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The Wood Street community gets the opportunity to hear a story from Fernando and Jessie Light-Wells preaches and we continue our journey down the road to Emmaus
Join us on the road to Emmaus as we journey together for three weeks and hear stories from folks within the Wood Street community. Jessie Light-Wells preaches, Nikki Thompson shares.
00:08 — Jessica Mason Pieklo is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered. 00:33 — John Janosko, former Wood street encampment resident. The post Texas Abortion Crackdown; Plus, Community Impact of Wood Street Cabin Shelter and RV Site Closure appeared first on KPFA.
‘Daisy Thomas House' on Wood Street demolished in Mansfield: https://www.richlandsource.com/2024/01/26/historical-sadness-daisy-thomas-house-on-wood-street-demolished-in-mansfield/ Today - We dive into a recent event – the demolition of the historic Daisy Thomas House at 89 Wood Street, Mansfield. This was more than just a building; it represented a significant piece of African-American history.Support the show: https://www.sourcemembers.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
PROMOTING NEW FILM SCREENING "AND NOW, LOVE," ON WED NOV 1ST AT 6:00 PM @ THE PARKWAY CENTRAL LIBRARY Join the Free Library of Philadelphia's Education, Philosophy & Religion Department for a screening of And Now, Love a feature documentary directed, written and produced by Jill Demby Guest and narrated by Emmy winner Peter Coyote. Born to immigrant parents in Philadelphia, WWII hero Dr. Bernard Bail, who was shot down over Nazi Germany, began a secret affair with a German nurse that inspired his work at the forefront of psychoanalytic thought continuing where Freud left off—pioneering a theory that honors the equality of women and pinpoints the origins of mental illness. A Q and A will follow with the filmmaker and Dr. Bail's widow, Cynthia Marks. To find out more about the film go to https://andnowlovethemovie.com/ This event is free to the public. Please register for this event at https://andnowlove.eventbrite.com. The screening will take place in Room 108, on the 1st floor of the Parkway Central Library, accessible through the Wood Street entrance behind the building.
Until recently Wood Street in West Oakland was the site of the largest homeless encampment in Northern California. To launch our new series on homelessness in the Bay Area, Forum broadcasts live from Wood Street. We'll talk with people who lived in the encampment before it was cleared by the city in April, and with city and county officials, about alternatives to encampments for unhoused people and Oakland's strategy for addressing the homelessness crisis. Guests: Erin Baldassari, housing affordability reporter, KQED LaTonda Simmons, interim homeless administrator, city of Oakland Lucy Kasdin, director, Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless Moose, former resident, Wood Street encampment
YR Media's Phoebe Lefebvre grew up around the corner from Oakland's Wood Street homeless encampment. She shares her concerns about the lack of solutions the city has offered the residents who were evicted.
When Kellie Castillo needed a place to live, she ended up at Wood Street, one of the largest homeless encampments in California. State authorities have spent the past several months shutting Wood Street down, leaving people like Kellie to figure out what's next. WSJ's Christine Mai-Duc describes what's behind the state's decision and what it means for the unhoused in California. Further Reading: - California Gov. Newsom Updates Plan to Fight State's Homelessness Problem - California's Homelessness Problem Pits Gov. Gavin Newsom Against Mayors Further Listening: - Checking Out of Hotel 166 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was once Northern California's largest settlement of unhoused people. The city of Oakland recently cleared the last remaining portion of the community people called Wood Street. Reporter: Erin Baldassari, KQED We're learning more about U.S Senator Dianne Feinstein's recent health struggles. They were worse and more complicated than her office first disclosed. Reporter: Scott Shafer, KQED California workplace regulators have confirmed complaints of child labor and other violations at a Popeye's fast food restaurant in East Oakland. Reporter: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED
KQED's Erin Baldassari has spent months reporting on what was once the largest settlement of unhoused people in Northern California. The city of Oakland has recently evicted some 300 people who were living in tents and trailers along Wood Street, some of whom had been there for a decade. Now, as residents scatter, many are mourning the loss of the community they had built. Baldassari follows two residents as they navigate the last year at the settlement, weathering eviction notices, sweeps and ultimately being forced to move on. It's a nuanced story about why local and state policies towards encampments like Wood Street often fail to get people into permanent housing. Plus, what could officials across the state learn from the community at Wood Street about the kind of resources and services unhoused people need to successfully move on from encampments?
For nearly a decade, around 300 unhoused people built a community under Interstate 880 in Oakland, until the city evicted the Wood Street encampment to make way for 170 units of affordable housing. Documentary filmmaker Caron Creighton joins host Cecilia Lei to talk about what happened during the month-long eviction process, and the residents' last ditch efforts to stay put. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Related: Wood Street Encampment's Final Day pod.fo/e/172f12 Got a tip, comment, question? Email us: fifth@sfchronicle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You've heard of Oakland's Wood Street, but have you heard of Marin County's Binford Road? The 2-mile-long vehicle encampment is forcing the affluent county to consider how best to spend its homeless funding. Chronicle reporter Annie Vainshtein joins host Cecilia Lei to talk about what she learned from her recent reporting trip to the site. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Got a tip, comment, question? Email us: fifth@sfchronicle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Foreign governments continue evacuating their citizens from war-torn Sudan. Fox News fires popular host Tucker Carlson, following Dominion case settlement. CNN cuts ties with host Don Lemon after sexist remarks earlier this year. House Speaker McCarthy trying to wrangle Republican votes for debt ceiling bill. Residents of Oakland's Wood Street encampment contemplate next steps. Closing arguments begin for Proud Boys January 6 trial. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – April 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Foreign governments continue evacuating their citizens from war-torn Sudan. Fox News fires popular host Tucker Carlson, following Dominion case settlement. CNN cuts ties with host Don Lemon after sexist remarks earlier this year. House Speaker McCarthy trying to wrangle Republican votes for debt ceiling bill. Residents of Oakland's Wood Street encampment contemplate next steps. Closing arguments begin for Proud Boys January 6 trial. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – April 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
What was once Northern California's largest homeless encampment is coming to a close. The Wood Street Encampment under I-880 in West Oakland is undergoing its final phase of clearance to make way for affordable housing. KCBS Radio's Holly Quan caught up with colleague Matt Bigler to hear about the hundreds of people who have called this space home, and to dive into why the city decided to clear it.
On Monday (April 10th), Wood Street residents in Oakland, with the help of allies, started yet another campaign to defend their home from an eviction by the city of Oakland. Joining us to discuss is Talya Husbands-Hankin, known to many as ‘Boots', is the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets, along with Brigitte Nicoletti, a staff attorney with the East Bay Community Law Center. —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Wood Street Residents on the Defensive w/ Talya Husbands-Hankin and appeared first on KPFA.
After a years-long battle, the last residents of the unhoused community under the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland are being removed by the city. Reporter Sarah Ravani and documentary filmmaker Caron Creighton join host Cecilia Lei to talk about the community the encampment has been, and what happens next for its residents. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Got a tip, comment, question? Email us: fifth@sfchronicle.com For past coverage of Wood Street, see the Fifth & Mission timeline for episodes on these dates: Aug. 31, 2022 July 29, 2022 July 20, 2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The city of Oakland plans to evict the 60 remaining residents of the Wood Street encampment on Monday, April 10. This comes after months of ramping up sweeps in order to move forward with plans to build 171 affordable housing units. At its height, Wood Street was a self-sustaining community of about 300 people and spanned several city blocks. The remaining residents, some of whom have lived there for more than a decade, are feeling an immense sense of loss and uncertainty about whether they can rebuild their community. Guest: Erin Baldassari, housing affordability correspondent for KQED This episode was produced by Maria Esquinca and Jehlen Herdman, edited by Alan Montecillo, and hosted by Ericka Cruz Guevarra, who also produced. Links: End of an Era: Last Remaining Unhoused Residents at Oakland's Wood Street Commons Getting Evicted The Bay Survey
0:08 — Niina H. Farah is an energy law reporter for E&E News. 0:33 — Joe Eskenazi, Managing Editor and Columnist at Mission Local. 0:40 — Caron Creighton, currently directing a documentary on the Wood Street encampment's fight against eviction as a resident filmmaker at SFFilm FilmHouse. The post Environmental groups sue over Biden approval of Willow Project; SF Budget Committee Considering boost to police funding; Plus, Wood Street Commons encampment facing final eviction appeared first on KPFA.
