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5 days ago
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25 No-Cook Costco Finds For Perfect Summer Picnics
I walked into Costco this week with a single question in mind: Will this survive hours on a beach towel without turning into regret? Here's the haul that passed the test. No cooking. No meltdowns (kids or chocolate). Just pop the lid and watch it disappear. WestEnd Mediterranean Chicken Skewers Already grilled, no bones, and great cold. Slide the chicken off a skewer and straight into a croissant with a swipe of pesto if you want to level up lunch. Roasted Chicken and Swiss Rollers Pinwheel wraps pack flat, shed minimal crumbs, and work for every age bracket on the blanket. Pete's Shrimp Ceviche Cups Citrus-cured shrimp stays picnic-safe on ice. Pop the lid and add tortilla chips for an instant seaside upgrade. Smoked Ahi Tuna Poke Bowl Smoked (so it's sturdier than raw) plus chilled rice = sushi vibes that won't wilt. Stir in the sauce pouch right before you dig in. Tortellini Pasta Salad with Mozzarella Pearls Hearty, vinaigrette-dressed, and scoopable straight from the tub. NatureSweet Constellation Sweet Peppers Pre-washed, seedless crunchers. Slice in half to make mini 'boats' for chicken salad or hummus. Symphony Cherry and Sun Gold Tomatoes Juicy flavor bombs that require zero knife skills. Pair with mozzarella pearls and pesto for a lazy caprese. Yellow Nectarines All the juiciness of a peach, but the firmer skin means they won't bruise on the ride in. Let them sit on top of the cooler while you set up. An hour of seaside warmth deepens the sweetness for that 'just-picked' flavor. Grillo's Dill Pickle Chips Cold, crinkly, and perfectly briny. Snack on them solo or slap a few onto croissant sandwiches for crunch. Kirkland Organic Hummus Cups Single-serve lids mean no sandy double-dip drama. Perfect with peppers or bagel chips. Delve Basil Pesto Parmesan Dip Thick enough not to drip and acts as a spread, dressing, or emergency veggie coating when kids declare they 'don't like plain tomatoes.' Butter Croissants Soft, buttery canvases. Fill them with chicken, smear with pesto, or hand one plain to the toddler who 'isn't hungry' until everyone else eats. Want to cook recipes in step-by-step mode right from your phone? Download the free Tasty app right now. Sonoma Pepperoni Pizza Crisps Crunchy 'pizza chips' with real pepperoni flecks and — surprise — about 13 grams of protein per serving. They tackle salty cravings and sneak a little staying power into the snack spread. Schwartz Brothers Everything Bagel Chips Sturdy, flavorful scoops for hummus or cheese that won't dissolve with cooler moisture. BelGioioso Mozzarella Snacking Cheese Individually wrapped pearls mean an easy protein hit and a perfect partner to tomatoes. Tillamook Cracker Cuts Trio Pre-sliced cheddar and jack cheeses, perfect for building quick cheese stacks or slipping between bagel chips for a mini sandwich. Spirella Minis (Salami-Wrapped Cheese) Charcuterie sticks you can eat one-handed while the other corrals the beach umbrella. Tropical Fields Unsweetened Dried Mango Chewy, bright, and sun-proof. Pairs surprisingly well with sharp cheddar for a sweet-savory bite. Bobo's Stuffed Oat Bites (Apple Pie and Strawberry) Soft oat shell around fruity centers that feel like a portable pie but never melt. Posh Pantry Mini Fudge Brownies Dense enough to survive cooler rummaging, fudgy enough to feel like you baked them. Poppi 'Endless Summer' Prebiotic Sodas Fruity fizz with less sugar than typical pop. Fun for kids and a little gut-friendly for parents. Essenza Sparkling Water Crisp bubbles with a hint of fruit — hydration that still feels special. Saint James Iced Tea Peach, lemon, and half-and-half in slim cans that chill fast and pair with literally anything in the cooler. Vita Coco Coconut Water Cartons Resealable electrolytes. Freeze a couple of them the night before; they double as ice packs and taste like slushy heaven at 3 p.m. Igloo 80-Quart Iceless Electric Cooler Yes, it's a splurge. A standard cooler works fine, but if picnics are your personality, this plugs into the car and shows up beachside with everything still fridge-cold. (Regular cooler folks: Layer those frozen coconut waters under the seafood and slide a travel sleeve of wipes into the side pocket — future you will applaud.) That's my beach roster! Zero stove, minimal crumbs, and maximum happy campers. Did I miss a sleeper Costco gem that lives in your cooler all summer? Share it in the comments! Looking to level up your beach picnics this summer? Download the Tasty app to browse and save thousands of summer-y recipes — no subscription required.
