Broke 'n' English used to host a radio show called Fuck Fat City after Fat City Records refused to sell their music.
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But the Stockton of "Fat City" is lurid and legendary.
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Welcome to Fat City is out September 23 on Wind-up Records.
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Photographs of boxers make up a wall of fame at the Fat City Boxing Club in Stockton.
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"He lived in the Hotel Coma," states the first line of "Fat City," Leonard Gardner's 219 novel.
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In 1993, Rae and Ed Pitt opened Fat City, a record store in Affleck's Palace, in Manchester's Northern Quarter.
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In addition to writing two short stories about boxers, he would later direct a pugilistic picture called Fat City (1972).
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They started making no sense in 1989 as a noisy instrumental guitar duo from Stockton, California, aka Mudville or Fat City.
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I decide to hunt for "Fat City," and Mr. Gardner, now 19803 and living in Marin County, has agreed to hunt with me.
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There's some great quote about Susan Tyrrell, the incredible actress from "Fat City," who kind of collected her people and kept them very tight.
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"Fat City" is an Edward Hopper painting, a Robert Frank photograph, a midnight-choir Tom Waits operetta plunked on an out-of-tune piano.
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From the early Fat City released experiments in zero-gravity post-dubstep through to out-there Radiohead remixes and ethereal avant-electronica, Hunn's yet to put a foot wrong.
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But it'd all be in vain if "Not For Sale," the first track to drop from the Pottsville, Pennsylvania band's new album Welcome to Fat City, was anything less than triumphant.
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I'm not sure it's a book about the state but Leonard Gardner's "Fat City," set in Stockton, is tremendous (especially when read in the New York Review Books edition with Denis Johnson's introduction).
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"In the end they had to sign us to keep us quiet," he tells the room with a laugh, adding: "then we used to go to their events and make people say fuck Fat City all the time".
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My favorite contemporaries are too many to mention, but some of their books include: Graham Swift's "Waterland"; David Malouf's "An Imaginary Life"; Don DeLillo's "The Names" and "Libra"; "Fat City," by Leonard Gardner; "The Round House," by Louise Erdrich; "Train Dreams," by Denis Johnson; John Ehle's "The Land Breakers"; and essays by Annie Dillard and Donald Richie.
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" According to the course syllabus, students have spent the semester reading great fight writing—everything from the Iliad to A. J. Liebling to Fat City to Kelefa Sanneh; watching films about boxing and MMA—like Raging Bull and Rocky and Warrior; and even parsing the online interviews of our colleague Ariel Helwani, all in an attempt to understand the "use of language to describe conflict and the use of real and fictional fights and fighters to examine cultural issues.
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Live! At Nick's Fat City is the first live album by American rock singer Donnie Iris, released in 1998.The Unofficial Donnie Iris Site - Live! At Nick's Fat City Nick's Fat City is a now defunct nightclub that was located in Pittsburgh in the South Side Flats neighborhood.
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Fat City Reprise was a five-piece rock band from South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Ink19.comAmazon.com The name Fat City Reprise is derived from Hunter S. Thompson's failed bid for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado in 1970.
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The split resulted in only two songs on Fat City that were previously released which were Sing Me a Rainbow and Fat City, which they still perform today. The remaining 18 tracks are covers of other artist tracks.
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It has a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 22 reviews, with a weighted average of 8.5/10. The site's consensus reads: "Fat City is a bleak, mordant, slice of life boxing drama that doesn't pull its punches".Fat City at Rotten Tomatoes. Last accessed: June 30, 2019.
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The result was considered an innovative success. He made two other films that year, The Happy Ending and Tell them Willie Boy is Here. In 1972, Hall shot Fat City, with director John Huston. Fat City was known for its grainy texture to reflect the harsh reality of the storyline.
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The group began as Fat City, a husband/wife duo of Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert. Danoff and Nivert co-wrote the song "I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" and then, with John Denver, "Take Me Home, Country Roads" which became a hit single in 1971 and became an official West Virginia song. The duo recorded two albums as Fat City, and two more as Bill & Taffy (Welcome to Fat City/Pass It On) all released from 1969-1974. In the mid 1970s, Starland Vocal Band was formed and subsequently signed to Denver's label Windsong Records.
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Fat City is a 1972 American boxing drama film directed by John Huston. The picture stars Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges and Susan Tyrrell. One of Huston's later films, it is based on the boxing novel Fat City (1969) by Leonard Gardner, who also wrote the screenplay. Tyrrell received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination as the alcoholic, world-weary Oma.
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Stars on 33 was the first DJ mix album mixed by Aim. The album was released in 2002 on the Fat City Recordings label.
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They have since then released 3 song including title track "Welcome to Fat City", "Plague of the Mammoths" and new single "Play It Cool".
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A 2017 EP Fat City Let's Go! was released on ten-inch vinyl and digitally via Folc/Bandcamp. The EP cover features art by Jeremy Eaton.
