Clarence Cleans His Roof, News From Lake Wobegon (A Prairie Home Companion)
Garrison Keillor will be hosting A Prairie Home Companion for the last time Saturday, July 2. We think this calls for a celebration to honor Garrison!
Event Update 10:30 a.m. 7/2- The weather looks like it"s going to cooperate so we"re planning on having the event at the Parade Grounds at the front of Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester. Please remember to bring a chair or blanket, your picnic basket and good cheer. See you there!
Join your fellow Prairie Home fans and VPR staff for a listening party starting at 5:00 on the Parade Grounds at the front of Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester. VPRs Reuben Jackson and Ric Cengeri will be our hosts.
Bring a picnic and your rhubarb pie to share with the crowd. Depending on how many pies show up we may even have a contest for the best pie. We"ll play trivia games and then listen to the show together at 6:00.
That"s Saturday, July 2. Picnicking starts at 5:00 at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester. If it rains the party will move indoors and will be located at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction in the Blue Pavilion.
PLEASE NOTE:
DIRECTIONS Fort Ethan Allen is located on Route 15 at the Colchester/Essex Junction line. The Parade Grounds are located on Dalton Drive. See the map here.
Our rain date location at Champlain Valley Expo is also on Route 15 in downtown Essex Junction. From Fort Ethan Allen drive east on Route 15 for 1.5 miles and the fairgrounds are on your left.
PARKING in Fort Ethan Allen will not be allowed on Dalton Drive. Please park in the Saint Michaels College lot at King St. and Ethan Allen Ave. Champlain Valley Expo parking is plentiful and free.
SEATING- Please bring chairs and blankets for Fort Ethan Allen. If we are going to be at the rain site at Champlain Valley Expo tables and chairs will be provided.
NO TRASH- The listening party is a PACK IN/PACK OUT event. Please come prepared to remove your own picnic trash regardless of which location at which we gather.
DOGS- Well behaved dogs on leashes are welcome at Fort Ethan Allen. Dogs are not allowed at Champlain Valley Expo.
Are you thinking this is a sad occasion? Dont despair! We will hear Garrison Saturday nights all summer in rebroadcasts just as we have in years past. Then we can all look forward to October 15 when musician extraordinaire Chris Thile will take over for Garrison as the new host of A Prairie Home Companion. Chris" wide range of musical taste, paired with his vast network of famous and talented friends, will draw new, diverse talent to the show.
Serena Williams vs McHale Wimbledon 2016 + Post match Interview
Serena Williams has never been one to hide her emotions on the court.
After a rough first set that saw her squander eight break point opportunities, double-fault three times and commit 16 unforced errors, Williams let out her frustrations on her poor, defenseless racquet during the changeover.
Williams received a code violation for the incident, which could have had far worse consequences had her discarded racquet not landed neatly in the lap of a cameraman.
After Williams came from behind to win the match and advance to Wimbledons third round, she signed the racquet and passed it on to a lucky fan.
June 24, 2016 363 Million United States Mega Millions Draw Result
LANSING, MI -- The fourth largest Mega Millions jackpot in history is now over $400 million as no one won the top prize of $390 million for the drawing held on June 28, 2016.
That means the drawing on Friday, July 1 will have an estimated jackpot of $415 million and cash option of $286 million.
The Mega Millions numbers for June 28: 15-17-20-35-55
The Gold Mega Ball: 7
The Megaplier: 2
Mega Millions winners for June 28:
Two players matched all five white b***s to win $1 milllion. Those players bought their tickets in New Jersey and Texas.
Neither player played the Megaplier which would have increased their winnings to $2 million.
In Michigan, five players matched four white b***s and the gold ball to win $5,000. That was the largest prize won in the state.
Overall, 76,344 players in Michigan won at least $2 in the drawing,
Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Five b***s are drawn from a set of b***s numbered 1 through 75; the Mega ball is drawn from a set of b***s numbered 1 through 15. The odds of winning the jackpot is 1 in 259 million.
Mega Millions is played in 44 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $1 each.
