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'Hemlock Grove': Darkness Is Coming

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At the foot of a sweeping grand staircase in the foyer of an imposing early 20th century mansion, Famke Janssen is stoically explaining what's going to happen next to Bill Skarsgard as he fights back tears.

The two are filming a scene of "Hemlock Grove," the epic new Netflix series helmed by horror-master Eli Roth. The show is based on Brian McGreevy's novel of the same name, and follows two teenage boys (Skarsgard and "Degrassi" alum Landon Liboiron) at the center of a murder mystery in a creepy small town full of supernatural elements.

Its horror-esque approach and broad mix of supernatural beings may sound a lot like "True Blood" (which stars Skarsgard's older brother Alexander), but "Hemlock" is carving its own path. "We started by casting an entirely different Skarsgard," jokes McGreevy, who serves as an executive producer on the show.

Janssen plays Skarsgard's mother, the matriarch of the wealthy and powerful Godfrey family. Dougray Scott is her husband, Norman. "Battlestar Galactica" alumni Aaron Douglas and Kandyse McClure round out the cast as two characters (a cop and a "doctor," of sorts) investigating the murder.

HuffPost TV caught up with Janssen, Skarsgard, Scott, the creators and the rest of the cast to find out everything there is to know about "Hemlock Grove."

*1. It feels more like a 13-hour movie than 13 one-hour episodes.* "Like a novel, it's designed to work as a whole," explains McGreevy.

"The cool thing about doing it for Netflix is there are no act breaks," adds Douglas. "You don't have those shlocky breaks where you have to watch a soap commercial and then wait to find out what happens. It's seamless in that way."

"This is something completely fresh and new," agrees Skarsgard. "You hear 'werewolf' and 'vampire,' and think 'Oh, God, this is something I've seen a million times before.' But our show takes that and reinvents it and makes it a weird, special, unique show. I hope people appreciate this as something that's completely different."

*2. The beautiful house used in the show is a real place. *The sprawling Godfrey mansion is actually Parkwood Estate, a national historic site in Oshawa, Ontario. It has everything you could hope for in a sinister old manor, including a creepy waterless indoor pool, an old-timey bowling lane, an elaborate formal dining room and the aforementioned grand staircase.

*3. It isn't as "dark" as you might expect a horror series to be.* "We wanted something lush, a slightly more colorful palette," says McGreevy, explaining the show's visual sensibility. "To a certain extent, we wanted echoes of Old Hollywood."

"It didn't surprise me that 'Hemlock Grove' was based on a novel," says Lili Taylor ("Mystic Pizza,""Six Feet Under"), who plays Peter's mother. "It has that depth to it -- that depth and complexity. It sort of reminded me of the '70s and Robert Evans and all that stuff that was happening then, along with the freedom that the writers and directors were having. It felt like an independent film with all the creative control Netflix gave us."

*4. There's plenty of family drama mixed in with the murder and monsters.* "[The Godfreys] really do argue over what's for dinner," says Joel de la Fuente, who plays Dr. Johann Pryce.

"I feel like humans are ultimately worse than monsters," says Liboiron with a smile. "The town has normal people, like the sheriff [Douglas] ... they're all reacting to this supernatural energy that they can't explain. You see them slowly progress into their deeper, darker spots and they can't fully grasp the seriousness of the situation. As soon as things get a little out of control, humans can do some pretty wacky things."

*5. This is more of a psychological horror than a physical horror.* Don't expect non-stop gore or straight-up drama, but something in between. "This is certainly not blood-and-guts gore horror," says executive producer Lee Shipman. "This is psychological horror, like Roman Polanski or Stanley Kubrick, and that's what we tried to draw on here."

"A major influence for me growing up was Alfred Hitchcock," says McGreevy. "The way he could pick a relatively mundane scenario and set the camera at a weird angle to make me think about it in a completely different way. That was very influential when I was thinking about the book."

*6. "Hemlock Grove" is not a show about werewolves and vampires.* "I don't really see it as a vampires-and-werewolves kind of show at all," says Douglas. "It says it right on the poster: 'The Monsters Within,' and it's a human hand coming out of a creature ... it's more (at least for me) about the dramatic human interaction and how human beings are with one another when strange things start happening."

"We get asked the 'Twilight' question a lot," says the book's author. "There are unavoidable parallels between my work and that series, but in no way did I write the book with that franchise in mind."

*7. Liboiron and Skarsgard have a natural, instant bond -- both in real life and as their characters.* "This show is going to live or die based on the relationship between Peter and Roman," says Shipman. "When you talk to them, you know it and you see it -- these are the guys."

"[The relationship between Roman and Peter] is not really explained, and I don't think it's one of those relationships that needs to be explained," says Liboiron. "The two of them see eye-to-eye on a level that they haven't been able to see eye-to-eye on with anybody else. It's like a supernatural, personal understanding of each other. In a strange way, Bill and I connected on a weird level in real life as well. We started talking about relationships, love and personal shit almost right away ... there were no barriers. It was immediate."

"I don't think I can explain [Roman and Peter's] relationship," says Skarsgard. "It's supernatural. It's relatable, though, because sometimes you meet somebody and it's just meant to be. There's some chemistry that just makes sense. In this case, Roman sees through Peter's mask and vice versa. It's an unspoken connection of understanding."

*8. This is Netflix's first-ever original series.* "House Of Cards" is based on a British TV series, and the upcoming "Arrested Development" block is (obviously) continuing from its previous run. "Hemlock Grove," though it's based on a book, is wholly original and differs quite a bit from page to screen.

McClure's character (Dr. Clementine Chasseur), and Taylor's character are definitely expanded from their roles in the book. In a way, McClure's character acts as a conduit of information to the TV audience, and Taylor's motherly role is an anchor to her wayward son.

"Dougray's character, Norman, at first glance seems like a really good person," says Janssen. "But he also does bad things too. There are clashes between good and bad, as well as class differences. All of this stuff is going on at once."

*9. It's a slow burn.* The first three episodes serve as a sort-of primer, and from there, the characters and storylines take off. When asked about her matriarchal, powerful character Olivia, Janssen balks at explaining the whole story. "I'm not going to tell you what's going on with Olivia, because I think it's best to watch the 13 episodes an let it unfold as it does," she says. "But I will say however someone seems on the outside is not necessarily how they are on the inside."

"This show is like a roller-coaster, going up those first three episodes -- tick, tick, tick -- and then as soon as it goes over the hill, it takes off," says "Hemlock Grove" director Deran Sarafian. "After the first three episodes it gets exponentially more exciting. I can't wait for people to see our 13-hour movie.

"This isn't network television," agrees executive producer Mark Verheiden. "You can set things up and not pay them off for a while. Stuff in Episode 2 doesn't pay off until Episode 9, and in this case, you don't need to wait 9 weeks for it to happen. If you're binge-watching, you may have seen it four or five hours ago. When making this show, we didn't have to play into any of the usual expectations."

*10. "Hemlock Grove" was inspired by classic horror, including "Dracula,""The Wolf Man" and "Frankenstein."* "The genesis of the novel came from a simple premise," says McGreevy. "I wanted to take the major archetypal monsters of the modern era and put them in my high school. Resolving my feelings about monstrosity, and my feelings about adolescence were the same thing."

"There's some very subtle naming going on in the book too," says McGreevy with a laugh. "Godfrey ... Shelley..."

"Hemlock Grove" premieres on Netflix on April 19. All 13 episodes will be available for streaming. Reported by Huffington Post 5 hours ago.

Me and You – review

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Based on a youth novel by Niccolò Ammaniti, Me and You has warmth and a tell-tale Bertolucci touch, but it's not among his greatest films

There's intimacy and immediacy in this movie from the 73-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci: it's an engaging, if slight, two-hander about a troubled teenage boy, Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) who tells his mother he's going on a school skiing trip but instead hides out in the unused, crummy basement flat under the family home – and finds he has to share it with his older half-sister, Olivia (Tea Falco), who is also using it as somewhere to come off heroin. A difficult relationship blooms.

Me and You was based on a young-adult novel by Niccolò Ammaniti, published in 2010, but it could have been made at any time in the last 40 years, especially when Lorenzo and Olivia start singing along to David Bowie's rewritten Italian version of Space Oddity. Something in its slightly earnest imagining of abuse, drugs and young people marks this out as an old man's film. For all that, it has warmth and a kind of neo-New-Wave jauntiness – Bertolucci even fires off a visual allusion to Truffaut in the final moments – and it's similar in many ways to his earlier films The Dreamers and Last Tango in Paris, but less highly charged, and with less at stake. A minor, but valuable Bertolucci film.

Rating: 3/5 Reported by guardian.co.uk 3 hours ago.

