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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
RISD Collection 2025 Show
The RISD Collection 2025 show, featuring the senior thesis work of Apparel Design students, will take place on Wednesday, May 28th. The show will have two showings at the WaterFire Arts Center: one at 4 pm and another at 7 pm. Collection 2025 tickets are $25 for the 4 pm show and $35 for the 7 pm show. Tickets are available for purchase online at For more information, please email apparel@ or visit the Collection page on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Roosevelt ISD's $58.5M bond package takes large early voting lead in Lubbock County
Roosevelt ISD voters have given the district's $58.5 million bond package a large early voting lead, with nearly 71% of early votes supporting the proposal, according to unofficial results released by the Lubbock County Elections Office on election night Saturday. The bond package, aimed mostly at campus facilities, received support from 339 RISD voters, with 139 against in early voting. Saturday's election results were still being calculated. Ahead of the election, RISD Superintendent Dallas Grimes told the A-J that the bond package comes as the district is facing aging and inadequate facilities that need some upgrades or that need to be completely rebuilt. "In the last 65 years, this community has not passed a bond for a brand new academic campus," Grimes said. "Now is the time, in our opinion, to maximize the growth that has moved into the district." For some, yes. Schools have two means of support funded through taxes. A school's maintenance and operations (M&O) tax rate is set by the state and can only be used to help the district to pay salaries and daily operational expenses. The interest and sinking (I&S) tax rate is what the Texas school district can leverage for bonds to help pay for capital projects and improvements. Grimes said the proposal is asking residents to consider a 21-cent increase to the district's current I&S rate, which is set at 19 cents, according to the Texas Education Agency. For context, according to the TEA, RISD I&S tax rate has been dropping since the Fiscal Year 2020-21 rate, which was at 28.16 cents per $100 home value evaluations that fell to 21 cents in FY 21-22. However, this tax increase will not affect homeowners over the age of 65 who have filed for an "Over 65 Exemption," according to RISD. If the tax rate is approved, RISD stated that it would cost homeowners with a $150,000 home valuation approximately $8.34 per month. "If we're successful, we would build a brand new elementary campus," Grime said. With the growing size of the district, Grimes said the new facility would be able to house 600 students. He also said the need for the build stems from the average age of the district facilities being around 65 years old, with parts of the elementary being 90 years old. "It was built in 1935," Grimes said. "There's a (Works Projects Administration) plaque on there." For context, WPA was a New Deal initiative from the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential administration. Grimes said that the new elementary school would be located directly behind the existing one, and once completed, the district will demolish the existing structure. Other projects would include upgrades to the secondary campus for the district, including interior renovations and expanding the dining hall. "We're out of space in our dining hall - our freshman class eats in the practice gym on the bleachers," Grimes said. The district would also fund upgrades to its septic systems, leach fields, and sewer lines, and expand the existing awning for buses to accommodate more buses, to better protect them, ensuring the district's investment in the fleet lasts longer. Grimes said the district has to wait 90 days after the Election day, given that it's approved, before it could start issuing bonds, but it would take about three years to complete every project on the district's to-do list. "The sewer septic systems, probably what we would turn loose first on just trying to get all that stuff out of the way so that we can tie into the new buildings," Grimes said. Grimes said it's because of the Leprino Foods factory that was recently built in the district's area just east of Lubbock. "That factory is valued so highly that they would basically pick up at least 50% of all these improvements - that's just how much valuation there is in that factory," Grimes said. However, Grimes said now is the time to do so because the factory will depreciate over the years, meaning their contributions will also shrink. "To get the max contribution from these recent industrial improvements, we really need to pass this now; otherwise, by delaying it, construction costs will go up and their contribution will go down," Grimes said. "Whether it goes thumbs up or thumbs down, the needs of the district will be here," Grimes said. With the district's aging facilities, the growth of Lubbock is impacting the district and capitalizing on Leprino to foot some of the bill, Grimes said, now is the time to make the necessary changes to facilities to ensure they last for the next 50 to 60 years. To learn more about the RISD 2025 Bond, visit This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: How did Roosevelt ISD's $58.5M bond package do in May 3 election?
