Red rocks Rupp as Cards pull off win #1

It's a rare sight alright - Red rockin' Rupp Arena. Thousands of Cardinal faithful poured into the Lexington Civic Center for pre-game festivities Thursday afternoon.

Louisville fans being able to drive to the Cards first NCAA game is pleasing to the Top Card, University of Louisville President Dr. James Ramsey.

"So far, all I've seen is red," said Ramsey, "and we are so we're excited."

Another warm welcome for fans was being greeted at the alumni pep rally by two of the greatest Cards of all time - Hall of Fame Coach Denny Crum and Dr. Dunkenstein himself, Darrell Griffith. Both legends are big fans of this current group of number 1 seeded Cards.

"I love this year's team," Griffith said, "They've been consistent all year long and they've played great ball. They play great ball even when everybody isn't on the same page."

"I think they're playing as well as anyone and if they can just maintain that then they have a chance to win it," Crum said.

Fans are thrilled to be able to watch the Cards so close to home and they didn't mind playing at the home of the Cats.

"Red in blue country is just amazing," said Louisville fan Terri Webber, "we just can't wait to win."

Others fans like Nick Belker are already dreaming of the road ahead.

"I've got confirmation all the way through to the Final Four," said Belker about game tickets. "It's a win-win all the way."

Huge lines of red clad fans waited for the gates to open. They were determined not to be the first number 1 seed to lose to a number 16 seed.  Fans we found from Henderson, Kentucky hid their nerves well.

"I'm not worried," said Rex Minton about the first NCAA game. His friend chimed in laughing, "He was worried, he was nervous."

5-year-old Ayden Noland had nerves of steel about game one for his number one seeded Cards. He was ready cut down the tape to get in and he's ready to cut down some nets. When we asked him if the Cardinal birds were going to win, Ayden replied, "Yeah."

Young Ayden was right. Louisville coasted to 79-48 win over North Carolina A&T to crowds of cheering fans.

Source  http://www.wave3.com/story/21762969/red-rocks-rupp-as-cards-pull-of-win-1

Echo Uganda rocks Lyman

Gideon Ampiere led a group of Lyman Memorial High School students in a dance on the stage in the school auditorium. With rattles on his legs, he produced music with every movement. The students - freshmen and sophomores - laughed and stomped. Behind them, their classmates kept a beat on traditional East African drums -Embuutu and Empuunyi. Others played along on Ensaasi - shakers made from large, rounded gourds. During the course of one school period, the energetic Ampiere introduced the students to about a dozen different traditional instruments, numerous songs and dances, and a handful of different languages.

Ampiere brought along two members of his group, Echo Uganda, for his Feb. 14 visit to the school. Scotland resident Chris Demorit and Willimantic resident Dave Magnuson provided backup on a number of instruments, including the Adungu, a bow harp resembling a sailing vessel. Magnuson said he’d always been a world music fan. He met Ampiere about nine years ago, shortly after the Uganda native arrived in the United States. “Someone said I had to meet this crazy guy from Uganda,” said Magnuson with a chuckle. Ampiere, whose grandfather was a music teacher, is currently a Storrs resident with a master of arts degree in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and a bachelors of arts from the University of Connecticut, according to his bio.

Echo Uganda, comprised of a core group of eight musicians and occasional guest artists, endeavors to share the instruments, music and dances of East Africa with audiences of all ages. The group has been to Lyman before, as part of the school’s efforts to promote diversity. Social studies teacher Kevin Brodie and English teacher Liza Escott head up the Diversity Committee at Lyman, and Escott is the diversity coordinator for the school. Last year, the pair booked Echo Uganda for the older Lyman students. An evaluation, conducted to help guide future diversity programming, identified the program as a hit with the kids. “They unanimously said, ‘Absolutely, have them back again,’” said Escott. So this year the group appeared for the younger students.