Easley High's Leslie Ledbetter Takes Third in High Jump Competition

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Easley High's Leslie Ledbetter Takes Third in High Jump Competition Patch Easley, SC --

Easley junior, Leslie Ledbetter, took third place in the Girls’ High Jump competition at the Taco Bell Invitational Track Meet held Friday and Saturday, April 12-13 at Spring Valley High School in Columbia.

This was the 21st Taco Bell Invitational attracting over 100 schools from 8 states.

Ledbetter jumped 5’4” tying her Personal Best set last year which also set a new Easley High School girls’ high jump record.

Fifty-three girls competed in the high jump portion of the meet with Ledbetter finishing behind Nicole Green of Ponte Vedra, Florida who jumped 5’10” and current State Champion, Julisa Tindall of Northwestern who also jumped 5’4”. Ledbetter plans to return to Spring Valley May 4 for the SC State Qualifying Meet.

Other Easley athletes competing in the invitational included Olivia Gardner who ran a 5:36.69 in the Girls’ One Mile and Geordy Agguire running a 2:09.21 in the Boys’ 800 Meter.

With Ledbetter’s podium finish, Easley High was awarded 6 points finishing 37th out of 63 girls’ teams competing. Reported by Patch 17 hours ago.

Time to Eat

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*Donna Karan*’s Urban Zen loft played host to the cinema crowd last night. Tribeca Film Festival founders *Robert De Niro* and *Jane Rosenthal* gathered the likes of *Olivia Wilde*, *Alessandro Nivola*, and *Jack Huston* to celebrate IWC's contribution to the festival's education and young-filmmakers program. "This is fantastic. I love this place," a relaxed De Niro told Karan. Working the room, Karan told Style.com, "We're connecting the dots tonight. Fashion, film, young entrepreneurs—preserving what we've made but also celebrating the next group."

Speaking of the next group, *Penn Badgley*, whose buzzy Greetings from Tim Buckley premieres on Tuesday, was in the house and eager to talk business. "It's an admittedly strange meditation on a father-son relationship. And for me, the first time I can be resolutely creative and artistic," Badgley said. The actor plays the title character's estranged son, the late musician Jeff Buckley, alongside Imogen Poots. After dinner, IWC and the TFF awarded filmmaker Jeff Malmberg with a limited-edition watch and a check for $25,000. His latest film, Teatro, centers around an Italian village struggling to hold on to its artistic traditions, a message that Karan and co. could really get behind. A Blumarine-clad *Karolina Kurkova* couldn't contain her excitement about her upcoming project. "We're working on Season Two of The Face this fall, which is great. We're thrilled it's coming back."


—Christopher Barnard Reported by style.com 5 hours ago.

Learwood 8th Grade Honor Rolls

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Learwood 8th Grade Honor Rolls Patch Avon-Avon Lake, OH --

Learwood Middle School has announced its seventh and eighth-grade honor rolls. Today we are presenting the eighth grade. Check back a list of seventh-graders who made the roll. 

*A- F*

Madelin Ahren,Emily Akey, Lauren Anthony, Nicholas Antoniewicz,  Abigail Armbrecht, Caitlin Armbrecht, Curran Arora,  Connor Baker, Megan Barnes, Kevin Barrett, Hunter Bateman, Daniel Beachnau, Madison Beckman, Emily Birk, Samantha Black, Nathan Boland, Rachel Brewer, Jack Brodke, Ryan Brooks,  Madelyn Bruening, Madison Bubolz, Gwendolyn Bueche, Rocco Campo, Clare Cantleberry,  Anna Carson, Anna Chafin, Mitchell Coe, Emma Coughlin,  Natalie Currie, Andrew Datko, Marissa Daum,  Lodge Dils, Raven Duncan Mann,  Simon Dunstan, Devin Dyer, Ian Elias, Jacob Fansler,  Morgan Frank.

*G-L*

Caylie Ganser, Alexander Garbe, Erin Gates, Lucas Good, Jacob Gottshall, Kerry Gray, Haley Haas, Olivia Hall, Kristina Hart, Adil Hasan, Zachery Hass, Abigail Hawkinson, Mallory Hebert, Sarah Hessel, Amanda Hoffman, Alexander Holtz, Kashley Horton, Jared Howell,Mackenzie Jacob,  Preston Jacobson, Ryan Jaeckin, Jasmine Kazmierczak, Tait Keller, Alexander Kelly, Jake Kemer, Joseph Kilgore, Helen Killius, Owen Kirkwood, Josephine Klingshirn, Isaella Kneidel, Amy Krause, Jaret Kuhar, Jacqueline Kurak, Ruth Kurak, Parker Laird, Andrew Lane, Mary Alice Lange, Mary Catherine Lardie, Jarod Larson, Lucy Lemanowicz, Noah Lendal,  Abby Lindenmeier, Alexis Loebick,  Mark Loper, Olivia Lopez, Braeden Loveless, Tessa Lubertozzi,  Sarah Lucas.

*M-S*

Aidan MacKeigan, David Marsh, Alexis McArdle, John McGinness, Catherine McNaghten, Alexandra Melone, Grace Meyer, Justin Michlovic, Jacob Milkie, Rylie Miller,Brendan Moore, Alyssa Mora, Colin Murnan, Rebecca Neumann, Stefan Nieschwitz, Kellie Norris, Joseph Novess,  Benjamin Nowak, Jacob O’Connor,  Kasey O’Rourke,  Caleb Orr, Charles Paflas, Andrew Peachman, Megan Peepers, James Pena, Thomas Pierce, Brian Pincura, Nathan Plow, Jack Rauch, Samuel Redman, Isaac Rice, Jordan Richmond, Elizabeth Rogers, Sabrina Roman, Jillian Rose, Hannah Runge, Megan Sanders, , Peter Shepherd, Allison Shyrock, Ryan Sidloski, Olivia Siko, John Skaggs, Matthew Stanfield, Christian Stephens, Gabriella Sterling,  Ellard Stolze.

*T-Z*

Camrynn Tanner, Abigail Tansey, Joshua Taylor, Grant Thatcher, William Theodore, Sarah Thieken, Edward Thompson, Carson Toy, Destinee Turner, Megan Twyman, Kyle Umek, Maxwell Underwood, Trevor White, Alex Wichman, Kirsten Wyrwas, Alexandra York, Madeline Ziemba, Mila Zunich. Reported by Patch 18 hours ago.

Ozeal Glasses Is Riding the Fashion Trends

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Last week, Ozeal Glasses added three new lines –Street Style, Cat Eye and Nerd Style- to enrich their glasses collection and entertain fashionistas.

(PRWEB UK) 19 April 2013

Last week, Ozeal Glasses, UK’s leading online glasses retailor, added three new lines –Street Style, Cat Eye and Nerd Style- to enrich their glasses collection and entertain fashionistas.

The STREET STYLE line took cues from a group of street snaps captured by Tommy Ton and was designed exclusively for men. Apparently, Tommy Ton’s lens particularly loved men with thick-rimmed large glasses on and Ozeal Glasses, like a fashion hound, observed the traces and launched this masculine Street Style collection after full preparation. However, it didn’t simply copy those celebrity styles. Instead, creation and a remarkable eye on fashion are fully demonstrated by this line by talented use of metal and acetate. We all know that too much acetate will end up with heavy weight while too much metal will cause dullness. This street style collection from Ozeal Glasses just gives the perfect dose of metal and acetate. To sneak a peek at this collection, simply visit http://www.ozealglasses.co.uk/street-style-collection.

Among these three lines, CAT EYE is the only collection designed for ladies. Celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Princess Margaret and Audrey Hepburn who were seen as iconic trend setters half a century ago were all sported in Cat Eye glasses. Obviously, this classic vintage style is a miracle, for it succeeded finding its way back. Of-the-moment female icons like Olivia Palermo and Nicole Richie all love to pick up a pair cat eye glasses, not as fashion accessories but also one of the most effective ways to enhance their sexy looking. Inspired by cues and clues, Ozeal Glasses launched this Cat Eye collection. However this collection focuses more on how to highlight women’s mature femininity and low-profile elegance by cutting the degree of flare-up and softening the edges instead of wild sexiness.

The last but also the hottest line is of course NERD GLASSES. Being nerdy is another type of sexiness. You cannot deny it! Celebrities like Justin Timberlake all love to style themselves with those seemingly bulky plastic frames. As a fashion observer, Ozeal Glasses surely won’t let this hot style go. However this newly introduced collection isn’t simply nerdy. It weighs much less due to the bold use of ultra-thin metal in parts like front or arms and therefore, it is much more comfortable for all-day-long wearing.

As an online retailor, Ozeal Glasses surely need to stand out from competition. That’s why it absorbs classic or trendy styles on one hand and infuses bold creation on the other hand when preparing new glasses lines. As to fashionistas, it is obviously a piece of exciting news, for they can have a new destination when thirsty for some fresh fashion touches. Reported by PRWeb 3 hours ago.

