The residents . . . have no idea how really important this HOPE VI grant is going to be in the larger scheme of turning this community around.
"Randy Phillips" is an airman of the United States Air Force whose coming out in September 2011 following the repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy (DADT) garnered media attention. DADT had banned the service of openly gay members in the United States Armed Forces and Phillips used YouTube, under the alias "AreYouSuprised", to anonymously seek support and to document his life under the policy over several months. His videos included his coming out to his father and mother, which coincided with Phillips showing his face for the first time, and the accidental discovery of his anonymous web presence by his co-workers.
There was a wave of video postings when the military anti-homosexual policy ended, with many pointing to Phillips as their model or inspiration. The timing of his revelations to his family at the end of the military's restrictions on service by homosexuals made him, in one journalist's estimation, "the poster boy for the DADT repeal." Another wrote: "Phillips has masterfully used social media and good timing to place himself at the centre of a civil rights success story."
More Randy Phillips on Wikipedia.She's had a 180-degree turnaround in behavior.
The live business is competing with itself because too many acts are out there at the same time. For (Clear Channel), it's critical that acts play in that time period.
[Executives and industry watchers say Rapino — whose musical tastes include the Stones, U2 and Coldplay — will have more latitude for new ideas after the spinoff.] They did a smart thing by giving Rapino the job, ... He has to be a lion tamer in a three-ring circus.
[The Loews Astor, which closed in summer 2004, had been New York's largest single-screen movie theater. AEG Live put it through an extreme makeover.] We had to gut it, ... We had this tremendous expanse without poles, so the sightlines were insanely good and the acoustics were great. But we had to build the whole stage box.
Most people don't realize that we have mosquitoes year-round. The winter varieties, known as tree stump mosquitoes, lay eggs in tree stumps that then fill with water. But this year they aren't limited to finding water pools inside rotting stumps. They can be anywhere with all this rain.
Small venues are critical in New York, ... If you want to be in the business, you also have to break acts.
The board grew up, and we made some real-life decisions. Dan stepped in and made it (2005 festival) happen.
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