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Frying the Fat was the first compilation album from the Grand Central Records independent record label, released in association with Fat City Recordings on 8 December 1995.
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Pevec is the program director at Fat City Farmers, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to improve personal and community health by supporting gardens and the local food system in Basalt, Colorado. Pevec coordinates garden education with regional schools in four counties and creates gardening curriculums for Colorado teachers in support of active learning. In 2014, she began an immigrant community garden at Roaring Fork High School for Spanish speaking immigrant families in partnership with Valley Settlement Project and Fat City Farmers.
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Halfway through the recording of the album, Perko departed. Any tracks retaining his guitar playing are credited on the album artwork. Lyrics and music are credited as "All songs by Fat City Reprise". In February 2008, the Roots invited Fat City Reprise to perform at their Pre-Grammy party at the Key Club in Los Angeles where they performed with Patrick Stump, Seal, Travis Barker, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Bilal, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes.MTV.
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The reuse of the Johnston and Mecklenburg Mills under ownership of the City of Charlotte has failed and now the Mills await a second rebirth in the private sector. The historic Hand Pharmacy building was preserved and turned into the successful Cabo Fish Taco restaurant that lines up diners into the neighborhood streets daily. Many catalyst endeavors, such as Fat City Deli, which helped to introduce live music back to North Charlotte, have been lost to progress - but not without concession to the fabric which it helped to weave: The HNCNA worked very closely with the developer of Fat City Lofts to protect the integrity and function of the original Fat City. The same can be said for the integrity of the Neighborhood Theatre, which is now a premiere music venue.
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Ahab, in Moby Dick. Marlon Brando's career Army officer in Reflections in a Golden Eye, even Bogart and Hepburn in The African Queen – they all fall short of their plans. The African Queen does have a happy ending, but it feels tacked-on and ridiculous, and the Queen destroys itself in destroying the German steamer. So this [Fat City] is a theme we find in Huston's work, but rarely does he fit it to characters and a time and place so well as in Fat City.
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Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner are literary influences.Profile, latimesblogs.latimes.com; accessed October 5, 2016. Films that have influenced Cooper include: Robert Altman's Nashville, Terrence Malick's Badlands, John Huston's Fat City and Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show.
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The Sons recorded their first album, Fat City in 1967 for Trident Records, owned by Kingston Trio manager Frank Werber. They released a single, "Sing Me a Rainbow," (B-side "Fat City") which got airplay in the Bay Area but did not crack the national charts. The plan was to follow this release with another song from the album, a Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil composition called "Shades of Grey", but the Monkees released their version before this could happen. The album was not released and the Sons left Trident Records.
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Gardner's 1969 novel Fat City is an American classic whose stature has increased over the years. His screen adaptation of Fat City was made into an acclaimed 1972 film of the same title, directed by John Huston. The book and movie are set in and around Stockton and concern the struggles of third-rate pro boxers who only dimly comprehend that none of them will ever make the big time. Devoid of the usual "sweet science" cliches, the book roils with dark pessimism as the characters eke out a gritty existence.
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Lilley writes an adult mystery series called The Fat City Mysteries, featuring investigative journalist Kate Gallagher, a plus-sized TV reporter who is constantly fighting a weight problem that threatens her on-camera career. The Fat City Mysteries are published by Signet/Obsidian, a division of NAL/Penguin Group. The first book in the series, Dying To Be Thin, published in 2007, was an IMBA bestseller for October, 2007].IMBA bestseller for October, 2007 Other books in the series are A Killer Workout (2008), and Makeovers Can Be Murder (2009).
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Clark dated Jeff Bridges for several years after they met on the set of Fat City in 1972. She was married to Marjoe Gortner from 1978 to 1979. She married Jeff Wald in 1987 and divorced him in 1988.
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It starred Stacy Keach, a young Jeff Bridges, and Susan Tyrrell; she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roger Ebert stated Fat City was one of Huston's best films, giving it four out of four stars.
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Formed in early 2003, Fat City Reprise's original line-up consisted of Frank Pedano (vocals, keys), Eric Cifone (drums), Nick Anastasi (lead guitar), Tony Trov (vocals, bass guitar), and Thomas J. Perko (vocals, guitar).South Philly Review hiInterview The band gained notoriety by distributing live bootlegs of their own shows. Under the line-up of Anastasi (guitars), Miraglia (drums), Pedano (lead vocals, keys), Perko (guitar), and Vivas (bass, background vocals), the band began working with Mike Lowe of Lowe Records. They recorded and released their debut album at Larry Gold's Studio, the self-titled Fat City Reprise in May 2007.
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A collection of tracks played at Nick's Fat City, a popular Pittsburgh nightclub, Live! At Nick's Fat City was the first release to feature bass guitarist Paul Goll, who had been touring with the band since 1993, along with drummer Tommy Rich. 1999 saw the release of an Iris collaborative project entitled Together Alone, featuring contributions from other regionally popular artists like Michael Stanley, Scott Blasey, B. E. Taylor and Joe Grushecky. After Alone, which featured a softer side of Iris's vocals, the band took a break from releasing new material but continued to perform regularly through the decade.