Watch: Kid Production of 'Wizard of Oz' This Weekend

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Watch: Kid Production of 'Wizard of Oz' This Weekend Patch Aliso Viejo, CA --

The Creative Kids Playhouse Children's Theatre of Orange County is currently in the middle of production of The Wizard of Oz with local kids ages 6-14.  It is a program that is offered through the Saddleback Valley Unified School District Recreation Department. 

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There are two casts for this show. Last weekend the 52-member "Blue" Cast performed. They rehearsed weekly after school at La Madera Elementary for 10 weeks. Nearly 900 people came to see them, and they closed their show Saturday night to a standing ovation!  

This weekend the 52-member Red Cast performs. They have been rehearsing after school at Santiago Elementary in Lake Forest, also for 10 weeks.

Remaining performances are Friday at 6:30 p.m., and Saturday, 2:30 and 6:30. Tickets are $12, and there are about 80 seats remaining for each of the three performances. The ticket booth opens about 45 minutes before each performance.

Creative director is Michele Sheehy-Bowren, while other key adult contributors are: Elizabeth Ramirez (set design), Annette Sheehy (Costumes), Rich Hall (tech booth), Natasha Thomas (state manager) and Catharine Bishop (director of the Red production).

Olivia Tarango portrayed Dorothy in the Blue cast production, and Diya Singh wears the ruby slippers this weekend. She will be accompanied down the Yellow Brick Road by her faithful Rachael Patin as Toto, along with Reese Davidson as Scarecrow, James Slaybaugh as Tin Man, and Madeline Molina as Lion.

For more information about this production, as well as upcoming ones, see the *Creative Kids Playhouse website*.

—Elizabeth Ramirez contributed to this article Reported by Patch 12 hours ago.

Mother Reflects on Daughter's Fight With Cancer

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Mother Reflects on Daughter's Fight With Cancer Patch Brandon, FL --

 

Shirley Dunaway Outen and her daughter, Kim Mitchell, along with their husbands and their daughter and granddaughter, Olivia, have participated in the Plant City Relay For Life before, even last year as Mitchell battled stage 4 colon cancer.

Mitchell won that battle and was declared cancer-free; only weeks ago, cancer returned in other spots of her body and the fight continues.

By her daughter's side Outen stands, and after a recent outing to the Lakeland Regional Cancer Center, she put pen to paper to record her thoughts, as noted below. In awe of the cancer fighter's strength under adversity, Outen likened the chemotherapy wing to the ancient coliseum — and the survivor to the gladiator within.

"It's like they're given a set of weapons and handlers and they're thrown into the arena and all they can do is fight and hope," Outen said in an interview. "Some of them are older and have been through this before but they still keep fighting. They younger ones, it's their first time around and they're scared and they don't know what to expect. The battle-weary warriors don't know what their fate is anymore than the younger ones."

It's that courage under adversity that Outen finds remarkable, as she gives testament to its display in her own daughter's battle.

"That's her personality, that's the way she has always handled anything she approached in life," Outen said. "If she tells you she's going to do something she's going to do her damndest to do it."

That Kim Mitchell would be fighting cancer before age 50 is not something the family had expected; there is no family history of cancer.

What Outen does know is now they are on the receiving end of all the good the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life movement can bring in terms of raising awareness, supporting cancer fighters and striving to find a cure.

The family has participated before in the Plant City Relay For Life "out of compassion and very strong feelings that something needs to be done," Outen said. "All of a sudden we're put on the receiving end of things and it's very strange, but very comforting to now there are people who still do this, people who we don't even know, who relay for life."

· *See Plant City, Seffner Relays For Life Set To Go Tonight (April 19)*

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*Shirley Dunaway Outen's Reflections on a Daughter's Fight With Cancer*



As we walk into the chemotherapy wing of the cancer center I am struck by how the patients are not unlike ancient gladiators entering the coliseum to engage in a fight for their lives. As they are prepared and tethered to their weapons a quiet desperation settles over them while they gird themselves for battle against a frightening and formidable foe.

Some of these noble warriors are old and battle weary. Some are young and scared in the anticipation of what the future will bring. All of them question the reason why they were thrust into such an unrelentingly cruel arena.

Is some unseen deity angry at them regarding some unimaginable transgression against omnipotent power? Are the warriors being held to a higher standard of pain and suffering to show lesser mortals what fate might befall them? Or is it in truth simply just the luck of the draw, where destiny pounds with clenched steel, wrapped fists and slashes with finely honed swords against unsuspecting wretches who have done nothing whatsoever in life to deserve the war in which they must now engage?

To my way of thinking none of them deserve this, no matter the reason.

Regardless, they fight on with the resolve that the oppressor will go down in defeat never to be faced again. And, as an observer, I, with all the strength I can muster, silently cheer for each of the warriors. I would gladly, happily, joyously enter the arena replacing my own daughter and fight to the death if necessary in order to spare her this battle. I, and so many others, wrap her in a mantle of protective love while she fights on.

Reported by Patch 9 hours ago.

Parkville-Overlea Obituaries Through April 19

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Parkville-Overlea Obituaries Through April 19 Patch Parkville-Overlea, MD --

*Evans Funeral Chapel*

· John George Matoska passed away April 16.
· Mark Louis Rohde passed away April 15.
· Clifford Monroe Welch passed away April 15.
· Mabel M. "Marie" Bishop Wagner passed away April 14.
· Frank A. Meninger passed away April 14.
· Alma Virginia Harrison passed away April 11.
· Elvira "Maria" Smith passed away April 11.
· Grace Tabb passed away April 11.
· Loretta Carmela Donelson passed away April 10.
· Carol Johnson passed away April 10.
· Stephan A. Tymiuk passed away April 9.
· Gloria P. Chilcoat passed away April 8.
· George Bernard Flury passed away April 7.

*Ruck Funeral Homes*

· Agnes McCartney passed away April 17.
· Joesph J. Notari passed away April 17.
· Bernard Carrol Winiarski passed away April 17.
· Frederick Charles Kuhn Jr. passed away April 16.
· Eugene William Small passed away April 16.
· Marylea H. Miller passed away April 15.
· George Philipp passed away April 15.
· Patricia Barlage passed away April 14.
· Joseph L. Holthaus passed away April 14.
· Samuel J. Presgraves passed away April 14.
· Editha Grice passed away April 13.
· George Paul Parsons Sr. passed away April 13.
· Henry M. Fuchsluger passed away April 12.
· Nicholas Lee Gounaris passed away April 12.
· Thomas George Kent passed away April 11.
· Mary Ellen Green passed away April 10.
· Ruth Ann Seufert passed away April 10.
· Carl H. Stilwell III passed away April 10.
· Catherine A. Droter passed away April 9.
· Elizabeth Ann Evans passed away April 9.
· Russell W. Reider passed away April 9.
· Jack F. Watson passed away April 9.
· Robert G. Erhardt passed away April 8.
· Willard Sparks passed away April 8.

*Miller-Dippel Funeral Home*

· Louis Charles Velenovsky passed away April 13.
· Margaret C. (Brennan) Murtha passed away April 8.

*Lassahn Funeral Home*

· Heath Titus passed away April 15.
· Elma Link passed away April 14.
· Olivia Holzknecht passed away April 13.
· Eugene Kolb passed away April 12.
· Sgt. Clayton Willey passed away April 11.
· Ruth Reinhardt passed away April 9.
· Eleanor Jaeger passed away April 7.
· Rebecca Heston passed away April 6.
· Mary Prahl passed away April 6.
· Carol Schull passed away April 6.

*Johnson-Fosbrink Funeral Home*

· Linwood Earl "Bill" Shiflett passed away April 8.
· Angie Howland-Armetta passed away April 7.
· Joseph V. Fonte passed away April 6.
· Elizabeth A. Buechner passed away April 3.
· Wilmer Lee Jones, Jr. passed away April 2.
· Americo Anthony Lanciotti passed away April 1.* *
· Mildred M. Kuhn passed away April 1.* * Reported by Patch 6 hours ago.

Joel Osteen's Niece Seeks to Bring Awareness to Child Hunger in US (VIDEO)

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Olivia Osteen, niece of famed pastor Joel Osteen, has joined forces with Disney star Jake Short to bring national awareness to children suffering from hunger in the U.S. through the Blesssings in a Backpack campaign. Reported by Christian Post 11 hours ago.

Megachurch Pastor's Niece, Disney Star Fight US Hunger in Schools

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Pastor Joel Osteen's niece, Olivia Osteen, and Jake Short, star of the Disney comedy hit show "A.N.T. Farm," are promoting a nationwide charity aimed at fighting hunger in schools through a public service announcement filmed at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Reported by Christian Post 10 hours ago.

