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Tulsa

For University Club Tower (Tulsa) page:

The tower is the setting for a scene in the 1982 film Tex directed by Tim Hunter and based on the novel of the same name by Tulsan S. E. Hinton.[1]

Also, worth mentioning that it's round with unusual pie-shaped apartments? http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20080229/ai_n24370841

Ken Hayes

Tulsa World

National Energy Policy Institute

Carol Lynn Yellin

Mrs. Yellin, class of '37, is currently working as co-author with Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, on a biography of his grandmother, Kasturba Gandhi, to be published in 1992. She has also written for Harper's, Redbook and Ms. magazines, and helped prepare "The Reader's Digest ible" for publication. She and her husband, David, who live in Memphis, Tenn., have worked together through the years in projects such as originating and producing the weekly discussion show "Face to Face." She was selected to serve as a Tennessee delegate to the White House Conference on Library and Information Services in July and has received many awards for her work with Civil Rights as well as being honored as a Headliner by the Memphis Chapter of Women in Communications. *http://www.tulsaworld.com/lifestyle/article.aspx?subjectid=42&articleid=266574&archive=yes

  • previously married to Thomas Heggen
  • mother of Emily Yellin who wrote about her in Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II, Simon and Schuster (2005)

Paul Miller (journalist)

All Souls Unitarian Church (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

Cats: Unitarian Universalist churches, Churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma

As of February 2009, appears to be the largest single physical UU congregation in the world (behind only Church of the Larger Fellowship, which is a virtual online/remote congregation, and the 25 churches of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines[1], and 3rd largest in the world overall.[2]

1,590 Unitarian-Universalists,[2] which includes the largest Unitarian Universalist congregation in the world.[3]

Lortondale http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=41&articleid=20090613_41_D1_Hmsiho566523 http://www.lortondale.com/History/tabid/54/Default.aspx http://www.moderntulsa.net/tulsa-modern-architecture-photos-oklahoma/lortondale/ http://books.google.com/books?id=-DT6_yahkyYC&pg=PA105&dq=Lortondale&as_brr=3&ei=8_YzSofkHYXIlQSPjL28BQ

Jewish cuisine/culture projects

Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (included at Bloch Publishing)

Aunt Babette cookbook

Lizzie Black Kander -- add refs to critical analysis of the influence of the Settlement Cookbook and improve links

/architect template

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Bettauer http://www.virtualvienna.net/jewish_vienna/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19

Brandeis-Bardin Institute needs substantial improvement. Better history: http://www.ajula.edu/Content/ContentUnit.asp?CID=141&u=525&t=0

Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, California) deserves a short article.

Music projects

Austin

Additional articles on New Sincerity bands, and/or additions to Music of Austin:

New sincerity (music) (not to be confused with possibly farcical philosophic movement)

Jesse Sublett / The Skunks

Making the rounds led to familiarity among scenesters. Valentine remembers the first time she saw Jesse Sublett and Eddie Munoz at Austin's premier rock & roll club of the day, Mother Earth. "They looked like they were in the Faces. They looked like full-on rock stars, playing in Jellyroll. Their haircuts were perfect, their clothes were perfect, they were rock-star handsome."

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:444388

Kristin Gorski, Almost Famous The Austin Texas Soundtrack Circa 1985, Annabelle Magazine, No. 12, 2006.

"The so-called New Sincerity was the perfect prototype of a scene because it was short-lived and over-hyped," wrote Michael Corcoran in the Dallas Morning News. "The original Continental closed, the major labels chewed up and spat out the city's best two bands (True Believers and the Reivers) and all the fans graduated from UT and either moved away or formed bands that might be part of the next big scene."

http://www.nodepression.net/blogs/peter/2008/01/_is_it_worth_the_admission.html (Peter Blackstock):

[The Reivers] were at the forefront of a swarm of Austin bands that were caustically dubbed "The New Sincerity" by musician/author Jesse Sublett, and while that comment was perhaps understandable given Sublett's perspective as a veteran of the city's previous punk/new-wave onslaught, it also rang with a bit of resonance. While the bands themselves (Zeitgeist, Wild Seeds, True Believers, Glass Eye, Doctors' Mob, etc.) would never have declared themselves to be "newly sincere," they emerged in an era when the likes of Michael Jackson and Quiet Riot were topping the charts. By comparison, they were a real breath of fresh air, particularly for anyone who was just beginning to dig beneath the surface, as I was back then.

http://weeklywire.com/ww/07-28-97/austin_music_feature2.html (about Jon Dee Graham, The Skunks (band), True Believers, etc)

True Believers--Alejandro Escovedo and Jon Dee Graham already have separate articles http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fpfpxqy5ldhe~T10

Wild Seeds http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wpfyxqy5ldhe~T00

Doctor's Mob: Last One in the Van Drives (compilation album 1999, now out of print)
Kent H. Benjamin, "Why Should Anyone Care Now?", Weekly Wire (Austin Chronicle?), August 30, 1999 All Music Guide:

Biography by Craig Harris For a brief moment in the mid-'80s, a style of music dubbed "new sincerity" seemed to be the next big thing. Originating from Austin, TX, the sound of such bands as Glass Eye, the Reivers, True Believers, the Wild Seeds, and Texas Instruments reflected a new post-punk and new wave attitude. According to Steve Collier, vocalist and principal songwriter of Doctor's Mob, one of the most-promising of the "new sincerity" groups, "The whole idea of the band was to have these really melodic songs that you played really heavy."