They clearly enjoyed the program, as Ampiere hopped off the stage to lead students in a dance in the audience, then back onto the stage to play the Ennanga, a Ugandan wooden zither, and the kalimba, a thumb piano. From time to time he would produce a string of narrative in Swahili, Luganda or Lukiga - all languages, he explained, spoken in parts of East Africa in addition to English.

When the bell rang, and students reluctantly filed out, one young woman remained behind. Katherine, a sophomore, called Ampiere over as he packed up with his band mates. “That was really awesome,” she said. “It really made my day.” Katherine said that, in a small town like Lebanon, there aren’t many opportunities to experience other cultures. “I just really enjoyed this,” she said. “Really, it made my month.”

See this December ReminderNews article for more about Lyman’s diversity programming: http://www.remindernews.com/article/2012/12/20/lyman-fosters-an-environm.... Laila Lalami, a Moroccan-American author and a professor from California, will speak at the school in March. A diversity fair is scheduled for the end of April.

Echo Uganda provides programming that can be tailored to a variety of ages, group sizes, and other parameters. For more information go to http://echouganda.com/7.html.  Upcoming shows include: a Friday, March 8, appearance at UConn’s International Women’s Day, and a Saturday, March 9, Camp Horizons Benefit at Mystic Aquarium.

Source  http://www.remindernews.com/article/2013/02/24/echo-uganda-rocks-lyman

Colgate Optic White Beauty Bar Rocks The Golden Globes

During the Colgate Optic White Beauty Bar at the Nine Zero One Salon in West Hollywood January 11 & 12, all the celebs got to take part in tremendous hair services, spray tans, massages and so much more! Check it out!

During the Golden Globes, the celebs get to go to some pretty awesome gift suites and pre show events. Count the Colgate Optic White Beauty Bar as one of the best!

Celebs the likes of Kyle Richards, Shenae Grimes and so much more were on hand to get tons of awesome services like Nails by Kiss, Massages by Bio Oil, Gifts by Schick Hydro Silk Razors, Pita and Hummas Snacks by Sabra, Shoes by Koolaburra, Jeans by Mavi, and All hair care services and product by Joico Hair Care.
Some other fun happenings that happened during the event were…

Ashley Tisdale chatting with salon stylists about hot boys on Instagram – She also noted that her followers barrage her on occasion.

Kyle Richards treating her daughters to Joico hair care products, particularly the Joico Power Spray.

Shenae Grimes admiring her fiancé, playing the Joico pinwheel and chatting about how she’s still obsessed with her engagement ring.

Krysten Ritter looking poised and turning heads while getting her hair styled at Colgate’s Beauty bar with Joico’s Power Spray

Karina Smirnoff chatting about filming her movie in NYC while getting her nails done with Kiss Nail products

Adrienne Maloof talking about her new hair care deal, trying to keep it under wraps but saying how much she secretly love Joico hair care products.

Tiffany Hines talking about her obsession with Haute Betts Jewelry while getting her hair curled by a Joico stylist.

Joico also treated their guests to mini purse Power Spray’s to keep with them on the go and also gave all guests K PAK color therapy shampoos and conditioners.

So HollywoodLifers, How are you getting ready for the Golden Globes? Sound off below!

Source  http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/01/12/colgate-optic-white-beauty-bar-rocks-the-golden-globes-weekend/

UNC Women's Basketball Fall To Wichita

The Northern Colorado Women's Basketball team stayed with Wichita State through the first 27 minutes of the game, but the Shockers closed on a 20-4 run to defeat the visiting Bears 51-35 in front of a near-capacity crowd for Schoolhouse Rocks with the Shocks Game.

The crowd of 10,307 – made up of primarily school-aged children – is the second-largest crowd to ever witness a Northern Colorado women's basketball game. The largest was 10,687 at Oklahoma in 2006.

The Bears (2-5) welcomed sophomore center Stephanie Lee back to the lineup after missing the previous four games with an injury, and she promptly led the team in scoring nine points. Both senior forward Lauren Oosdyke and junior guard D'shara Strange led the game with eight rebounds each.

