Oriel Queens Hall Gallery

Pop-up Nordstrom showcases Mexican designers

Laura J. Boyer — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 06:35:00 +0000

Catherine and Linda recently created FOUND by C&L, a partnership with Nordstrom Department Store to have what they call Pop-In Shops.

SAN DIEGO — Feel good, luxury fashion. That’s how a fashion influencer in San Diego calls the creations of a pop-up store inside the Nordstrom at the UTC mall this weekend, when it’s your chance to see luxury fashion made in Mexico.

Linda Waisboard began her fashion career as a Nordstrom stylist over ten years ago. Today, she has a cult following of loyal customers who want her style.

She and her partner, Catherine Bachelier, founded The C&L experience. They call it a California-based wardrobe styling and fashion promotion company.

“Fashion is art. Fashion is self-expression. Fashion is creativity. Fashion is fun,” Linda said.

Catherine and Linda recently created FOUND by C&L, a partnership with Nordstrom Department Store to have what they call Pop-In Shops. They travel the world in search of one-of-a-kind pieces and now bring them to Nordstrom pop-up stores on special weekends throughout the year.

“We are looking for very innovative and special pieces because we know what is happening at Nordstrom, these brands have to be able to compete with the best of the best. We really try to have brands with heart, with a story behind, that make you to feel something special. We want special because that’s what luxury means,” Linda said.

Linda and Catherine say they find amazing designers and fashion in Mexico. During a trip there, they met Mora Ruiz, a small fashion designer from Merida, Yucatan.

“I saw the quality first, I know what quality is. The design behind it. said everything was handmade by women,” Linda explained.

Mora was a seamstress for years, making clothes for other stores and brands. Eight years ago she started her own fashion label. She says it was her dream all her life. Mora hand dyed linen and lace. Each model is tailor-made for the woman who wears it. She showed us a dress that she painted, designed, and turned into a print. A machine in Yucatan then stamps it onto a natural linen material. Some designs are complicated due to the rich colors Mora creates on the fabrics.

Mora hires women in Mexico who know how to sew, to make her creations by hand. She gives them the fabric and her design patterns and lets them take them home, sew them, and then bring them back to her.

“Sometimes it takes them hours and weeks. She’s able to employ those families, support their families, and bring those unique pieces to the United States,” Catherine said.

This weekend, this seamstress turned fashion designer is having her pieces hung in one of America’s most popular department stores. Prices range from $200 to $800. She says her inspiration comes from her daughter, other women and life. She wants women to feel like royalty when they wear her clothes.

How difficult would it have been for Mora to get into Nordstrom? She says impossible for her alone. She says she is so grateful to Linda and Catherine. Linda says these Pop-Ins give designers they discover the visibility needed to bridge the gap with the US market. For Mora, it starts at the UTC Mall this weekend.

“We want people to know that when they walk into a Nordstrom and buy something, they can really tell the difference. They may be feeling something special,” Linda added.

The FOUND by C&L Pop-In Shop is on the 2nd floor of UTC Mall Nordstrom from November 10-12.

Related Watch: Fashion Pop-Up Connects Mexican, Latino Designers with American Customers (June 6, 2022)

Mexico City taco shop El Taco H dreams of being ‘Best Patio in Denton’

Laura J. Boyer — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:05:16 +0000

A new terrace restaurant near Denton Square, El Taco H, offers a Mexico City-inspired greatest hits menu.

Each dish comes with a keepsake for co-owners Mexico City-born Raul Enciso and Nick Bitz, a Bedford resident who has been to Mexico City several times with his friend and business partner. The al pastor – slow-roasted pork cooked on a trompo and topped with pineapple, onion and cilantro in a corn tortilla – is inspired by a restaurant in part of Mexico City; the roast beef taco suadero recipe came from another. The bar’s namesake drink, a mix of mezcal, pineapple, jicama and rosemary syrup, matches a memory Bitz has of sitting on a patio in Mexico City near Alameda Central, the oldest park in the continent.