Charlestown Residents Respond to Lockdown

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Charlestown Residents Respond to Lockdown Patch Charlestown, MA --

[UPDATED Friday, April 19, 10:41 a.m.]

It's been a tense morning in Boston.

Local residents woke up to news that one of the marathon bombing suspects was killed in a firefight overnight on Thursday night and that a second suspect is still on the loose. Authorities believe the second suspect is at large in the Watertown area. 

Residents around the city were dealing Friday morning with an order to stay at home with the doors locked, suspended T service and closed businesses. 

Many people took to Facebook and Twitter Friday morning to share what's going through their minds right now with the unfolding emergency in the area. 

Charlestown resident Garry Waldeck shared a photo of a deserted Downtown Crossing on Friday morning. 

"Downtown crossing at 950am on a friday #ghostown," Waldeck wrote.

Another local resident responded to the photo with, "I'm glad people are listening and remaining out of officer's way and out of danger. Crazy view!"

Charlestown resident Caitlin Walsh noted that it was "hard to focus" when asked about her thoughts during the lockdown.

Some wondered when they could leave their homes for some of life's necessities.

"Where can I go to get more coffee. Need Coffee in Charlestown! #BostonStrong" one Charlestown resident wrote on Twitter.

Less than 10 minutes later, she posted: "Excellent neighbors in Charlestown. One just knocked on my door and brought me coffee. #BostonStrong"

Charlestown resident Abby Gray said she sensed a "widespread cooperation" in Charlestown, "a sadness that we are under siege but that we will not stay down."

"As a business owner, we are first worried that our staff is home and safe—and they are, Thank God," said Gray, who owns Olivia Browning of Charlestown. "As a local resident, I think we need to listen to our very qualified personnel, all of whom deserved medals of honor after this is over. They are highly trained professionals. If they say, 'stay in,' stay in. I think most of that caution is so that they can maneuver with out concern about all civilians."

As a mother, Gray said she felt the situation was difficult to explain to her children.

"Richard and I are talking as it unfolds and making our daughter(s) feel safe, protected and calm," she said.

Gray also mentioned a hope that people would not allow anger to rule in the days following the manhunt.

"I also am hopeful that people will not profile and spew messages of hate about other cultures or nationalities. We will do everything we can to help heal our community, raise money for the victims and their families, and move forward into the light," she said.

Charlestown resident David Whelan works in the Navy Yard and was in lockdown at his office on Friday morning.

"Literally, they don’t want folks leaving the building," he said.

He reported an "eerie" feeling in the neighborhood.

"It is strangely quiet and folks seem to be very focused on what is going on with the manhunt. Can’t talk about anything else. Very little traffic is buzzing about. The Yard is like a ghost town."

He added: "It takes things like this to remind one of how many personal freedoms we do have and how strange it is when someone puts restrictions on those freedom."

One Charlestown resident shared a photo of an empty Main Street around 10:30 a.m. on Friday, writing: "Not a soul on Main Street."

*What's going through your mind in Charlestown right now? Tell us in the comments. * Reported by Patch 10 hours ago.

Deadfall Movie Review, Trailer, Pictures & News

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Casino heist siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) find themselves stranded in the wilderness after their car skids off the road. He sets off into the wilderness while she hitches a ride with a trucker... who invites him back to his family home for Thanksgiving. Reported by Sky Movies 10 hours ago.

Trailer: Deadfall

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Thriller Deadfall starring Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde. When a casino heist goes wrong, siblings Addison (Bana) and Liza (Wilde) go on the run from the law. Reported by Sky Movies 10 hours ago.

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Articles: Record Stories Last year, we celebrated Record Store Day by recalling some of our most vivid record-store memories. This time, we asked some of our favorite artists to tell us about their favorite shops and experiences flipping through stacks over the years. So read on to learn about the snarky record pusher who saved Jenny Lewis' life, that time Robert Plant walked in Grimey's in Nashville, A.C. Newman lamenting the myth of the "staff pick," how John Talabot owes his own sound to a mysterious in-store record player, and much more.

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*Jenny Lewis
**Aron's Records; Los Angeles, CA [closed]*

I was searching for a Jungle Brothers cassette for the tape player in my '64 Chevy Malibu (painted perfect in a color called Cinnamon Sunset) at the legendary Aron's Records on Highland Blvd. in 1995. That's where I heard Stephen Malkmus' voice for the first time. I asked the guy behind the desk who it was and he rolled his eyes and pointed me towards the Ps. I was almost exclusively listening to hip-hop and jazz at that point in my life, but Pavement's Wowee Zowee permeated my musical tunnel vision. It was like rap music in the lyrical flow, and kind of out-there, like Eric Dolphy. I stood in the aisle staring at the cover.

I had fallen in love with "Rattled by the Rush" and then made my way back though their other records. If not for that snarky fucker who decided to play that record at that exact moment on that day in Los Angeles, I may have never started a band. I probably would have become a shitty white MC Lyte/Monie Love wannabe. So thank you, snarky fucker who worked at Aron's. I love you.

P.S.-- My band got to open for Pavement for a few shows 15 years later. I wouldn't have believed it if you told me that back in '95.

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*Danny Brown
**Whites Records; Detroit, MI [closed]*

Whites Records used to be located on Ferry Park, which we called The Zone, because of its zip code. (West Grand Blvd. divides the zip codes 48206 and 48208. The Zone is on one side, and my neighborhood, Linwood, is on the other-- they didn't get along too well.) It was the first record store I found that carried a lot of independent rap music and mixtapes. It was the first place I heard 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up". When Wu-Tang Forever came out, me and my homies skipped school to go buy it from Whites. But, like I said, our neighborhoods don't get along. We pretty much got jumped and had to run home just to purchase the second Wu-Tang album. It was worth it.

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*How to Dress Well's Tom Krell*

When I was 15, I got kicked out of high school and had to start at a new one. It was super tough, but I very quickly and happily made friends with a boy named Jamie. At this point, the records that meant the world to me were Country Grammar by Nelly and Fevers and Mirrors by Bright Eyes. Jamie and I bonded pretty intensely over music, and he pushed me to start playing. We also spent a lot of time at a record store in Boulder, Colorado. The main guy who worked there-- and he must've worked there seven days a week for like 10 years-- was this insanely smug, super-pretentious thirtysomething industrial music guru/weirdo. He wore all black, looked like he never slept, and generally behaved like he hated life. He was so awesome. We loved how much he just hated us-- we would ask for, like, older Alkaline Trio or Further Seems Forever vinyls, and he just thought we were complete wimps and dweebs. Which we were, of course.

One day we got up the courage to ask him for a recommendation. This was unprecedented. He begrudgingly took us to the 7" rack and dug out a split that would change my life forever. He knew what we liked, but he wasn't going to cater to our teen tastes. He told us something super harsh like, "This is like what you guys like... but not stupid." We were embarrassed and excited. He handed me a 7" with a drawing of the moon on it. I had never heard of either Current 93 or Antony and the Johnsons, but we took his advice. We couldn't not.

That day, I bought the Current 93/Antony and the Johnsons' "Immortal Bird"/"Cripple and the Starfish" split 7", went home, and listened in a kind of confused awe. The A-side was wild. The B-side made me cry. I had never heard anything like it. This changed me forever-- two artists doing something completely progressive and free, with an emotional intensity I had never heard before. I still love this record so much. It opened up a whole world for me: Suddenly, I was listening to CocoRosie, Black Dice, and eventually Michael Cashmore. Yes!

One can click around on blogs and go down YouTube wormholes, but my musical life wouldn't be what it is if it hadn't been for the contingent intervention of that one record store bro, whose whole life was dedicated to ordering a few copies of a weird UK 7"s. He broke me out of my teen comfort zone and pointed me to a world of musical expression I had never before imagined. In that human intervention, there is the possibility of a truly fresh start: not the next video that algorithmically follows from the video you're presently watching, not some repost of something trendy, not some banner ad or car commercial or whatever, but a real rupture, a real change effected by a person who lives for and loves music. Love to that dude who sold Jamie and I that 7" and love to real record stores everywhere.

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"The main guy who worked at this store was an insanely smug, super-pretentious thirtysomething who generally behaved like
he hated life. He was so awesome." -- How to Dress Well



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*Antony Hegarty
**Tower Records; San Jose, CA [closed]*

When I was 14, I used to sit on the floor putting on my makeup at Tower Records on Bascom Ave. in San Jose, and the employees would play me Soft Cell's "Non-Stop Exotic Video Show" on repeat on the monitors. All the death rockers and speed freaks worked at Tower and every day they would give me rides and cigarettes. It was the only decent place in the whole city. I stole the first Creatures album from there. You can't do that on iTunes.