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1–15 Numerous books and plays continue to be written in the tradition of tragedy to this day examples include Froth on the Daydream, The Road, The Fault in Our Stars, Fat City, Rabbit Hole, Requiem for a Dream, The Handmaid's Tale.
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Fat City is a novel by Leonard Gardner published in 1969. It is his only novel. Its prestige has grown since its publication, due to critical acclaim from Joan Didion and Walker Percy, among others. The book is widely considered a classic of boxing fiction.
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27 on the Norwegian charts and no. 15 on the Swedish charts. A single was released for that album in 2011 as well, "She's Like No Other". That same year, he performed live with Sante Fe and the Fat City Horns, a concert which was later released on DVD in 2013.
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Independent Fabrication was formed by former employees of Fat City CyclesFat City Cycles to close - BIKEmagic Gear News and later Merlin Metalworks. Giana Roberge won the 2004 world masters time-trial championship in Austria on an XS. In 2007 Gary Smith bought 80% of the company, with the employees owning the remaining 20%.
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Cokes became a trainer after he retired. Some of the fighters he worked with include Quincy Taylor and Ike Ibeabuchi. Cokes also made one film appearance in the year of his retirement. He appeared in the 1972 John Huston film Fat City alongside future Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges and Stacy Keach.
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Cooper Montgomery portrayed by André Jamal Kinney (season 1), also called "Coop", is Jackson's best friend in season one. Cooper has not made an appearance outside of season one, although he is mentioned and it's assumed they still hang out. Cooper often plays the straight man to Jackson's antics. He works at a movie theater called "Nick's Fat City".
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In the South Park episode Trapped in the Closet, a reference is made to FunPlex, an amusement center in Ken Caryl, though it has been renamed multiple times since then; first Fat City, then Mr. Biggs, and finally the current name, Fun City. Fun City closed in the summer of 2015, and the building was subsequently demolished.
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In 2012, Kuriyama directed the video of Long Gone by Fat City Reprise. In order to make the video, he took 45,000 photographs and stitched them together to create the illusion of a video. The video was premiered at their homecoming concert in Philadelphia. Including the time for conceptualizing and creating the storyboard, it took Kuriyama about 14 months to make the video.
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After spending time in Africa, England, Spain, and Australia, Stephen Kent settled in San Francisco in the early 1990s after finishing a European tour with his band Lights in a Fat City.Kent, Stephen. Stephen Kent bio. 2010, cited April 28, 2014 He first met Beth Custer while playing with Lights in a Fat City at a party for Mondo 2000.
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Fat City is the debut album on the Sons of Champlin, formerly known as the Opposite Six released in 1967 on Trident Productions. The Sons of Champlin were a more strait-laced rock band who did many recordings from 1966 to 1967. It is very concise in structure and effort than their later looser psychedelic-based material they released in the late 1960s.
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Welcome to Fat City is the second studio album by Pennsylvania rock band Crobot, it is the last album to feature brothers Jake & Paul Figuero. It was Released 23 September 2016. They started recording the record in January 2016 with record producer Machine in Texas. They announced the album in June 2016 with the first official single "Not for Sale".
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Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer; March 18, 1945 – June 16, 2012) was an American character actress. Tyrrell's career began in theater in New York City in the 1960s in Broadway and off Broadway productions. Her first film was Shoot Out (1971). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Oma in John Huston's Fat City (1972).
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"Take Me Home, Country Roads" appeared on the LP Poems, Prayers & Promises and was released as a 45 in the spring of 1971. Original pressings credited the single to "John Denver with Fat City". It broke nationally in mid-April but moved up the charts very slowly. After several weeks, RCA Records called John and told him that they were giving up on the single.
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Donald Lambro was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and graduated from Boston University with a degree in journalism. He began his career working for the Boston Herald-Traveler and in 1968 joined United Press International in Hartford, Connecticut, covering state government. In 1981, the Conservative Political Action Conference awarded Don Lambro the "Outstanding Journalist Award" for his book Fat City. In 1985, he won the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism.
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He secured his first solo production with The Cars' bassist Benjamin Orr's 1986 solo album The Lace. Two years later, in 1988, Klein co-produced both Joni Mitchell's Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm and The Innocence Mission's self-titled album. He also co-produced Mitchell's 1991 album Night Ride Home and Shawn Colvin's Fat City in 1992. Klein and Mitchell's marriage dissolved during 1994 while in the midst of making Mitchell's Turbulent Indigo album.
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Retrieved 2009-11-06. In a 1999 Dazed & Confused magazine article, Korine listed his top ten films as Pixote by Héctor Babenco, Badlands and Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick, Fat City by John Huston, Stroszek by Werner Herzog, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and A Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes, McCabe and Mrs. Miller by Robert Altman, Out of the Blue by Dennis Hopper and Hail Mary by Jean-Luc Godard.
