| Gr'08 Expectations
It's amazing how many new calendars you find in stores this time of year. Sure, a calendar is a great holiday gift, what with the new year starting just a few days after the recipient tears off the wrapping. What are the chances it'll get lost or tossed in that short time? Still, you would think calendars would go the way of, um, other useful and entertaining things printed on paper. After all, you can set your cell phone/iPhone/Blackberry to alert you to every appointment/play date/soccer practice that comes up in a day. So who needs a paper calendar to scribble it all on? Need. Want. They're two different things. We buy wall calendars as much for those 12 pretty pictures as we do for the 30 (plus or minus) tiny numbered boxes. We buy desk calendars because they give us an inspirational quote, a chuckle or some other little jolt to get us through the workday.
JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB: Hispanic Neglect Is The Media's Dirty Little Secret
(Here is the first of a two-part series discussing the media's neglect of Hispanics and highlighting two targeted ventures. Part 2 will appear on Monday.) NEW YORK (Dow Jones) -- Mimi Valdes Ryan has a tough job. On Nov. 5, she became the top editor of Latina, a magazine and Internet operation, which is run by Latina Media Ventures and caters to Hispanic women. The 37-year-old former editor of Vibe magazine has the weighty task of taking Latina to a new level of prominence. Valdes Ryan and her partners must compete with magazines like Vogue and Glamour for advertisers and readers. "I want Latina to sit on the coffee table alongside these other women's magazines," she said. In one major respect, Latina is typical of the media: Its primary market is young people.
Stockdale record hops near 50th anniversary
Recent references to people and events sharing the news spotlight in 1957 brought a question from a reader in Roscoe about the popular record hops at the Stockdale Fire Hall. He or she wanted to know when those weekly Saturday night dances began. The answer, dear reader, is Saturday, Dec. 21, 1957. That means, of course, the 50th anniversary of genesis of those dances is only a month away. We'll have more about the Stockdale festivities, which ran for some eight years, next month. .
New Head Of Contemporary Dance
The New Zealand School of Dance is delighted to announce that Tiina Alinen has been appointed Head of Contemporary Dance. Tiina has enjoyed a diverse career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer with a number of high profile companies and training institutions including Tasdance, Expressions Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Leigh Warren and Dancers, National Indigenous Academy of Theatrical Arts, Queensland University of Technology, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University, Victorian College of the Arts and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. .
New Businesses
Asbury Park, Jazzy Jazz Cut & Style, 1300 Mattison Ave.; beauty salon. Asbury Park, Thermal Plumbing LLC, 1115 Kingsley St.; plumbing contractor. Atlantic Highlands, Aceman Tattoo, 12 West Ave.; tattooing. Brielle, Trips & Tours Travel, 304 Union Ave.; travel agency and bureau. Eatontown, Agile Communications Inc., 3 Corbett Way; communications. Eatontown, A New Vision Of Graphics, 105 Route 36; graphic designers. Freehold, Option One Title Agency LLC, 35 Court St.; title company. Freehold, Bio Reference, 900 W. Main St.; nonclassified establishment. Holmdel, Bonnie Rappel Hair Artistry, 483 Route 520; beauty salon; owner: Bonnie Rappel. Howell, Hoe Excavating, 545 W.
SHS Thespians set to perform musical
STEUBENVILLE � The Steubenville High School Thespian Troupe will present the musical �Into the Woods� at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the high school auditorium.
The musical, written by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, combines popular Grimm�s fairy tales into one original story. Fairy tales include �Cinderella,� �Rapunzel,� �Little Red Riding Hood� and �Jack and the Beanstalk.�
�Into the Woods� centers around a baker and his wife who attempt to reverse a curse on their family in order to have a child.
�It explores what happens after the �happily ever ever,�� school officials stated.
Sondheim and Lapine won several Tony awards for the show, which opened on Broadway in 1987 and ran for more than 700 performances.
The upcoming production marks the 12th show the organization has done since its inception in 1994 and will be led under the direction of Scott Wolodkin, high school choir director and drama adviser.
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