El Taco H co-owners Raul Enciso and Nick Bitz met while working in the restaurant industry as bartenders. They made several trips to Mexico City together and decided to open a taqueria inspired by their travels. They brought back two dozen lucha libre masks, which are on display near the bar.(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer)

“I think I’m about to recreate it,” Bitz says of the cocktail. They said that about other recipes too.

El Taco H is a pun. When pronounced in Spanish, “el taco ax” sounds like another Spanish word, “tlacuache”. It means opossum in Spanish, and El Taco H has an opossum as its logo. It also has a slang pronunciation, “takuache” – a word that Enciso says is used to describe Mexican men.

The logo on the restaurant, of a wild-looking red opossum, is a licensed replica of a graffiti they found on a wall in Mexico City during one of their trips. Bitz’s wife was able to track down the artist and they paid him to use the art at Denton.

“We didn’t want to compromise what Mexico means,” Enciso says of the menu and the restaurant.

El Taco H opened on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. But, Bitz says, the concept “started five years ago — in our heads.”

Enciso and Bitz are former roommates and restaurant workers who eventually got into the mortgage business together. They wanted to open a Mexico City-inspired food truck selling tacos stuffed with carne asada, al pastor, and nopales (dried cacti).

The food truck plan was scrapped for a very different start: the restaurant is a 7,000-square-foot juggernaut with a back patio and, possibly, an alfresco venue off to the side. (Currently it is used as a haunted house and maze for the annual Day of the Dead festival in Denton, October 28-29, 2022.)

Owners of El Taco H scrambled to open in time for the festival, which draws large crowds to Denton Square. The coffin race takes place right outside the front door.

The co-owners of El Taco H are most proud of the pork and pineapple tacos al pastor.(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer)

Enciso and Bitz moved into the empty address with the help of Radical Hospitality, Denton County’s most prolific restaurant group that owns Barley & Board and LSA Burger Co. The El Taco H address was supposed to be a loaded barbecue and mac and cheese named H2Oak. The restaurant plan was canceled during the coronavirus pandemic.

Masks line the wall near the bar at El Taco H. The bar menu includes Mexican beers, mezcal cocktails, palomas, sangrias and more. At the front of the restaurant, customers can order cups of aguas frescas in five flavors, including horchata, tamarindo and cucumber-lime-mint.(Rebecca Slezak / Staff Photographer)

The H2Oak team left behind neon signs that say “hickory” and “oak” on two walls – once a nod to two types of wood used for barbecuing, but also a nod to the two streets that border the Denton restaurant.

The restaurant features original brick walls, cacti hanging from the ceiling, and lucha libre masks displayed at the bar. Clay bowls offer serve-your-own salsas like chili de arbol, creamy jalapeño, and molcajete. The orange colored habanero salsa was my favorite.

The back patio could possibly be this taco shop’s secret weapon. Past a wall of garage doors, outdoor picnic tables provide plenty of room for horchata, micheladas, sangria, and margaritas.

“Eventually this will be the best patio in Denton,” says Bitz.

El Taco H (pronounced in Spanish as “el taco ah-chay”) is located at 213 E. Hickory St., Denton. It opened on October 26, 2022.

For more food news, follow Sarah Blaskovich on Twitter at @sblaskovich.

Tickets are now on sale for Made in Maui County Festival | News, Sports, Jobs

Laura J. Boyer — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:51:30 +0000

The grounds of the Made in Maui County Festival event at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center are seen from above. This year’s event is scheduled for November 4-5. Photo courtesy of the Maui Chamber of Commerce

Maui News

Tickets go on sale today for the 9th Annual Hawaiian Airlines Made in Maui County Festival, a showcase of locally made products from small island businesses.

This year’s festival will feature more than 140 Maui County vendors offering hundreds of locally made products including food, art, crafts, jewelry, fashion, house and presents. Live music, product demonstrations, food trucks and entertainment will also be part of the two-day event, which will be held in person Nov. 4-5 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, as well as virtually at madeinmauicountyfestival.com .