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*King Tuff's Kyle Thomas
**Meridian's Music; Brattleboro, VT*

My entire education came from working in a record store as a teenager. All I did was drink beer out of coffee cups and sleep on the couch and check out all the cute girls buying Belle & Sebastian records. I learned about rock'n'roll and sex and friendship, and I realized I could do whatever I wanted. I never went to class ever again. It was basically like high school if high school taught you about things you actually wanted to know about.

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"If not for that snarky fucker at Aron's Records, I probably would have become a shitty white MC Lyte wannabe." -- Jenny Lewis



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*Lambchop's Ryan Norris
**Grimey's; Nashville, TN*

Part of the appeal of coming to Grimey's is you never know what you're going to get. As a longtime on-again, off-again employee of the legendary Nashville record store, I've had some noteworthy experiences there over the years, like when Nick Cave got a little too familiar with my girlfriend. Or when I arrived one morning-- probably a few minutes late, a little hung over, and under-caffeinated-- and the ubiquitous early knock came on the door. My manager Anna went to shoo the person away and then I heard her say, "I'm sorry sir, but we don't open until... oh, um, come on in." I thought to myself, "Who the fuck is she letting in already?"

But when I looked up to see a wizened, hooded figure move past, I realized, "Oh shit, that's Robert Plant." He went to the new arrivals and browsed a bit. He hung around, and not a single customer suspected that this older gentleman in a hoodie was the towering monolith of yore. He came to the counter with one of Numero's Eccentric Soul comps. As I'm no stranger to fame, I played it cool and was complimenting him on his purchase when I noticed something catch his eye. "Enter to win a Peter Gabriel signed lithograph?" he said. "That fat bastard! First he beats me at tennis and now this?!"

All that's to say: Enter and support your local record store because you just never know what or who you'll find inside.

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*Jessie Ware
**Amoeba; San Francisco, CA*

I played a show at Amoeba in January and as I was walking out, my sister jokingly said, ''Look, it's Ryan Gosling!'' Then I screamed, ''It is Ryan Gosling!"

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*Edwyn Collins
**Rough Trade West; London, England*

Back in 1980, Postcard Records of Scotland was brand new, and [label founder] Alan Horne and I were scratching our heads. How to get "Falling and Laughing", the first Orange Juice single, to the world? We didn't know anything about distribution, business, or finance. So he borrowed his dad's Austin Maxi, and we put the singles in the boot and set off with a list of UK record shops we took from the back pages of NME and Melody Maker. In Glasgow, Listen Records took a few, a very few. Glasgow was never really interested in Orange Juice.

We went to Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool. Shops would take two, three, or sometimes nothing. We were shy and arrogant at the same time. Selling ourselves was nerve-wracking, but I considered that it had to be done. Alan was painfully shy, but could come across as quite... prickly, let's say. Anyway, we finally arrive in London. Rough Trade the shop and the label were the same thing back then. We couldn't believe it. They took 200. Scott Piering, the Rough Trade press guy, who is sadly no longer with us, really liked it. He was the one who made [Rough Trade founder] Geoff Travis get into us. Then we went to Small Wonder in north London and they took 100. We were justified in our endeavours. Elation!

On the drive back, the windscreen blew in and we had no money to fix it. So Alan drove 300 miles with no windscreen, through rain and hail. We had 900 copies and, because of the London support, we soon got rid of them all. We were on our haphazard way. I'm writing this on tour in Spain and I've been to three record shops in two days. They still excite me.

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*Eleanor Friedberger*

I live in New York and I'm very spoiled for record stores. There are four within about six blocks of my house. (There are probably more I don't even know about.) Two of them sell new records and second-hand records, two only sell second-hand records, and one doesn't put prices on their records-- you just take them up front and the guy behind the counter gives you a price. At that last place, the records are in the basement: stacks and stacks and piles and piles. I've never seen so many records. They're not in any order and they're very dusty. I've seen guys down there wearing gloves and surgical masks looking through records and playing them on their own portable turntables. Nothing about that looks like fun to me.

The one that's closest to my house is the one I've never been to. I don't know why; I have no good reason not to go there. A friend told me he goes there to buy used CDs for something like 50 cents each. "That's cheaper than iTunes!" I said. He puts them in his computer and then tries to sell them back to another store. That doesn't sound like much fun either.

Another store is owned by a friend of a friend. He once gave me a plastic, blue crate for free. That seemed very generous; even more generous than the discount he gave me on the records. I put some of my records in the crate and it sat in my bedroom until I got sick of looking at the blue plastic, and then I moved it down to the basement-- the crate, not the records.

The store that's farthest from my house (I just looked it up: 0.7 miles, or about seven and a half blocks away) is supposed to be the best in the neighborhood. (It was voted "best" by some publication.) I went on a recent Sunday afternoon and the place was packed, like a party but with no alcohol. I bought a reissue of a Silver Apples record just because I was in the mood to buy something, or feel like I was part of the party. Now that was fun. I felt great walking the seven and a half blocks home.

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"Working at a record store was basically like
high school if high school taught you about things
you actually wanted to know about." -- King Tuff



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*Real Estate's Alex Bleeker
**Golden Hits; Ridgewood, NJ [closed]*

When [Real Estate's] Matt, Martin, and I were in high school, we caught wind of a rumor that a record store would be opening downtown. We did what any sensible suburban music freaks would have done: rode our bikes there and begged the owner for jobs.

The subterranean shop, Golden Hits, was still a few days away from opening, so the young owner Josh put us to work. We were paid in pizza and old cassette tapes. The store's initial inventory consisted mostly of Josh's personal collection. We spent a few days alphabetizing and cataloging, telling Josh what labels we were into, and speculating about whether or not he wanted to smoke weed with us.

The only problem with keeping us on as employees was that we made up a significant percentage of his potential customers. There was not much of a market for a boutique record record store in Ridgewood. So our positions were soon terminated and the shop folded pretty shortly after. Still, it was around long enough to expose me to some great music I hadn't yet heard, including Spacemen 3, Olivia Tremor Control, and the Dukes of the Stratosphear.

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*A.C. Newman
**Scratch Records; Vancouver, British Columbia*

My favorite record store is Scratch Records, in particular the first subterranean location on Cambie St. Why? Because I worked there and for years most of my social life revolved around that place. The owner Keith Parry was the drummer in my band Superconductor. It was the classic labor-of-love record store. People used to collect there around 6 p.m. on Friday night in preparation for going to the Cambie Hotel, the dive bar across the street that I felt like we discovered, like we were the first people to ever co-opt a dive bar.

When I got the job there, it felt like validation. Later in life, many friends would tell me that they were intimidated by our asshole record-store-employee ways, that we laughed at their tastes. But I don't recall doing that at all. I remember being hung over most of the time. Excuse me if I don't want to talk to you about the Melvins for an hour. I was tired. I remember listening to Mayo Thompson's Corky's Debt to His Father non-stop for an entire day and not selling one copy of it. What kind of world lets that happen? It made you angry. That scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack plays the Beta Band song and immediately sells a bunch of copies was such bullshit. No one cared about any of our staff picks.

My pay was less than the lowest legal wage, but I understood how little money came in. Keith lived in the store for quite a long time, being a struggling entrepreneur in a cave-like back room that had an even more cave-like sleeping alcove in it. The place was under street level after all, seemingly carved out of the building's foundation, and in my memories that back room was completely made of stone. Like the Flintstones' house. Once, a junkie ran back into the sanctum and frantically offered to blow me if I would help him escape from some unseen pursuer. I recall Keith once had a junkie threaten him with a needle. For reasons like this, he had a metal bar behind the counter. When those frat guys were talking openly in the store about stealing the Dwarves' "Blood Guts and Pussy" poster-- the one with the hot topless girls-- I thought, "Am I going to have to use the metal bar?" The poster stayed on the wall.

One of the funnest gigs of my life happened there, too. There were other great in-stores of note (Unrest, Giant Sand) but the greatest was Mecca Normal and Zip Code Rapists, Gregg Turkington's (aka Neil Hamburger) two-piece band. Near the end of ZCR's set, when things really disintegrated, Jean Smith and Gregg T. did a duet that sounded occasionally like Tuvan throat singing but mostly like two hobos yelling at each other. The whole thing ended in a used LP fight that originated in the Greg Kihn wing of the $1 section. Keith tried to distract everyone from the new records by supplying Nettwerk cut-out vinyl 12"s he had in the back room. He was having fun at the record fight, but he preferred that we break the worthless stuff. A year or two later, when my girlfriend dumped me for him, it seemed like a good time to stop working there.