In other Michigan Lottery news:
The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday night, June 29 with an estimated jackpot of $222 million and a cash option of $151.5 million.
The next Lotto 47 drawing is also Wednesday night, June 29 at 7:29 p.m. with a jackpot of $1.05 million. Deadline is 7:08 p.m. that day.
Wednesday"s Fantasy 5 jackpot is an estimated $100,000. The drawing is at 7:29 p.m. Deadline is 7:08 p.m.
For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games.
Matt Durr is a reporter for The Ann Arbor News. Email him at mattdurr@mlive.com or follow him on Twitter.
The overnight standoff and hostage situation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has ended, leaving more than a dozen dead. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
Indian social activists light candles during a protest in Kolkata on July 2 against a fatal attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.(Photo: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR, AFP/Getty Images)
Three students at a pair of U.S. universitiesEmory and theUniversity of California-Berkeley were killed in the horrificattackon a popular Bangladeshi restaurantthat left six gunmen and 20 hostages dead before commandosended the10-hour standoff.
Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, both students at Emory"sOxford College campus,were among the deadat the Holey Artisan Bakery siege in the capital of Dhaka.
India"s minister of external affairs said 19-year-old Tarushi Jain, an Indian citizen studyingat the University of California-Berkeley, was also killed.
White House spokesman Josh Earnestsaid a U.S. citizen was killed but did notrelease the victim"sname.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility forthe siege, which ended early Saturday at theeatery popular with foreignerswhen authorities moved in to halt the standoff.Two police officers were killed in the early stages of the takeover.
Kabir, from Miami, was in the area visiting family and friends when she was taken hostage and killed, the universitysaid in a statement.Hossain, who completed his second year atOxford College and was planningto attend Emory"s Goizueta Business School in the fall,was also taken hostage and killed, the school said.
Emory University is offering support to members of itsOxford, Ga., community,through counseling services. Oxford Collegeis located about 35 miles east of the school"s main campus near downtown Atlanta.
University President James Wagner saidAbinta"s mother, whom he had reached, was in "unspeakable pain" upon receiving news of the death of her daughter.
DenikaHarlalkawas studying abroad in London when she found out aboutAbinta"sdeath through a group chat, 11Alive reports.The students were both part of the student activities committee on campus.Harlalka, who is a year older thanAbinta, called her the "sweetest and most helpful person ever."
"In such a short span of time, we had become so close and had so many inside jokes,"Harlalkatold11Alive. "This is just so so terrible. I still can"t digest that this has happened.I"ve been crying since the second I found out."
Blink-182 without Tom DeLonge: Its a tempting proposition. When considering DeLonges role in Blink, your mind instantly goes to 2004 smash I Miss You, when a perfectly nice mid-tempo love song about nightmare angels and Halloween on Christmas is positively wrecking-balled by his eardrum-piercing introduction on the second verse: WHERE ARE YEWWWWWWWW?!?!? With DeLonges all-consuming megalomania reaching new heights through press stories of his recording-studio demands and efforts to take the band ingasp-worthy new directions and yeah, the whole UFOs thing its easy to conflate his presence in the trio with all of their most obnoxious instincts, and envision a much more digestible outfit built solely around the gonzo energy of drummer Travis Barker and McGrathian affability of co-frontman Mark Hoppus.
If anything is to be learned from California, the groups seventh album and first with Alkaline Trio yowler Matt Skiba in place of DeLonge, its that we might have taken Blinks co-founder for granted. Perhaps this shouldve been more obvious from the underwhelming returns of 2006s When Your Heart Stops Beating, an album recorded by Hoppus and Barkersans third-wheel as part of the +44 supergroup, which now stands as the most obvious precedent for this new album: fine, fun, and overall kinda meh. Turns out, as in just about every great songwriting partnership in music history Lennon and McCartney, 3000 and Boi, Buckner and Garcia (probably) the oft-insufferable ambition of one is just as important as the shrugging humanity of the other, and the push/pull tension between the two is the most essential ingredient in the groups success. Without that, its much easier for Blink-182 to be likable, but almost impossible for them to be great.
