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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Roadrunner adds over 100 lanes, establishes Kansas City hub
Less-than-truckload carrier Roadrunner announced Thursday it has added more than 100 lanes and established Kansas City as a major hub in its network. All major geographical regions of the U.S. saw lane additions, with the industrial-oriented Midwest experiencing the most significant expansion. Roadrunner said most key markets in the Midwest now have direct service into its new Kansas City hub. Roadrunner (OTC: RRTS) also improved network connectivity between locations in the Northeastern, Southern and Western U.S. to the interior of the country. 'The addition of new lanes into our Smart Network speaks volumes about the level of service we're delivering,' said Tomasz Jamroz, president and chief operating officer, in a news release. 'This expansion moves us closer to our goal of becoming the preeminent long-haul LTL carrier in the country.' Jamroz said the company recently logged a fourth straight month of record gains in its service metrics. Roadrunner also expanded its guaranteed service offering, adding more than 21,000 miles of coverage in the U.S. and Canada. New guaranteed lanes include: Houston-to-Atlanta, Philadelphia-to-Dallas, Seattle-to-Dallas, San Francisco-to-Chicago, as well as certain originations from Commerce, California and Milwaukee. The carrier now has more than 60 guaranteed lanes. 'Our commitment to a direct-run Smart Network gives shippers more control and reliability —especially as others in the market contract,' said Shari Leon, vice president of linehaul operations at Roadrunner. Leon said the expanded service is improving transit times and reducing shipment handoffs, which minimizes damages. 'This scale-up into high-demand cities showcases the power of our over-the-road model and precision linehaul planning,' Leon said. The company added 278 lanes to its direct metro-to-metro, long-haul network in March. Roadrunner provides a national LTL service footprint through a network of more than 40 terminals and over 1,000 independent drivers. The post Roadrunner adds over 100 lanes, establishes Kansas City hub appeared first on FreightWaves.
Miami Herald
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Kaitlin Butts fakes wardrobe malfunction to help with best friend's proposal
It turns out some wardrobe malfunctions come with a romantic ending. On July 20, country music singer Kaitlin Butts shared a video on TikTok of her inviting her longtime best friend and tour manager, Sophia Wells, onto the stage to help her fix a wardrobe malfunction. But the wardrobe malfunction was staged — and what happened next was worth the deception. As Wells was tying the back of Butts' corset, the singer reminisced on their close friendship. 'I'm kind of glad this is happening,' Butts said into the mic. 'We actually met here in Oklahoma City about 13 years ago. This is my college roommate from Oklahoma City, we went to college here.' The video was taken during her July 12 show at The Zoo Amphitheatre in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, per Concert Archives. 'Two years ago today, or this month I guess, this beautiful woman,' she said of Wells, who attempted to walk away before Butts brought her back on stage. 'This is a special moment for me,' she added. Butts went on to recall how Wells sent her a direct message two years ago telling her that her guitar player was 'really cute.' Wells then asked if Butts needed a background singer — which led to her becoming Butts' tour manager. 'I'm just honored to have her,' Butts continued into the mic. 'And I think she should turn around right now, too.' When Wells turned around, her now-fiancé, Adam Duran, was down on one knee with a ring in his hand. 'And that's the story of how my college roommate became my tour manager,' Butts wrote in a text overlay. 'And how my tour manager and my guitar player found love.' 'And it all started with a DM,' she added. Fans took to the comment section to share their excitement. 'And once again, I'm crying for strangers on the internet,' one fan wrote. 'The opposite of Coldplay Jumbotron vibes. Congrats to the happy couple!' another fan commented. 'She's so good at her job that now she's gonna be saving you on one less room during tours! congrats to the happy couple!!' a third fan joked. But while Wells and Duran were busy securing their love, Butts decided to keep her own love (and old love) just as close. On July 14, Butts took to Instagram to reveal that one of her ex-boyfriends was in the band that opened for her and another one of her exes was the program director for the venue she performed at. According to The Oklahoman, Butts is married to Cleto Cordero, the lead singer and guitarist of Flatland Cavalry — the band that she performed with on July 12. 'All my exes live in Oklahoma lol (no bad blood tho with these ones, thank gawd),' she wrote in the caption. Butts is a Tulsa native now based in Nashville, per the Grand Ole Opry. Her latest album 'Roadrunner' was released in June 2024. Butts will be performing shows across the country through Jan. 30 with her next show scheduled for Aug. 2 at the Surly Brewing Co. in Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to her website.
