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San Francisco Chronicle
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area bartender who created the tequila sunrise for the Rolling Stones has died
Robert 'Bobby' Lozoff, the Marin County bartender who helped propel the tequila sunrise from barroom obscurity to international fame after serving it to Keith Richards and Mick Jagger during the Rolling Stones' 1972 U.S. tour kickoff, died April 14 in Hawaii. He was 77. His death was confirmed by writer, podcast host and bartender Jeff Burkhart, who chronicled Lozoff's career in Bay Area newspapers. The cocktail's breakout moment came during a private party at the Trident, a waterfront restaurant in Sausalito known for its celebrity clientele and counterculture ambiance. Concert promoter Bill Graham had arranged the gathering to ease the Stones' return to California following the violence at their infamous 1969 Altamont concert. Lozoff was working behind the bar when his sweet, citrusy cocktail caught the attention of rock's biggest stars. More Information Billy Rice and Bobby Lozoff's Tequila Sunrise 1½ ounces Santo blanco tequila 2 ounces fresh-squeezed orange juice ¾ ounce Sonoma Syrup Co. pomegranate grenadine syrup 1 Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino all-natural stemmed cherry 1 small orange wheel In a stemmed hurricane-style glass filled with ice, combine tequila and orange juice, and stir. Sink grenadine to bottom and garnish with orange wheel. Recipe courtesy of the Trident. 'Keith Richards walked up to the bar and asked for a margarita, and I said, 'Hey, have you ever tried this drink?' And he went, 'Alcohol? I'll try it,'' Lozoff recalled in 2016. 'So I poured him the tequila sunrise, and you could sort of see the light go on in his head. Bingo. You don't need a bartender to travel with you, just buy a bottle of Cuervo, a bottle of orange juice and grenadine.' That drink became a fixture of the Rolling Stones' 1972 tour. Richards later dubbed it the 'cocaine and tequila sunrise tour,' a moniker that stuck in music lore. The guitarist later confirmed the story in his memoir, 'Life.' As the band traveled across the country, so did the cocktail — eventually inspiring the 1973 Eagles song 'Tequila Sunrise,' a 1988 film of the same name and decades of pop culture references. It was later adopted in Jose Cuervo campaigns. Lozoff was born in 1947 in Canada. After graduating from college in Montreal, he moved to the United States, landing in Northern California at the height of the counterculture era. 'The music scene in San Francisco was big in the summer of '67, '68, '69, and Marin was the county where the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin' reigned, Lozoff told the Lahaina News in 2016. 'The minute I graduated from McGill University in Montreal, I bailed to the United States and ended up in Sausalito hanging out with hippie music circles in Marin County and got involved with the Trident opening up,' he added. Lozoff began his tenure at the restaurant at the bottom, first as a dishwasher, then a busboy. 'When I turned 21, they let me start tending bar, and I kept advancing up,' he said. The Trident, co-owned by the Kingston Trio, was itself a hot spot for rock stars and countercultural icons. 'I was definitely a Deadhead back in the '70s, so it was always thrilling to serve (the Grateful Dead) at the Trident,' Lozoff told the SF Weekly in 2016. 'David Crosby lived down the street, and he was in quite a lot. … One of the biggest names of the time was Janis Joplin. She always came in and drank anything I would pour for her. She invited me to her wild parties that she threw at her house in Corte Madera.' The Trident poured more tequila than any other establishment north of the border in the early '70s, and its innovative cocktail program, driven in part by Lozoff's experimentation, helped usher in a new era of American bartending. Lozoff moved to Hawaii in 1976, where he helped open the Blue Max nightclub and later pursued a career in technology. He taught computer classes at the West Maui Senior Center and remained active in the community until his death. In 2024, the Marin History Museum and the Trident restaurant honored Lozoff and Rice, who died in 1997, with a historical marker. Lozoff was unable to attend. A list of survivors was not immediately available.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
New activity center breaks ground to expand services for Tampa Bay children in foster care
BRANDON, Fla. (WFLA) — A residential foster care non-profit broke ground on a 12,000-square-foot activity center on Tuesday morning. A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay provides a safe, nurturing home to children in foster care in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties. More than 100 staff, board members, volunteers and donors attended the event at the nonprofit's Brandon campus. 'This is a momentous day for A Kid's Place and another step forward in providing foster children in Tampa Bay with the educational, health, therapy and family services they deserve,' said Beth Bradburn, chair of the A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay. 