*Next: More tales from Jim James, Dum Dum Girls, the National, and more.*

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*Jim James
**Grimey's; Nashville, TN*

Grimey's is full of sweet people doing sweet things for the earth. Grimey and Doyle always turn me on to some of the coldest music I ain't never yet heard. I'll walk in there and say, "What's up?" And they'll say, "Here's what's up!" and blow my mind. One time, I bought a rainbow and walked out the door with it. A real live rainbow! Grimey's is a special place for the community-- not only do they deal in great recorded music but they also have a place to showcase great live music in "the basement," one of the greatest clubs on earth. God bless 'em and may they live long and prosper.

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*Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan
**Caldor; Peekskill, NY [closed]*

Growing up in the suburbs, I did the bulk of my record shopping at department stores. Most of my earliest 45s were purchased on tag-along-with-mom trips to Caldor in Peekskill, including my first multi-single shopping spree ("I Think We're Alone Now", "Penny Lane", and Harpers' Bizarre's "59th Street Bridge Song"). I started making the transition to LPs there, notably when I passed up Surrealistic Pillow (ever discerning, I determined that as the owner of both "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit", I already had a third of that one-- as yet unaware of how much I would love "Embryonic Journey" and "Comin' Back to Me") for the brand-new After Bathing at Baxter's-- quite the mind expander, that one.

The Kaplan family switched their allegiance to nearby White's, which, thanks to the adjacent Waldbaum's, was accessible without going outside. By then I was pretty much off the 45, though I made a few (not enough) purchases from their collection of cutouts (Five Americans' "Western Union", not to mention "Happy Jack" complete with the Ralph Steadman picture sleeve). The day after I saw the Kinks for the first time, I made a beeline to White's and picked up The Kinks Kronikles from their regular stock and Kinda Kinks from the $1.99 section. But like most fishermen, it's the one that got away that you can't forget-- I wonder how my life would have changed if I had ever pulled the trigger on the original Elektra edition of Nuggets, which I examined without purchase countless times.

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Photo by Shawn Brackbill

*Dum Dum Girls' Dee Dee
**Streetlight Records; Santa Cruz, CA*

I grew up in a small East Bay suburb near Berkeley, and the tiny record store in it was awful. Most of the music I listened to was handed down to me by my parents, mainly 60s stuff. Oldies. My town's library was also small but it had a decent music selection. I spent a lot of time there having more books than friends.

Aside from the mainstream groups I got into in elementary school (NKOTB, SWV, TLC), I developed a very disjointed take 80s and early-90s stuff through the library catalog and cassette dubs from friends. The best finds were that live Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion album and the Cure's Disintegration. I would choreograph dances to them on Wednesdays when my parents went out and I babysat my brother. Bad gothic ballets.

Eventually, I got my dad to drive me to the closest Rasputin's in San Lorenzo. My first self-funded purchase there was Radiohead's Pablo Honey. I also recall later trips for Elastica's first record and Bjork's Post. But my first standout record-store memory was getting Patti Smith's Horses from Streetlight Records while visiting my grandmother in Santa Cruz. I listened to it everyday for maybe a year! I was a patron there later on during college, too.

Another notable event occurred years later, when I made my first off-the-wall purchase from Amoeba in San Francisco: Sonic Boom's Spectrum for $60. I felt like the queen of the world. That and of course seeing my first EP on Captured Tracks in a shop somewhere randomly-- a massive rush of pride and self-consciousness. I still feel that way whenever I see a record of mine or a friend's, or almost even more so, a record my own label Zoo Music has put out. I probably took a hundred photos of Dirty Beaches' Badlands in various shops across the world. Viva vinyl.

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*Mark Kozelek
**Luna Music; Indianapolis, IN*

I wish that I could write about my favorite record stores in San Francisco, but they've all closed. I especially loved walking to Tower Records in North Beach, which is now a Walgreens. The last CD I bought there was Modest Mouse's Good News for People Who Love Bad News. I also loved Bay Area Records and Tapes on Polk Street and will never forget walking in there in 1992 and seeing my first record, Down Colorfull Hill, on both CD and cassette. It's been closed forever and it's now a corner store called Blue Fog Market. I don't get over to the Haight much, where Amoeba is, so I have to whittle my favorite indie record stores down to places that I stop at while on tour.

I like Luna Music in Indianapolis. It's run by an amazing guy named Todd Robinson. I've played in-store performances for Todd over the years, because he and his wife Katy invite me over for dinner and treat me with respect. Plus, he gives me great deals and alerts me to any Andres Segovia records that happen to pass through.

I also like Park Avenue CDs in Orlando. It's the coolest record store in Florida. It's run by a great guy named Sandy, and a cool girl named Shelly. I've known both of them since the mid-90s. And the last one that comes to mind is Slow Boat Records in Wellington, New Zealand. I bought an Andres Segovia five-disc set there in 2008, and it changed my life.

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*The National's Aaron Dessner
**Shake It Records; Cincinnati, OH*

Shake It Records has an incredible collection of old and new music, and they release a lot of great and often rare/overlooked stuff on their own imprint. They were one of the stores that made us feel we had a chance when we were self-releasing on Brassland-- they stocked and promoted our records long before most people cared-- though early on it was probably Matt's mom that was buying most of the records we sold there. In 2004, Shake It released a limited-edition vinyl run of our Cherry Tree EP which seems to be quite rare now (we see knock-offs in Eastern Europe especially). And they've been big supporters of Bryce's annual Music Now festival in Cincinnati. We can't thank Darren and Shake It enough for keeping independent music alive in Cincinnati.

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*Madlib
**Groove Merchant; San Francisco, CA*

First on the list of places to stop for any vinyl in SF, and it’s been that way for years.

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*DJ Koze
**Traktor; Hamburg, Germany [closed]*

I grew up in a small town right at the border of Denmark, and it was hard to find vinyls up there. So me and some friends took the train to Hamburg in once in a while. Back in the mid 80s, there existed this incredible record store called Traktor right on Eppendorfer Landstraße. I remember we felt very insecure every time when we entered this store.

We were haunted by this special atmosphere in the air there. All the older customers seemed to be real specialists and they took plenty of records out of the shelves and listened to them for just seconds, skipping the needle, before deciding which track was good for them and which wasn't. But the real authority were the guys running the shops. They were super cool and they never laughed. You could say they were almost arrogant. Sometimes we asked for a track we had been reading about in a hipster magazine, and they would answer, "You have been reading about this track, it's not out yet-- they wrote that, too." Pure humiliation!

There was this special DJ-only basement where you had to show some proof that you were an actual DJ. Thus we cloned a "DJ passport" from a dancing school in Flensburg that held disco nights each weekend. Once we were in the record shop, we tried to act professional, collected a stash of vinyl, went up to the basement "security" guy, showed our DJ ID and he opened the gate for us so we could go downstairs. We played out all the hard-to-find bootlegs on our own stereo. It was magic. Though we always feared we'd get busted.

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*Pissed Jeans' Matt Korvette
**Double Decker Records; Allentown, PA*

One day I was hanging out at Double Decker (as I often did, daily, from ages 18 to 23), and the owner (and my good friend) Jamie Holmes asked me if I'd watch the shop for five minutes while he went down the street to grab a sandwich. I said sure. A minute or two later, another friend of mine came in, and for reasons I cannot remember, we started wrestling, which led to my friend falling backwards into the front door, shattering the glass. He wasn't that hurt, but the window was ruined. We had to wait another few minutes in fearful anxiety, and then watch as Jamie came back up the steps, completely shocked by the smashed glass. Even after this, he still let me hang out all the time, and actually let me burn a couple of CDs for times when I was hard up on buying them. If there's a better record store, it doesn't exist on earth.

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*Pro Era's Chuck Strangers
**Disc-O-Rama; New York, NY*

Al Green's Let's Stay Together was the first record I copped. It was the first time I had ever really experimented with a record player, so while I was trying to preview a record, I scratched it really badly. The cashier got pissed and started yelling at me and made me buy it.

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*Daughn Gibson
**Double Decker Records; Allentown, PA*

Somewhere between an Icons of Filth 7" and a Sparklehorse LP, Randall Huth of Pissed Jeans and I found ourselves behind the closed doors of Allentown's pride, Double Decker Records, pre-gaming an Electric Wizard/Warhorse show with the store's owner, Holmsey, a jug of Sutter Home, and bottles of Jack and SoCo. Roaming the racks, not looking for anything in particular, I noted the compatibility of SoCo's Juicy Fruit taste and the vocal harmonies of "The Wizard" by Uriah Heap, which was playing over Double Decker's speakers.

The last memories I have before the show were taking one last slug of Jack in Holmsey's red record convention van and coming-to briefly while standing in line. During the show, I found myself on a couch with barf in my lap. I motioned to Randall that it might be time to leave, and as he made his way towards me, he dropped a nearly drained SoCo bottle to the floor, the sound of it shattering fully absorbed in the war of an Orange full stack.