Boston Globe
22-07-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Trillium's got new canned cocktails, including a rum punch and margarita
'When we started our spirits program in earnest five years ago, we envisioned offering a full complement of bar essentials,' says JC Tetreault, Trillium cofounder, who mentions rum, vodka, and whiskey, including bourbon and single malt, as examples. 'This breadth of product enables us to offer handcrafted cocktails for our guests, as well as fuel the development of these new canned beverages.' Get Winter Soup Club A six-week series featuring soup recipes and cozy vibes, plus side dishes and toppings, to get us all through the winter. Enter Email Sign Up Available now at Trillium locations are a canned rum punch and margarita, both utilizing Trillium spirits. Lemonade and pink lemonade also dropped last week. Advertisement 'In a growing market segment full of choice, we've stuck to our roots and crafted an array of top-shelf beverages that Trillium fans and discerning consumers will appreciate,' says Mike Dyer, Trillium's VP of sales and marketing. The plan is for Trillium to begin offering the new canned products at select retail establishments, including bars and restaurants. And of course, if you want a juicy Fort Point Pale Ale, Trillium still makes that, too. Roadrunner's collaboration beer Advertisement If you're heading to a show at Roadrunner later this summer, there's a new beer there to match the venue. Bent Water Brewing has teamed up with the Brighton music venue on a beer called Backstage Pils, exclusively available at Roadrunner shows. Upcoming shows where the beer will be featured include Megan Moroney (Aug. 2), Mac DeMarco (Sept. 9), and Alex G (Sept. 11). A portion of sales will go toward ZUMIX, a Boston music nonprofit. Honey Dew and Vitamin Sea combined on a doughnut inspired by Vitamin Sea's Pool Water seltzer. HANDOUT Honey Dew's Pool Water Doughnut In doughnut news, Honey Dew and Massachusetts brewery Vitamin Sea are combining on a doughnut inspired by Vitamin Sea's Pool Water seltzer. The doughnut is vanilla-blue frosted with a lemon cake base, and is as vibrant a blue as the namesake seltzer. Gary Dzen can be reached at
Scottish Sun
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Telly icon Glen Michael gets last laugh with Looney Tunes moment at touching funeral
THAT'S ALL FOLKS Telly icon Glen Michael gets last laugh with Looney Tunes moment at touching funeral SHOWBIZ legend Glen Michael was given a final farewell by a crowd of well-wishers as he was laid to rest today - bowing out with The Looney Tunes catchphrase: 'That's all folks'. The telly favourite, who presented Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade on STV for 26 years, passed away at his Ayrshire cottage last week following a short illness. He was 99. Advertisement 7 Glen Michael was laid to rest at Masonhill Crematorium in Ayr today 7 His family paid tribute to the telly icon 7 Glen fronted his iconic show for 26 years 7 The star was 99 when he passed away But Glen was given a send off with the Cavalcade theme tune as his final committal music, before Porky Pig had mourners laughing with the iconic phrase. Earlier in the service Glen's son Chris Buckland, 66, caused more hilarity when he recalled one of the birthday cards a viewer had sent in of Wile E. Coyote with both hands around the Roadrunner's neck with the speech bubble: 'Try and 'beep beep' now, you bastard.' While his daughter Yonnie, 74, recalled a time that her famous dad tried to tart up the family car with a coat of varnish. She said: 'A few hours later, he took mum and I out for a run along the esplanade in his lovely, shiny car, only to realise that when they got out, it resembled a huge flycatcher.' Advertisement Born Cecil Edward Buckland on May 16, 1926 in Paignton, Devon, he came to Scotland in 1952 to try his hand as a stand-up comedian, and stayed here for the rest of his life. In 1966 he launched Cartoon Cavalcade on STV, featuring favourites including Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry which ran until 1992. It became essential Sunday tea time viewing for generations of Scots with Glen accompanied by his companions including Paladin the talking lamp, Totty the Robot and dachshunds Rudi and Rusti. But son Chris revealed that after his father left STV he had taken Cartoon Cavalcade on the road, performing live shows at schools across Scotland - but disaster struck when one night thieves broke into his van. Advertisement He said: 'Instead of finding power tools they had scattered across the garden balloon animals, 300 woof club badges, 157 photos of dad, Paladin the lamp, Totty the robot and a large cardboard cut-out of Spider-Man shouting, 'it's spidey time.'' One Glen's proudest achievement was winning a BAFTA award for the Best Children's Programme in 1975. Glen Michael speaks to the Scottish Sun ahead of 99th birthday While his dancer wife Beryl died 10 years ago. He is survived by his two children, three grandsons and two great granddaughters. 7 Touching badge worn by funeral directors at the service Advertisement 7 Music was hand-picked for the day