“We are excited to welcome a hybrid even this year,” Maui Chamber of Commerce President Pamela Tumpap said in a news release Tuesday. “The in-person event is a highlight for the Maui County community, attracting thousands of shoppers and the addition of the online component allows Maui County lovers around the world to participate.”

Tickets are $50 for day one, a buyer preview and an exclusive shopping day from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Buyers will receive a free festival tote bag and a free pupu at the opening ceremony.

Tickets are $7 for the big day of the festival from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on November 5. The first 2,000 shoppers at the door will receive a free festival tote bag. Shuttles are also available.

To purchase tickets, visit mauiarts.org.

For more information, visit madeinmauicountyfestival.com or contact the Maui Chamber of Commerce at [email protected] or (808) 244-0081.

: The grounds of the Made in Maui County Festival event at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center are seen from above. This year’s event is scheduled for November 4-5. Photo courtesy of the Maui Chamber of Commerce

Today’s breaking news and more to your inbox

The cries of the season return to Pasadena; Tickets on sale now

Laura J. Boyer — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 18:18:42 +0000

Season’s Screamings, the spooky holiday-themed counterpart to Midsummer Scream, the world’s largest Halloween and horror convention, has announced its return to the Pasadena Convention Center December 2-4, 2022.

The ultimate blend of Christmas cheer and Halloween horror, Season’s Screamings offers a winter wonderland of ghoulish experiences for the whole family. From a sprawling showroom with over 200 artisans and vendors to a party stage with world-class panel presentations, Season’s Screamings is set to entertain thousands of fans throughout the first weekend of December.

“This is the fourth release of Season’s Screamings, and it gets bigger and better every year,” says David Markland, Executive Director of Midsummer Scream. “We love any opportunity to return to Pasadena and any chance to make Halloween coincide with other seasons, especially winter holidays.”

Among Season’s Screamings’ cornucopia of entertainment will be Peepshow Menagerie’s “Island of Misfit Tease” burlesque show on Friday night, a Saturday and Sunday Krampus run led by Krampus LA, a daily block of themed shorts holiday horror curated by HorrorBuzz, exhibitor photo-ops including Art’s Sideshow throughout the exhibit hall alongside vendors such as Backstitch Bruja, Lugosi Enterprises, Discount Cemetery, Skelly Paper Co., Small Town Weirdo and Trick or Treat Studios.

Special guests include Keith David (The Thing, They Live), Leeanna Vamp & The Fiends, Grimm Life Collective and Disney Legend Bob Gurr, creator of the Haunted Mansion “Doom Buggies”, with more appearances to be announced soon!

Returning for 2022 is the spooky Hall of Yuletide Spirits, a perpetually darkened space filled with holiday-themed haunts and spooky exhibits. Beginning with a rotten Candy Land entrance experience by Fear Farm, this year’s Hall of Yuletide Spirits will feature animated attractions from some of Southern California’s hottest home and pro venues, including The Dreich Society, The Haunt With No Name… Yet Casa Calaveras, Santa Ana Haunt, Ghostwood Manor, Prism Haunted House, the Pizza Planet Truck and Valley Fright Nights.

“We are so excited to have the Hall of Yuletide Spirits returning for 2022,” said Rick West, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Midsummer Scream. “After what promises to be a fantastic Halloween season, these incredible hauntings will bring their creativity and excitement to Pasadena for one last romp before retreating to their crypts for the year! We have a solid mix of ghosts from return and brand new partners this year; it’s going to be quite a show!

The Hall of Yuletide Spirits will also include Barlow’s Tavern, a vacation spot where guests 21 and older can enjoy drink specials and even pose for a photo with Santa Barlow – Season’s Screamings’ terrifying version of meeting Santa , featuring Mr. Barlow of the Salem lot.