Formed in the early '80s, Doctor's Mob took its name from an article about the first American riot, "Doctor's Mob of 1728," that the band found in an old Almanac. The group was beset by internal problems from the outset. The final four performances of their tour supporting their debut album, Headache Machine, in 1985, were canceled when founding bass player Jimmy Doluisio resigned following a gig. Replacing Doluisio with bass player Tim Swingle, Doctor's Mob signed with the Relativity label and recorded its second album, Sophomore Slump, with Ramones producer Tommy Erdelyi. The album's title proved to be appropriate when the label forced the band to re-record the album, delaying its release date for several months. When Sophomore Slump was finally released in 1987, Doctor's Mob was unable to recapture its early momentum. Although they mounted two tours in support of the album, they disbanded. Drummer Glenn Benavides went on to play with Buick MacKane, Collier joined the Sidehackers, and guitarist/vocalist Don Lamb became manager of Waterloo Records.

The members of Doctor's Mob reunited to celebrate the release of Last One in the Van Drives, combining tracks from their two albums, in 1999.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3pfyxqt5ldke~T00

Rock 'N Roll Case Study: Doctors Mob, interview with Steve Collier and Don Lamb.

Other

Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices

Section 274B(e) provides that the President shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices within the Justice Department, to serve for a term of 4 years. I understand this subsection to provide that the Special Counsel shall serve at the pleasure and with the policy guidance of the President, but for no longer than for a 4-year term (subject to reappointment by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate).

Special counsels

  • Lawrence J. Siskind (first one, appointed by Reagan)
http://www.harveysiskind.com/attorneys/l_j_siskind.html
http://www.jweekly.com/oldjewishsf/www/bk960719/sfagov.htm
  • Andy Strojny--acting?
http://www.i-9help.com/andystrojnybio.html
appointed 1997 http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1997/March97/118ag.htm
  • Juan Carlos Benitez
appointed 2001 to replace Trasvina, whose term expired http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-9.html
(former McCain "bundler," connected to Jack Abramoff) http://thepage.time.com/obama-statement-on-ralph-reed-fundraiser/
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/an-abramoff-connection/
http://www.firedupamerica.com/juan
Now a lobbyist http://www.cassidy.com/bios/biodetail.asp?Id=95&Office=dc
  • William Sanchez
to be appointed May 2004 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/05/20040527-4.html
confirmed December 8, 2004 http://www.nilc.org/immsemplymnt/ircaempverif/irca062.htm
resigned 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070118-3.html
now he's an immigration lawyer? http://wsanchezlaw.com/aboutthefirm.html
  • As of Nov 2006 position was empty, deputy was Katherine A. Baldwin
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1094806/OSC-Update---November-2006
  • John Tanner--left voting rights post-scandal to work "in" OSC
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004910.php
  • Patrick Shen
appointed Nov 13, 2007 http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/December/07_crt_975.html
left December 2008 http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2008/12/former-justice-official-returns-to-fragomen.html

Jefferson Lecture followup

Jefferson Lecture

In ____ the National Endowment for the Humanities selected _____ for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. ______'s lecture was entitled __________________.[4]

Other

Orange Award for New Writers 2009 winner Francesca Kay http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/books/04arts-MARILYNNEROB_BRF.html?

publishing stub for Cartoon Books--cross ref to Jeff Smith (cartoonist), Bone (comic), RASL, Castle Waiting

American Association for State and Local History http://www.aaslh.org/

AltaMira Press is associated with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). It publishes a wide range of books useful for those who work in historical organizations, manage historic sites, or research and write local history. In particular, see Carol Kammen, On Doing Local History, (2nd edition, 2003) and David Kyvig and Martin Marty, Nearby History (2nd edition, 2000).
. . .
The American Association for State and Local History publishes History News four times a year (see http://www.aaslh.org/historynews.htm), and the National Council on Public History issues Public History quarterly (see http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/tph/).

http://www.localhistory.no/countries/usa.html#genres

(AASLH has about 30 mentions in other WP articles)