Scotsman
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Bay City Rollers musical announces cast ahead of theatre run
The Bay City Rollers musical 'Rollers Forever' will take the stage at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre, celebrating fans' enduring love for the band. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Rollers Forever focuses the story of two lifelong Bay City Rollers fans who reconnect on a Saturday night and relive their teenage obsession with the Rollers. It opens at Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre from on August 19 and runs until August 30. It stars Chiara Sparkes and Dani Heron as friends Susan and Jenny, and Chiara said that there is excitement in the air ahead of the show commencing its run. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad She said: 'It's exciting to have a show that people are so excited about coming to see. And it's sold so well already, that's quite rare. Going into a show already knowing there are so many fans and people that want it to be good, I think that's exciting.' Dani added: 'My mum absolutely loves them, and my aunties too. You don't realise how many songs they have. You know Shang-a-lang but then you look into it and you go 'I know that song, and that song.' 'I said to my mum and before I had accepted it she had bought tickets!' Alongside Chiara and Dani, Liam Harkins plays Susan's brother Alec, bringing his compelling stage presence following his performance as Celtic legend Tommy Burns. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Rollermania will take over the Pavilion this August | Wattie Cheung Chiara and Dani play best friends connected by their love of the Rollers as it took over the world, something that writer Danny McCahon was keen to bring into focus on the stage. He explained: Well, there's only been two manias really in Britain, Beatlemania and Rollermania. I remember the 70s, not as if it was 50 years ago, but as if it was maybe a decade ago. And I remembered so many people in my life being massive Bay City Roller fans. In fact, my wife is a massive Bay City Rollers fan. 'One of the things she brought into our marriage was three Bay City Rollers albums. So I knew about them, but when I started examining what made a Rollers fan so close to the band, I started realising we were all the same. No matter what band you were into in the 70s, the band that you followed is how you found your people.' Danny said the play will shine a spotlight on those relationships formed through bands. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He continued: 'Whatever band you're associating yourself with is how you find your people. And this play has turned out to be a sort of spotlight on how that friendship is enduring. Friendship and love can endure when it's kicked off with a shared interest like that.' John McLaughlin had been a lifelong Rollers fan, before becoming a member of the band when they reunited in 2015. Now he is a producer of Rollers Forever. He explained: 'It's incredible. I've seen it first hand. I've been a Bay City Rollers fan since I was a wee boy aged seven or eight. They were the first real band I had seen on the telly, and I saw the colour, the screaming girls on Top of the Pops, and then I saw an interview with them. They talked like me. 'So it really made a huge impression on me. I thought, 'Oh, this looks amazing. And they talk like me. This is amazing'. And then years later, full circle, I was lucky enough to put the reunion together with Les, Alan and Woody, and we took it all the way to the Hydro.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad And still flying the flag for the Rollers is Stuart 'Woody' Wood. The sole remaining member of the band from their 1970s heyday said that the musical is a chance for the Rollers fans to shine. He said: 'Back in 2015 and there were all these plans to do all this stuff, a movie and musical and reunion and it was great. The shows were sell outs. It was brilliant fun. John always wanted to do this musical, and we all stayed pals through the whole thing. We've written songs together, the title for the musical Rollers Forever is a song that we've written for it.' Bay City Rollers fans were known for their passion 'It's about the fans. It's not the story of the Bay City Rollers. It's just Bay City Rollers Music and the fans are telling their story.' The legacy of the Rollers has endured for more than five decades, Woody said that he feels lucky that their songs have stood the test of time. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He said: 'Those songs are still getting played someplace, whether it's their parents or their grandparents, the older radio stations, we had that top 20 last year, and just certain songs that just seem to stand the test of time. And we are lucky enough that a bunch of our songs are still doing that.' Tickets range from £25 - £39.50 and are available now here.