Season’s Screamings will also host numerous presentations and panel performances throughout the weekend on two stages at the Pasadena Convention Center. This year’s lineup includes a heartfelt discussion of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! starring Sara Karloff, whose father, Boris Karloff, narrated the beloved animated classic, as well as Emmy Award-winning animator and director Phil Roman, who was part of the team that brought the Grinch; a panel on the history of the slide – a creepy acting technique that began at Knott’s Scary Farm in the early 70s and spread to hauntings around the world; and a look at “The Shining Legacy” with director Mick Garris commemorating the 25th anniversary of his TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, hosted by Fangoria’s The Kingcast podcast team. Additional programming and schedule will be announced in the coming weeks!

For a taste of the sights and sounds of last year’s event, check out my video below:

Day and weekend passes are available; Premium weekend “Naughty List” passes include one-hour early entry to the show on Saturday and Sunday, priority entry to panels, presentations and attractions, exclusive lanyard and commemorative edition collectible limited (to be announced). Midsummer Scream is running a special ticket promotion until 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, September 25, allowing those interested to secure half-price tickets. For tickets and more information, visit https://www.midsummerscream.org/.

Pet Shop Boys & New Order brought a fabulous synthpop show to Barclays Center (review, setlists)

Laura J. Boyer — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 20:10:02 +0000

For synthpop fans, Pet Shop Boys and New orderThe Unity Tour is a dream come true, with two of the most innovative bands of the past 40 years joining forces for a highly enjoyable, often dazzling night of classics in the form. Originally slated for 2020, the tour finally kicked off this week and hit Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Friday night, the first of two NYC shows they’ll be playing.

Bands alternate who plays first or second, depending on the market, but setlists and set lengths have been pretty much the same regardless of what position they’re in. At Barclays, Pet Shop Boys were the first and gave a masterclass in how to do an arena/pavilion show. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe took us on a nonstop tour through their discography (and videography), with every element of the show considered for maximum wow. It played almost like a musical jukebox, starring themselves and without any need for plot. Just the beatings.

Pet Shop Boys @ Barclays Center 23/09/2022

Things started small with two streetlights placed in front of a mesh projection screen, making it look like they were playing in a parking lot. Orchestral opening music blared, strings and horns turned into rolling synthesizers, with bright lights blasting the crowd to the beat of dramatic drumbeats as a voice intoned the lyrics to “Love Comes Quickly” . The screen rose long enough for Tennant and Lowe to step out in white trench coats, wearing large metallic masks, to the sound of their 1986 single “Suburbia.”

After “Can You Forgive Her”, Tennant’s mask fell and they played the first hit “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)”. Tennant then waved to the crowd, clinging to the lamppost and deftly introducing the rest of the show as an intro for the following song: “We’re going on a journey, through music and memories, where West End Des girls dance dominoes with boys in New York; where Che Guevara and Debussy get easily carried away…but make it so hard; where being boring is a sin and the music plays forever…and the streets don’t ‘have no name.”

Speaking of which, the Pet Shop Boys are just as smart with their covers as they are with the originals: they mix U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Names” with Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You”, and spinning Sondheim’s “You Were Always on My Mind” and “Losing My Mind” in jubilant Eurodisco, all of which were highlights of the evening.

About a third of the way into their set, that video screen rose to reveal their backing band and even bigger LED screens, and from there things got gloriously cinematic, the songs stringing together. in the others for a see-through night of dancing (early) which also allowed Tennant and Lowe have time to change costumes. It was a pure, absolutely fabulous show that could play in Vegas or headline an EDM festival.

The whole crescendo with “Vocal” and “It’s A Sin”, an audio/video/emotional overload in the best way. Knowing the ceiling had just been hit, the Pet Shop Boys turned the heat down a bit, and the streetlight ensemble returned for a “West End Girls” finale, complete with its clanging bell and bloopy synths, then the elegant and sophisticated “Being Boring” to close their incredible set. “Go West” would have been nice, but there really is no knockout performance like this.

Pet Shop Boys @ Barclays Center 23/09/2022

It would be hard for any band to follow the Pet Shop Boys set, but New Order always went their own way and didn’t even try to compete. That said, they’ve really upped their visual game for the Unity Tour, with fantastic showings that showcase their iconic album and unique art and music videos. And like the Pet Shop Boys, they’ve had classics for days and their most most loaded with them. An instrument of Republic‘Times Change’, paired with vintage footage of early ’80s New York City, was a classy intro, after which they took the stage and frontman Bernard Sumner hit the chords to their 1992 hit ‘Regret’. Good start.