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Serotta was known in the industry for its proprietary tube designs and revolutionizing titanium bicycle building. Serotta sold the company in 1989 to Archibald Cox Jr., son of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox Jr. Cox later purchased Fat City Cycles and merged it with Serotta in response to growing interest in mountain biking. In 1997, Ben Serotta and his wife Marcie bought the company back from Cox. Serotta also has a bicycle-fitting system.
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He played guitar on the long running children's shows Mr. Dressupat Barrie public library and Polkadot Door, and wrote music for Sesame Street. He played on the Expo 67 songs "Canada" and "A Place To Stand." He also played banjo on The Stampeders' 1971 studio recording of "Sweet City Woman," and guitar on the Bobby Edwards album Fat City Suites in E Major. Hank has instructed Canadian music composer Bob Ezrin in jazz guitar.
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Paul David Goll, Jr. also known as Paul Goll (1951–present) is an American rock guitarist and bass guitarist, born in Erie, PA, who is best known for being a member of Donnie Iris and the Cruisers. when he was 15, he already was playing the bass guitar professionally. Paul has been the band's bass guitarist since 1994, and first appeared on the live album Live! At Nick's Fat City in 1998.
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The Howlin’ Wolf opened in 1988 and is named after the legendary bluesman Chester "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett. The original Howlin' Wolf opened in the Fat City section of Metairie, Louisiana, founded by brothers Jack and Jeff Groetsch. The Howlin' Wolf moved to a cotton warehouse in the New Orleans warehouse district at 828 South Peters about 1990. The Groetsch brothers sold the business to the current owner Howie Kaplan in the Summer of 2000.
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The album Pass It On, included such songs as "Do You Believe", "Didn't I Try", satirical "At Least We're Not Invading China" and "The Fat City High School Fight Song" and a tribute to The Everly Brothers, "Hey Loretta". Starland Vocal Band was also composed of Jon Carroll (keyboards, guitar, vocals) and Margot Chapman (vocals). Carroll and Chapman married after meeting as members of the group, but later divorced. Their son Ben Carroll is also a musician.
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After several films that were not well received, Huston returned to critical acclaim with Fat City. Based on Leonard Gardner's 1969 novel of the same name, it was about an aging, washed-up alcoholic boxer in Stockton, California trying to get his name back on the map, while having a new relationship with a world-weary alcoholic. It also featured an amateur boxer trying to find success in boxing. The film was nominated for several awards.
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" According to Roger Ebert, on his review of Fat City, "His fascination with underdogs and losers. The characters in Huston movies hardly ever set out to achieve what they're aiming for. Sam Spade, in The Maltese Falcon, Huston's first film, ends up minus one partner and one woman he thought he could trust. Everyone is a loser in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and the gold blows back into the dust and is lost in it.
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Keach played a rookie policeman in The New Centurions (1972), opposite George C. Scott. That year he also starred in Fat City, a boxing film directed by John Huston. He was the first choice for the role of Damien Karras in the 1973 movie The Exorcist, but he did not accept the role. He went on to play Kane in the 1980 movie The Ninth Configuration, written and directed by Blatty; this role was itself intended for Nicol Williamson.
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The band released their first live album, recorded at Nick's Fat City night club on Pittsburgh's South Side and aptly-titled Live, in 1998. Scott Blasey, in turn, released his second solo album, Shine, in 1999. The group continued to perform at packed shows throughout the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, but did not immediately record a follow-up to Someday Maybe. However, they experienced a new chance at broader success with the arrival of the New Millennium.
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Fat City, Shawn Colvin's second full-length album, was released in 1992 on Columbia Records. The album reached 142 on the Billboard 200 and reached #2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers.[ Billboard album milestones] from Allmusic "Round of Blues" and "I Don't Know Why" made Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Contemporary single charts, respectively.[ Billboard singles milestones] from Allmusic "Tenderness on the Block" is a cover version of a song released on Warren Zevon's 1978 album Excitable Boy.
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The brand new, seven-story, 33-unit project is expected to be completed by mid-2020. As of now, pre-construction prices currently range from the mid - $300,000 to the mid - $800,000 (Hurtbise). Additionally, in 2017 the city of Fort Lauderdale approved the construction of a 1.35 million square-foot real estate development - a combination of apartments, stores, and office spaces that has been deemed the name FAT City (Seemuth). This project will be headed by the development group Traina.
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" I took the light out of the ceiling and really stuck it on the painting." Alan Vega, 1993 – 100,000 Watts of Fat City Anna Polerica. many of which were constructed of electronic debris. He gained a residency at the OK Harris Gallery in SoHo where he continued to exhibit until 1975. Barbara Gladstone continued to show his work well into the 1980s. Seeing The Stooges perform at the New York State Pavilion in August 1969 was an epiphany for Vega.
