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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pamlico County student produces high school play for second straight year
NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) — Pamlico County High School presents the production of 'Remember the Legacy,' a sequel play written and directed by PCHS senior, Daunte Pugh. Last year Pugh wrote the original piece 'Remember the Name' with inspiration from the 'Lone Ranger' television series. This year's play continues the theme with a message about a character's redemption and the ability to rise above past mistakes. 'It brings what was shown back in the past with that show and revived it into present day,' Pugh said. Pugh said he began writing the sequel immediately after finishing the first production. Over two months of coming up with the story led to the sequel being approved. Multiple students and teachers helped to bring the story to life by working with things like props, lighting, sound, and even adding in their own ideas to different characters. When asked about his favorite part of the production process, Pugh said opening night makes it all worth it. 'Honestly, it's everyone's reaction to the whole story, because with this story, there are many ups and downs and shocking twists and turns,' Pugh said. 'When it comes to having all those special things in there and hearing the audience reaction whether it's a gasp or a final 'there you go, the person finally got what they deserve' I love every bit of that,' Pugh said. 'Remember the Legacy' by Daunte Pugh will start at 7 p.m. and run from May 22 to May 23 at the AH Hatsell Auditorium next to Pamlico County High School. After graduating, Pugh plans to pursue his passion of storytelling and filmmaking at a university that offers those programs. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Axios
29-04-2025
- Axios
'Burb Bites: Salty Cowboy Tequileria
This week's bite garners praise for its balanced seasoning approach despite what the eatery's name suggests. Plus: It's an early Cinco de Mayo recommendation for anyone in Boone County come May 5. The bite: The Lone Ranger quesadilla ($19) and Stagecoach burrito ($19) from Salty Cowboy Tequileria. The Lone Ranger is a quesadilla filled with steak, cheese and jalapenos served alongside Texas caviar and a trio of dipping options. The Stagecoach is stuffed with steak, rice, lettuce, queso salsa and guacamole. The 'burb: Zionsville. My take: Restraint isn't usually the word that comes to mind when eating quesadillas and burritos, but it was notable during my trip to the Salty Cowboy. Nothing was "too much," which allowed all of the flavors present to shine. The salsa served with the Lone Ranger was the MVP, with perfect consistency and a smokey flavor that delivered kick without tang. The vibe: Rustic, quirky and charming. It's Tex-Mex with pops of color that scream "beachside taco shack" in the best way. But it's better for rustling up some quick grub than lounging around. We saddled up to bar seating in the form of barrels turned into tables. The patio was also a popular spot for al fresco diners popping in for bite while browsing Zionsville's collection of nearby shops and galleries. If you go: 55 E. Oak St. 4pm-9pm Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, 4pm-10pm Friday and Saturday.
New York Times
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Move Over Lone Ranger, Hopalong,Wyatt and Pals — History is Coming Your Way
Children in 1950s America grew up with a distinct image of the Old West through television heroes like the Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp and Hopalong Cassidy. They all had one thing in common, apart from always prevailing over the bad guys: They were white. Native-American actors had parts but rarely, if ever, did any of these shows include a Black actor as hero, villain or anything in between. That produced what historians have long recognized as a white-centric version of America's westward expansion, especially from Hollywood. The author C.T. Kirk and other historians posit that at least one in four cowboys was Black, many of them former slaves escaping the lingering cruelties of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow years. 'It was the narrative of television to push toward the all-American family as white,' said Kirk, author of the 2020 book, 'How the West Was White-Washed.' 'The idea was to take the importance off of one demographic to focus on another. The Western theology was that it was the white man's burden to settle the West, and everybody else was barbaric.' Black actors had been part of the nation's movie industry from the early years of the 20th century. Their projects, known as 'race films,' many of them westerns, such as 'Harlem on the Prairie' in 1937, featured Black casts playing almost exclusively to Black audiences. Films from the major studios were almost exclusively white, with only the occasional African-American actor before cinema slowly began integrating over the second half of the century, featuring such prominent actors as Woody Strode and Sidney Poitier. More and more these days, museums have taken up the cause of dispelling the perception cultivated by the entertainment industry of a whites-only West. With a variety of exhibitions, they are educating visitors to a more accurate telling of Western history by showcasing the role Black people played in everyday life across territories that would later become states. For