As California's homelessness problem continues to get worse andworse, lawmakers are introducing new ideas to try to get more housing built. But even some existing ideas are running into roadblocks, even asthe state throws billions at the issue. State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco introduced legislation today to bypass zoning restrictions to expedite housing construction in cities that are not meeting their housing goals. State Senator Dave Cortese of San Jose has a bill that would streamline environmental review. There's a deepening sense that existing solutions just aren't getting enough done, quickly. Oakland has embraced building more “tiny homes” or “cabins,” tuff sheds to house people in places like the sprawling Wood Street encampment. But even that idea may not fly, as it turns out, in San Francisco. For more, KCBS Radio political analyst Doug Souvern along with news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke to San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who has been behind a plan for tiny cabins in a parking lot on Mission Street, but now says neighborhood opposition may scuttle the idea.
California's temperate weather is one reason why homelessness is so visible. But with climate change, warmer and wetter weather are making the emergency on the streets even more dire. At what remains of the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland, people without shelter are experiencing flooding and a fight to stay warm amid a series of atmospheric rivers hitting the Bay Area in recent weeks. Residents of Wood Street say the services the city is offering doesn't meet their needs. But it's not just the threat of another rainstorm looming over the encampment; the city has plans to evict those remaining at Wood Street once and for all. Guest: Erin Baldassari, Housing Affordability Reporter for KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
House begins work with new rules top of the agenda for Speaker McCarthy. North American summit leaders condemn pro-Bolosanaro riot. Another in a series of storms lashes Bay Area and California. Oakland begins cleanup around Wood Street homeless encampment. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 9, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
House begins work with new rules top of the agenda for Speaker McCarthy. North American summit leaders condemn pro-Bolosanaro riot. Another in a series of storms lashes Bay Area and California. Oakland begins cleanup around Wood Street homeless encampment. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 9, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Over the last few months, residents of the Wood Street Commons, a self-organized community located in Oakland, CA have organized protests and filed lawsuits, in an attempt to stop their eviction and push the city to grant them access to public land. After a series of massive sweeps throughout 2022, remaining residents face another round... Read Full Article
In this episode, we explore the pending January 9th eviction of Oakland's Wood Street encampment – the largest of its kind in the city. At the same time, encampment residents are preparing for historic rainfall and potential flooding in the coming days and weeks. We're joined by Wood Street resident John Janosko as well as Talya Hunsbands-Hankin, founder of Love and Justice in the Streets. Check out the Wood Street Commons website: http://www.woodstreetcommons.com/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland homeless residents prep for dual challenge of historic rain storm and eviction appeared first on KPFA.
Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Chaos in the ranks of House Republicans. After three rounds of voting, Kevin McCarthy falls far short in his bid to become the new House Speaker. His opponents say he can't be trusted to drain the swamp. California is bracing for a new storm – an atmospheric river expected to bring flooding, winds, and colder temperatures. The Wood Street encampment in Oakland is bracing for the storm, and for another city eviction on Monday January 9. The Wood Street encampment in Oakland is bracing for the storm, and for another city eviction on Monday January 9. The California snowpack is off to one of its best starts in 40 years but it'll take more storms to climb out of the state's prolonged drought. Ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister Itamar Ben Gavir pays a provocative visit to the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem. And an annual report on racial profiling shows that California law enforcement was more than twice as likely to use force against people they perceived as Black than those they believed to be white. Image: Jared DeFigh rakes wood chips at the Wood Street Commons to help with mud, after rainstorms flooded parts of the encampment in Oakland. Photo by Corinne Smith / KPFA News The post Rep McCarthy fails to win Speaker role after three rounds of voting; Northern California expects intense storm, flooding and high winds; Wood Street encampment in Oakland braces for storm and city eviction January 9 appeared first on KPFA.
Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Chaos in the ranks of House Republicans. After three rounds of voting, Kevin McCarthy falls far short in his bid to become the new House Speaker. His opponents say he can't be trusted to drain the swamp. California is bracing for a new storm – an atmospheric river expected to bring flooding, winds, and colder temperatures. The Wood Street encampment in Oakland is bracing for the storm, and for another city eviction on Monday January 9. The Wood Street encampment in Oakland is bracing for the storm, and for another city eviction on Monday January 9. The California snowpack is off to one of its best starts in 40 years but it'll take more storms to climb out of the state's prolonged drought. Ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister Itamar Ben Gavir pays a provocative visit to the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem. And an annual report on racial profiling shows that California law enforcement was more than twice as likely to use force against people they perceived as Black than those they believed to be white. Image: Jared DeFigh rakes wood chips at the Wood Street Commons to help with mud, after rainstorms flooded parts of the encampment in Oakland. Photo by Corinne Smith / KPFA News The post Rep McCarthy fails to win Speaker role after three rounds of voting; Northern California expects intense storm, flooding and high winds; Wood Street encampment in Oakland braces for storm and city eviction January 9 appeared first on KPFA.
California officials are poised to move roughly 200 unhoused people from the sprawling homeless encampment in West Oakland. The action follows a series of fires and a court battle over whether the government can and will provide sufficient shelter. It also represents larger tensions over the homelessness crisis that have played out in cities like Berkeley, San Francisco and Santa Rosa. Chronicle East Bay reporter Sarah Ravani and Fifth & Mission Producer Caron Creighton join host Demian Bulwa to talk about the legal fight, the feelings of Wood Street residents, and what comes next. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The San Francisco Mayor London Breed offered the homeless homes in hotels, then spent millions to kick them out. Caltrans gets the okay to clear Oakland's Wood Street homeless encampment. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Joe Rogan's podcast to discuss how the FBI led them to remove stories about Hunter Biden's laptop in 2020. Vegan protesters cement themselves to a Nashville Starbucks because nondairy milk is too pricy
https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ellie-on-Wood-St_8.31.mp3 jQuery(document).ready(function($) { var media = $('#audio-393447-7'); media.on('canplay', function (ev) { this.currentTime = 0; }); }); A San Francisco federal judge will evaluate the temporary restraining order that stopped Caltrans from clearing the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland – deciding the fate of the city's largest largest unhoused community. KPFA's Ellie Prickett-Morgan has this story. Ahead of tomorrow's hearing, residents have drafted an open letter from the Wood Street community listing additional demands for services and proposed long-term solutions. Aired on UpFront, Letters and Politics, and the Pacifica Evening News Photo credit: Ellie Prickett-Morgan The post Oakland's largest unhoused community faces Caltrans eviction appeared first on KPFA.
Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. California adopts groundbreaking rule banning sales of new gasoline powered cars after 2035. A federal magistrate orders Justice Department to make public tomorrow the redacted affidavit it used to obtain search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. Monkeypox cases down globally, but up in the Americas. San Francisco women leaders urge a push to register women to vote ahead of November election. KPFA Reporter visits Oakland Wood Street encampment ahead of federal hearing on Caltrans attempt to clear it. Image: Michael Movchin / Felix Müller, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The post California adopts world's most stringent rule banning gasoline powered cars; Federal judge prepares for hearing on Oakland's largest Wood Street encampment; Monkeypox cases still on the rise in California, but at a slower rate appeared first on KPFA.
Crime rates continue to increase all over the Bay Area and in an effort to help curb some of those numbers, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tells the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro they're about to hire thirty new police officers for their communities. Mayor Schaaf also comments on Governor Newsom's rejection of safe injection sites, and what's to be done about the Wood Street homeless encampment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A recent report estimated that 20,000 San Franciscans may experience homelessness at some point this year and the homeless population is surging in Sacramento, Los Angeles and many other parts of California. Meanwhile, Governor Newsom is in Los Angeles right now, to announce the largest allotment yet of state money to build more apartments to help people get off the street, 2,500 new units as part of Project Homekey. But even as the state pours unprecedented billions into the homeless crisis, nothing seems to be enough, and we see more and more encampments and tent cities spilling across our streets and neighborhoods, with their populations disproportionately Black and Brown, and the economic inequality that has plagued California seemingly getting even worse. And even when the unhoused find a place to put up a tent, they can get evicted from that, as we've seen in the ongoing fight between Oakland and the state of California over the sprawling Wood Street encampment. For more on this, KCBS Radio's Patti Reising, Bret Burkhart, and Doug Sovern are joined by Kevin Zwick, CEO of The United Way Bay Area, which has been prioritizing this issue through its Housing Justice Initiative.