'The MacKinnon Family Activity Center will enable us to offer deeper, more frequent and more impactful experiences to help our kids find stability, and to heal and go on to live successful lives.' In August, A Kid's Place announced the launch of its Building a Brighter Future capital campaign to raise $8 million, which will fund construction of the new activity center, in addition to expanding other needed services. The MacKinnon Family Activity Center will help bridge the gap between what the nonprofit can currently provide in its limited existing space and the services, programs and opportunities the children at A Kid's Place need. 'This activity center will enable the organization to more effectively serve the children in its care because it will create more opportunities to connect them to the people – house parents, families, peers, teachers, coaches, tutors and doctors – and the services they need to grow, heal and achieve success,' said Brad Gregory, CEO of A Kid's Place. The activity center will include a large indoor gathering space for birthday parties, holidays and other group celebrations; more rooms for therapy, family visitation, arts/crafts and vocational education; dedicated educational computer lab; spaces for enhanced services within the 'Stepping Stones' program, which teaches kids ages 13 and up independent living skills; an outdoor basketball court; and an outdoor courtyard, exercise room and swimming pool. There are nearly 5,000 children in foster care in the Tampa Bay area. Since 2009, A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay said it has served more than 1,700 children and 753 families. The average length of stay at A Kid's Place is 578 days, and the longest length of stay for a current child living at A Kid's Place is seven years. 'We are fortunate to have so many generous supporters in the community who have already donated to Building a Brighter Future,' said Samantha Mellen, director of development at A Kid's Place. 'We encourage anyone who wants to make a real difference in the lives of kids to donate to the capital campaign.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
18-02-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
John Stones defends like a cricketer. But is it becoming a problem?
If you grow up in England playing sport, there's a good chance that your upbringing consisted of football and cricket. Indeed, in football's initial development stage, it took many cues from cricket, the dominant sport of the time. Many football clubs were originally cricket clubs: Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa, Sheffield Wednesday and even Milan. That's why there are 11 on a team. It's why football is a winter sport, to fit around the summer cricket season. There's an extensive list of players who have played top-flight football and cricket: most notably former England cricket captain Ian Botham, who made 11 Football League appearances for Scunthorpe. Advertisement The extent of professionalism means that is no longer viable, but many footballers retain an interest in cricket. Joe Hart, cut from England's World Cup 2018 squad by Gareth Southgate, didn't watch the quarter-final win over Sweden because he was playing cricket for Shrewsbury CC. Newcastle left-back Lewis Hall seemingly played a bit for Binfield CC last summer. Crystal Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson was a promising wicketkeeper before choosing football. Early in his football career, John Stones was spotted at Stockbridge CC watching some mates play cricket. And perhaps he's learned a thing or two, because Stones' defensive play owes something to the 'long barrier' technique that is essentially the first thing you're taught when learning cricket. For the uninitiated, the premise is simple: when fielding a ball rolling towards you, you turn the leg that corresponds with your throwing arm inwards, putting your knee close to your opposite foot, and form a solid block. You still attempt to stop the ball with your hands, but if that fails, your leg should come to the rescue. Simple enough. In football, it's common to see shots from the edge of the box flying through a defender's legs as they attempt to block the ball. In that case, not only has the block been unsuccessful, it often makes the goalkeeper's task trickier too. So, in recent years, Stones has been using a cricket-style long block to prevent shots from nutmegging him. Here's a classic example, from a Champions League tie against Real Madrid a few years back. Karim Benzema lines up a shot, and Stones gets into his cricket-style stance. The ball cannons off him to safety. If he'd been stood with his legs open, the ball may have whizzed between them. Here's an example from an England training session at World Cup 2022, as Jack Grealish prepared to shoot. Here, Stones' knee isn't quite to the floor, but it's probably low enough to stop the ball going underneath it. Here's an example from way back in 2016, which was actually unsuccessful, as Spain's Iago Aspas bent the ball around him into the far corner. But it shows the technique. Stones has to wait until he's sure the striker is about to shoot… … then turns his knee inwards… … and then, by the time the ball has been struck, he often has his knee on the ground. This has been a common theme of Stones' play in recent years. Here's an example from a game four years ago against West Ham… … and in the immediate aftermath of a shot from Arsenal's Bukayo Saka… … and against Southampton… … and at Euro 2024 against Slovakia. No particular analysis is required and in each of these shots, Stones successfully made blocks. There's nothing wrong with the technique in itself. But, with apologies, 'John Stones made a good block