The Herald Scotland
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Being a Bay City Roller gave me PTSD, says Stuart 'Woody' Wood
Anyone who grew up in the 1970s will remember the Bay City Rollers, the biggest boy band of the era, Edinburgh tartan teen sensations in trademark cropped trousers and platforms, screaming girls fainting at their feet. Now Stuart 'Woody' Wood, of the classic line-up of the Seventies, recalls the band's whirlwind rise to fame when he joined aged 17, the 'Rollermania' hysteria, fall-outs, reunions and bitter court cases, in his memoir Mania. Wood, 68, won't chart the well-documented abuse he and others suffered at the hands of their powerful and dominating manager, Tam Paton, a sexual predator and bully, who died in 2009. He says in the foreword, "all the disgusting things said about him are accurate", but he wants to draw a line under it. "I moved on a long time ago and don't want that beast to be any part of things concerning my life. I don't need therapy; I have coped in my own way and have no need to spill my emotion," he writes. The current Bay City Rollers line-up (Image: free) Today, he's still gigging in a different Rollers line-up, as the only original from the classic Seventies band, and seemingly remains a glass half-full type of person, despite setbacks including the missing millions, court battles, reunions and an arduous rift with lead singer Les McKeown, who died in 2021 after years of drug and alcohol abuse. "It's like you come away from school and many years later you only remember the good things," he says of those heydays which began in 1974, when the classic line-up included McKeown, Wood, guitarist Eric Faulkner, bassist Alan Longmuir and his brother Derek on drums. "It was like falling into a whirlpool for about four or five years, getting spun around and thrown out the other end. I remember quite vividly it was just madness - good memories, lots of energy. I just think of the audiences we used to play to, lots of smiley, happy faces, crying faces, mascara running." Yet the reality was that they were mobbed wherever they went, holed up in hotel rooms, often thrown into the boot of cars to escape the hoards of screaming girls, unable to really enjoy their newfound success because of the hysteria that surrounded them. That, coupled with a gruelling tour schedule instigated by Paton at home and abroad - they found fame worldwide - meant something would have to give. The classic line-up of the Bay City Rollers in the 1970s (Image: free) He recalls several times when the crowd behaviour was terrifying. "We were in a limo in Toronto, driving to do a radio interview, and they (the fans) were surrounding us and they were on the roof and the roof was caving in. We physically had to duck down for fear of getting squashed. And there were faces up against the window and lipstick smudges, the hysteria. "I was 17 or 18 at that point. At that age you're not so much scared as the adrenaline is in full flow. I'd be terrified if that were to happen now." The bodyguards had to pull the band, one by one, out of the side window and they ended up crowd-surfing on top of the security guys through to the hotel lobby, he recalls. They became prisoners in hotel rooms. They travelled the world, but there was no sightseeing. "I remember being in New York for the first time, looking out of the skyscraper, desperate to go out. We wanted to go to Central Park and order a hot dog, but that just wasn't going to happen." In an environment where drugs were readily available, Wood says: "I didn't do any of the bad stuff. I tried a couple of lines of coke and thought, no, this isn't for me. Smoking marijuana was about as bad as it got for me." Read more "The music kept me going," he continues. "The whole reason I got into doing this was that it was fun with my pals at school and it was great fun to get in a van and travel to venues and play my guitar and people are reacting to what you are doing." In the book he recalls that someone thought that Rollermania would have given him PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). "It probably did but you don't know these things until you're away from them," he says now. "It's like if you put your finger in cold water, then somebody pours in hot water and you don't realise how hot it's getting." By the time McKeown announced he was leaving the band in 1978 - "the rat departing the sinking ship", Wood describes it in the book - those mania days had peaked. He and McKeown always had a volatile relationship. "Everybody clashed with Les, he was just that type of character," he says now, although in the book he doesn't hold back on the vitriol of their acrimonious relationship, painting McKeown as an egocentric control freak. "He was a brilliant frontman, but behind the scenes, the band, especially myself, just never got on with the guy from day one. Stuart 'Woody' Wood (Image: free) "We tried reunions a few times but it always just went sour. The 2015 reunion was just a nightmare. He never really wanted the reunion. He thought he was the Bay City Rollers. It was all about him." Although another band member, Duncan Faure, was recruited after McKeown left, those mania days never returned. "We just wanted to keep playing. The Rollers never disbanded, it was just Duncan and myself went off to LA (where he remained for three years) and formed a three-piece." He later went to South Africa for seven years making music with a multicultural band, where he wasn't particularly famous. "Suddenly there was a breathing space, a quietness, away from the whole Roller thing entirely. You could walk about the place and not worry about people screaming your name or chasing after you. I had a freedom to do just what I wanted." "The fame has never interested me. If anything it was a burden," he continues. "You can have all the fame in the world and be absolutely skint, which we kind of were when I was living in LA and South Africa, where doing gigs was my worth. It didn't bother me because it was a great band and we were having great fun." He returned to Edinburgh and now lives in the countryside outside the city with his wife Denise and dog Elvis and tours with the Bay City Rollers, although it's a very different line-up these days. He doesn't think the hysteria of the 1970s would be revisited in today's pop world, because of social media and the access fans can get without physically following their music icons. Mania by Stuart Wood (Image: free) "Back then, you had a couple of magazines like Jackie and one music show on the telly once a week. There was no Facebook or TikTok so it made it harder to connect with your idols. "In the Seventies there were The Osmonds, David Cassidy and ourselves who had that screaming thing, as did The Beatles in the 1960s and Elvis. But I think that climaxed in the Seventies. "Now, fans can see them (their idols) every day. They can click on Google and it's right there." What advice would he give to wannabe boy bands who are just starting out? "Do it for the right reasons. If you really want to be in a band, make sure you enjoy playing music, writing music or being involved in that whole lifestyle." Mania: Tartan, Turmoil And My Life As A Bay City Roller by Stuart 'Woody' Wood with Peter Stoneman is published by Blink, priced £22. Available now.