nearly a year through early April, the Witte Museum in San Antonio presented a Texas-focused exhibition on the Black cowboys who worked on ranches and cattle drives. Many of the cowboys later became ranch owners, lawmen, rodeo stars, entrepreneurs and entertainers. Major parts of that show are now moving to the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles as part of a wider exhibition that follows Black people as they moved westward from Texas cattle ranches through the latter decades of the 19th century. The Autry's 'Black Cowboys: An American Story' opens on June 14, and shows how they helped develop the West. Their presence echoes today through the participation of Black people in rodeos, ranching and acting, and through Western-based themes in the music of recording artists such as Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion and Lil Nas X. 'I think we want to remind people that the history, and really the myth of the West and of America, is much more complicated and a great deal more diverse,' said Stephen Aron, the president and chief executive of the Autry, reflecting on the misperceptions of a white-settled West. 'The reality, in fact, is far more reflective of America, then and now.' Curated by Joe Horse Capture, vice president of Native Collections, and the senior curator Carolyn Brucken, the Autry show extends the Witte exhibit well into the 21st century in California. While many Black Westerners worked on the cattle trails, others found jobs on farms or helped build the railroads. It was menial labor for many, but some became ranch owners and entrepreneurs, the forebears of current California and Los Angeles area community groups such as the Compton Cowboys and Urban Saddles, which use horseback riding to promote the contributions of Black people in Western culture. Visitors to the Autry will learn about Bill Pickett, a Texas cowboy who invented rodeo bulldogging in the 1880s and later became one of the country's early African-American performers in Black-cast movies. Allen Allensworth, born a slave in 1842, became a military chaplain after the Civil War, rising to lieutenant colonel, making him the highest-ranking Black person in the U.S. armed forces at the time. Two years after retiring in 1906, he founded a Black settlement in California's San Joaquin Valley known as Allensworth. It remains a dot on the map today, with a population of 457, according to 2024 census figures, although less than five percent were African-American. The exhibition also celebrates women who embody Black roles in cowboy traditions. Bridget 'Biddy' Mason, a midwife and entrepreneur in mid-1800s Los Angeles, became the matriarch of a family that operated a livery stable and cattle-sale business that employed nearly a dozen cowboys. DeBoraha Akin-Townson became the International Professional Rodeo Association western region champion in 1989 and a year later the first Black cowgirl to reach the association finals. Chanel Rhodes's work as a horse trainer and equestrian led her to open a business in 2021 making wigs as decorative manes for horses. As Black people became ensconced in the western expansion, they experienced the same joys and tribulations as whites, a history unknown, even, to many contemporary African Americans, said Alaina E. Roberts, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of 'I've Been Here All The While,' a study of Black people and Native-Americans in the post-Civil War era. 'African Americans don't know any more about their history than any other group,' she said. 'They're going through the same education system that is not telling them about it.' The Autry Museum was founded in 1988 by Gene Autry, the 'Singing Cowboy' whose radio, film, recording and television career beginning in the 1930s made him one of America's most recognizable entertainers. He also owned professional rodeo companies and the Los Angeles Angels baseball team. The museum opened with his personal art and memorabilia as the foundation for a permanent collection. Today, its 100,000 square feet celebrate all aspects of Western culture through artifacts, photos, drawings and paintings, including a rich focus on Native American culture and essential elements of Western life for all who lived it — horses, firearms, ceramics, jewelry, Hollywood memorabilia and clothing: One exhibit in Black Cowboys will feature costumes worn by Black cast members of the 2021 western, 'The Harder They Fall.' The timing of the Black Cowboys exhibition has an ironic twist that is not lost on museum officials. While more than two years in the planning, the opening comes as American businesses, education institutions and government agencies are eliminating programs that embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in their hiring and operational practices. There are also ongoing debates over the starting point of American history — at the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619. Only the second acknowledges the role that Africans played in America's beginnings. Exhibitions like Black Cowboys, Aron said, underscore a truer American history, that it was not only whites leading America's Manifest Destiny in the 19th century. 'If we provide some new thinking about the way in which we've remembered or misremembered our history, that would be a valuable contribution as well as a valuable takeaway,' he said. 'I think museums do best when they spark conversation, when they provoke people to think anew and push people to ask questions.'