last weekend' probably doesn't merit an article. It's more noticeable when a player uses an unusual technique, and it proves unsuccessful. Advertisement And Stones' blocking technique was relevant to three of City's concessions in the 5-1 loss to Arsenal earlier this month. For the opener, when Stones' ball to Manuel Akanji resulted in a turnover in a dangerous position, Martin Odegaard had a great chance with Stefan Ortega out of the equation and only Stones able to prevent a goal. Stones did his usual long barrier, and Odegaard's shot deflected off his thigh and into the net. If he had stood up straight, perhaps he would have blocked it with his midriff. Thomas Partey's deflected goal also prompts questions about the approach. Because Stones' technique relies on coming to a complete stop and planting his feet, he sometimes doesn't get close enough to the shooter. Here's Partey lining up a long-range attempt, with Stones on the edge of the penalty box. By the time Partey's shot hits him, Stones has retreated slightly into the box, making it less effective than if he was charging forward. More problematically, Stones' stance makes a back for the shot, and sends it looping past Ortega into the far corner. Shortly afterwards, Myles Lewis-Skelly curled the ball around Stones for Arsenal's fourth goal. It's a different technique here — more of a slide, and still a sizeable gap between his legs. In isolation, there's nothing that unusual about this example, but in combination with the other two, it paints a picture of how Stones approaches these situations differently from most defenders. Overall, the technique probably works. There's a danger of Stones planting his feet too quickly, and collapsing into a lower block than other defenders, but the danger of a shot flying between defenders' legs shouldn't be underestimated. The long barrier remains a useful technique in junior cricket, although by senior level, and with the increased speed of the sports, players generally trust their ability and collect the ball on the run. Therefore, perhaps the place for the long barrier at professional level is actually in football, despite Stones showing its drawbacks recently.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marianne once told me she didn't think she'd live past the Sixties. Her magic will live forever
Marianne Faithfull has died, aged 78, and the world of music will seem quieter, and sadder, without her in it. She was an extraordinary person, whose striking looks, rich character and quixotic presence exercised a subtle, unquantifiable yet utterly magical influence on popular music in our times, a presence that touched so many other artists and music listeners. Plus she was also an absolute hoot, a delight to spend time with, an adorably complex woman who left her mark on every life she brushed against, mine included, and probably yours too. She was someone special. The first time I met Faithfull was in a rehearsal room in east London in 2009. She was sitting on a bar stool, golden hair swept back, right hand tucked into the waistband of her black leather trousers, left hand holding a lit cigarette. As her band struck up a familiar chord sequence, she sang As Tears Go By, her classic debut, penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, two young rockers both desperately enamoured of this beautiful, smart, bohemian 17-year-old wonder. The decades since had changed her voice, which was no longer that of an angelic convent schoolgirl, but deep and raspy, with a weathered sensuality that left you in no doubt that you were listening to a woman who had shed more than her fair share of tears. Afterwards, all the musicians applauded. 'It's a long way from the Sixties,' someone said. 'It really is,' said Faithfull. 'I didn't think I'd live this long.' Faithfull was an icon of the Sixties pop counterculture, the beautiful girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, who descended into a drug hell, became impoverished and homeless, before reconstituting herself with a shattered voice as a great musical interpreter. The daughter of a high-ranking Second World War British army spy and an Austro-Hungarian baroness involved in resistance activities, she grew up in Hampstead, London, a rebellious spirit who left school at 16 to sing folk songs and dabble in acting. She was talent spotted by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who notoriously described her as 'an angel with big tits'. She quickly became part of the Stones' inner circle, and once claimed to have slept with three of the band before settling on Jagger as boyfriend material. She was better read, better dressed, better educated, with more classical musical knowledge than her partner, and a strong artistic impulse that helped expand the band's cultural range. The Rolling Stones' 1969 single Sister Morphine is credited to Faithfull, Jagger and Richards, but in truth her influence was much bigger than that. To confine Faithfull to the traditional role of 'muse' might seem insulting, but she once told me: 'I was very good at it. A muse brings her style, sensibility and mind to the artist. Mick would have written great songs anyway, they were just a little bit changed by my presence, suggesting a line here and there, topics, giving him books to read, I found that fascinating.' During our last interview in 2021, she was a little more dismissive of the concept. 