Metro
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Bay City Rollers icon reveals he suffered 'horrific' abuse at hands of predator
Stuart 'Woody' Wood, guitarist for the Bay City Rollers, has revealed he suffered 'horrific' abuse at the hands of 'true monster' manager Tam Paton. The Bay City Rollers formed in the late 60s and went on to have huge hits across the 70s with Bye Bye Baby and Give A Little Love. They were branded as the boys next door, with a clean-cut image that vastly contrasted the behind-the-scenes truth of the abuse they suffered at the hands of Paton. Wood, 68, has shared his experiences for the first time in an autobiography, Mania, having kept his pain a secret for five decades. 'I met Tam when I was 16 years old,' the guitarist wrote. 'He was intimidating and a bully, and all the disgusting things said about him are accurate. 'He was a predator. He abused me as he did others.' Paton was jailed in 1982 for three years after pleading guilty to the sexual abuse of 10 teenage boys. He was arrested in 2003 on child sexual abuse charges as well as being accused of trying to rape former Rollers guitarist Pat McGlynn but the police released him on insufficient evidence. Les McKeown, the late singer for the band, also claimed that Paton had raped him and had given him drugs to cope with touring and pressures. In an excerpt from his book, Wood continued: 'It was a horrific and harrowing time. The drugs he plied us with were part of that control.' The only original member, who appears on all Bay City Rollers albums, said he tried to 'let some things go' for his own peace. He wrote: 'My take is that to have a healthy mind, you have to let some things go, as much as it might pain you to do so. 'So, when Tam's squalid little life came to an end in 2009, I stopped thinking about him.' Paton died at his home in Edinburgh on April 8, 2009, at age 70 from a suspected heart attack, weighing over 25 stone (160 kg) at the time. 'He was a terrible human being, but the way I see it, he doesn't get to define me,' added Wood, defiantly. 'Tam f******g Paton doesn't get to win.' Speaking to The Sun, Wood shared: 'We never discussed it – any of us – it just happened. We were all survivors, but with Les it felt like it hit him harder.' McKeown died age 65 on April 20, 2021, from cardiac arrest, which doctors said had been caused in part by his alcohol and drug abuse over the years. In the 2023 documentary Secrets Of The Bay City Rollers, his wife Peko revealed that he used to scream in his sleep, while his son Jubei said his dad 'never found peace'. Wood acknowledged that his feelings were complex towards Paton, having invited the former manager to his 1997 wedding and calling him a 'lovable rogue' on occasion. He explained: 'It's not like I locked all those experiences away, stuffed down the bad memories, pretending they didn't happen. 'I just choose to not let them shape my life.' The allegations extended beyond the Rollers, with Paton accused of abusing boys in children's homes, which the documentary addressed. An anonymous victim said he was 13 when he was plied with drink and drugs at a star-studded party at Paton's house. He said he was raped by three men, including the manager, then blackmailed with photographs of the abuse into bringing in more victims. More Trending The man admitted it was the 'guiltiest' he's ever felt, having taken 20 boys to Paton's house but never reporting it to the police because they would 'never listen'. Others have come forward over the years, claiming abuse, including singer Nobby Clarke who said Paton told him to sleep with Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning for better promotion. Denning was later arrested over various sexual abuse crimes, including of children, and died in jail while serving two 13-year sentences. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Steven Spielberg admits he was 'disappointed' by snubbing for his biggest film MORE: Raye praises 'amazing' Lola Young after technical glitch left her in tears MORE: Monty Python star, 82, reveals he went to hospital 'twice in three days'
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Yahoo
Steelton-Highspire's pre-prom event moved after police said they would shut it down
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A Steelton pre-prom event, where students in their vehicles lineup along a road in Steelton Borough and pose for photos, is being shut down by police. Because police said they were going to shut down the Lincoln Street Prom Lineup, the event was moved to Steelton-Highspire High School, according to a Facebook post. 'We are asking all of the community to come out and support our Rollers heading to prom,' Steelton-Highspire Lincoln Street LineUp's Facebook page posted. 'They deserve the best and we are sure going to try. Sorry for the last minute pivot! I don't want anyone to risk being ticketed or towed.' The event is reportedly scheduled for 5 p.m., ahead of the high school's prom Friday night. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Police said that the borough council did not approve the event, and that any vehicle blocking the road will be ticketed. 'Vehicles blocking the street will be ticketed and towed at the owner's expense,' Steelton Police say on Friday afternoon. 'The Borough and Police Department strongly recommend not attending this unsanctioned event.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