New Order’s best songs combine electronics with traditional guitar-bass-drums rock, and few bands can do the same with two or three chords. Friday night’s most transcendent moments were when they performed on these: their debut single “Ceremony” and Power, corruption and lies cheerful “Age of Consent” and masterful “Your Silent Face”. The fusion of guitar lines, with their signature melodic bass, oceanic synths and Stephen Morris’ ever-perfect drumming always achieves pure bliss. And “Temptation”, which closed their main set, could have gone on forever as far as I’m concerned.

Bernard Sumner was in good spirits, laughing at a failed start to “Ceremony,” waving to the crowd with “Sorry, we’re two years late,” and joking about how they came to New York for their first shows and had all their equipment stolen. “If anyone sees our equipment, please contact us!”

The band’s more overt synthpop side was also in the spotlight, with ‘The Perfect Kiss’, ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ and ‘True Faith’ – all of which had Barclays singing along – and of course ‘Blue Monday’ which is maybe overplayed, but those bass drums and electro hand claps still deliver. Some time was also spent on their newer material, with the disco “Plastic” and “Tutti Frutti” from 2015 Music finished. I think the set could have lost one, with Waiting for the sirens’ calls “Guilt Is a Useless Emotion” that may have been nominated for a Grammy but had a lot of people in for a bathroom break. In their place, maybe “Love Vigilantes”, “Thieves Like Us” or whatever Technical.

I also think New Order has enough good songs not to dip into Joy Division’s catalog (I realize I’m in the minority on this), but it’s also hard to argue with “Transmission” and “Love Will Tear Us Apart” which closed the show and was the most unifying moment of the evening.

New order @ Barclays Center 09/23/2022

The opening of the debates and the DJing between sets of the Unity Tour are Paul Oakenfold who was a frequent spinner at New Order’s Manchester club, The Hacienda, and on Friday night entertained the crowd with alternative dance hits from the 80s and early 90s. His set before New Order went heavy on Manchester and rave, and I wonder when he played “Step On” from Happy Mondays, how many people in the crowd knew he produced that song.

One note: this seems like a missed opportunity for Sumner and Tennant not to have tried to work on a version of Electronic’s “Getting Away With It” for this tour. It would make a great transition between sets.

The Unity Tour hits Philly on Sunday then returns to New York to play Madison Square Garden on Wednesday (09/28) with the order returned from Barclays, New Order playing first and Pet Shop Boys closing the evening. This is the most logical sequel: although New Order is one of my favorite bands of all time, they really shouldn’t play after Pet Shop Boys.

Check out New Order’s Pet Shop Boys and Barclays Center setlists below, along with the fan-shot video of the show.

SETLIST: Pet Shop Boys @ Barclays Center 23/09/2022
Suburb
Can you forgive him?
Opportunities (Let’s earn a lot of money)
Where the streets have no name (I can’t take my eyes off you)
Lease
I don’t know what you want but I can’t give it to you anymore
Very difficult
Left to my own devices
domino dance
love comes fast
Losing the mind
You were always on my mind
Dreamland
Heart
It’s OK
vocal
It’s a sin

Bis:
West end girls
be boring

SETLIST: New Order @ Barclays Center 23/09/2022
Regret
The age of legal maturity
Ceremony
Transmission
Your silent face
The perfect kiss
Tutti Frutti
Guilt is a useless emotion
bizarre love triangle
Plastic
True Faith
Blue Monday
Temptation

Bis:
love will separate us

New Bedford The Drawing Room presents Arcane By Aidil Timas in store

Laura J. Boyer — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:15:00 +0000

NEW BEDFORD — The living room is curated with unique pieces that customers won’t necessarily find in other stores, that’s why Aidil Timas Grogan the designs are perfectly suited to the store.