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Where to vote in Lubbock County on 2025 Election Day? Here's what you need to know about
Election Day is Saturday, May 3, and the ballot is stacked only with local issues that directly impact you. There is also one thing different about this election cycle: not every voter in Lubbock County has something on their ballot to vote on. According to the Lubbock County Election's office, only around 32,000 voters have something on their ballot to vote for. The Lubbock County Elections Office reported that 8,704 people checked in to polling stations around the county to cast a ballot during the early voting period that ended Tuesday. That's about 4.5 percent of the 194,000 registered voters in Lubbock County. Dig Deeper: What is on the ballot in Lubbock County? Here's what to know about the May 2025 election The longest ballot includes three items, the shortest includes only one. With polls set to open at 7 a.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2025, and close at 7 p.m. on the same day, here is what you need to know about voting in Lubbock County on Election Day. The State of Texas has seven approved forms of identification that you can bring to the polls to vote. Those include: Texas Driver's License issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS. Texas Personal Identification Card issued by DPS. Texas Handgun License issued by DPS. U.S. Military Identification Card with photo. U.S. Citizenship Certificate with photo. U.S. Passport (book or card). If you don't have any of the seven IDs and can not reasonably obtain one, you may fill out a Reasonable Impediment Declaration and bring one of the following: Copy or original of a government document that shows the voter's name and an address, including the voter's voter registration certificate. Copy of or original current utility bill. Copy of or original bank statement. Copy of or original government check. Copy of or original paycheck. Copy of or original of a certified domestic (from a U.S. state or territory) birth certificate or a document confirming birth admissible in a court of law which establishes the voter's identity (which may include a foreign birth document). You can also bring a sample ballot to the booth. Stinson advises voters to search for their sample ballot to make sure they have an item to vote on this election on There is one change in this election that is particularly affecting a specific group of individuals — those who reside in the Roosevelt ISD district. Those who can vote on the RISD school bond can only vote on it at RISD Gymnasium (Door A3)– 1301 CR 3300. Individuals who have other items to vote on can also use this polling station to cast their votes on those items, in addition to any other voting centers in Lubbock County that are open on that day. Voting in Lubbock County is voting center-based rather than precinct-based, meaning individuals can vote at any of the following places on Election Day for all other measures on their ballots: Abernathy City Hall – 811 Avenue D (Community Room), Abernathy, 79311. Anita Carmona-Harrison Elementary – 1910 Cesar E. Chavez Dr (Front Entrance), Lubbock, 79415. Bacon Heights Baptist Church – 5110 54th St (Door #3, The Family Life Center), Lubbock, 79414. Broadview Baptist Church – 1302 N Frankford Ave (Fellowship Hall), Lubbock, 79416. C. E. Maedgen Elementary School – 4401 Nashville Ave (Door G3 Gym), Lubbock, 79413 Casey Administration Building – 501 7th St (Room No. 104), Wolfforth, 79382. Celebration Christian Center – 8001 Upland Ave (Sanctuary), Lubbock, 79424. Copper Rawlings Senior Center – 213 40th St (Social Hall), Lubbock, 79404. Ed Irons Middle School – 5214 79th St (Front Entrance), Lubbock, 79424. Elks Lodge No. 1348 – 3409 Milwaukee Ave (The Lodge Hall), Lubbock, 79407. Evans Middle School – 4211 58th St (Door #17) Lubbock, 79413. Frenship Heritage Middle School – 6110 73rd St (Door #1), Lubbock, 79424. Frenship Heritage Middle School – 6110 73rd St (Door #1), Lubbock, 79424. Green Lawn Church of Christ – 5701 19th St (Entry Hall), Lubbock, 79407. Honey Elementary School – 3615 86th St (Front), Lubbock, 79423. J. A. Hodges Community Center – 4011 University Ave (Social Hall), Lubbock, 79413. Jayne Ann Miller Elementary School – 6705 Joliet Dr (Door #4, Gym), Lubbock, 79413. José S. Ramírez Elementary School – 702 Avenue T (Gym) Lubbock, 79401. Lauro Cavazos Middle School – 210 N University Ave (Door #2), Lubbock, 79415. Lubbock ISD Administration Office – 1628 19th St (Door #2), Lubbock, 79401. Mae Simmons Senior Center – 2004 Oak Ave (Senior Citizens Center), Lubbock, 79403. Maggie Trejo Supercenter – 3200 Amherst St(Rodgers Community Center Social Hall), Lubbock, 79415. Monterey High School – 3211 47th St (Cafeteria), Lubbock, 79413. New Deal Community Clubhouse – 309 S Monroe Ave (Community Room) New Deal, 79350. Parsons Elementary School – 2811 58th St (Door G2 Gym), Lubbock, 79413. Patterson Library – 1836 Parkway Dr (Community Room), Lubbock, 79403. Ransom Canyon City Hall (Council Chamber) – 24 Lee Kitchens Dr, Ransom Canyon, 79366. Roscoe Wilson Elementary School - 2807 25th St (Door 5 Cafeteria), Lubbock, 79410. Roy W. Roberts Elementary School – 7901 Avenue P (Door # 8 Gym), Lubbock, 79423. Rush Elementary School – 4702 15th St (Gym), Lubbock, 79416. Slaton Community Clubhouse – 750 W Garza St. (Community Room), Slaton, 79364. South Plains