New York Times
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Lenny Schultz, Comedian Who Made a Lot of Noise, Dies at 91
Lenny Schultz, a wild-eyed comedian who became known in the 1970s and '80s for high-energy performances that he delivered with a mouthful of sound effects and a table full of silly props, died on Sunday at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 91. His son and only immediate survivor, Mark, confirmed the death. 'I can't tell a joke,' Mr. Schultz told The Orlando Sentinel in 1972, but that didn't matter. 'The guys I like and the guys I identify with,' he added, 'are Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Guy Marks — the zanies. I like the zanies. I am a zany!' With his expressive face, his physicality and the rapid pace of his act, Mr. Schultz exuded a loony intensity. He began his comedy career in the late 1960s while keeping his day job as a high school gym teacher. Onstage, he described the start of life on Earth, punctuating his narrative with explosions and other noises; bowed a banana as if it were a violin (while taking bites out of it); played the Lone Ranger, wearing a mask and a tiny cowboy hat while riding a small toy horse on a stick and flinging Froot Loops from a box; rendered a cockfight between game fowl of different ethnicities; and admonished the baby doll in his backpack to stop crying because William Morris agents were in the audience. 'Lenny has a special place in the hearts and memories of everybody in his peer group,' David Letterman, who met Mr. Schultz when they were performing in Los Angeles, said in a phone interview. 'He is talked about more often, randomly, than any single person we spent time with at the Comedy Store in the 1970s.' Mr. Letterman, who would later present Mr. Schultz to a national audience, recalled a night when Mr. Schultz smashed his face into a cake, covered his body in fruit and disrobed. 'He said, 'If you go crazy, I will take this banana and shove it into my underpants.' The objective was to get the audience crazy enough to do it — he needed the motivation — and finally he gets them into a fever pitch. A grown man in his underpants.' The next day, Mitzi Shore, the Comedy Store's owner, met with Mr. Schultz to tell him that he could never do that routine again, Mr. Letterman said: It had created a problem with vermin. 'There's so much garbage from Lenny's act that it invited the rats in,' Mr. Letterman said. Leonard Schultz was born on Dec. 13, 1933, in the Bronx. His parents — Louis Schultz, a tailor, and Dora Schultz, who managed the home — were both from Russia. Lenny aspired to pitch in the major leagues and was scouted by the Yankees, but he lost his chance at a contract when he injured his right shoulder. After serving in the Army in Maine, Mr. Schultz earned a bachelor's degree in education from New York University in 1955. He soon began a career as a high school physical education teacher in New York City that would last for about 30 years and continue long after he became a working comedian. He enjoyed the stability of a city job with a pension as a hedge against the unpredictability of show business. He received his master's degree in education from Hunter College in 1967. Students were his first audience. 'When I was teaching, the kids in my class used to laugh so hard and say, 'You should be in show business,'' he told The Bristol Herald Courier of Tennessee in 1980. In 1969, encouraged by friends who loved his sense of humor and told him he should develop a routine, he went to an open-mic night at the Improvisation, the Midtown Manhattan nightclub later called the Improv. He did well enough to be asked back. He also worked at Catch a Rising Star, another popular comedy club in Manhattan. 'He was beloved because there was nobody like him,' said Bill Scheft, a comedian who met Mr. Schultz at Catch a Rising Star. 'But you didn't want to follow him, because the stage would look like somebody had thrown up in the middle of a grocery store.' His act preceded that of Gallagher, who would become known for splattering audiences with watermelons that he smashed with a sledgehammer. 'I'd juggle water to circus music and people put up their plastic and umbrellas,' Mr. Schultz told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1996. 'I remember Gallagher watching me do this years ago at the Comedy Store in L.A.' When Mr. Schultz opened for the iconoclastic rocker Frank Zappa at Madison Square Garden in 1976, Joe Bivona, reviewing the show for The Daily News, wrote, 'Anyone who likes to pull the wings off flies might find humor' in Mr. Schultz, adding, 'We threw in the towel when the comedian started foaming at the mouth.' Mr. Schultz was seen on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson' and numerous other talk shows. He also performed at many hotels in the Catskills. In 1976, he was a regular on two television shows: the short-lived sitcom 'Ball Four,' based on the former New York Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton's best-selling book and starring Mr. Bouton, on which he played a pitcher; and 'The Late Summer Early Fall Bert Convy Show,' on which he played the Bionic Chicken, a costumed action hero. In 1977 and 1978, Mr. Schultz appeared on a new version of 'Laugh-In.' The original show revolutionized TV comedy in the late 1960s, but the reboot, despite a cast that included a young Robin Williams, was canceled after six episodes. Mr. Schultz went into semiretirement in the 1990s but continued to perform occasionally into the early 2000s. His marriages to Francine Ornstein, who was Mark's mother, and to Helen Fleischer, who ran the sound system for Mr. Schultz during their marriage, ended in divorce. Although Mr. Letterman admired Mr. Schultz, he had him as a guest only once, in 1982, when he performed an epic, exhausting routine that lasted nearly nine minutes on an early episode of 'Late Night With David Letterman.' Mr. Letterman said that some members of his staff didn't want to have him on the show again — and prevailed. 'If I failed him, I regret it,' he said. 'If I had had him on the show more often, his career might have gone better.'