“It makes me so happy to be here,” said Grogan, owner Arcanum by Aidil Timas. The recently moved boutique on William Street is the first to launch Grogan’s line of dresses and handbags.

“It was a good opportunity for me to put my things out there,” she said. “It’s my work of art. I love it when someone likes it — it makes me super happy.”

Originally from Cape Verde, Grogan is inspired by African patterns and textiles as well as the use of recycled materials.

“I love making dresses, but I do everything. It depends on my inspiration,” she said. “I also have this passion for bags. It’s a work of art that I can give so much detail to.”

New Bedford’s connection to Artemis I? :These two companies are working with NASA on a lunar mission

Over the past year, Grogan said he’s designed at least 20 outfits and around 50 handbags. She recently launched her line at a fashion show in Providence.

She also enjoys restoring and recycling old furniture.

Creation of her first dress at 12 years old

Growing up in a house where her mother, grandmother and aunt sewed and made clothes, Grogan said she used to hide under the table and steal scraps of fabric to design clothes for her. her dolls.

At age 12, she designed her first church dress, which she also embroidered.

“I was interested in learning everything I could love about embroidery, crochet – stuff like that that I was interested in knowing.”

In 1994, after the birth of her first child, she moved to Portugal where she worked with a designer named Annette to do alterations.

“I’ve seen her career and I’ve seen her sketch, I’ve seen her make patterns on the dummy. So the whole thing was like college for me,” she said.

“One-stop shop for self-healing”:Westport moms open wellness spa with a spiritual side

Annette not only inspired Grogan, she also encouraged her to go to fashion design school.

“I didn’t take it seriously back then, I was still trying to figure out what to do with life,” she said. “And then you have someone telling you that you’re good at it, you kind of pay attention all of a sudden.”

In 2003 Grogan moved to Rhode Island and soon after met her husband John Grogan. A mother of six, she launched Arcane in 2014 and in April 2022 moved from New Hampshire to New Bedford. She has not returned to her hometown of Cape Verde since arriving in 2003.

Without her family, she said she couldn’t create her designs. “I need to feel at peace and feel good with them so I can focus on my art. It’s kind of like therapy for me…for my soul, my spirit. It just brings me in another place.”

Veil by day, dress by night

During the day, Grogan works full-time at Sperry Sails in North Dartmouth, making sails for sailboats. At night, Grogan takes over his kitchen table and turns his dining room into his design studio by kicking his supporting family into the TV room for dinner.

“Maybe in the future I’ll find a nice place to work,” she said, adding that she was considering a studio in Kilburn Mill.

“He has been very well received in the new space,” said Anthi Frangiadis, owner of The Drawing Room. “We’ve already sold several of his pieces. And it’s fun to be able to add wearable components to our nifty collection.”

A true family business:Two brothers help engineers bring their ideas to life at ProtoXYZ

Frangiadis said she curates her store with one-of-a-kind pieces that customers can’t find anywhere else in New Bedford, and each piece is one-of-a-kind, handmade.

Local artist opens ‘Vintage Print’ shop and studio in Garland neighborhood

Laura J. Boyer — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 03:50:00 +0000

SPOKANE, Wash. – Artist Chris Bovey has a style that is unmistakably his own and unique to Spokane.

Art outside its new storefront in the Garland District–Vintage + Neon Print– is cool, but what’s inside is even cooler.

“It’s like you walk in and everything you grew up with is in one store,” Kelly Rounds said.

“There’s a lot of history here,” Bovey said. “There are landmarks and neon lights.”

Bovey’s work can be seen in local cafes, city living rooms, on T-shirts and now in the vintage brick and mortar print, an idea six years in the making.

“I told my mom I should buy every poster and put it in my room because they’re just cool,” Kelsey Swenland said.

Bovey says the Vintage Print project began amid what he perceived to be Spokane’s identity crisis as a city.

“Thinking that we’re not as cool as Seattle or Portland or something like that, and I was like, ‘we’ve got a lot of cool things here to celebrate, a lot of cool stories to celebrate,'” he said. .