Out in the street in Allentown's early hours, we hollered down passing cars, asking them "where the goddamn record store was" and finally we were scooped up by Allentown's finest and locked up. I was released at 8 a.m., called my work, lost my job, and proceeded to walk the long mile back to Double Decker for my car. Elementary school children squealed and ran quickly away from me as I threw up over the 8th St. bridge. Randall was still too drunk to be released from jail, but when he was at 11 a.m., we drove home, vomiting out the open windows while listening to Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark CD, which I must have bought at Double Decker the night before.

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*John Talabot*

Record stores are part of my life. Since I was a teenager, I spent the money my mum gave me for lunch on records. Visiting a record store is a really special moment and every time I go to a new record store I feel a mix of feelings: nervous, anxious, happy. Going to record stores and collecting records has helped me to produce and get different approaches to production, too. It was in a record store where I started my idea of how John Talabot music should sound.

There was a moment that I was DJing as a resident in a club in Barcelona, but it was hard for me to find new 12"s that I wanted to play. I was looking for techno or house stuff with a different sound, so I kept going to record stores to try to find special stuff. Once, I went to a store and found a bunch of cheap white label records with no info, so I put them on the store's record player and it sounded really heavy. Everything was distorted and fat, with really live, deep drums. I was amazed. I didn't know what the records were but I just bought them straight away. But when I played them at home, the records sounded really flat, no heavy kickdrums, no distortion, no deep melodies, no alive drums. I checked and double checked the records, the player, headphones. They weren't the records I listened at the store. So I went back and asked the guy why the records sounded so different in the store compared to my home record player. He showed me the record player in the store and told me that it was broken and the output of the amplifier was distorted. I couldn't believe it. I realized that the sound I was trying to get was in that direction. Maybe that same night I made "Sunshine" with the distorted sound of the record player in my mind.

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*Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan
**Edgeworld; Brighton, England [closed]*

Edgeworld was above a goth/surf shop-- up some narrow creaky stairs-- and had album posters and fliers plastered all over the walls. Colin ran Edgeworld, and he was like the John Peel of Brighton. I would hang out and we'd chat for hours and he'd play me bizarre and wonderful records like Marianne Nowottny and Beck’s really early experimental albums. He was always looking out for things people would like and had impeccable taste. You'd get a biscuit if you were lucky, or be asked to watch the shop while a worker popped to the loo! I sold my first little demos there.

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*Camera Obscura's Gavin Dunbar
**Monorail; Glasgow, Scotland*

I've worked in a variety of record shops over the years: new ones, old ones, shabby second-hand ones, chain stores, and I currently manage a wee charity shop that is half record shop and half arty/vintage boutique. Coming from that background and being a music fan, I was shocked recently to read a statistic that said the average UK person spends less than £60 a year on new records. Most folk I know would spend that in a week, certainly in a month. I guess spending so much time in record shop environments skews your idea of what's normal, but I still think i'm right, and people who only buy around five or six albums a year are wrong.

The sights you see on an average day at a store make the mind boggle-- record shops tend to have their fair share of colourful characters as regulars. Mad geeks that claimed they could tell a record's pressing plant from the smell of the vinyl. We had one customer that would buy every new album out on Monday, and split their bill into half cash and half card so that if their wife found a receipt, she wouldn't know how much they were actually spending on records every week. I've seen people start singing and dancing round the shop along to the music playing, or shoplifters attempting to get out with 20 CDs stuck down each trouser leg (making their trouser legs rectangular, and eminently suspicious). One shop had a "metal" side and an "indie" side. The metal side always tended to smell odiously (we always assumed it was the metal customers rather than the records), almost conjuring up the dust cloud of Pigpen from Peanuts, whilst the indie side was always odor-free. But more than that, it's a mix of people, a community. You get the students, folk in business suits, folk in bands, people with good jobs, people with shit jobs, people with no jobs, everyone comes in to get their new releases, or a great classic record.

Glasgow used to have so many record shops, the West End alone had seven within a 10-minute walk of each other. Now there is one (Fopp). In the city centre we're lucky to have Monorail, which is a fantastic shop, and Love Music, which is a mix of second-hand and new releases. But other than that there are a couple of second-hand shops (Missing is great) and the two chain stores, HMV and Fopp (owned by HMV) that has just come out of administration. It's a sad state to see these great record shops disappearing one by one. The pull of cheap internet retailers with free delivery and bulk buying power, not to mention the ability of folk to download both legally and illegally from the internet, has taken its toll. Hopefully, we're at a position where the shops that are left have enough of a customer base to be stable and keep going for life, not just for Record Store Day.

*Next: More stories from Sharon Van Etten, Zola Jesus, Liars, and others.*

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*Sharon Van Etten
**Feeding Tube Records; Northampton, MA*

A couple of years ago, I played a show in Northampton at The Iron Horse with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. We went on a walk around the town, came across Feeding Tube Records, and immediately dove in. I remember seeing a Tim Buckley record I've been wanting for a long time and I was in the mood to take a plunge. I asked the man working behind the counter if he had heard anything lately that blew his mind. I wanted to hear something new. He told me about the new Ed Askew record that had just been reissued. I didn't know much about Askew before, but I trusted the man's taste. When I got back from tour, I sorted out my loot and put the record on. It absolutely crushed me. So good. I have had it on heavy rotation ever since. And randomly, not too far after, I got to see him play in Brooklyn. It was one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful performances I have ever seen. And then, soon after that, I was asked to sing on his new record. I couldn't have been more thrilled. I found out later that Ted Lee was the man who turned me on to Ed Askew, and that Byron Coley does the curating at the store. I love how small the world is. Thank you, Ted! Imperfiction will forever be one of my favorite records and moments in time.

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*Superchunk's Jim Wilbur
**Mystic Disc; Mystic, CT*

It’s been at least 25 years since I shopped there regularly, but Mystic Disc remains one of the biggest influences on my Life in Rock. It was through this store that I had my first exposure to punk, where I picked up my first issues of Flipside and Maximum Rock N Roll, and where, in the space of just a few months toward the end of 1984, that I bought Husker Du’s Zen Arcade, Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime, and the Replacements Let It Be. It was a great time to be alive (despite the perceived threat of nuclear war and Ronald Reagan’s ongoing presidency).

The store’s owner, Dan Curland, was an avowed and outspoken product of the 60s, but he kept the store eclectically stocked with all the then-current hardcore, punk, goth, new wave, and indie (which I don’t think was even a common term at the time). I recall listening to him talk on the phone behind the front counter one day, telling someone on the other end of the line that he was fed up with people asking him to play Leonard Cohen on his WCNI radio show. “That guy’s music is too depressing,” he said. “People only want to kill themselves after hearing him.” I remember wondering who the hell this Leonard Cohen dude was, filing the name away for future research, and then debating whether I should buy the record in my hand called Amerika by a band called Stark Raving Mad. This is the store’s 25th year in business. Here’s to 25 more!

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*FIDLAR's Elvis Kuehn
**Goodwill; Los Angeles, CA*

One time when I was in high school, my brother and I stopped by Goodwill after a day at the beach. We would always flip through the records there and either leave empty-handed or with some weird children's records to sample. There wasn't a good independent record store very close to where we grew up in Culver City, so the Goodwill on Venice Blvd. and National was always the place to go when we started getting into vinyl. So we started looking through the records and I immediately saw Black Flag's Jealous Again EP. It's a huge rush when you find a record like that sandwiched between Barbra Streisand and Herp Albert's Tijuana Brass records. Once you see one good record at a thrift store, it can go one of two ways: either that's the only good record in the store, which is commonly the case, or it's a piece of somebody's record collection that was donated. Luckily, we experienced the latter and found a handful of awesome records for a dollar each, like the Dead Kennedy's 12" single "Holiday in Cambodia" b/w "Police Truck". My brother picked up Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True and The Specials. There were also the Dickies' records Dawn of the Dickies and Stukas Over Disneyland. Right after we cherry-picked through the stacks, a fellow thrifter walked up and saw what we found and started complaining and cussing under his breath-- beating himself up that he hadn't arrived five minutes earlier. To this day, those are the best records I've ever found at a thrift store. Who knows if it will ever happen again.

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*Metz
**Record Runner and Birdman Sound; Ottawa, Ontario*

Alex Edkins: Growing up in the Ottawa suburbs, the closest record store was about an hour drive away and there was no public transit. I used to catch a ride with my Dad at 7:30 a.m. when he was heading to work downtown. I would wait for Record Runner to open and then spend the whole day there until my Dad was done working. I ended up working at Record Runner for several years, too.