Each of the five starters had two assists as the Bears had 11 assists on 14 made baskets, but turnovers once again proved to be the team's bugaboo as they had 22 miscues – including six in a three-minute stretch after the team fought back from an eight-point deficit to knot the score at 31-31.

Junior forward Kim Lockridge snapped an 11-point scoring streak for the Shockers (4-5) with a layup at the 8:32 mark to bring the Bears back within nine, 42-33, but Wichita State scored nine of the final 11 in the game for the 51-35 point win.

No player in the game scored in double figures as Wichita State was led by Jazimen Gordan and Jessica Diamond with nine each. Alie Decker led with six rebounds and nine of the 11 Shockers who played tallied at least one steal – as the team had 13. Wichita State also turned the ball over just nine times in the game.

For the sixth time in seven games this season, the Bears out-rebounded the competition, grabbing 39 compared to 33 for the Shockers. Both teams struggled in shooting as WSU shot .339 for the game and NC shot .326.

The Bears now take a week off from competition for final examinations, returning to action on Dec. 16 at Texas Tech. Opening tip is scheduled for 1 pm Mountain.

Source  http://www.noco5.com/story/20300058/unc-womens-basketball-fall-to-wichita

Paint Rock Valley Lodge and Retreat: Hidden Alabama treasure

Eddie and Vivian Prince opened the Paint Rock Valley Lodge and Retreat in 1994. Many of their collections came from an old store they had.  

There's a game room and meeting rooms. And the lodge is replicated with rooms that pay homage to the past. 

"This is an old country store," said Eddie Prince. 

There's even a gas station complete with goods you would find from the 40's and 50's. There's also a working barber shop with a rare, antique coke machine and "small" Coke bottles. 

"This is our 50's diner," added Eddie - beaming with pride.  

The replica looks like the Happy Days TV set. And 45s line the walls as jukebox figurines jitterbug away.

Another country store has antiques going back to 1900. 

The lodge is huge. The rooms are very basic and can sleep several people. No TV. No bathrooms and no telephones, but if you miss the gift of gab, there is always the pay phone in the lodge commons area.  Cell phones usually don't work here either.

There are also small cabins on the site and some RV hookups, so guests are always comfortable.

The next day you can visit Lodge City. No store fronts here. This western town has a hotel, barber shop, saloon, and combination dentist office/cobbler shop. There is an old church which also serves as a school, a bank, printer, post office, coffin maker, jail and more.   

"We have a hangman's noose if people get out of hand, you know," said Eddie.

Behind Lodge City is another Western town with a cotton gin and much more. These areas look like a Hollywood movie set. 

They have festivals there during the year with musicians and re-enactors. They even have gun fights just like at the OK Corral. 

The owners of the place say it's a throwback to days gone by.  

"It's just a peaceful slower lifestyle, you know, and that's really what we were trying to do," Eddie said.

"The older people enjoy this type thing," adds Vivian.

Just the thing to get away from the city and modern distractions in Bobby's Bama.

Source  http://www.waff.com/story/20087327/paint-rock-valley-lodge-retreat-a-hidden-alabama-treasure

Stephen Baldwin pleads guilty to driving without a license, calls experience a 'blessing in disguise'

"Bio-Dome" actor Stephen Baldwin pleaded guilty Monday to driving without a license in Harlem and paid $155 in fines and charges to wipe his slate clean.

The star was stopped at 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 24 on W. 125th St., near Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., after making an illegal U-turn, officials said.

He was driving his 15-year-old daughter, Hailey Rhode, home from ballet class at the time, and he called the experience a “blessing in disguise” because it gave him the chance to talk with her about how hard cops work.

"I was able to explain to my daughter, who was very upset, that the NYPD usually deal with bad people," Baldwin said Monday as he waited in line to pay a $75 fine and $80 surcharge.

"I have nothing but respect for the men and women in uniform and I got to share that with her."

He’d pulled the U-turn to grab coffee at a Starbucks, he said Monday.

Baldwin, the younger brother of "30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin, said he was handcuffed and taken to the Harlem precinct stationhouse, where he was given a ticket for driving on a suspended license. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to driving without a license, a less-serious infraction.