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It was also noteworthy for its policy of social integration, led by the influence of the club scene which brought about sponsorship of such events as the Manchester Mardi Gras during its years of greatest expansion. In common with other specialist music stations it handed over many hours of output to club DJs, artists and music producers who had little or no experience of radio presentation leading to ground-breaking if at times anarchic entertainment from groups like Fat City Records, Autechre and 808 State.
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Jah was a finalist at the UK DMC DJ Championship, where Mark Rae was on the judging panel. Parker later met Rae at the Fat City Records store in Manchester and was asked to audition for the Rae & Christian live backing band. Parker performed along with Sneaky for Rae & Christian, before teaming up as a pair. The band were signed to Rae's Grand Central Records in the UK (sub-contracted to Ninja Tune in the US), and have released three studio albums plus a best of compilation.
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Having no luck in finding bandmates for a surf band, he started recording alone on a four- track, mainly playing bass guitar. Having heard Badly Drawn Boy's "EP1" he started taking his tapes to Andy Votel who then worked at Fat City Records. After several months and numerous demo tapes, Votel decided to sign him to the fledgling Twisted Nerve Records, which had originally been set up in 1997 merely to release Badly Drawn Boy's recordings. His first release was on Twisted Nerve compilation All Oar Nothing and his recording moniker was Dakota Oak.
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Mahesh Dattani (born 7 August 1958) is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Tara, Thirty Days in September, The Big Fat City andTOI Bangalore News " The Murder that never was" The Murder That Never Was, starring Dheiraj Kapoor. He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His plays have been directed by eminent directors like Arvind Gaur, Alyque Padamsee and Lillete Dubey.
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He has appeared as the lead in films such as Fat City and The Ninth Configuration. He has also performed as a narrator for programs including CNBC'S American Greed (2008–) and various educational television programs. Comedic roles include Ken, the father of comedian Christopher Titus in the FOX sitcom Titus (2000–2002), and as Sergeant Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's films Up in Smoke (1978) and Nice Dreams (1981). Keach won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries Hemingway (1988).
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From 1990 to 1995, he hosted Honda Campus All-Star Challenge on the BET network, and, after the event became non- broadcast, continued to host the final matches through 2008. Most of Holmes' Vegas band members also appear in a locally popular R&B;/jazz group, Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns. Holmes has annually returned to Buffalo each March to co-host the annual Variety Kids telethon on WKBW-TV. With the opening of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in 2012, Holmes performs monthly in the Cabaret Jazz Theater.
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Retrieved on December 17, 2016. Although the Will-O-Bees' version was accorded "Chart SpotlightsPredicted to reach the HOT 100" status in Billboard Magazine's issue of December 31, 1966, the record is little known today. Sons of Champlin recorded the song at about the same time, but the Headquarters version was released first. The album Fat City, released in 2015 by The Thick Boys, finally featured the Sons of Champlin version of the song, named "Shades of thickness" (whereas the original Monkees release was titled "Shades of Gray").
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For over a century it was a French Quarter landmark. Locals long had personal opinions regarding whether the preferred Morning Call, or the original Café du Monde two blocks away. For decades both Morning Call and Cafe Du Monde offered automobile curb service. Morning Call in Metairie, 2008 Morning Call in City Park, 2018 In 1974, confronting rent increases and the redevelopment of the French Market district, the owners of the Morning Call closed the original location and moved to Fat City, a commercial district in Metairie, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish.
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In February 1999, this collection was released on a British CD under the title Fat City. During the late 1960s, The Sons of Champlin performed regularly at the San Francisco venues, the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore West and the (former) Chateau Liberté venue in the mountains above San Jose. They shared billing with, among many others, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, and The Youngbloods. They were also the opening act at The Band's first concert at which they used the name "The Band," along with The Ace of Cups.
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He has also worked with various other popular artists. Zummo was heard on the 1984 song "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)" on Jackson’s album Body and Soul. The song reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Zummo has been a featured guitar soloist on numerous albums, including Art Garfunkel (Up 'til Now), Shawn Colvin (Fat City), Roger Daltrey (Rocks in the Head), Paul Carrack (Groove Approved), Marti Jones (Birthday Suit), Dee Carstensen (Regarding The Soul), Nenad Bach (Greatest Hits), Dawn Avery (True), Jamie de Roy (The Child In Me Vol.
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His first job in the industry came when he was involved in the making of a behind-the-scenes documentary of the critically acclaimed 1972 drama film Fat City through producer Ray Stark, who had established a scholarship at USC in his son's name. Stark proposed a promotional film that would intersperse behind-the-scenes footage with footage of real boxers on whom the film was based. Jaffe worked closely with director John Huston during production. On the verge of being drafted with only one semester of school left, Jaffe flew to Amsterdam where he stayed for a year.