Ellen Fitzpatrick

"public intellectual" (numerous appearances on PBS, NPR, Meet the Press, etc.) http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2007/uwide.cfm?image=fitzpatrick
books http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Ellen%20Fitzpatrick&page=1
http://www.oah.org/activities/lectureship/2008/lecturer.php?id=114
see Eleanor Flexner
http://www.unh.edu/history/index.cfm?ID=2B1966F3-AC44-D4E7-54A916E20D9C7ED4#Fitzpatrick

The American Scholar (magazine)--needs lots of work, especially regarding history and controversies involving Joseph Epstein (writer) and Anne Fadiman.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy non-technical sections:

general non-technical explanation (requested by editors)
connection to athlete's heart
historical information

Al Razutis / Amerika

Charles Loloma

Dallas Nine http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/kjd1.html The artists most closely identified with the name seem to have been the men who lobbied the Texas Centennialqv Commission unsuccessfully for the privilege of decorating the walls of the Hall of State,qv the main building of the Centennial Exposition in Dallas (1936). They were Jerry Bywaters, Thomas M. Stell, Jr., Harry P. Carnohan, Otis M. Dozier, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester,qqv Everett Spruce, John Douglass, and Perry Nichols. Other artists closely associated with the group were Charles T. Bowling, Russell Vernon Hunter, Merritt T. Mauzey, Florence McClung,qqv Don Brown, and Lloyd Goff. The sculptors Dorothy Austin, Michael G. Owen, Allie Victoria Tennant,qv and Octavio Medellín also participated in the Dallas Regionalist movement

Hockaday School add a bit more about school history

Antoinette Downing (Antoinette Forrester Downing)

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/record/2001/2001_S04888.pdf

Materials Monthly published by Princeton Architectural Press

Hillhouse High School, in New Haven, Connecticut

Museum of Western Art

Orange County Museum of Art and Laguna Art Museum


New Sincerity in Nancy Drew (2007 film)

  • "Emma Roberts, who has something of her aunt Julia's guilelessness, plays her as a good-hearted innocent. Even her dress sense gets a thumbs-up as Nancy unconsciously kicks off the next big thing: the "New Sincerity." (As if!)" Tom Charity,"Review: 'Nancy Drew' true but slight", CNN.com, June 15, 2007.
  • http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2007/06/21/mighty-almighty/
  • "At the coda of the film, two of Nancy’s former rivals come barreling into her room, giggling. Nancy has become a fashion plate, her retro-style shown in a teen magazine under the headline “The New Sincerity.” It has to be an ironic joke. Nancy Drew has never been sincere. The franchise has always been tainted by its own pandering to American prejudices, and redeemed by a completely dishonest notion: a girl can outrun, outfight, and outthink the male adult world, and be adored for it. It’s a lie I still rely on, and Nancy Drew’s still the only heroine teaching it." http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/07/film/the-old-insincerity
  • "Unavoidably arch but essentially playful in its wit, Nancy Drew neither wears out its welcome nor compromises its heroine. Nancy is unstoppable. By the movie's end, her trademark penny loafers and Sandra Dee outfits have been officially pronounced fashionable, "the new sincerity." That's pretty much the idea of this 12-year-old superheroine, quotation marks and all." J. Hoberman, "The Mystery of the Tween Demographic", Village Voice, June 5, 2007.
  • "The best thing about "The New Sincerity," as they call it in the movie, is that it speaks to what is going on in fashion right now. Just as Nancy happily stands apart from the trend-addled crowd, teens today are shedding the buy-more attitude in favor of a more comfortable, simplified and authentic looks. And, as Nancy proves in the movie, being real to who you are is what being real is all about." "A clue to style: Nancy Drew and the new sincerity", WLS-TV, June 01, 2007
  • "At one point in the film a Southern California real estate agent appraises Nancy’s penny-loafer-and-knee-socks look and says, “With a little tweaking, you could be adorable.” Later a semi-reformed Mean Girl from Nancy’s school notes that Nancy’s retro appearance has become a fashion sensation called “the new sincerity.” As far as I’m concerned, the old sincerity worked just fine, and too much tweaking has been done with the intention of bringing the girl sleuth up to date." A.O. Scott, "Junior Sleuth Finds Her Way to the Screen, With Knee-Socks Pulled Up High", New York Times, June 15, 2007.


MALDEF details

A more detailed history; their papers at Stanford [19]
additional background as of 2005:[20]
Former Presidents: [21][dead link]
bio at [25]

¿Quién diablos es Juliette?

This documentary about Juliet (Yuliet) Ortega has won a slew of awards,

  • has been reviewed in significant places,
  • and is even mentioned in a Frommer's travel guide as a notable film about the dynamics between Cubans and Cuban-Americans[32].

Done

User:Arxiloxos/done

  1. ^ Tulsa TV Memories. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Metro Area Membership Report was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Sherman, Bill (2008-09-21). "After last sermon, no regrets". Tulsa World. Retrieved 2009-03-27. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Jefferson Lecturers at NEH Website (retrieved January 22, 2009).
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