Church of Christ – 6802 Elkhart Ave (Door 1 to Family Life Center), Lubbock, 79424. Sutherlands HomeBase – 3701 50th St (Near Lighting Section), Lubbock, 79413. YWCA – 6501 University Ave (Event Room), Lubbock, 79413. For those who voted in the November 2024 Presidential Election, nothing has changed in the voting process since then. However, for new voters, here is a brief overview of how the voting process works. Check in at a polling place with your form of ID to get your machine access code and ballot slip. Go to a booth and insert your code and ballot as the machine directs. Vote. Once, done. Print your ballot from the machine and double-check that it printed correctly. If an error is found, flag down a poll worker for assistance. Once correct, head over to the insertion machine to insert your ballot to be counted and complete your voting process. For any questions or concerns, visit or call (806) 775-1339. Mateo Rosiles is the Government & Public Policy reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Got a news tip for him? Email him: mrosiles@ This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: How, where to vote early in the Lubbock County May 2025 elections
Forbes
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Artist Robert Russell Is Right Where He Wants To Be
Artist Robert Russell amongst paintings for his current exhibition, Stateless Objects, at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles 'I was always drawing, I can't remember a time when I wasn't,' the artist Robert Russell told me recently, on the occasion of his new exhibition, Stateless Objects, at Anat Ebgi Gallery on Wilshire Boulevard through May 10, 2025. Russell is an artist who thinks deeply, researches madly, obsesses endlessly, invents backstories and histories for his creations, and paints in a style he calls 'Conceptual Realism.' His work often appears hyper-realistic but contains resonances that deepen and challenge what we are seeing in ways that can be historical, philosophical and emotional. And increasingly over the last five years, and particularly since October 7th, Russell's work has a strong Jewish dimension. That is also part of his artistic and personal journey. Russell was born in Kansas City because his father who was in the military was stationed there. When he was five, however, the family moved to the San Fernando Valley, eventually settling deep in the West Valley. It was the mid-1970s and there was not a lot of culture there, other than BMX and skateboard culture. So, he painted on kid's jackets, he drew for his school newspaper. 'I painted on walls, sanctioned and unsanctioned,' Russell recalled, laughing, 'I was a bit of a hooligan.' He had a good high school art teacher, Mr. Hannah, who encouraged him. Russell had a cousin who went to Arizona State University, and given its then lax admission standards, his father recommended he go there. At ASU, he had a drawing teacher who recognized his talent and told him he should be at an art school. His girlfriend at the time was also an artist and she said, 'We should apply to RISD.' To which Russell replied, 'What's RISD?' (The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence is one of the oldest and most prestigious art schools in the US that is known for being immersive and cross-disciplinary – it was where members of Talking Heads first met). Russell got in. His girlfriend didn't and went elsewhere. Arriving at RISD Russell refers to as his 'Ali, boma ye' moment (the chant when Ali came to Africa to fight George Foreman, found his people, and regained his heavyweight championship). In the Valley and at ASU, Russell. who thought of himself as something of an outsider and a freak, had now found his tribe; and art which, to that point, he had always been made to feel was an unserious pastime, was taken very seriously at RISD. Iranian Havdalah Cup by Robert Russell At RISD, Russell was first exposed to Art History. 'I was just a sponge. I absorbed all of that information.' Russell now looks back at RISD as the place where he grew up and got serious about art. From RISD, Russell chose to return to California, to attend CalArts' graduate program which had a decidedly conceptual bent, he said, 'because I knew that's what I needed.' At CalArts he studied with Tom Lawson and Charles Gaines (for whom he was a teaching assistant during Russell's second year). 'I can't say enough wonderful things about that experience.' 'It's a really interrogative kind of environment,' Russell, explaining that everyone's work was looked at critically and where every mark on a canvas is meant to have meaning. 'You don't make your best work in grad school, and if you do, you're doing something wrong.' Russell, although from a Jewish family, had not grown up in a particularly observant background or had any deep education in and engagement with Judaism. That changed for him in 2010 when he was invited to attend ReBoot, which describes its summit as a 'gathering that convenes a diverse group of prominent Jewish change agents in an intellectually-provocative environment that inspires them to discover new ways to engage with their Judaism.' 