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Lau first gained exposure with the song "Im Fine" featuring Rahel on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Bubblers (Part 4), this release marked the resurgence of the stripped back soul style and was followed swiftly by his debut EP for Fat City Records. He released his debut album "New Territories" in 2008 on Ubiquity Records to critical acclaim. Straight No Chaser wrote "New Territories represents the arrival of a talented artist and perceptive one-man production house." After a two-year absence Lau returned in 2010 with a new EP titled "Kilawatt: V2", as the second instalment of the producer series released by Kilawatt.
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Criticism of the agency was fueled by Fat City, a 1980 book by Washington Times journalist Donald Lambro that was regarded favorably by the Reagan administration; it called OTA an "unnecessary agency" that duplicated government work done elsewhere. OTA was abolished (technically "de-funded") in the "Contract with America" period of Newt Gingrich's Republican ascendancy in Congress. According to Science magazine, "some Republican lawmakers came to view [the OTA] as duplicative, wasteful, and biased against their party." When the 104th Congress withdrew funding for OTA, it had a full-time staff of 143 people and an annual budget of $21.9 million.
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Like the novel, the film was set in Stockton, California and shot mostly on location there. All of the original skid row depicted in the novel was demolished (West End Redevelopment) from 1965 to 1969. Most of the skid row scenes were filmed in the outer fringe of the original skid row which was torn down a year after Fat City was filmed in order to make way for the construction of the Crosstown Freeway, aka "Ort Lofthus Freeway". The drama is featured in the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (1992) for Conrad L. Hall's use of lighting.
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Meanwhile, the area is something of a mecca for DJs, with shops such as Piccadilly Records, Vinyl Exchange, Vox Pop Records, Beatin' Rhythm, Vinyl Resting Place, Eastern Bloc Records (formerly owned by Martin Price of 808 State, then by Pete Waterman) and, until 2009, Fat City Records (formerly run by Mark Rae). Nightlife in the Northern Quarter includes music venues. The area is also famous for its bar scene. The area is also known as a home to the creative industries, and in particular fashion design, with various designers, agencies, and clothing wholesalers populating its back streets.
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Weber built the first permanent residence in the San Joaquin Valley on a piece of land now known as Weber Point. During the Gold Rush, the location of what is now Stockton developed as a river port, the hub of roads to the gold settlements in the San Joaquin Valley and northern terminus of the Stockton - Los Angeles Road. During its early years, Stockton was known by several names, including "Weberville," "Fat City," "Mudville" and "California's Sunrise Seaport." In 1849 Weber laid out a town, which he named "Tuleburg," but he soon decided on "Stockton" in honor of Commodore Robert F. Stockton.
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A long-familiar feature of life on Absecon Island is that the place is extremely prone to flooding, but that the flooding comes mostly, almost exclusively, from the landward bay — not from the ocean beaches." and attended Atlantic City High School.Tracey, Sara. "Food, life inspired Josh Ozersky, even as Atlantic City teen", The Press of Atlantic City, May 7, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2017. "'He called it Josh Ozersky’s Fat City,' said Tim Cavanaugh, Ozersky’s friend and former Atlantic City High School classmate.... 'He was full of energy,' said Cavanaugh, formerly of Margate and currently news editor at the Washington Examiner.
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The team performed the longform improvisation structure the "Harold" but later chose the "Evente" as its signature form. They won acclaim for improvised shows like "Fat City: Population YOU!" and "Good versus Elvis" They were cited in The Village Voice's Best of NYC issue for 2004. Billed as "the Upright Citizens Brigade's official touring company," they appeared at such comedy gatherings as the Chicago Improv Festival and San Francisco's Sketchfest. The group also produced four sketch comedy shows: "Burn Millionaire Burn", "Doin' Blow with George W.", "When Amish Attack", and "George Bush Is a MotherFucker", which was conceived and guest-directed by Adam McKay.
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Walt Koken started playing banjo at the age of thirteen. “In 1959, my brother had broken his arm, and heard that playing guitar might be a good way to get its strength back. He got his old guitar with a warped neck and high strings, and started strummin’ it. I really thought that was neat, and one day he came to me and said, “Why don’t you get a banjo, and we’ll make some money?” (Smith 2011) Since 1965, Koken has played in multiple bands: the Busted Toe Mudthumpers, the Muskrat Ramblers, the Fat City String Band, the legendary Highwoods Stringband, and The Cacklin’ Hens and Roosters Too!. (last.
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Colasanto is best known for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso, a character in the television sitcom Cheers; he also directed episodes of many television series, including Hawaii Five-O, Starsky & Hutch, Bonanza, Columbo, and CHiPs. He also appeared in feature films, including The Counterfeit Killer (1968), Fat City (1972), and Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976). Colasanto was in demand as an actor and director but in the mid-1970s he was diagnosed with heart disease, which was exacerbated by his alcoholism. After twenty years of alcoholism, he became an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous from March 31, 1976, and became sober in the same year.