Crime rates continue to increase all over the Bay Area and in an effort to help curb some of those numbers, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tells the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro they're about to hire thirty new police officers for their communities. Mayor Schaaf also comments on Governor Newsom's rejection of safe injection sites, and what's to be done about the Wood Street homeless encampment.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Residents of the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland are fighting a pending eviction after a two-alarm fire broke out on CalTrans property at the site in mid-July. About 300 people live in the encampment, which spans roughly 25 city blocks and which advocates say has been neglected for years. Now, city and state officials, who have struggled to deal with the encampment, want it shut down. They say that Wood Street poses safety hazards, which have become more urgent after the recent fire. Residents say this is their home. On today's episode of Fifth & Mission, producer and reporter Caron Creighton takes us to the Wood Street encampment. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf joins the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro to report on progress for another affordable housing project, and Mayor Schaaf assures everyone although there is yet another restraining order against the City dismantling the Wood Street homeless encampment, it will be cleaned up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The journey from our town to the metropolis was a journey of about five hours. It was a little past midday when the four-horse stagecoach by which I was a passenger, got into the ravel of traffic frayed out about the Cross Keys, Wood Street, Cheapside, London.We Britons had at that time particularly settled that it was treasonable to doubt our having and our being the best of everything: otherwise, while I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty.Mr. Jaggers had duly sent me his address; it was, Little Britain, and he had written after it on his card, “just out of Smithfield, and close by the coach office.” Nevertheless, a hackney coachman, who seemed to have as many capes to his greasy greatcoat as he was years old, packed me up in his coach and hemmed me in with a folding and jingling barrier of steps, as if he were going to take me fifty miles. His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time. It was a wonderful equipage, with six great coronets outside, and ragged things behind for I don't know how many footmen to hold on by, and a harrow below them, to prevent amateur footmen from yielding to the temptation.I had scarcely had time to enjoy the coach and to think how like a straw-yard it was, and yet how like a rag-shop, and to wonder why the horses' nosebags were kept inside, when I observed the coachman beginning to get down, as if we were going to stop presently. And stop we presently did, in a gloomy street, at certain offices with an open door, whereon was painted Mr. Jaggers.“How much?” I asked the coachman.The coachman answered, “A shilling—unless you wish to make it more.”I naturally said I had no wish to make it more.“Then it must be a shilling,” observed the coachman. “I don't want to get into trouble. I know him!” He darkly closed an eye at Mr. Jaggers's name, and shook his head.When he had got his shilling, and had in course of time completed the ascent to his box, and had got away (which appeared to relieve his mind), I went into the front office with my little portmanteau in my hand and asked, Was Mr. Jaggers at home?“He is not,” returned the clerk. “He is in Court at present. Am I addressing Mr. Pip?”I signified that he was addressing Mr. Pip.“Mr. Jaggers left word, would you wait in his room. He couldn't say how long he might be, having a case on. But it stands to reason, his time being valuable, that he won't be longer than he can help.”With those words, the clerk opened a door, and ushered me into an inner chamber at the back. Here, we found a gentleman with one eye, in a velveteen suit and knee-breeches, who wiped his nose with his sleeve on being interrupted in the perusal of the newspaper.“Go and wait outside, Mike,” said the clerk.I began to say that I hoped I was not interrupting, when the clerk shoved this gentleman out with as little ceremony as I ever saw used, and tossing his fur cap out after him, left me alone.Mr. Jaggers's room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically pitched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it. There were not so many papers about, as I should have expected to see; and there were some odd objects about, that I should not have expected to see—such as an old rusty pistol, a sword in a scabbard, several strange-looking boxes and packages, and two dreadful casts on a shelf, of faces peculiarly swollen, and twitchy about the nose. Mr. Jaggers's own high-backed chair was of deadly black horsehair, with rows of brass nails round it, like a coffin; and I fancied I could see how he leaned back in it, and bit his forefinger at the clients. The room was but small, and the clients seemed to have had a habit of backing up against the wall; the wall, especially opposite to Mr. Jaggers's chair, being greasy with shoulders. I recalled, too, that the one-eyed gentleman had shuffled forth against the wall when I was the innocent cause of his being turned out.I sat down in the cliental chair placed over against Mr. Jaggers's chair, and became fascinated by the dismal atmosphere of the place. I called to mind that the clerk had the same air of knowing something to everybody else's disadvantage, as his master had. I wondered how many other clerks there were upstairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures. I wondered what was the history of all the odd litter about the room, and how it came there. I wondered whether the two swollen faces were of Mr. Jaggers's family, and, if he were so unfortunate as to have had a pair of such ill-looking relations, why he stuck them on that dusty perch for the blacks and flies to settle on, instead of giving them a place at home. Of course I had no experience of a London summer day, and my spirits may have been oppressed by the hot exhausted air, and by the dust and grit that lay thick on everything. But I sat wondering and waiting in Mr. Jaggers's close room, until I really could not bear the two casts on the shelf above Mr. Jaggers's chair, and got up and went out.When I told the clerk that I would take a turn in the air while I waited, he advised me to go round the corner and I should come into Smithfield. So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. So, I rubbed it off with all possible speed by turning into a street where I saw the great black dome of Saint Paul's bulging at me from behind a grim stone building which a bystander said was Newgate Prison. Following the wall of the jail, I found the roadway covered with straw to deaden the noise of passing vehicles; and from this, and from the quantity of people standing about smelling strongly of spirits and beer, I inferred that the trials were on.While I looked about me here, an exceedingly dirty and partially drunk minister of justice asked me if I would like to step in and hear a trial or so: informing me that he could give me a front place for half a crown, whence I should command a full view of the Lord Chief Justice in his wig and robes—mentioning that awful personage like waxwork, and presently offering him at the reduced price of eighteen-pence. As I declined the proposal on the plea of an appointment, he was so good as to take me into a yard and show me where the gallows was kept, and also where people were publicly whipped, and then he showed me the Debtors' Door, out of which culprits came to be hanged; heightening the interest of that dreadful portal by giving me to understand that “four on 'em” would come out at that door the day after tomorrow at eight in the morning, to be killed in a row. This was horrible, and gave me a sickening idea of London; the more so as the Lord Chief Justice's proprietor wore (from his hat down to his boots and up again to his pocket handkerchief inclusive) mildewed clothes which had evidently not belonged to him originally, and which I took it into my head he had bought cheap of the executioner. Under these circumstances I thought myself well rid of him for a shilling.I dropped into the office to ask if Mr. Jaggers had come in yet, and I found he had not, and I strolled out again. This time, I made the tour of Little Britain, and turned into Bartholomew Close; and now I became aware that other people were waiting about for Mr. Jaggers, as well as I. There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of the pavement as they talked together, one of whom said to the other when they first passed me, that “Jaggers would do it if it was to be done.” There was a knot of three men and two women standing at a corner, and one of the women was crying on her dirty shawl, and the other comforted her by saying, as she pulled her own shawl over her shoulders, “Jaggers is for him, 'Melia, and what more could you have?” There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the messenger was gone, I remarked this Jew, who was of a highly excitable temperament, performing a jig of anxiety under a lamppost and accompanying himself, in a kind of frenzy, with the words, “O Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!” These testimonies to the popularity of my guardian made a deep impression on me, and I admired and wondered more than ever.At length, as I was looking out at the iron gate of Bartholomew Close into Little Britain, I saw Mr. Jaggers coming across the road towards me. All the others who were waiting saw him at the same time, and there was quite a rush at him. Mr. Jaggers, putting a hand on my shoulder and walking me on at his side without saying anything to me, addressed himself to his followers.First, he took the two secret men.“Now, I have nothing to say to you,” said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his finger at them. “I want to know no more than I know. As to the result, it's a tossup. I told you from the first it was a tossup. Have you paid Wemmick?”“We made the money up this morning, sir,” said one of the men, submissively, while the other perused Mr. Jaggers's face.“I don't ask you when you made it up, or where, or whether you made it up at all. Has Wemmick got it?”“Yes, sir,” said both the men together.“Very well; then you may go. Now, I won't have it!” said Mr. Jaggers, waving his hand at them to put them behind him. “If you say a word to me, I'll throw up the case.”“We thought, Mr. Jaggers—” one of the men began, pulling off his hat.“That's what I told you not to do,” said Mr. Jaggers. “You thought! I think for you; that's enough for you. If I want you, I know where to find you; I don't want you to find me. Now I won't have it. I won't hear a word.”The two men looked at one another as Mr. Jaggers waved them behind again, and humbly fell back and were heard no more.