'It was a really great experience – and I met some incredible Jews.' For Russell, it 'flipped the switch' on his identity in ways that he could mine for meaning. However, his Jewishness which grew as he raised his kids and they had their bnei mitzvahs, didn't, as Russell put it, infiltrate his practice until Covid. Installation view, Stateless Objects by Robert Russell, 2025 Russell had been making these large paintings of teacups that were realistic, and at the same time very painterly in terms of how Russell rendered the porcelain, its glazes, and how light played on its surfaces. The teacup series was born out of a certain conceptual framework as well as the many deep-dives down rabbit holes they engendered. So, for example, Russell made a rule that he would only make paintings of teacups he found on Ebay. He could not understand why someone would put a teacup on Ebay and sell it for $5 – less than the cost to ship it. In response, Russell developed a theory of what he calls, 'ritual exchanges,' in which a person has a teacup that may have come from a parent or grandparent that the person doesn't want and can't give away, so they put it on Ebay at an impossibly low cost in hope that someone else will adopt into their household. 'I decided these were ritual offerings from the world,' Russell said. 'They're fragile and they're beautiful.' They were outsized, Russell explained, because during Covid our domestic lives became outsized. 'These enormous paintings of teacups were kind of iconic of that moment for me.' While digging into the world of porcelain, Russell discovered Allach, a German company based near Munich that began producing porcelain items in 1935. The following year, the company was acquired by Nazi SS and Gestapo leader Heinrich Himmler to produce works representative of German culture. The factory was moved to a new facility near the Dachau concentration and Allach is alleged to have used slave labor from the camp (some sources dispute this). The Allach figures, of animals, rural life, historical figures, and soldiers, proved very popular among the Nazi leadership and among the civilian German population. Russell was taken with the idea of the Nazis deploying beautiful items, bordering on kitsch, while pursuing their murderous campaign against the Jews. Not unlike recent works such as the play Here There Are Blueberries, and the film Zone of Interest which portray the Nazis who played happily while the Jews burned, Russell took on the challenge of creating works that spoke to the false façade and emptiness of the Nazi enterprise. Russell came up with a paint mixture that delivered a glaze-like sheen, making the paintings otherworldly. Knowing the porcelain's history made the work haunting. The teacup series was conceptually and artistically successful, but not necessarily emotionally engaging or infused in any meaningful sense with the personal beyond its Nazi history. For Russell, one series eventually and inevitably leads to the next so while continuing to mine images from the internet, he painted porcelain works by Jewish firms the Nazis nationalized such as Rosenthal, Schumann, and Edelstein, which are featured in the current exhibition. Galician Kiddush Cup by Robert Russell Then came October 7th, after which Russell found the response from his friends in the art world and creative communities, 'downright disheartening, disappointing, infuriating.' Russell said, 'I was sad, angry, furious.' Around that same time, he came across an article in the New York Times about New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art decision to repatriate several works of art from Yemen. However, Yemen, in the grips of civil war. asked the Museum to continue to retain them for safekeeping. Russell began to wonder what became of all the Judaica from Jews expelled from Arab lands (Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Tunisia and Morrocco). 'It remains a very good question,' Russell said. But he had found the subject matter for the series now on view at Anat Ebgi, 'Stateless Objects.' To Russell, these Mizrachi communities, once vibrant, had disappeared. And so he began to discover items online, redolent of Jewish history and culture, to paint. Among the 'Stateless Objects' of the exhibition are a looted fork, a Sabbath teapot, a glass kiddish cup, a kiddush cup from Corfu. The paintings are not as hard edged as the porcelain cups. Rather their edges seem to be in less focus or even disappearing, which Russell acknowledges as intentional. 'The histories [of the objects] are ambiguous, so I am trying to make the paintings appear ambiguous, almost like apparitions.' As these communities have been decimated or vanished, he describes the paintings as 'dematerializing.' For Russell, this is both a formal challenge and also a conceptual exercise. The response to the work, Russell said, has been positive. He will show a different iteration of the exhibition next October at Frieze London. Manischewitz Yahrzeit Candle by Robert Russell There is one work that is not like the others, neither teacup, porcelain, nor lost item from the Jewish Levant. It is of a lit Manischewitz-branded Yitzkhor memorial candle, the kind you might find at the local grocery. That painting totally wrecked me. It says so much without having to say anything at all. It speaks to the Jewish past, and about our present moment. I can't stop thinking about it. With Stateless Objects, Russell has broken through the remove of his past works to create new contemporary work that is authentic to who he is. This where his personal, intellectual, and artistic journey had brought him. 'This is where I want to be right now,' Russell told me.