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Windsong Records is a record label based in Snowmass, Colorado, that was founded by John Denver in 1976. The label primarily caters to folk music artists and bands, and has signed acts such as Denver, Starland Vocal Band (and its precursor, Fat City), Maxine Nightingale, Johnny's Dance Band, Nanette Mancini, and Tom Crum. Founded as a subsidiary of RCA Records under the name Windsong Records, Windstar became an independent label in 1986, when RCA and Denver parted. Denver and RCA were not on particularly good terms towards the end of their partnership due to a change in management at RCA with executives not particularly interested in Denver's genre of music.
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The band performed mostly original songs written by Podrasky and Kaniecki, with some songs contributed by Carter, and a few covers. Early performances in Pittsburgh were at The Electric Banana, The Decade Lounge, functions at Carnegie Mellon, as well as regular gigs at Fat City in Swissvale. During the summer of 1980 the band made 4-track and 16-track studio recordings, including the later popular "Class Tramp" and "In My Gremlin," along with the usual live recordings of club dates. Slevin left the band in the summer of 1980 to return to his native New York City and was replaced by Victor McPoland, a fellow Pittsburgher and Carnegie/Mellon grad.
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Lakeside Shopping Center is the highest-grossing mall in the New Orleans metropolitan area. In the 1970s and early 1980s, an area of bars and nightclubs opened in a section of Metairie known as "Fat City", which is now the most racially diverse area in the New Orleans metropolitan area and is home to a vibrant restaurant scene. Several New Orleans radio and television stations have transmitter facilities in Metairie and Jefferson Parish; two of them, WGNO-TV and WNOL, now have studios and main offices in Metairie. Metairie has a large Mardi Gras season that touts itself as more family- friendly than the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
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A close friend and creative confidant of John Huston, Stark produced four highly successful films with the visionary director. Stark and Huston formed a close bond while shooting Tennessee Williams' The Night of The Iguana (1964) starring Richard Burton and Ava Gardner on-location in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Following their success, Huston and Stark went on to create Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), based on the 1941 novel by author Carson McCullers and starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, Fat City (1972), and the commercially successful 1982 adaption of Annie the musical starring Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, and Aileen Quinn in her film debut.
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Illène Pevec (born June 6, 1948) is an author, journalist, children's activist, and educator who works in developing youth gardens at schools and community centers. Based in Carbondale, Colorado, Pevec serves as the program director for Fat City Farmers, a local food education program in Basalt, Colorado. She is a multinational citizen (Brazil, US, and Canada) and has developed youth gardens in all three countries. Pevec authored Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy (New Village Press 2016), a book that integrates her work in US community youth gardens with observations from other disciplines to generate a better understanding of the positive effect mentored urban gardening can have on youth development.
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Lowell Darling is an American conceptual artist most notable for a series of performances in the 1970s that included nailing cities to the earth, conducting "urban acupuncture" by placing oversize needles in the ground, and stitching up the San Andreas Fault. He practiced "Contemporary Archaeology" by dumpster diving and using the articles he pulled from the trash bins to create "Found Object" art works. His art includes a run for public office in the 1978 California gubernatorial election, when his primary challenge to Governor Jerry Brown received some 62,000 votes. He is the creator of the "Fat City School of Finds Art," an unaccredited institution that grants free Masters and PhD degrees to arts students.
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Cleto Escobedo III is the leader of the sextet, and plays the alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones on the show, as well as occasionally singing both on camera and off (for comedy bits and other musical segments). He grew up as a neighbor of host Jimmy Kimmel in Las Vegas and after briefly attending UNLV, he joined the band Santa Fe (now Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns). Escobedo's big break came when Paula Abdul invited him to perform with her on tour. Since that time, Escobedo has been based in Los Angeles, and performed on many commercial jingles and also toured with Marc Anthony and Earth, Wind & Fire's Phillip Bailey.
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 96% based on reviews from 23 critics. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier), Best Director and Best Music, Original Dramatic Score. Olivier won the New York Film Critics award for Best Actor as a compromise selection after the voters became deadlocked in a choice between Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in The Godfather after Stacy Keach in Fat City won a plurality in initial voting and rules were changed requiring a majority.Inside Oscar, Mason Wiley and Damien Bona, Ballantine Books (1986) Shaffer received an Edgar Award for his screenplay.
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John Marcellus Huston ( ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist. He travelled widely, settling at various times in France, Mexico, and Ireland. Huston was a citizen of the United States by birth but renounced U.S. citizenship to become an Irish citizen and resident in 1964. He later returned to the United States, where he lived the rest of his life. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1961), Fat City (1972), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).
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Denver began his recording career with a group that had started as the Chad Mitchell Trio; his distinctive voice can be heard where he sings solo on "Violets of Dawn", among other songs. He recorded three albums with the Mitchell Trio, replacing Chad Mitchell himself as high tenor. The group Denver, Boise, and Johnson, which had evolved from the Mitchell Trio, released a single before he moved on to a solo career. Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, billed as Fat City and credited as co-writers of Denver's song "Take Me Home, Country Roads", were close friends of Denver and his family, appearing as singers and songwriters on many of Denver's albums until they formed the Starland Vocal Band in 1976.
