kids’ fare to keep parents paying up.Īnd Disney Plus has the most robust kids offering in the streaming biz, from Disney shows like Hannah Montana to Disney Animation classics including Frozen to Pixar movies like Moana, while also factoring in The Muppets and Nat Geo nature show.Īnd as the kids age into that all important tween/18-35 demographic, Disney Plus offers even more punch with some of the best of Marvel’s superhero blockbusters and the entire nine-film “Star Wars” saga. Netflix, the SVOD service Disney Plus is seeking to catch up to-or merely slow down- recently hiked its prices and now charges $15.49 per month for its standard tier, the HD version that allows two concurrent streams in the home. Thus, bundling saves subscribers $8 a month, a 36% discount.Ĭonsumers can also get a free year of Disney Plus by signing up with Verizon. The individual prices of those services added together comes to $21.97. The price for Disney Plus's bundle with the ad-supported version Hulu and ESPN Plus also went up $1 to $13.99 a month.Ī solo subscription to Hulu goes for $6.99 a month. Bumping the monthly cost from $6.99 to $7.99 and the yearly commitment from $69.99 to $79.99, after a seven-day free trial. Like its media conglomerate peers, Disney-now under the leadership of Bob Chapek-has already doubled down on its streaming bet, unleashing a brutal restructuring in the months before the pandemic set in, prioritizing subscription OTT. The company also said that it will increase its spending on programming in 2022 from $25 billion to $33 billion.Īs we watch what happens next with the most exciting new OTT platform to emerge in years, here are four things to keep an eye on: How Much Does Disney Plus Cost?ĭisney Plus upped its price for the first time in March. And there’s new streaming competition for Disney Plus, with the launches of AT&T’s HBO Max, Comcast/NBCUniversal’s Peacock, ViacomCBS's Paramount Plus and Discovery Inc.'s Discovery Plus, not to mention the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery. Equity research firm Needham & Company, for example, has expressed doubt about Disney’s growth projections for Disney Plus. “We are seeing the four-quadrant appeal of our brands reflected in our subscriber numbers,” Iger noted.Ĭombine that with a sleek Disney Plus app and the marketing power of its parent company, and Disney Plus is already achieving Disney’s broader goal-that is, compete with Netflix globally for next-generation video consumers.Ĭan the growth be sustained? There are skeptics. “We feel that validates that collection of brands and a blend of product,” he said.Īnd content-wise, Disney Plus seems to offer something for everyone: kids, teens, adults, men and women. It all came to fruition with the advent of Disney Plus.įormer Disney CEO Bob Iger credited Disney Plus’ strong debut to the parent company’s big investments in IP. The Disney Plus slate is the result of a well-executed acquisition strategy that began in 2004 with the purchase of the Muppets, then Pixar in 2006, before picking up more speed with the addition of Lucasfilm, National Geographic Marvel and Fox. The initial big subscriber numbers are thanks in part to years of planning. Also: Is Disney Plus Done with Premier Access? Part of the Plan All Along |