'For me, it was a bit of a put-down. But I don't want to complain because I've had a wonderful life. And yes, Mick broke my heart, but I learned how to make records with Mick and Keith. I wouldn't be who I am without that.' For some, Faithfull will always be the girl at the centre of a notorious 1967 drugs bust at Keith Richards's house where police found her dressed only in a fur rug. She later spoke about how the salacious publicity was much harder to take than her imperturbable presence might suggested. 'Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions,' she told me. By the time the decade ended, Faithfull had become addicted to heroin and, in 1969, spent six days in a coma after a suicide attempt during the break-up of her four-year relationship with Jagger. She descended into a narcotic nightmare, becoming impoverished and homeless before she resurfaced in 1977 with her extraordinary self-penned song of struggle and dislocation, Broken English. It was an incredible piece of work, that still crackles with intensity today. Hedonism, overdoses, smoking and a bout of severe laryngitis had wreaked a toll on her vocal chords, which she told me 'was a fantastic relief. I couldn't have done what I do with that voice. It was pretty and pure but ever so silly.' In the four decades that followed, Faithfull produced a fantastic body of work, arguably much bolder and more interesting than anything the Stones were making, 13 adventurous albums of complex songs in which she brought to bear the poles of her experience, from 'incredibly pure to incredibly wicked.' Her magnetic appeal saw an incredible array of artists beating a path to her door. Faithfull's albums featured songs and duets with Jarvis Cocker, Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright, Anthony Hegarty, Sean Lennon, Daniel Lanois, Roger Waters, Beck, Billy Corgan, PJ Harvey, Damon Albarn, Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. The last time we spoke she was sounding a bit down, suffering the effects of long Covid and emphysema, and barely able to sing any more. Sometimes, she admitted, there were times she wished it was all over. But when I expressed sympathy, she laughed her warm, wheezy laugh. 'Don't worry, darling, I am strong!' Indeed, I heard recently that she was singing again, and had recorded a new album. I hope so. I know that she had long since come to accept the contradictions within her personality. 'I am very extreme. It's one or the other: death or glory. That's it.' But how about death and glory? So long, Marianne. Your voice and your spirit will endure in the crackling grooves of your records.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Marianne Faithfull, singer and pop icon, dies at 78
NEW YORK (AP) — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones' greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78. Faithfull passed away Thursday in London, her music promotion company Republic Media said. 'It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull," a company spokesperson said in a statement. 'Marianne passed away peacefully in London today, in the company of her loving family. She will be dearly missed.' The blonde, voluptuous Faithfull was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by her mid-20s and an inspiration to peers and younger artists by her early 30s, when her raw, explicit 'Broken English' album brought her the kinds of reviews the Stones had received. Over the following decades, her admirers would include Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, although her history would always be closely tied to the Stones and to the years she dated Mick Jagger. 'I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull,' Jagger wrote on Instagram. 'She was so much a part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress.' One of the first songs written by Jagger and Keith Richards, the melancholy 'As Tears Go By,' was her breakthrough hit when released in 1964 and the start of her close and tormented relationship with the band. She and Jagger began seeing each other in 1966 and became one of the most glamorous and notorious couples of 'Swinging London," with Faithfull once declaring that if LSD 'wasn't meant to happen, it wouldn't have been invented." Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicized 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Faithfull identified in tabloids as 'Naked Girl At Stones Party," a label she would find humiliating and inescapable. 'One of the hazards of reforming your evil ways is that some people won't let go of their mind's eye of you as a wild thing,' she wrote in 'Memories, Dreams and Reflections," a 2007 memoir. Jagger and Richards often cited bluesmen and early rock 'n rollers as their prime influences, but Faithfull and her close friend Anita Pallenberg, Richards' longtime partner, also opened the band to new ways of thinking. Both were worldlier than their boyfriends at the time, and helped transform the Stones' songwriting and personas, whether as muses or as collaborators. Faithfull helped inspire such Stones songs as the mellow tribute 'She Smiled Sweetly' and the lustful 'Let's Spend the Night Together." It was Faithful who lent Jagger the Russian novel 'The Master and Margarita" that was the basis for 'Sympathy for the Devil' and who first recorded and contributed lyrics to the Stones' dire 'Sister Morphine,' notably the opening line, 'Here I lie in my hospital bed.' Faithfull's drug use helped shape such jaded takes on the London rock