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Director Michael Ritchie recruited Schlom for numerous films as well, namely The Bad News Bears, The Island, The Golden Child, Wildcats, and Fletch.IMDb.com In addition, Schlom worked on two films each with Arthur Penn (The Chase and Night Moves), John Huston (Fat City and Annie), Franklin J. Schaffner (Papillon and Islands in the Stream), James Bridges (The China Syndrome and Mike's Murder), Colin Higgins (9 to 5 and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), Mike Nichols (Silkwood and Postcards from the Edge), and Mel Brooks (Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It). His many other films include Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky, Mark Rydell's On Golden Pond, Barry Levinson's Rain Man, and John Hughes' Uncle Buck. Schlom retired in 1995.
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The album won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.Woodstra, Chris Shawn Colvin Biography All Music, retrieved May 25, 2012 Colvin's second album Fat City was released in 1992 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. Her song "I Don't Know Why" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Female Pop Vocal category. In 1993 she moved back to Austin and in 1994 released the album Cover Girl. In 1995 Colvin released her album Live 88 a collection of live recordings from 1988. In 1996, Colvin released her album A Few Small Repairs and in 1997 the success of her single "Sunny Came Home" catapulted her into the mainstream after spending four weeks at the number one spot on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song won the 1998 Grammy Awards for both Song and Record of the Year.
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27 on the Norwegian charts and no. 15 on the Swedish charts. A single was released for that album in 2011 as well, "She's Like No Other". That same year, he performed live with Sante Fe and the Fat City Horns, a concert which was later released on DVD in 2013. In 2012, Børud was featured on the song "Get Ready" by INC the Choir on the album Higher. He also appeared in 2013 on the Lars-Erik Dahle album Step into the Water for the song "Barrytown", and with his father, Arnold, on the Rune Larson song "All Shook Up" from the album Tidens Gate. Later that year collaborated with Samuel Ljungblahd for a stand-alone Christmas single, "Mary's Boy Child", released on November 8, and on December 23 the pair released a full Christmas album, Someday At Christmas. The album charted at no. 39 in Norway and no. 13 in Sweden.
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Tyrrell made her Broadway debut in 1965 as a replacement performer in the comedy Cactus Flower. In 1968, as a member of the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, she was in the cast of King Lear and revivals of The Time of Your Life (1969) and Camino Real (1970). Off-Broadway, Tyrrell appeared in the 1967 premiere of Lanford Wilson's The Rimers of Eldritch and a 1979 production of Father's Day at The American Place Theatre. Tyrrell's television debut was in Mr. Novak (1964) and her film debut was in Shoot Out (1971). Tyrrell was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Oma in John Huston's Fat City (1972). In 1976, she played a psychotic bimbo in I Never Promised You A Rose Garden. In 1978, the actress won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Bad (1977). Later, Tyrrell starred as Queen Doris in the indie Forbidden Zone (1980).
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In 1970, Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, as part of a group of citizens running for local offices on the "Freak Power" ticket. The platform included promoting the decriminalization of drugs (for personal use only, not trafficking, as he disapproved of profiteering), tearing up the streets and turning them into grassy pedestrian malls, banning any building so tall as to obscure the view of the mountains, disarming all police forces, and renaming Aspen "Fat City" to deter investors. Thompson, having shaved his head, referred to the crew cut-wearing Republican candidate as "my long-haired opponent". With polls showing him with a slight lead in a three-way race, Thompson appeared at Rolling Stone magazine headquarters in San Francisco with a six-pack of beer in hand, and declared to editor Jann Wenner that he was about to be elected sheriff of Aspen, Colorado, and wished to write about the "Freak Power" movement.
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Timeless Festival was a community music festival in Huddersfield, Kirklees, which ran from 2002 to 2005. The Guardian chose the festival as its 'pick of the week' 2 years running (2004 and 2005). The festival was organised by Chocolate Fireguard Records and the Timeless Music Project and featured three stages in Ravensknowle Park, Wakefield Road, Huddersfield Acts included DJ Vadim, Lo Fidelity Allstars, Fat City Records Sound System, Oneself, Zion Train, Kava Kava, Root Jackson, The Freestylers, Fingathing, Transglobal Underground, The Bays, Panjabi Hit Squad, La Cedille, Snowboy and the Latin Section, Iration Steppas, Jehst, Asaviour, DJ IQ, Four Day Hombre, The Voltaires, The Selecter, Pee Wee Ellis, Dub Dadda and many local acts, workshops, a freestyle hip hop stage, films, visuals from VJs, acts from Besançon (Huddersfield's twin town in France) Side projects include the regional CD sampler of West Yorkshire based record labels for international Music Conferences, a 3 x CD Huddersfield showcase compilation Sounds From A Big Town and various other projects aimed at profiling the area c/o Timeless Music Project.
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