Crop walk
WLOSers covered the annual Crop Walk, just like they do every year. Cherub Charu said some 600 walkers came out to walk in the sun. They raised $30,000 to help bring food to people around the world. We suggest that if some of the fatties we saw walking would just eat a little less, people all over the world would have enough eats.
WCU hires the Beast
Western Carolina University has hired the Beast. According to WLOS, Terrence Mann, the dude who first played the Beast in “Beauty and the Beast,” has joined the WCU faculty as disinguished professor in musical theater. (Now somebody go update the Wiki page we just linked to.)
Looks like this news actually broke on Friday, as a fairly big deal. Here’s a better version of the story, via AP:
CULLOWHEE, N.C. – The actor who originated the role of the Beast in the Broadway production of “Beauty and the Beast” is now a distinguished professor.
Western Carolina University said Friday that Terrance Mann will join the faculty this fall as the Carolyn Plemmons Phillips and Ben R. Phillips distinguished professor in musical theater.He will lead a program of study that’s designed to provide students with practical work-related experience and build skills for both music and theater.
Mann, who earned Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for best actor for his performance of the Beast, also is known for his portrayal of Rum Tum Tigger in “Cats” on Broadway. He also was nominated for a Tony for his portrayal of Inspector Javert in “Les Miserables.”
In North Carolina, Mann is founding artistic director of the Carolina Arts Festival and he served as artistic director of the North Carolina Theatre for 14 years. He also was artistic director of the outdoor drama, “The Lost Colony.”
Mann is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
In other news…
There’s an Amber Alert out for a Siler City toddler who’s missing… A South Kackalacki man has been arrested and charged with killing a woman and her five children in North Charleston… Ray Lewis, the Republican Party chairman in Madison County, says somebody out in Hot Springs spray painted some grafitti on party headquarters… Hendersonville police are looking for two young men who entered the China Grill restaurant and robbed it… The weather is beautiful, with Sunday’s high at 73 degrees. Blue skies. Fall color coming in. Perfect!… Brevard College is featuring Banned Book Week… A bunch of new state laws took effect on Sunday, but WLOSers only mentioned two – new rules designed to make identity theft tougher. They include: businesses can’t print your social security number on a card or mailed materials, and they can’t require you to submit your SSN over the internet unless the site is encrypted. Also, safety training for anyone who operates an ATV is now mandatory… And some Buncombe County firefighters set some houses on fire. On purpose. For training.
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be afraid. be very afraid.
then again, perhaps you’re all ‘Phantom of the AVL’ b/c you’re wretchedly aethestically unappealing. which wouldn’t be the worst thing. but it’s a viable explanation for your ghostly status ’round town. all the mens with cameras in our dear ole Bohemian Hooligan village are suspect to me at this point… wonder which one you are… if you are any of these. you have an unfair ‘street stalking’ advantage at this point. you are a control freak indeed. creepy. mayhaps i should step AWAY from the blog… MEEP!
Like AL says, we all have our weaknesses, and most children are taught not to point.
Master in your dreams, babe.
mike, love the T-shirt story. glad you recognize the hyperbole.
alaina lynne – kneel and learn from the master.
Regarding the ‘Crop Walk’ item… glad to know that you are so frackin’ superior Ash. Methinks your flaws are not necessarily advertised in the form of lbs., but they’re there somewhere… just sayin’…
BUT I will also say that your comment was still pretty damn funny.
Well, I was one of those fatties at the Crop Walk, and even I got some laughs at the expense of the guy, twice my size, wearing a shirt that read, "No Hunger." Looked like he (and I) already had reached that point.
Of course, just like what Mom always said about cleaning our plates because there are starving children in China or Africa, doing so (or any of us "fatties…eating a little less") will have no impact on world hunger. But you know that, I know–I’m not totally imune to recognizing hyperbole.
Interesting, too, that Chachi and Russ both described the turnout as "dozens of walkers," yet went on to say organizers expected 600 (and I’d say it was definitely "hundreds" instead of "dozens" who did show up).