To their credit, some of the advance tracks came pretty close. Bored to Death is the albums first single and most successful song, with a compressed drum intro and dolorous three-note repeating riff that hits you like a tornado of Classic Blink Memories, and a chorus (Life is too short to last long) that reads empty but feels profound. Rabbit Hole is one of Californias few songs so light on its feet you can actually imagine a trio of n***d late-90s dudesrunning down the street to it, and its anxieties (Dear head / Shut up) are quippy and low-stakes enough that they dont feel weighed down by 20 years of band history, like much of the album. And speaking of n***d dudes, the 16 seconds of sunny harmonies and homoerotic absurdism that is Built This Pool might be the LPs finest moment, not to mention the most efficient rock song since Napalm Deaths You Suffer (But Why?)from nearly 20 years ago.
But the main problem with California isnt that the songs are bad its just that there are too many (16 for some reason), and not enough ideas to fill them. One chorus on the albums first side prominently mentions Bauhaus, one on the second references the Cure. A song called Kings of the Weekend is followed by a song with the lyric, Then you hit me like a Friday night. Separate tracks are titled Los Angeles, San Diego, and (natch) California, without the thematic specificity or musical diversity that would justify such a trilogys existence. Not helping matters is that DeLonge seems to have taken all of the bands riffs with him; even the Bored to Death lickis essentially ripped off from the bands 2000 hit,Adams Song, and then further recycled on San Diego 11 tracks later. The unexciting presence of Skiba fails to break up the monotony, as his voice fails to contrast enough to Hoppus to serve any purpose but adding further layering. Barkers famously frenetic stick-work attempts to cut through, but he largely comes off as a child of divorce trying desperately to capture his parents attention.
It feels unfair to be too harsh to California, because its not clear what the better path to success wouldve been for Blink-182. They couldve followed their followers lead and hooked up with a Jake Sinclair-type to reinvent themselves as 21st-century turbo-poppers, but the band sounds too old for that s**t, and based on the Centuries-like groaning bombast of the Los Angeles chorus, it might notve been advisable anyway. They couldve made like their longtime heroes the Descendents (with their excellent upcoming LP,Hypercaffium Spazzinate) and made an album as speedy and snotty as their early work, only with middle-agedlyrics about fearing for their kids and being unable to eat fast food. But even the Descendents need a decade-long nap between albums to get up that kind of energy. Ultimately, fortysomething Blink may be cursed by their early success and their genre of choice: For pop-punk bands, life is just too short to last long.
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies At 87
July 2 - Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel"s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday.
Wiesel, a philosopher, speaker, playwright and professor who also campaigned for the tyrannized and forgotten around the world, was 87.
The Romanian-born Wiesel lived by the credo expressed in "Night," his landmark story of the Holocaust - "to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
In awarding the Peace Prize in 1986, the Nobel Committee praised Wiesel as a "messenger to mankind" and "one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world."
Wiesel did not waver in his campaign never to let the world forget the Holocaust horror. While at the White House in 1985 to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, he even rebuked U.S. President Ronald Reagan for planning to lay a wreath at a German cemetery where some of Hitler"s notorious Waffen SS troops were buried.
"Don"t go to Bitburg," Wiesel said. "That place is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS."
Wiesel became close to U.S. President Barack Obama but the friendship did not deter him from criticizing U.S. policy on Israel. He spoke out in favor of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and pushed the United States and other world powers to take a harder stance against Iran over its nuclear program. Wiesel attended the joint session of the U.S. Congress in 2015 when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the dangers of Iran"s program.
Wiesel and his foundation both were victims of the wide-ranging Ponzi scheme run by New York financier Bernie Madoff, with Wiesel and his wife losing their life"s savings and the foundation losing $15.2 million. ""Psychopath" - it"s too nice a word for him," he said of Madoff in 2009.
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Wiesel addressesa ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Jews from concentration camps in World War Two In Washington in 1985.
Wiesel was a hollow-eyed 16-year-old when he emerged from the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. He had been orphaned by the Nazis and their identification number, A-7713, was tattooed on his arm as a physical manifestation of his broken faith and the nightmares that would haunt him throughout his life.