“And now you!” said Mr. Jaggers, suddenly stopping, and turning on the two women with the shawls, from whom the three men had meekly separated—“Oh! Amelia, is it?”“Yes, Mr. Jaggers.”“And do you remember,” retorted Mr. Jaggers, “that but for me you wouldn't be here and couldn't be here?”“O yes, sir!” exclaimed both women together. “Lord bless you, sir, well we knows that!”“Then why,” said Mr. Jaggers, “do you come here?”“My Bill, sir!” the crying woman pleaded.“Now, I tell you what!” said Mr. Jaggers. “Once for all. If you don't know that your Bill's in good hands, I know it. And if you come here bothering about your Bill, I'll make an example of both your Bill and you, and let him slip through my fingers. Have you paid Wemmick?”“O yes, sir! Every farden.”“Very well. Then you have done all you have got to do. Say another word—one single word—and Wemmick shall give you your money back.”This terrible threat caused the two women to fall off immediately. No one remained now but the excitable Jew, who had already raised the skirts of Mr. Jaggers's coat to his lips several times.“I don't know this man!” said Mr. Jaggers, in the same devastating strain: “What does this fellow want?”“Ma thear Mithter Jaggerth. Hown brother to Habraham Latharuth?”“Who's he?” said Mr. Jaggers. “Let go of my coat.”The suitor, kissing the hem of the garment again before relinquishing it, replied, “Habraham Latharuth, on thuthpithion of plate.”“You're too late,” said Mr. Jaggers. “I am over the way.”“Holy father, Mithter Jaggerth!” cried my excitable acquaintance, turning white, “don't thay you're again Habraham Latharuth!”“I am,” said Mr. Jaggers, “and there's an end of it. Get out of the way.”“Mithter Jaggerth! Half a moment! My hown cuthen'th gone to Mithter Wemmick at thith prethent minute, to hoffer him hany termth. Mithter Jaggerth! Half a quarter of a moment! If you'd have the condethenthun to be bought off from the t'other thide—at hany thuperior prithe!—money no object!—Mithter Jaggerth—Mithter—!”My guardian threw his supplicant off with supreme indifference, and left him dancing on the pavement as if it were red hot. Without further interruption, we reached the front office, where we found the clerk and the man in velveteen with the fur cap.“Here's Mike,” said the clerk, getting down from his stool, and approaching Mr. Jaggers confidentially.“Oh!” said Mr. Jaggers, turning to the man, who was pulling a lock of hair in the middle of his forehead, like the Bull in Cock Robin pulling at the bell-rope; “your man comes on this afternoon. Well?”“Well, Mas'r Jaggers,” returned Mike, in the voice of a sufferer from a constitutional cold; “arter a deal o' trouble, I've found one, sir, as might do.”“What is he prepared to swear?”“Well, Mas'r Jaggers,” said Mike, wiping his nose on his fur cap this time; “in a general way, anythink.”Mr. Jaggers suddenly became most irate. “Now, I warned you before,” said he, throwing his forefinger at the terrified client, “that if you ever presumed to talk in that way here, I'd make an example of you. You infernal scoundrel, how dare you tell me that?”The client looked scared, but bewildered too, as if he were unconscious what he had done.“Spooney!” said the clerk, in a low voice, giving him a stir with his elbow. “Soft Head! Need you say it face to face?”“Now, I ask you, you blundering booby,” said my guardian, very sternly, “once more and for the last time, what the man you have brought here is prepared to swear?”Mike looked hard at my guardian, as if he were trying to learn a lesson from his face, and slowly replied, “Ayther to character, or to having been in his company and never left him all the night in question.”“Now, be careful. In what station of life is this man?”Mike looked at his cap, and looked at the floor, and looked at the ceiling, and looked at the clerk, and even looked at me, before beginning to reply in a nervous manner, “We've dressed him up like—” when my guardian blustered out—“What? You will, will you?”(“Spooney!” added the clerk again, with another stir.)After some helpless casting about, Mike brightened and began again:—“He is dressed like a 'spectable pieman. A sort of a pastry-cook.”“Is he here?” asked my guardian.“I left him,” said Mike, “a setting on some doorsteps round the corner.”“Take him past that window, and let me see him.”The window indicated was the office window. We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short suit of white linen and a paper cap. This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over.“Tell him to take his witness away directly,” said my guardian to the clerk, in extreme disgust, “and ask him what he means by bringing such a fellow as that.”My guardian then took me into his own room, and while he lunched, standing, from a sandwich box and a pocket flask of sherry (he seemed to bully his very sandwich as he ate it), informed me what arrangements he had made for me. I was to go to “Barnard's Inn,” to young Mr. Pocket's rooms, where a bed had been sent in for my accommodation; I was to remain with young Mr. Pocket until Monday; on Monday I was to go with him to his father's house on a visit, that I might try how I liked it. Also, I was told what my allowance was to be—it was a very liberal one—and had handed to me from one of my guardian's drawers, the cards of certain tradesmen with whom I was to deal for all kinds of clothes, and such other things as I could in reason want. “You will find your credit good, Mr. Pip,” said my guardian, whose flask of sherry smelt like a whole caskful, as he hastily refreshed himself, “but I shall by this means be able to check your bills, and to pull you up if I find you outrunning the constable. Of course you'll go wrong somehow, but that's no fault of mine.”After I had pondered a little over this encouraging sentiment, I asked Mr. Jaggers if I could send for a coach? He said it was not worth while, I was so near my destination; Wemmick should walk round with me, if I pleased.I then found that Wemmick was the clerk in the next room. Another clerk was rung down from upstairs to take his place while he was out, and I accompanied him into the street, after shaking hands with my guardian. We found a new set of people lingering outside, but Wemmick made a way among them by saying coolly yet decisively, “I tell you it's no use; he won't have a word to say to one of you;” and we soon got clear of them, and went on side by side. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit greatexpectations.substack.com
Episode Notes An experienced Human Resources professional and a dedicated Art Enthusiast, I am the Director, Gurukul Studios. I spearhead all the Projects at Gurukul. I bring to the table, strong corporate and business experience of aviation industry with companies like Cathay Pacific and Emirates. At Gurukul, I have established distinct methodologies and fair business practices with a vision to be a culturally rooted yet progressive dance organisation! It is currently one of the leading Indian classical dance academy in the Middle East with branches in India and Switzerland. I have made path-breaking forays into the Dubai Academia and taken Gurukul Art Outreach Programs to several academic and art forums. Gurukul Dubai, works closely with GEMS Modern Academy and other leading schools in the region. As a conscious decision of our Corporate Social Responsibility policy, we worked with specially abled students on SNF, Dubai and Al Noor. Gurukul Dubai was established by Pali Chandra and me, in 2007. We provide quality and classical dance education to more than 350 students in Dubai, and have started operations in Zurich and Bangalore (India). We are true practitioners of Indian Classical Dance syllabus of ISTD, UK , and strongly believe, that internationally it is one of the the most compatible syllabi. We have been holding ISTD exams annually since 2012 and have enabled and supported approximately 74 in 2012, 91 in 2013, 128 in 2014, 127 in 2015,165 in 2016 and 205 in 2017. Whilst the numbers speak of the popularity and acceptance of the syllabus through us, we at Gurukul have ensured quality education and hence the results. We adhere to the syllabus guidelines for all levels from CEP to Grade 6, with a focus on ISTD safe dance practices. Many workshops by visiting faculty have been organised by Gurukul to help maintain standards. Some of my successful projects include the 3 days Kathak Festival, Sufi Noor in 2009 and 2012, Five Elements, (2010) Navarasa (2013), Naach – 100 Years of Bollywood (2014), Taalmala (2016), Navinayika (2015), Lasya (2018), Parampara - an annual event of Gurukul wherein we take our students from all our centres to India - to learn from the maestros, to name just a few. My past assignments include those with the Emirates Group as Human Resource Specialist, Commercial Division, Dubai and Cathay Pacific Airways, Vancouver/Canada and Hong Kong.A people's person at heart, a mentor and an executive decision maker, I worked hard to make Gurukul a well recognised centre for ISTD education and a place for dance lovers to connect with. I must confess that this could not have been done without the artistic guidance of Pali Chandra and my pro-active and committed facilitators and admin teams.! India and specially, the City of Bangalore, holds immense potential for dance education based on ISTD syllabus. With the very first studio that opened last month (December 2017) in one of the most centrally located communities on Wood Street, off Brigade Road, I can clearly visualise reach of our programs with ISTD at its heart ! As a child I had learnt kathak dance for 7 years under the able guidance of Guru Vikram Singhe and am currently being trained under Pali Chandra for Vocational Course of ISTD. Show Highlights (0:02:04) The need for systematic dance Education (0:03:16) Career Options in Dance (0:07:12) Being good vs being the best (0:08:39) What made you want to return to dance? (0:10:17) Roles and Responsibilities in Gurukul (0:15:09) Interviewing Teachers for Gurukul (0:22:25) Onboarding process at Gurukul (0:25:03) What do students need? (0:27:15) When can you start using dance to express yourself? (0:29:28) What do your students love about you? (0:33:36) Building an audience in Dubai (0:36:02) Persevering during the hard times (0:38:21) Sponsorships (0:40:03) Building relationships with sponsors (0:45:09) Managing sponsorship expectations (0:49:29) What do artists want? (0:52:05) Leaving good feedback to artists (0:56:58) Gurukul India (1:01:09) Competition in Bangalore (1:03:45) Culuture of dance in Bangalore (1:04:12) Future of Gurukul Title Track Audio Credit: Doug Maxwell | Bansure Raga