scene as 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' and 'Live with Me,' while her time with Jagger also coincided with one of his most vulnerable love songs, 'Wild Horses.' On her own, the London-born Faithfull specialized at first in genteel ballads, among them 'Come Stay With Me,' 'Summer Nights' and 'This Little Bird." But even in her teens, Faithfull sang in a fragile alto that suggested knowledge and burdens far beyond her years. Her voice would later crack and coarsen, and her life and work after splitting with Jagger in 1970 was one of looking back and carrying on through emotional and physical pain. She had become addicted to heroin in the late '60s, suffered a miscarriage while seven months pregnant and nearly died from an overdose of sleeping pills. (Jagger, meanwhile, had an affair with Pallenberg and had a baby with actor Marsha Hunt). By the early '70s, Faithfull was living in the streets of London and had lost custody of the son, Nicholas, she had with her estranged husband, the gallery owner John Dunbar. She would also battle anorexia and hepatitis, was treated for breast cancer, broke her hip in a fall and was hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2020. She shared everything, uncensored, in her memoirs and in her music, notably 'Broken English,' which came out in 1979 and featured her seething 'Why'd Ya Do It' and conflicted 'Guilt,' in which she chants 'I feel guilt, I feel guilt, though I know I've done no wrong.' Other albums included 'Dangerous Acquaintances,' 'Strange Weather," the live 'Blazing Away' and, most recently, 'She Walks in Beauty.' Though Faithfull was defined by the 1960s, her sensibility often reached back to the pre-rock world of German cabaret, and she covered numerous songs by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, including 'Ballad of the Soldier's Wife' and the 'sung' ballet 'The Seven Deadly Sins." Her interests extended to theater, film and television. Faithfull began acting in the 1960s, including an appearance in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Made In U.S.A.' and stage roles in 'Hamlet' and Chekhov's 'Three Sisters.' She would later appear in such films as 'The Girl on a Motorcycle,' 'Marie Antoinette' and 'The Girl from Nagasaki,' and the TV series 'Absolutely Fabulous,' in which she was cast as — and did not flinch from playing — God. Faithful was married three times, and in recent years dated her manager, Francois Ravard. Jagger was her most famous lover, but other men in her life included Richards ("so great and memorable," she would say of their one-night stand), David Bowie and the early rock star Gene Pitney. Among the rejected: Bob Dylan, who had been so taken that he was writing a song about her, until Faithfull, pregnant with her son at the time, turned him down. 'Without warning, he turned into Rumpelstiltskin,' she wrote in 'Faithfull,' published in 1994. 'He went over to the typewriter, took a sheaf of papers and began ripping them up into smaller and smaller pieces, after which he let them fall into the wastepaper basket.' Faithfull's heritage was one of intrigue, decadence and fallen empires. Her father was a British intelligence officer during World War II who helped saved her mother from the Nazis in Vienna. Faithfull's more distant ancestors included various Austro-Hungarian aristocrats and Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a 19th century Austrian whose last name and scandalous novel 'Venus in Furs' helped create the term 'masochism." Faithfull's parents separated when she was 6 and her childhood would include time in a convent and in what she would call a 'nutty' sex-obsessed commune. By her teens, she was reading Simone de Beauvoir, listening to Odetta and Joan Baez and singing in folk clubs. Through the London art scene, she met Dunbar, who introduced her to Paul McCartney and other celebrities. Dunbar also co-founded the Indica Gallery, where John Lennon would say he met Yoko Ono. 'The threads of a dozen little scenes were invisibly twining together,' she wrote in her memoir. 'All these people — gallery owners, photographers, pop stars, aristocrats and assorted talented layabouts more or less invented the scene in London, so I guess I was present at the creation.' Her future was set in March 1964, when she attended a recording party for one of London's hot young bands, the Rolling Stones. Scorning the idea that she and Jagger immediately fell for each other, she would regard the Stones as 'yobby schoolboys' and witnessed Jagger fighting with his then-girlfriend, the model Chrissie Shrimpton, so in tears that her false eyelashes were peeling off. But she was deeply impressed by one man, Stones manager Andrew 'Loog' Oldham, who looked 'powerful and dangerous and very sure of himself.' A week later, Oldham sent her a telegram, asking her to come to London's Olympic Studios. With Jagger and Richards looking on, Oldham played her a demo of a 'very primitive' song, 'A Tears Go By," which Faithfull needed just two takes to complete. 'It's an absolutely astonishing thing for a boy of 20 to have written,' Faithfull wrote in her 1994 memoir. 'A song about a woman looking back nostalgically on her life. The uncanny thing is that Mick should have written those words so long before everything happened. It's almost as is if our whole relationship was prefigured in that song.' ___ Brian Melley contributed from London. Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