Wiesel and his family had first been taken by the Nazis from the village of Sighetu Marmatiei in the Transylvania region of Romania to Auschwitz, where his mother and one of his sisters died. Wiesel and his father, Shlomo, ended up in Buchenwald, where Shlomo died. In "Night" Wiesel wrote of his shame at lying silently in his bunk while his father was beaten nearby.
After the war Wiesel made his way to France, studied at the Sorbonne and by 19 had become a journalist. He pondered suicide and never wrote of or discussed his Holocaust experience until 10 years after the war as a part of a vow to himself. He was 27 years old in 1955 when "Night" was published in Yiddish, and Wiesel would later rewrite it for a world audience.
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Wiesel never wavered in his determination not to let the world forget the victims of the Holocaust.
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed ...," Wiesel wrote. "Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live."
Asked by an interviewer in 2000 why he did not go insane, Wiesel said, "To this day that is a mystery to me."
By 2008, the New York Times said "Night" had sold an estimated 10 million copies, including 3 million after talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey made it a spotlight selection for her book club in 2006.
In 1985 Wiesel helped break ground in Washington for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the following year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In typical fashion, he dedicated the prize to all those who survived the n**i horror, calling them "an example to humankind how not to succumb to despair."
Wiesel, who became a U.S. citizen in 1963, was slight in stature but a compelling figure when he spoke. With a chiseled profile, burning eyes and a shock of gray hair, he could silence a crowd by merely standing up.
He was often described as somber. An old friend, Chicago professor Irving Abrahamson, once said of him: "I"ve never seen Elie give a belly laugh. He"ll chuckle, he"ll smile, there"ll be a twinkle in his eye. But never a laugh from within."
A few years after winning the peace prize, he established the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, which, in addition to Israeli and Jewish causes, campaigned for Miskito Indians in Nicaragua, Cambodian refugees, victims of South African apartheid and of famine and genocide in Africa.
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Wiesel is pictured here withU.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and fellow Holocaust survivor Bertrand Herz on a visit to theformer Buchenwald n**i concentration camp.
Wiesel wrote more than 50 books - novels, non-fiction, memoirs and many with a Holocaust theme - and held a long-running professorship at Boston University. In one of his later books, "Open Heart," he used his 2011 quintuple-bypass surgery as impetus for reflection on his life.
"I have already been the beneficiary of so many miracles, which I know I owe to my ancestors," he wrote. "All I have achieved has been and continues to be dedicated to their murdered dreams - and hopes."
He collected scores of awards and honors, including an honorary knighthood in Britain. Obama presented him the National Humanities Medal in 2009.
Wiesel was attacked in a San Francisco hotel in 2007 by a 22-year-old Holocaust denier, but not injured.
Wiesel and wife Marion married in 1969 and their son, Elisha, was born in 1972. (Editing by Diane Craft and Dan Grebler)
Drake and Rihanna are heating up! According to E! News, the duo is officially dating, after spending a bunch of time together this week in England.
Drizzy got the romance buzz started on Wednesday, June 30, 2016, when he made a surprise appearance at her Anti World Tour concert in Manchester.
But, it wasn"t just the fact that he showed up for RiRi, 29, that made us suspicious about their relationship status. It"s what he said on stage after they performed "Work" together ...
"Shout out to the most beautiful, talented woman I"ve ever seen. She goes by the name of Rihanna," Drake announced mid-show. "I"m gettin" my heart broken."
If that doesn"t make you think these two are getting hot and heavy, we don"t know what will.
Well, there"s also the fact that they"ve hung out for three consecutive nights in London, aside from the concert.
On Friday, July 1, they were spotted out at a nightclub called Tape, where they went a few days before for Nicole Scherzinger"s birthday.
The E! News insider claims that Drake, 28, "never stopped" loving Rihanna, who he"s been rumored to have hooked up with before.
The source adds, "Rihanna is the one that"s been not wanting to settle down in the past. They are having fun spending time with each other. Their music together got them close again."
We simply can"t wait to see where this goes, especially after so many years of romance rumors between the two.