In other stories tonight: Anjanette Young, whose home was involved in a botched police raid nearly three years ago, took to the streets of the Loop, calling on the city to release all of the investigators reports into the incident; a valve that was turned off on Wood Street in Harvey has been identified as the problem in getting water pressure to the Village of Dixmoor; after being cancelled by the pandemic last year, Chicago's Christmas tree will be lit in Millennium Park on November 19th; the head of one of the state's largest teachers unions is assessing the first two months of in-person learning for Illinois students; and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In other stories tonight: Anjanette Young, whose home was involved in a botched police raid nearly three years ago, took to the streets of the Loop, calling on the city to release all of the investigators reports into the incident; a valve that was turned off on Wood Street in Harvey has been identified as the problem in getting water pressure to the Village of Dixmoor; after being cancelled by the pandemic last year, Chicago's Christmas tree will be lit in Millennium Park on November 19th; the head of one of the state's largest teachers unions is assessing the first two months of in-person learning for Illinois students; and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In other stories tonight: Anjanette Young, whose home was involved in a botched police raid nearly three years ago, took to the streets of the Loop, calling on the city to release all of the investigators reports into the incident; a valve that was turned off on Wood Street in Harvey has been identified as the problem in getting water pressure to the Village of Dixmoor; after being cancelled by the pandemic last year, Chicago's Christmas tree will be lit in Millennium Park on November 19th; the head of one of the state's largest teachers unions is assessing the first two months of in-person learning for Illinois students; and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Like the drink pop song? check it out here: https://www.reverbnation.com/Sayreofficial/song/8642528-your-love-the-outfield-cover As most of you may or may not know, Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and horrible gifts are exchanged between loved ones and potential flames, all in the name of St. Valentine. But, have you ever asked yourself “who is this fantastical saint and where did these sappy traditions come from?” Did some guy in a cave, thousands of years ago, screw up with his woman after bopping her on the head with a stick? Did he just say “ugh...sorry… here rock”? The Midnight Train Podcast is sponsored by VOUDOUX VODKA.www.voudoux.com Ace’s Depothttp://www.aces-depot.com BECOME A PRODUCER!http://www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast Find The Midnight Train Podcast:www.themidnighttrainpodcast.comwww.facebook.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.twitter.com/themidnighttrainpcwww.instagram.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.discord.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.tiktok.com/themidnighttrainp And wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Subscribe to our official YouTube channel:OUR YOUTUBEWell, the history of Valentine’s Day—and the story of its patron saint—is actually shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains traces of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. But who was this Saint Valentine, and how did he become associated with this ancient ritual? The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom died or were out to death, rather than renouncing their religion. One legend tells us that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, and ever the romantic, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were inevitably discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Still others insist that it was Saint Valentine of Terni, a bishop, who was the true namesake of the holiday. He, too, was beheaded by Claudius II outside Rome. So… you know… Claudius was a swell guy. Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, an imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl—possibly his jailor’s daughter—who visited him during his imprisonment. Before his death, it has been said that he wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine,” an expression that is still used today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories all emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic and—most importantly—romantic figure. By the Middle Ages, perhaps thanks to this reputation, Valentine would become one of the most popular saints in England and France. The French! We are the most romantic! Screw the English! While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to celebrate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial—which probably occurred around A.D. 270—others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was actually a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus. Get all that? Sure you do! At the start of the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. Poor dog! They would then strip the goat’s hide into strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. Yep. Too bad that tradition is gone. Sounds SUPER fun! Anyway, Far from being a bunch of scared pansies, Roman women welcomed the slap of the hides because it was believed to make them more fertile in the coming year. Yeah! Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city’s bachelors would each choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. So, it was like eharmony but with a little more sacrifice and far less computers. Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity but was eventually outlawed, BUT OF COURSE IT WAS—as it was deemed “un-Christian”—at the end of the 5th century, when Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day. It wasn’t until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love. During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds’ mating season, alright! which added to the idea that the middle of Valentine’s Day should be a day for romance. Because, ya know if birds do it… I mean… anyway. The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to record St. Valentine’s Day as a day of romantic celebration in his 1375 poem “Parliament of Foules,” writing, ““For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day / Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.” Smooth, Chaucer, real smooth. Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, though written Valentine’s didn’t begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. (The greeting is now part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England.) Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois. Now, that chubby little bastard Cupid is often portrayed on Valentine’s Day cards as a naked cherub launching arrows of love at unsuspecting lovers. But the Roman God Cupid has his roots in Greek mythology as the Greek god of love, Eros. Accounts of his birth vary; some say he is the son of Nyx and Erebus; others, of Aphrodite and Ares; still others suggest he is the son of Iris and Zephyrus or even Aphrodite and Zeus (who would have been both his father and grandfather… because, you know… incest). According to the Greek Archaic poets, Eros was a handsome immortal who played with the emotions of Gods and men, using golden arrows to incite love and leaden ones to simply fuck with people. It wasn’t until the Hellenistic period that he began to be portrayed as the mischievous, chubby child he’d become on Valentine’s Day cards. Such a weird transition. From handsome immortal to a fat baby in a diaper. In addition to the United States, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. In Great Britain, Valentine’s Day began to be popularly celebrated around the 17th century. By the middle of the 18th century, it was common for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes, and by 1900 printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one’s feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine’s Day greetings. Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America. Howland, known as the “Mother of the Valentine,” made extravagant creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as “scrap.” Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated 145 million Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year only next to Christmas Some cool notes on St. Valentine. . In all, there are about a dozen St. Valentines, plus a pope.The saint we celebrate on Valentine’s Day is known officially as St. Valentine of Rome in order to differentiate him from the dozen or so other Valentines on the list. Because “Valentinus”—from the Latin word for worthy, strong or powerful—was a popular moniker between the second and eighth centuries A.D., several martyrs over the centuries have carried this name. The official Roman Catholic roster of saints shows about a dozen who were named Valentine or some variation thereof. The most recently beatified Valentine is St. Valentine Berrio-Ochoa, a Spaniard of the Dominican order who traveled to Vietnam, where he served as bishop until his beheading in 1861. Pope John Paul II canonized Berrio-Ochoa in 1988. There was even a Pope Valentine, though little is known about him except that he served a mere 40 days around A.D. 827. Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, among many other things.Saints are certainly expected to keep busy in the afterlife. Their holy duties include interceding in earthly affairs and entertaining petitions from living souls. In this respect, St. Valentine has wide-ranging spiritual responsibilities. People call on him to watch over the lives of lovers, of course, but also for interventions regarding beekeeping and epilepsy, as well as the plague, fainting and traveling. As you might expect, he’s also the patron saint of engaged couples and happy marriages. You can find Valentine’s skull in Rome.The flower-adorned skull of St. Valentine is on display in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. In the early 1800s, the excavation of a catacomb near Rome yielded skeletal remains and other relics now associated with St. Valentine. As is customary, these bits and pieces of the late saint’s body have subsequently been distributed to holy containers around the world. You’ll find other bits of St. Valentine’s skeleton on display in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Scotland, England and France. Here’s one for the ladies! You can actually celebrate Valentine’s Day several times a year.Because of the abundance of St. Valentines on the Roman Catholic roster, you can choose to celebrate the saint multiple times each year. Aside from February 14, you might decide to celebrate St. Valentine of Viterbo on November 3. Or maybe you want to get a jump on the traditional Valentine celebration by feting St. Valentine of Raetia on January 7. Women might choose to honor the only female St. Valentine (Valentina), a virgin martyred in Palestine on July 25, A.D. 308. The Eastern Orthodox Church officially celebrates St. Valentine twice, once as an elder of the church on July 6 and once as a martyr on July 30.Ok! So the lovey dovey shit is out of the way, let’s talk about some Murders. At 10:30 a.m. on Saint Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns. Two of the shooters were dressed as uniformed policemen, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats, and hats. Witnesses saw the fake police leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. The victims included five members of George "Bugs" Moran's North Side Gang. Moran's second in command and brother-in-law Albert Kachellek (alias James Clark) was killed along with Adam Heyer, the gang's bookkeeper and business manager, Albert Weinshank, who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran, and gang enforcers Frank Gusenberg and Peter Gusenberg. Two collaborators were also shot: Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, a former optician turned gambler and gang associate, and John May, an occasional mechanic for the Moran gang. Real Chicago police officers arrived at the scene to find that victim Frank Gusenberg was still alive. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors stabilized him for a short time and police tried to question him. He had sustained 14 bullet wounds; the police asked him who did it, and he replied, "No one shot me." He died three hours later.[4] Al Capone was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the murders in an attempt to eliminate Moran. Moran was the last survivor of the North Side gunmen; his succession had come about because his similarly aggressive predecessors Vincent Drucci and Hymie Weiss had been killed in the violence that followed the murder of original leader Dean O'Banion.[5][6] Several factors contributed to the timing of the plan to kill Moran. Earlier in the year, North Sider Frank Gusenberg and his brother Peter unsuccessfully attempted to murder Jack McGurn. The North Side Gang was complicit in the murders of Pasqualino "Patsy" Lolordo and Antonio "The Scourge" Lombardo. Both had been presidents of the Unione Siciliana, the local Mafia, and close associates of Capone. Moran and Capone had been vying for control of the lucrative Chicago bootlegging trade. Moran had also been muscling in on a Capone-run dog track in the Chicago suburbs, and he had taken over several saloons that were run by Capone, insisting that they were in his territory. The plan was to lure Moran to the SMC Cartage warehouse on North Clark Street on February 14, 1929 to kill him and perhaps two or three of his lieutenants. It is usually assumed that the North Siders were lured to the garage with the promise of a stolen, cut-rate shipment of whiskey, supplied by Detroit's Purple Gang which was associated with Capone. The Gusenberg brothers were supposed to drive two empty trucks to Detroit that day to pick up two loads of stolen Canadian whiskey. All of the victims were dressed in their best clothes, with the exception of John May, as was customary for the North Siders and other gangsters at the time. Most of the Moran gang arrived at the warehouse by approximately 10:30 a.m., but Moran was not there, having left his Parkway Hotel apartment late. He and fellow gang member Ted Newberry approached the rear of the warehouse from a side street when they saw a police car approaching the building. They immediately turned and retraced their steps, going to a nearby coffee shop. They encountered gang member Henry Gusenberg on the street and warned him, so he too turned back. North Side Gang member Willie Marks also spotted the police car on his way to the garage, and he ducked into a doorway and jotted down the license number before leaving the neighborhood. Capone's lookouts likely mistook one of Moran's men for Moran himself, probably Albert Weinshank, who was the same height and build. The physical similarity between the two men was enhanced by their dress that morning; both happened to be wearing the same color overcoats and hats. Witnesses outside the garage saw a Cadillac sedan pull up to a stop in front of the garage. Four men emerged and walked inside, two of them dressed in police uniform. The two fake police officers carried shotguns and entered the rear portion of the garage, where they found members of Moran's gang and collaborators Reinhart Schwimmer and John May, who was fixing one of the trucks. The fake policemen then ordered the men to line up against the wall. They then signaled to the pair in civilian clothes who had accompanied them. Two of the killers opened fire with Thompson sub-machine guns, one with a 20-round box magazine and the other a 50-round drum. They were thorough, spraying their victims left and right, even continuing to fire after all seven had hit the floor. Two shotgun blasts afterward all but obliterated the faces of John May and James Clark, according to the coroner's report. To give the appearance that everything was under control, the men in street clothes came out with their hands up, prodded by the two uniformed policemen. Inside the garage, the only survivors in the warehouse were May's dog "Highball" and Frank Gusenberg — despite 14 bullet wounds. He was still conscious, but he died three hours later, refusing to utter a word about the identities of the killers. The Valentine's Day Massacre set off a public outcry which posed a problem for all mob bosses.[7] Victims EditPeter Gusenberg, a front-line enforcer for the Moran organizationsFrank Gusenberg, the brother of Peter Gusenberg and also an enforcerAlbert Kachellek (alias "James Clark"), Moran's second in commandAdam Heyer, the bookkeeper and business manager of the Moran gangReinhardt Schwimmer, an optician who had abandoned his practice to gamble on horse racing and associate with the gangAlbert Weinshank, who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran; his resemblance to Moran is allegedly what set the massacre in motion before Moran arrived, including the clothes that he was wearingJohn May, an occasional car mechanic for the Moran gang[8] Within days, Capone received a summons to testify before a Chicago grand jury on charges of federal Prohibition violations, but he claimed to be too unwell to attend.[9] It was common knowledge that Moran was hijacking Capone's Detroit-based liquor shipments, and police focused their attention on Detroit's predominantly Jewish Purple Gang. Landladies Mrs. Doody and Mrs. Orvidson had taken in three men as roomers ten days before the massacre, and their rooming houses were directly across the street from the North Clark Street garage. They picked out mugshots of Purple Gang members George Lewis, Eddie Fletcher, Phil Keywell, and his younger brother Harry, but they later wavered in their identification. The police questioned and cleared Fletcher, Lewis, and Harry Keywell. Nevertheless, the Keywell brothers (and by extension the Purple Gang) remained associated with the crime in the years that followed. Many also believed that the police were involved, which may have been the intention of the killers. On February 22, police were called to the scene of a garage fire on Wood Street where they found a 1927 Cadillac sedan disassembled and partially burned, and they determined that the killers had used the car. They traced the engine number to a Michigan Avenue dealer who had sold the car to a James Morton of Los Angeles. The garage had been rented by a man calling himself Frank Rogers, who gave his address as 1859 West North Avenue. This was the address of the Circus Café operated by Claude Maddox, a former St. Louis gangster with ties to the Capone gang, the Purple Gang, and the St. Louis gang, Egan's Rats. Police could not turn up any information about persons named James Morton or Frank Rogers, but they had a definite lead on one of the killers. Just minutes before the killings, a truck driver named Elmer Lewis had turned a corner a block away from 2122 North Clark and sideswiped a police car. He told police that he stopped immediately but was waved away by the uniformed driver, who was missing a front tooth. Board of Education president H. Wallace Caldwell had witnessed the accident, and he gave the same description of the driver. Police were confident that they were describing Fred Burke, a former member of Egan's Rats. Burke and a close companion named James Ray were known to wear police uniforms whenever on a robbery spree. Burke was also a fugitive, under indictment for robbery and murder in Ohio. Police also suggested that Joseph Lolordo could have been one of the killers because of his brother Pasqualino's recent murder by the North Side Gang. Police then announced that they suspected Capone gunmen John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, as well as Jack McGurn and Frank Rio, a Capone bodyguard. Police eventually charged McGurn and Scalise with the massacre. Capone murdered John Scalise, Anselmi, and Joseph "Hop Toad" Giunta in May 1929 after he learned about their plan to kill him. The police dropped the murder charges against Jack McGurn because of a lack of evidence, and he was just charged with a violation of the Mann Act; he took his girlfriend Louise Rolfe across state lines to marry. The case stagnated until December 14, 1929, when the Berrien County, Michigan Sheriff's Department raided the St. Joseph, Michigan bungalow of "Frederick Dane", the registered owner of a vehicle driven by Fred "Killer" Burke. Burke had been drinking that night, then rear-ended another vehicle and drove off. Patrolman Charles Skelly pursued, finally forcing him off the road. Skelly hopped onto the running board of Burke's car, but he was shot three times and died of his wounds that night. The car was found wrecked and abandoned just outside St. Joseph and traced to Fred Dane. By this time, police photos confirmed that Dane was in fact Fred Burke, wanted by the Chicago police for his participation in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Police raided Burke's bungalow and found a large trunk containing a bullet-proof vest, almost $320,000 in bonds recently stolen from a Wisconsin bank, two Thompson submachine guns, pistols, two shotguns, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. St. Joseph authorities immediately notified the Chicago police, who requested both machine guns. They used the new science of forensic ballistics to identify both weapons as those used in the massacre. They also discovered that one of them had also been used to murder New York mobster Frankie Yale a year and a half earlier. Unfortunately, no further concrete evidence surfaced in the massacre case. Burke was captured over a year later on a Missouri farm. The case against him was strongest in connection to the murder of Officer Skelly, so he was tried in Michigan and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison in 1940. On January 8, 1935, FBI agents surrounded a Chicago apartment building at 3920 North Pine Grove looking for the remaining members of the Barker Gang. A brief shootout erupted, resulting in the death of bank robber Russell Gibson. Taken into custody were Doc Barker, Byron Bolton, and two women. Bolton was a Navy machine-gunner and associate of Egan's Rats, and he had been the valet of Chicago hit man Fred Goetz. Bolton was privy to many of the Barker Gang's crimes and pinpointed the Florida hideout of Ma Barker and Freddie Barker, both of whom were killed in a shootout with the FBI a week later. Bolton claimed to have taken part