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Where to vote early in Lubbock County's May 2025 elections? Here's what you need to know
Election season is upon us, and that means it's time to cast your vote and let your voice be heard. Unlike the last election, this season is all about local issues directly impacting you. Lubbock County has several items up for election, from school bonds to municipal elections. However, Lubbock County Elections Administrator Roxzine Stinson said that, depending on where you live, not everyone in Lubbock County will have something to vote on. "Almost 32,000 people in Lubbock County have nothing to vote on this election," Stinson said. "The shortest ballot has one item on it. The longest one has three." With early voting set to start on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, and a few changes to how one election is being operated, here's your quick guide on important information you need to know before heading to a polling station. Stinson said the State of Texas has seven approved forms of ID you can bring to the poll in order to vote. Those include: Texas Drivers License issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS. Texas Personal Identification Card issued by DPS. Texas Handgun License issued by DPS. U.S. Military Identification Card with photo. U.S. Citizenship Certificate with photo. U.S. Passport (book or card). If you don't have any of the seven IDs and can not reasonably obtain one, you may fill out a Reasonable Impediment Declaration and bring bring one of the following: Copy or original of a government document that shows the voter's name and an address, including the voter's voter registration certificate. Copy of or original current utility bill. Copy of or original bank statement. Copy of or original government check. Copy of or original paycheck. Copy of or original of a certified domestic (from a U.S. state or territory) birth certificate or a document confirming birth admissible in a court of law which establishes the voter's identity (which may include a foreign birth document). You can also bring a sample ballot to the booth. Stinson advises voters to search for their sample ballot to make sure they have an item to vote on this election on Those in Ransom Canyon or the Roosevelt ISD district will have a minor change in their election process, which has been approved by the Secretary of State for Texas and the Lubbock County Commissioners. Stinson said if you are eligible to vote in both the Ransom Canyon municipal election and the RISD bond election, then you have to vote in two separate places for the two elections. To vote early in the RISD Bond Election, you can only go to the Lubbock County Elections Office, 1308 Crickets Ave., or the Roosevelt RISD Arena, 1301 CR 3300, on the following days and times: Tuesday, April 22 to Friday, April 25: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, April 26: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 27: Noon to 6 p.m. Monday, April 28 to Tuesday, April 29: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. To vote early in the Ransom Canyon Election and all other Lubbock County elections, you can go to the following place: Lubbock County Elections Office — 1308 Crickets Ave. United - 2630 Parkway Drive, 6313 4th St., 1701 50th St., 2703 82nd St. and 8010 Frankford Ave. Amigos - 112 N University Ave. Market Street - 4425 19th St. and 3405 50th St. Centennial Elementary School — 1301 N Utica Ave. Ed Irons Middle School — 5214 79th St. Jayne Ann Miller Elementary School — 6705 Joliet Drive. Joan Y. Ervin Elementary Schoo — 1802 E 28th St. Rush Elementary School — 4702 15th St. Abernathy City Hall — 811 Avenue D, Abernathy, TX. Casey Administration Building — 501 7th Street, Wolfforth, TX. New Deal Community Clubhouse — 309 S. Monroe Avenue, New Deal, TX. Ransom Canyon City Hall — 24 Lee Kitchens Drive, Ransom Canyon, TX. Slaton Community Clubhouse — 750 W Garza Street, Slaton, TX. You can vote at the above-mentioned locations on the following dates and times: Tuesday, April 22 to Friday, April 25: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, April 28 to Tuesday, April 29: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. For those who voted in the November 2024 Presidential Election, Stinson said nothing has changed in the voting process since then. However, for new voters, here is a quick rundown of how voting works. Check in at a polling place with your form of ID to get your machine access code and ballot slip. Go to a booth and insert your code and ballot as the machine directs. Vote. Once, done. Print your ballot from the machine and double-check that it printed correctly. If an error is found, flag down a poll worker for assistance. Once correct, head over to the insertion machine to insert your ballot to be counted and complete your voting process. For any questions or concerns, visit or call (806) 775-1339. Mateo Rosiles is the Government & Public Policy reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Got a news tip for him? Email him: mrosiles@ This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: How, where to vote early in the Lubbock County May 2025 elections