The Herald Scotland
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Why I'll never forget Cartoonland's Glen Michael
The first two are obvious but the power of Michael was immense. Here was a man with a foreign voice (Devon English) with the ability to transport a 10-year-old to a place he had never even imagined existed. To Cartoonland. This was a world of cheeky, friendly ghosts, wily coyotes and a cute mouse who made his feline housemate's life an unrelenting misery. Glen Michael introduced us to a sailor man with a cute South Pacific hat and much less cute tattoos, and a love for tinned spinach. And through the presenter the youngsters of Scotland were given direct access to traditional Americana via a very loud rooster, a canine sheriff's stolid but stupid deputy and a couple of bears that lived to steal from the picnic baskets of gullible and undeserving humans. And of course, we didn't catch on straight away that the greatest cartoon of all, Top Cat, was a cartoon copy of Phil Silvers' Bilko. But Glen Michael certainly did. Read More: And we loved Glen Michael almost as much as we did the cartoons he showed us when we came home from school. To be honest, aged 10 in 1966 when the presenter's stint began, I was a little too sophisticated to be captivated by Paladin the talking lamp with the dark voice that hinted at something of a pernicious soul. But thanks to the great selection of material – who couldn't laugh at the sheer malevolence of the Roadrunner – the children of the time were happy to go along with Michael's broadening of the programme, to turn it into a mini-variety show with a sense of theatre in which he revealed performing dogs (Rusty and Rudi), used bluescreen to enable him to walk into cartoons and join the action and invited star guests. Glen Michael (Image: Andy Buchanan) It was many years on interviewing Glen Michael that it became obvious how – and why – he had turned a cartoon screening show into variety television. He was variety. Born Cecil Buckland in Devon, his father was a high society butler who once worked at the real-life Downton Abbey. Michael learned by osmosis the power and the need to maintain a fixed smile. Yet, his parents were also part-time performers. "My father was a good singer,' he recalled. 'My mother was a cabaret singer. In those days they would go around doing dinners.' There is no doubt Glen Michael was compelled to become an entertainer. He recalls walking five miles down a country lane at the age of 12 to see a show. "I sat in the audience and was stage struck. From then on, there was nothing else I wanted to do but go on stage. I would come back from school and go up to the bedroom in front of a long mirror and would act things I'd seen in the pictures - Humphrey Bogart and such.' On leaving school, with just £4 in his pocket, the teenager took off for London to pursue a career as a performer. He heard about ENSA, the Forces entertainment service and after a stint driving trucks, he landed a 'spot', in which he performed solo for the first time. (It was also where he met future wife Beryl, a singer and actor. The couple married in 1946, when Michael was 19 and Beryl 23.) His acting career developed, landing a role in a part in the 1950 classic Ealing film, The Blue Lamp, starring Jack Warner and Dirk Bogarde. I didn't know at the time but the director Basil Dearden reckoned Michael could be the next Ian Carmichael. Glen Michael at STV (Image: Scottish television) However, Glen Michael took a bold chance and changed his name and headed north, "On November 15, 1952, I turned up at the Victoria Theatre in Paisley to start rehearsals with Jack Milroy and I didn't know what the hell I'd come to. I didn't know anything about Glasgow or Scotland - and I never went back [to England]. I loved it, I loved the people." I never did see Glen Michael in theatre, but I did see him in television in the early sixties when he appeared as a straight man in the Francie and Josie Show. And he proved to be a perfect foil. (The fact he became friends with the immensely difficult Fulton suggests Michael featured as much grace as he had tolerance). And he proved to be quite perfect as the presenter in Cavalcade. The viewers certainly thought so, at one time receiving over 2,000 letters and postcards a week and he achieved a staggering 98% of Scotland's television audience. Glen Michael loved the adulation. He was showbiz. But when it all stopped, the demand for the personal appearances, the panto runs (surprisingly often cast as the baddie) the broadcasting stints dried up, the man whose cartoons made us laugh 'till we were sore wasn't laughing at all. He didn't enjoy retirement at all. 'Not really. Because I was forced to stop." In later years he enjoyed daytime detective programmes. And football. He didn't much rate children's television today – perhaps a little too fruity, given he sometimes censored the action in the cartoons he fronted. And there was an aura of sadness about the man who felt he could – and should – have performed forever.