"He's cleared up his license," said his lawyer, Richard Southard. "It was all a misunderstanding. He has no criminal record."

Baldwin showed up at Manhattan Criminal Court Monday around 9:30 a.m. Wearing a San Jose Fire Department baseball cap and a dark, muscle-hugging T-shirt, Baldwin wheeled a business suit and a suitcase behind him.

"I got to go home and do what my wife tells me," he said when asked where he was headed next.
Baldwin, an evangelical Christian who has also appeared in “The Usual Suspects” and “The Flintstone's in Viva Rock Vegas,” threatened during 2008 to move to Canada if President Obama was elected Commander in Chief.

He hasn't had much luck in court lately.

He lost his lawsuit against actor Kevin Costner after claiming the “Waterworld” actor had tricked him into giving up shares in a high-tech company specializing in capping oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon.
The Massapequa, L.I., native was in court in Los Angeles in September, claiming it was Costner's lawyer who encouraged him to dump his shares as BP was signing a $52 million contract with the company.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/stephen-baldwin-pleads-guilty-article-1.1171964#ixzz28PNMbjx3

Family matriarch Ethel Kennedy opens up, sort of, for an HBO bio-documentary

Ethel Kennedy has largely dropped out of the public eye for the last two decades, which is why her youngest daughter, Rory, says the “big reveal” in Rory’s new HBO bio-documentary “Ethel” is simply that “my mother is talking.”

“Ethel,” airing in October, shows the Kennedy matriarch and numerous other family members talking about her life.

One area about which she stays largely silent, though, is the assassination of her husband, Robert, in 1968.

When Rory asks her about that, she pauses and finally says, “Talk about something else.”

Kennedy, 84, told TV critics here Wednesday that the way she got through the aftermath of that tragedy was that “I’d wake up and say he’s okay, he’s in heaven with John.”

-- A new documentary, self-effacingly titled “The Rolling Stones: The Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band in the World,” will air this October on HBO.

It will be directed by Brett Morgan and has the cooperation of all four current Stones plus former band members Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor. It coincides with the band’s 50th anniversary and will trace its roots to the beginning.

More HBO moves:

-- “Enlightened” and “Girls” return in January, earlier than planned, because of the hole created by the unexpected shutdown of “Luck.”

“Nothing else was ready to go,” said programming president Michael Lombardo. “They were.”

-- Larry David is writing a new movie, which HBO is only saying will not be a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” movie.

-- “True Blood” showrunner Alan Ball is leaving at the end of the current season five, but Lombardo said the show will likely go on.

-- “True Detectives,” with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, will likely finish its story in one season, then move on to another.

-- A fourth season for “Treme” is up in the air.

-- “Game of Thrones” will continue “as long as [author] George R.R. Martin writes books,” said Lombardo. Martin is now writing book six as “Thrones” prepares for its third season.

-- An “Entourage” movie is possible, but not imminent.

-- “The Kids Are All Right” is being considered as the basis for a series, but “The Corrections” was rejected.

‘Strike Back’ boasts Dylan music

Two songs from Bob Dylan’s upcoming “Tempest” album will premiere in connection with Cinemax’s “Strike Back” series, whose second season launches Aug. 17.

The song “Early Roman Kings” will be featured in a video that started Wednesday on HBO, Cinemax and cinemax.com.

“Scarlet Town” will play behind the end credits of the first two episodes, which debut back-to-back at 10 p.m.

“Tempest” will be released Sept. 11.

BBC calls on Musketeers

The Three Musketeers will return to television in 2014, minus the “Three” part.

BBC America is co-producing a new 10-part series of the Alexander Dumas classic, with what it describes as “a fresh and contemporary take on the beloved stories and characters.”

It is still set in the 17th century and revolves around a “band of brothers” sworn to protect king and country.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/family-matriarch-ethel-kennedy-opens-sort-hbo-bio-documentary-article-1.1127500#ixzz22wfpDksA