USA Today
30-01-2025
- Business
- USA Today
AZ Briefing: Troubled AI-powered charter school opening in Arizona; No survivors in DC plane crash; Best restaurants for meals under $20
Good morning, Arizona. Here's what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what's happening across the state before you start your day. An AI-powered charter school is slated to open in Arizona later this year. Its co-founder said Arizona was appealing because it has been a "very friendly state for school choice." More on its 2-hour learning model and details on the charter school being rejected in four states. Other big stories ➤ There were no survivors after a passenger plane with 64 people aboard crashed into an Army helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport and fell into the Potomac River. Among those on board the flight were a group of figure skaters returning home from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita. ➤ Tolleson high school district has approved an agreement it says will provide immediate financial relief to Isaac Elementary School District, which is in the midst of a financial crisis. ➤ A south Gilbert neighborhood has been overrun by cattle and residents are pleading with the town for help, after dealing with the problem for more than a year. ➤ President Donald Trump said he will enact comprehensive tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1. Here's what Arizonans will see at the grocery store. ➤ Arizona led the U.S. for the biggest jump in home insurance rates between 2019 and mid-2024. Will California's wildfires drive up Arizona homeowners' insurance costs more? ➤ Finally, some rain. After a 159-day dry streak, the Phoenix area saw showers Tuesday morning. See rain photos and pictures of the weather so far in 2025. ➤ Today, you can expect it to be sunny and cool with a high near 62 degrees. Expect it to be clear and chilly at night with a low near 41 degrees. Get the full forecast here. 27 best Phoenix restaurants for a great meal for under $20 The Republic recently released a list of 100 essential restaurants for 2025. These 27 essentials offer tacos, burgers and sushi for less than $20. If you like our work, please consider becoming a subscriber. Today in history Here are just some of the events on this date in the past. On this day in 1920 : Jujiro Matsuda established Toyo Cork Kogyo, a business that makes cork, in Hiroshima, Japan. A little over a decade later, the company produced its first automobile, a three-wheeled truck, and changed its name to Mazda. : Jujiro Matsuda established Toyo Cork Kogyo, a business that makes cork, in Hiroshima, Japan. A little over a decade later, the company produced its first automobile, a three-wheeled truck, and changed its name to Mazda. In 1933 : 'Hi-yo, Silver! Away!' The Lone Ranger, the fictional masked cowboy who fought outlaws in the old West, was introduced on radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, by station-owner George Trendle and writer Fran Striker. : 'Hi-yo, Silver! Away!' The Lone Ranger, the fictional masked cowboy who fought outlaws in the old West, was introduced on radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, by station-owner George Trendle and writer Fran Striker. In 1933 : German President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany, giving the Nazi a prominent role in the country's government and a platform to spread his vitriolic ideology. It marked a crucial turning point for Germany and history. : German President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany, giving the Nazi a prominent role in the country's government and a platform to spread his vitriolic ideology. It marked a crucial turning point for Germany and history. In 1945 : MV Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military transport ship carrying refugees and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine S-13 under Capt. Alexander Marinesko. Some 9,500 people died as a result, the worst loss of life in a single maritime disaster. : MV Wilhelm Gustloff, a German military transport ship carrying refugees and military personnel from East Prussia and the German-occupied Baltic states, was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine S-13 under Capt. Alexander Marinesko. Some 9,500 people died as a result, the worst loss of life in a single maritime disaster. In 1948 : Mahatma Gandhi, the political and peaceful leader of the Indian independence movement, was assassinated at age 78 in the Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti) in central New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Gandhi was shot in the chest and stomach at point-blank range. : Mahatma Gandhi, the political and peaceful leader of the Indian independence movement, was assassinated at age 78 in the Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti) in central New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. Gandhi was shot in the chest and stomach at point-blank range. In 1982 : Fifteen-year-old Richard Skrenta wrote the first widely recognized PC virus: a 400 lines long code disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner." : Fifteen-year-old Richard Skrenta wrote the first widely recognized PC virus: a 400 lines long code disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner." In 2011: California celebrated Fred Korematsu Day for the first time, becoming the first state in the nation to do so. The day commemorates the birthday of Korematsu, a Japanese-American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. — Hoang Tran, USA TODAY Network