in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre with Goetz, Fred Burke, and several others. The FBI had no jurisdiction in a state murder case, so they kept Bolton's revelations confidential until the Chicago American newspaper reported a second-hand version of his confession. The newspaper declared that the crime had been "solved", despite being stonewalled by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, who did not want any part of the massacre case. Garbled versions of Bolton's story went out in the national media. Bolton, it was reported,[where?] claimed that the murder of Bugs Moran had been plotted in October or November 1928 at a Couderay, Wisconsin resort owned by Fred Goetz. Present at this meeting were Goetz, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Fred Burke, Gus Winkler, Louis Campagna, Daniel Serritella, William Pacelli, and Bolton. The men stayed two or three weeks, hunting and fishing when they were not planning the murder of their enemies. Bolton claimed that he and Jimmy Moran were charged with watching the S.M.C. Cartage garage and phoning the signal to the killers at the Circus Café when Bugs Moran arrived at the meeting. Police had found a letter addressed to Bolton in the lookout nest (and possibly a vial of prescription medicine). Bolton guessed that the actual killers had been Burke, Winkeler, Goetz, Bob Carey, Raymond "Crane Neck" Nugent,[10] and Claude Maddox (four shooters and two getaway drivers). Bolton gave an account of the massacre different from the one generally told by historians. He claimed that he saw only "plainclothes" men exit the Cadillac and go into the garage. This indicates that a second car was used by the killers. George Brichet claimed to have seen at least two uniformed men exiting a car in the alley and entering the garage through its rear doors. A Peerless Motor Company sedan had been found near a Maywood house owned by Claude Maddox in the days after the massacre, and in one of the pockets was an address book belonging to victim Albert Weinshank. Bolton said that he had mistaken one of Moran's men to be Moran, after which he telephoned the signal to the Circus Café. The killers had expected to kill Moran and two or three of his men, but they were unexpectedly confronted with seven men; they simply decided to kill them all and get out fast. Bolton claimed that Capone was furious with him for his mistake and the resulting police pressure and threatened to kill him, only to be dissuaded by Fred Goetz. His claims were corroborated by Gus Winkeler's widow Georgette in an official FBI statement and in her memoirs, which were published in a four-part series in a true detective magazine during the winter of 1935–36. She revealed that her husband and his friends had formed a special crew used by Capone for high-risk jobs. The mob boss was said to have trusted them implicitly and nicknamed them the "American Boys". Bolton's statements were also backed up by William Drury, a Chicago detective who had stayed on the massacre case long after everyone else had given up. Bank robber Alvin Karpis later claimed to have heard secondhand from Ray Nugent about the massacre and that the "American Boys" were paid a collective salary of $2,000 a week plus bonuses. Karpis also claimed that Capone had told him while they were in Alcatraz together that Goetz had been the actual planner of the massacre. Despite Byron Bolton's statements, no action was taken by the FBI. All the men whom he named were dead by 1935, with the exception of Burke and Maddox. Bank robber Harvey Bailey complained in his 1973 autobiography that he and Fred Burke had been drinking beer in Calumet City, Illinois at the time of the massacre, and the resulting heat forced them to abandon their bank robbing ventures. Historians are still divided on whether or not the "American Boys" committed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Many mobsters have been named as part of the Valentine's Day hit team. Two prime suspects are Cosa Nostra hit men John Scalise and Albert Anselmi. In the days after the massacre, Scalise was heard[by whom?] to brag, "I am the most powerful man in Chicago." Unione Siciliana president Joseph Guinta had recently elevated him to the position of the Unione's vice-president. Nevertheless, Scalise, Anselmi, and Guinta were found dead on a lonely road near Hammond, Indiana on May 8, 1929. Gangland lore has it that Capone had discovered that the pair were planning to betray him. Legend states[where?] that Capone produced a baseball bat at the climax of a dinner party thrown in their honor and beat the trio to death.[11] Police tested the two Thompson submachine guns (serial numbers 2347 and 7580) found in Fred Burke's Michigan bungalow and determined that both had been used in the massacre. One of them had also been used in the murder of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale, which confirmed the New York Police Department's long-held theory that Burke had been responsible for Yale's death. Les Farmer, a deputy sheriff in Marion, Illinois, purchased gun number 2347 on November 12, 1924. Marion and the surrounding area were overrun by the warring bootleg factions of the Shelton Brothers Gang and Charlie Birger. Farmer had ties with Egan's Rats, based 100 miles away in St. Louis, and the weapon had wound up in Fred Burke's possession by 1927. It is possible that he used this same gun in Detroit's Milaflores Massacre on March 28, 1927. Chicago sporting goods owner Peter von Frantzius sold gun number 7580 to a Victor Thompson, also known as Frank V. Thompson, but it wound up with James "Bozo" Shupe, a small-time hood from Chicago's West Side who had ties to various members of Capone's outfit. Both guns are still in the possession of the Berrien County, Michigan Sheriff's Department. The garage at 2122 N. Clark Street was demolished in 1967, and the site is now a parking lot for a nursing home.[12] The bricks of the north wall against which the victims were shot were purchased by a Canadian businessman. For many years, they were displayed in various crime-related novelty displays. Many of them were later sold individually, and the remainder are now owned by the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.[13]
The trio sit down in conversation with Football Analytics and Scouting Guru, Andy McGregor (@elpivoteftbl) of @insightMrkt. In a wide ranging interview Andy discusses the unorganised Everton youth development plan, the under appreciation of Marcel Brands, the importance of utilising a loan structure, hidden gold mines for talent, employing powerful square pegs into round holes and how the culture shift needs to be road mapped for future success. You'll also find out Andy's ideal Everton signing for 2021, mentions for Krépin Diatta and Ismaïla Sarr, a niché film recommendation, what floor he'd find himself in if he could have one last night out in the infamous L1 "nightclub" The Krazyhouse on Wood Street and a prediction of whether we'll win the sought after Everton Trophy this year. Running Order: Do Everton have a 'Youth Development Plan" (01m 25s) Evertons "Old Guard" and DNA? (08m 05s) Scouting network and loan structure (12m 10s) Marcel Brands and patience (22m 25s) Anthony Gordon and Tom Davies (28m 25s) Temporary fix players, method and Don Carlo (37m 32s) Quickfire Q and A (51m 11s) Search 'mintisculture' on social media to find us, and email us here: mintisculture@gmail.com. Check out the MINT store, www.mintisculture.com where you can find more than just audio content. ***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcast or wherever you get your pods.
Featuring music from Frankie Knuckles, Darshan Jesrani, Tracey Thorn, Nu Shooz, Simple Minds, Imagination, Circulation, Bugz In The Attic and more... Second-hand vinyl bargain bin selections < £3 with @bengomori, with this month's show focused around a haul from Mike's Record Shop in Wood Street, London. www.sohoradiolondon.com
La orden de quedarse en casa, vigente desde el 21 de marzo, terminó cuando el estado pasó este viernes 29 de mayo a la Fase 3 del plan de reapertura trazado por el gobernador J.B. Pritzker, llamado “Restore Illinois”. Además de la movilidad y reapertura de negocios con precauciones sanitarias y distanciamiento social, la nueva fase significa el cambio de las conferencias diarias de Pritzker a sesiones informativas cuando sean necesarias, y el aumento de rastreadores de contactos para seguir controlando la presencia del coronavirus en el estado. El Departamento de Salud Pública de Illinois continuará reportando a través de los medios informativos sobre contagios y muertes, y las métricas regionales para la reapertura seguirán actualizándose en el sitio web de esa oficina gubernamental. Con un plan de reapertura más precavido de la alcaldesa Lori Lightfoot, Chicago sólo participó en el inicio de la Fase 3 con el cierre al tránsito de una de seis calles que destinará al uso de los residentes para caminar, trotar y andar en bicicleta. Se trata de la avenida Leland, en el vecindario de Ravenswood. La primera calle compartida de Chicago es parte de un programa piloto con el que se pretende dar a los residentes más espacio para realizar de manera segura actividades recreativas comunes, pero no serán centros de concentración ni sustituyen servicios públicos cerrados como el 606 y Lakefront Trail. Otras calles que se incluirán son Glenwood Avenue en Edgewater, Palmer Street en Logan Square y Wood Street en Bucktown. En tanto, más de 50 restaurantes suburbanos reabrieron con cenas al aire libre, cumpliendo con regulaciones como el uso de cubrebocas en todo momento por empleados y clientes, estos últimos podrán quitárselos mientras están en la mesa. Se deberán desinfectar mesas y sillas, y las fiestas están limitadas a seis personas o menos. Las restricciones incluyen que las mesas deben mantener una separación de 6 pies, de preferencia separadas con barreras, y para garantizar la seguridad del cliente se recomienda usar cubiertos desechables. El número de restaurantes suburbanos listos para abrir aumentará en el transcurso de la semana. Pritzker confirmó que las tres métricas que permitieron a las cuatro regiones pasar de la Fase 2 a la 3, de su plan de reapertura de cinco fases, serán las mismas que conduzcan a la Fase 4. El período de seguimiento de 28 días para las cuatro regiones reinició el viernes 29, por lo que se estima que se podría pasar a la siguiente fase el 26 de junio, dijo. Sin embargo, solo será posible si las pruebas positivas permanecen igual o inferior al 20%, no aumentan en más de 10 % durante 14 días, y los ingresos hospitalarios por COVID-19 son estables durante 28 días, con suficientes recursos para manejar un incremento de pacientes hasta de 14%. Antes de pasar a la Fase 4 las pruebas de coronavirus deberán estar disponibles para cualquier persona que lo desee, sin importar los síntomas, y cada región debe contar con la habilidad para rastrear los contactos de personas que dan positivo en el 90% de los casos. Pritzker advirtió que el virus sigue siendo una amenaza y un aumento en los casos podría traer de vuelta las restricciones.