Hayden Menzies: Birdman Sound was a full sensory experience. There were classic show posters on every inch of the walls, incense billowing from the door, records of all types playing on the turntable and, of course, the owner, John Westhaver, who was always available for recommendations, history lessons, and rants. I learned a lot of swear words at that store.

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*Bleached
**Headline Records; Hollywood, CA*

Jessie Clavin: The first record store I ever went to was Headline Records. I was living in the Valley but going to Hollywood High School, so it was really easy for me to get to Headline. I remember asking a friend to ditch with me and take the bus down to Headline, where I bought my first Crass record! I ended up working at Amoeba in the warehouse for about two years. I met a lot of really awesome people there, everyone knew so much about music it really blew my mind! The best part about working there was seeing all the new, used, and rare records before they went down to the floor!

Jennifer Clavin: I remember we used to go to Headline Records forever. They even used to have shows there and it would be super bright and some really punk band would be playing, so it would be kinda awkward. But then one day we were walking down Sunset and I saw Amoeba being built and I was like wtf is this place? I was annoyed at first because I just assumed it could never be as cool as Headline. But now it's my favorite place to go.

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*Thee Oh Sees' John Dwyer*

*1. Mississippi Records; Portland, OR*: I buy so much from them whenever I'm in Portland that I have to skip dinner that night. A great selection of tasteful old LPs. And then there's the label, which does reissues mostly-- guaranteed a good record for 10 clams. I try to buy all of it, but they release a lot so it's a tough job.

*2. Amoeba; San Francisco, CA*: I know it can seem like a big overwhelming joint, but they have killer LPs always. They even have a cassette section (oh hell no)-- I'm always leaving there with an armful.

*3. Aquarius Records; San Francisco, CA*: They seem to lean towards CDs, but it's another joint that has intricate taste-- experimental and metal and reissues abound. And if you're super lucky, you might get to see that little sprite "the Horrocks" jamming some hammer-ons in the back room with a furrowed brow.

*4. Armageddon; Providence, RI*: All things heavy and heavy are here. A great shop with tons of silk screened posters that scream "Rhode Island."

*5. Jerry's; Pittsburgh, PA*: It's fucking massive. You have to really dig, but in there are some gems. Bring a dust mask.

*6. Explorist International; San Francisco, CA*: It's small, and so is the handsome man who runs it, Chris Dixon, who has been in several great SF bands. They have great jazz, experimental, psych, and world music. And Chris just had a baby so go see him and give him your wampum.

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*Julia Holter
**Amoeba; Los Angeles, CA*

Amoeba opened when I was 15, right at the height of my excitement digging through used classical sections. And they had a big one. Also, I remember buying my first John Cage CD at the Wherehouse Records at the Beverly Connection mall.

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*Yo La Tengo's James McNew*
*In Your Ear Records; Providence, RI*

I worked at In Your Ear from 1990-1991 and loved the job and everyone I worked with and for. It was a hell of a great shop. CDs were still pretty new, and I thought the best, most practical example of the format was the Residents' Commercial Album (which I bought at the shop in hopes of someday getting a CD player). Turned out I was right!

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*Zola Jesus' Nika Roza Danilova
**Record Collector; Los Angeles, CA*

There is something magical about Record Collector, which is stocked in a floor-to-ceiling labyrinth with the rarest in jazz and classical and employed with only those who can maintain an encyclopedic knowledge of the inventory down to the last disc. It's the kind of place where you can't ever look too excited about finding an out-of-print Luciano Berio album since they price the records based on how bad you want it. But it's great to know these gems still exist, where the pride in the vinyl format is still so alive. You can stumble across something that hasn't been pressed since 1960 yet it still plays like it's brand new.

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*Wavves' Stephen Pope
**Goner Records; Memphis, TN*

Goner Records has had a huge impact on my life. When I was a teenager I'd go in at least once a week to go through their selection and talk with the staff. I got introduced to tons of new music because the owners, Eric and Zac, would always recommend their current favorites. They also act as a record label and have put out different singles and albums by my former bands. Every year they put on a festival called Gonerfest that gets the best garage-y stuff going around. The first year of Gonerfest, I saw Black Lips and the King Khan and BBQ Show play one of the most memorable shows I've ever been to. I went and bought We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow and the self-titled King Khan and BBQ Show record the next day at Goner and they're still some of my favorite records today.

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*Liars' Aaron Hemphill*

Besides some of us having worked at them and the lists of misadventures and schemes born and executed within their walls, what sticks out most to me now is the fact that Liars were born in a record store. I worked at an establishment (which I will leave a mystery) when a mutual friend introduced Angus and I. They were starting a band and needed another person. I was given their list of amazing and impossible influences and reference points and was so excited at the odd combinations they mentioned that we practiced that night. Angus and I bought a four-track and it was the beginning of our newfound focus and love: making songs. We have yet to look up or take a break. Reported by Pitchfork 7 hours ago.

Remembrance Ceremony Held for Spc. Kelli Bordeaux

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Remembrance Ceremony Held for Spc. Kelli Bordeaux Patch Fort Bragg, NC --

Fort Bragg's 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion shared their hope today during the Remembrance Ceremony for Spc. Kelli Bordeaux.

The soldier disappeared just over one year ago, but her memory is kept alive today by family, friends and peers.

At the private ceremony for unit members and family, Hangar 4 at Pope Army Air Field was filled with supporters who shared who Kelli was to them.

The Battalion Commander LTC Heather Kness opened with remarks about the young soldier and her zest for life.

Tearful tributes by fellow soldiers in her chain-of-command were shared by 1LT Annie Davis, Sgt. Dontae Gibson, Spc. Kaydi Owens and Spc. Marshalee Meikle.

Kelli's most staunch advocate in keeping her memory alive through managing social media site and working with the media is her sister, Olivia Cox.

"It doesn't get easier the longer she is gone," said Cox. "I know many talk about bringing Kelli home for closure, but I don't want Kelli's body. I want her smiling, vibrant, jubilant, ready to play, 'let's go get this done' Kelli back."

Cox is a military spouse from Fort Stewart, Ga. who travelled up for the Remembrance Ceremony.

Kelli's sister holds onto the hope that somebody, somewhere saw something and she hopes that they will step forward and provide information in the investigation.

"Maybe you are carrying a weight so heavy, that hopefully soon you'll come forward and bring that knowledge to us," said Cox in an interview on Friday morning.

Visit the Kelli Bordeaux Topics Page on Fort Bragg Patch that lists previous coverage and photos.

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Zoo-To-Do Chairwoman Olivia Manning is looking forward to a special night

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Jason Sudeikis, Rose Byrne for romantic comedy 'Tumbledown'

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The independent romantic comedy also stars Olivia Munn and Joe Manganiello.

 
 
 
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Broadchurch's Olivia Colman: 'Playing a cop hunting a child killer is hard when you're a mum'

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Second Generation Scream Queen Stars In Speak No Evil

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Gabrielle Stone, daughter the legendary Dee Wallace from E.T. stars in Speak No Evil, premiering May 24, 2013


The independent horror film, Speak No Evil starring Gabrielle Stone premieres in Tempe, Arizona on May 24, 2013. The movie, filmed entirely in Arizona, will open to a local audience on May 24 with the Los Angeles premiere scheduled for May 30, 2013.

Playing the lead role in Speak No Evil is break-out star Gabrielle Stone 23, the daughter of "Scream Queen" Dee Wallace (E.T, Cujo ,Lords of Salem) and actor Christopher Stone. The second-generation actor portrays a young mother whose daughter (played by newcomer Olivia Cavender) has gone missing under suspicious circumstances. In her search for the daughter and subsequently , all the children in a small town, the movie takes a turn into a suspenseful, horror-filled drama.

The innovative Director Roze chose Gabrielle Stone to fill this demanding role. "Roze is such an amazingly talented director and human being." said the young actress, "The way his creativity transcends to the screen is something I have never seen before. I had such an amazing time on this film working with him and the rest of the cast." Dee Wallace , who notably made her mark playing a mother in the Spielberg's 1982 ET: The Extra Terrestrial said, "I am thrilled my daughter is having so much success doing what she loves. She has an amazing talent and a deep emotional life. But above everything, she is a loving and compassionate person who makes the world a better place."

"I believe audiences will be blown away by Gabrielle's performance." said Speak No Evil Director, Roze. "She had a tough role to play because of the complexity of the character, Anna. It was her first time playing the role of a mother, but what made it interesting is that Anna wasn't a very good mother. Gabrielle took some risks that really paid off." continued Roze. " I really enjoyed getting down to work with her, and drawing out even more than I hoped for."

For the complete premiere and screening schedule of Speak No Evil starring Gabrielle Stone contact mindplate@mindplate.tv. MINDPLATE.tv is the exclusive distribution source for Speak No Evil.

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