Passion Dating: Where are the hoops for new coliseum?
Once renovations are completed, Memorial Coliseum will be a great place for a basketball game.The problem will be finding one. The Mid-Continent Conference tournament, which runs Saturday through Tuesday at the coliseum, won't return next season. The Big Ten women's tournament is no longer a possibility. And the expected return of the Fort Wayne Fury to the Continental Basketball Association is on indefinite hold.That leaves a sparkling coliseum with five or...
Passion Dating: NO BOUNDARIES FOR THIS BAND,
LATIN SOUL PROJECT CROSSES OVER FROM SALSA TO JAZZ AND MORE-- AND TAKES THE AUDIENCE WITH IT
* WHO: Rick Ramos and Latin Soul Project * WHAT: Performing at the Alameda County Fair * WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday * CONTACT: www.latinsoulproject.homestead.com, www.alamedacountyfair.com In 1985, unsure of where it would lead them, Rick Ramos and T.W. Johnson started a band called Latin Soul. Sixteen years later, the band led them from Richmond to Europe."The people just went crazy," said Rick Ramos, remembering the mid-June tour and the raucous crowds they...
Passion Dating: Latino Film Festival puts 'multi' in 'multicultural'
It's all about the audiences, not the auteurs, at the Chicago Latino Film Festival. "If a film is Puerto Rican, a great number of the audience is Puerto Rican," says Pepe Vargas, founder and executive director of the festival, now in its 21st year. He predicts a big turnout for "Boricua," a feature set in Humboldt Park by Chicago writer-director Marisol Torres that screened at last year's Chicago International Film...
Passion Dating: Vineland musician has an ear for success
As an avid vintage record album collector, one of my prized possessions is a personally autographed copy of "That Midnight Mood," recorded by the late Dr. John C. Bruno of Vineland in 1962. Although a school psychologist by profession, Bruno was an established musician whose accomplishments spanned decades.It was a lifelong passion dating to his 1940s childhood on the 800 block of Almond Street."Vineland really was a hot spot of music,"...
Passion Dating: The Guardian: Television: TV review: Hard times
Writhing, moaning, enormous silicone breasts - they were all there last night, and it wasn't even Channel 5. On BBC2, Easy Money: The Money Shot entered the world of a porn star, Violet Storm, and her manager/boyfriend, Jim, aka Phil McCavity. They first met in Jim's mobile home which tours Britain seeking new participants for his hardcore films.Two opposing forces were at work in this documentary: director Saul Dibb's stated purpose was to investigate...