In our 10th(!) episode (recorded in the heady days just before quarantine kicked in), we explore some of our favourite street markets in London, from the hustle and bustle of Ridley Road to the fashionista hot spots of Portobello and Brick Lane, floral nirvanas of Columbia Road and New Covent Garden and hidden gems like Wood Street and Lewisham….and much more! Just the tonic for Londoners pining for those relaxed Saturdays getting coffee and croissants in Borough Market and restless travellers dreaming of their next adventure. We miss you London, get well soon xx
In episode 1 of this special "Let's Talk Jackson Politics" series of interviews, Donna Ladd speaks with former Jackson Police Department Chief Lee Vance, now running for Hinds County Sheriff. Vance is probably the best known challenger to Sheriff Victor Mason, the incumbent running to retain his seat. Vance spent 30 years with the Jackson Police Department after growing up on Wood Street in Jackson. "I started school when schools were still segregated, went to Mary C. Jones Elementary School." Although he retired just months into the Chokwe Antar Lumumba mayoral administration, he's been endorsed by the major in the sheriff's race.
December 19, 2016 #YaJagoffPodcast / Episode #051 Our First Show in 7 Degree Weather Recorded at the Point Park University Center for Media Innovation… on the sidewalk….while collecting money for the Salvation Army!!! Yes, it was 7 degrees and what were we thinking? Celina and Chelsea Pompeani talk about the PompinAintEasy Christmas traditions. Jasmine Goldband and Brian Carothers from TheIncline.com talk about Pittsburgh Potties, Major Sedlar of the Salvation Army tells us the story behind the Red Kettle drive and John Knight is aggravated! We also did a mannequin challenge with REAL mannequins from Total Sports Enterprises. Another HUUUUUGE thanks to the folks at Point Park University - Andrew Conte, Chelsea Pompeani and the sophomore COPA class for the awesome caroling. LISTEN to the Podcast show right here below or on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and Tunein Radio via the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” channel. YaJagoff! Podcast - Show Notes: Music: Random Christmas Carols from the Point Park University Sophomore Theater performing arts class. 00:59 It’s ccccccoooooooold and we really are outside at Wood Street and 3rd Avenue recording this. 02:24 Andrew Conte, Director of the Point Park University Center for Media Innovation welcomes us and... well… he thinks we’re nuts for being outside when they have such an awesome studio inside! 07:00 Major Sedlar of the Salvation Army Pittsburgh talks about their mission, tradition and the red kettle campaign. You can text a donation to: GIVEWPA to 7777 14:42 Brian Carothers and Jasmine Goldband… Pittsburgh Potties!!! They have a video and story about them on TheIncline.com. Make sure you follow Brian’s video series Pittsburgh News Break 25:21 Chelsea and Celina Pompeani…. The PompinAintEasy Christmas traditions! 28:55 Sophomore Class Musical Theater Class rep, Kurt Kemper. 31:05 John Knight is aggravated…. Especially about our mannequin challenge and the Nordstrom Rock Thanks to Total Sports Enterprises and Rachael Rennebeck for the mannequins! Find daily #Jagoffs posts at www.YaJagoff.com How to Listen Regularly: All shows on the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” are free and available to listen 24/7/365 worldwide. Audio On-Demand in-your-hand, on smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop computers. – APPLE users can find us on the iTunes and Podcast app. – ANDROID users can find us on Google Play Music, – ALL users can listen on computers, tablets, and smartphones via RSS, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio, Overcast, Pocket Casts or tune in radio, website or apps. * SEARCH: Pittsburgh Podcast Network iTunes • Google Play Music • SoundCloud • tunein radio • RSS • Website VIEW the Episode MovieMix Video: Thanks, To: Photo Credits: The Pittsburgh Podcast Network Production: Frank Murgia and Wayne Weil How to Follow Everyone on Twitter: The Podcast@YaJagoffPodcast John Chamberlin@YaJagoff Craig Tumas@CraigTumas John Knight@JKnight841 Chelsea Pompeani @Chelsea_Pompeani Celina Pompeani @CelinaPompeani Andrew Conte @AndrewConte Salvation Army Pittsburgh @SalArmyPgh Point Park University Center for Media Innovation @PointParkCMI The Incline @TheInclinePGH Jasmine Goldband @FotoJaz Pittsburgh Podcast Network@PghPodcast Produced at talent network, inc. @talentnetworktv by the Pittsburgh Podcast Network @pghpodcast
October 17, 2016 #YaJagoffPodcast / Episode #042 We had an awesome time at the new escape room, The Imaginarium, in Harmarville! You know it has to be a fantastic experience when Bricolage and ScareHouse are involved in designing something together. It’s not scary at all! Jeff and Rod, some of the creative team join us in the Magician’s Room. And, where else would we interview Pittsburgh’s favorite magician, Lee Terbosic? He’s going to suspend himself above Wood Street and Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh to celebrate a very “Pittsburgh” anniversary of Harry Houdini. Then, Black Craft Spirits guy, and Washington County native, Bobby Schubenski talks about whiskey, being a reality TV star and changing diapers. VIEW the Episode Promo Video: https://youtu.be/905a6CWwHRg LISTEN to the Podcast show right here below or on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher Radio, Soundcloud, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and Tunein Radio via the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” channel. YaJagoff! Podcast - SHOW NOTES: Episode 42, Lee Terbosic’s Big Escape, Whiskey and the Imaginarium Escape Room Music: The Stickers, “Summer Time “ 01:04 We all had a late night so… (we were on the Pink Carpet of the David Alan Fashion Show - which raised over $14K for the cancer treatment and research – the night before recording this podcast). 04:34 Jeff Carpenter and Rod Scwhartz talk about the The Imaginarium. It’s a cooperative venture escape room between some of Pittsburgh’s most creative brains, including The Bricolage Theater and The ScareHouse. You have one hour to solve the escape path in this totally submersive experience. 11:47 Bobby Schubenski left his Washington County home for at age 17 to play music. Today, he runs Black Craft Spirits worldwide, with his fiancé Rosa Mendes, he’s a reality TV star on the WWE Total Divas show and he’s crushin’ it as a new dad! Thanks to Bobby and Black Craft for sponsoring this episode. 22:09 Magician Lee Terbosic is about to do something totally awesome. He’s going to suspend himself more than 80 feet above the intersection of Liberty and Wood Streets, November 6th, and escape from a strait jacket! He will be celebrating Harry Houdini’s 100th anniversary. Harry did the same escape in the same place 100 years ago to the day! 36:41 Big thanks to Cathy from Frosted Envy for making pumpkin spice cupcakes for all of us! Seriously… we did not dunk them in the Black Craft Whiskey but, we could have! They made for a great breakfast! Find daily #Jagoffs posts at www.YaJagoff.com How to Listen Regularly: All shows on the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” are free and available to listen 24/7/365 worldwide. Audio On-Demand in-your-hand, on smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop computers. – APPLE users can find us on the iTunes and Podcast app. – ANDROID users can find us on Google Play Music, – ALL users can listen on computers, tablets, and smartphones via RSS, SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio, Overcast, Pocket Casts or tunein radio, website or apps. * SEARCH: Pittsburgh Podcast Network iTunes • Google Play Music • SoundCloud • tunein radio • RSS • Website VIEW the Episode MovieMix Video: Thanks, To: Photo Credits: The Food Tasters and The Pittsburgh Podcast Network Production: Frank Murgia and Wayne Weil How to Follow Everyone on Twitter: The Podcast@YaJagoffPodcast John Chamberlin@YaJagoff Craig Tumas@CraigTumas John Knight@JKnight841 Jason Havelka@SportsMongerPGH The Stickers @TheStickers The Imaginarium @ImaginariumPGH ScareHouse @ScareHousePGH Bricolage @BricolagePGH Frosted Envy @FrostedEnvyPgh Black Craft Spirits @BlkCraftSpirits Bobby Schubenski @BobbyRagesHard David Draven @DravenDrums Lee Terbosic @LeeTerbosic The Food Tasters@TheFoodTasters Pittsburgh Podcast Network@PghPodcast Produced at talent network, inc. @talentnetworktv by the Pittsburgh Podcast Network @pghpodcast
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