Landmarks, local bars and restaurants, colleges, all given the ‘Bovey treatment’: timelessly immortalized, speaking to generations of spokanites.

“You see people standing in front of the impression wall, and they’re overwhelmed with emotions and memories of different places that have touched them,” Bovey said.

Perhaps the coolest part?

“When you’re out there making art, and people can see that process being created, and then it goes straight to the wall. It’s pretty amazing,” Bovey said. “People just want to come over when I’m working, shake my hand and say hello. I’m just a regular guy, you know? It’s really cool to interact with people like that.

What about the free Donkey Kong arcade game, print-your-own stations and of course the crowd-favorite chewing gum machine?

“I want families to be able to come back to the Garland District and go see a movie, go to the Milk Bottle for a milkshake, and come to Vintage Print and be able to have fun instead of a typical retail experience,” said Bovey said. .

Another way to give back to the community that has done so much for him.

“Spokane has arrived, man. It was really cool,” Bovey said.

Bovey will host events at Vintage Print, such as “Print and Pint” nights – where attendees can learn to screen print and enjoy a cold beer.

For more information on Vintage Print and to follow their announcements, visit their Facebook page by clicking on here.

FOX28 Spokane©

Island Music Company Partners with Shop 53 Custom Tattoo & Art Studio to Recognize La Plata as MD’s First Bird Town

Laura J. Boyer — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:31:40 +0000

Whether you’re a local or a visitor to Southern Maryland, you’ll notice birding art on display throughout the city. These art projects were created to represent La Plata, Maryland as Maryland’s first bird town! La Plata is recognized as the premier bird town due to its efforts to implement good bird conservation practices by educating the community and improving conditions for birds to thrive there.

Credit: Island Music Company

Island Music Company and Shop 53 Custom Tattoo and Art Studio were eager to participate in this project! Keith Grasso, owner of Island Music Company, and Shannon Wang, owner of Shop 53 and Bird City Records, designed beautiful illustrations of birds on the sidewalk leading to Island Music Company.

They decided to replicate the same bird art inlay seen on every Paul Reed Smith guitar fingerboard. Paul Reed Smith is Maryland’s most famous guitar company! Grasso says, “This is a unique opportunity to combine the musical designation with La Plata and create a sense of community on the Island Music campus. What a great opportunity to tie it all together! The sidewalk leads to the ‘La Plata Loves Music’ mural and then to our front door. This is our version of “The Yellow Brick Road”.

Shannon Wang was excited to take on this project as it fits perfectly with her business. Wang says, “I’m not just a huge fan of birds, but we were able to tie it all together and use our Shop 53 talent to create the artwork while spreading the story of La Plata and raising awareness of Maryland’s first bird. City!” Wang’s love for the city of La Plata and the birds inspired the name of his record store, Bird City Records.

After Mayor Jeanine James stopped by to see the finished project, she shared more details about the history of Maryland’s first bird town. “We are thrilled to be named Maryland’s premier bird town! It’s such a great opportunity to beautify our city and bring our community together in such a unique way! Mayor James also shared details about the official city bird being the Purple Martin and mentioned that there is more bird art to come. Mayor James said, “Be on the lookout for more unique bird art that will soon appear in the La Plata community!”

What better way is there to bring the beautiful city of La Plata, Maryland together other than with the music, art, birds, common goals and love of their people to make their city beautiful? Be sure to stop by Island Music Company to experience their very own “Yellow Brick Road!”

For more information, contact Island Music Company at 301-392-3960.

Lafayette Personal Injury Law Firm Moves to New Location

Laura J. Boyer — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:00:01 +0000

New state-of-the-art office building in River Ranch provides more space for Blaine Barrilleaux law firms

Press release
–

September 14, 2022 9:00 a.m. EDT

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Sept. 14, 2022 (Newswire.com) –
The Law Firms of Blaine Barrilleaux has a new office building in the River Ranch neighborhood of Lafayette, located at 1235 Camellia Blvd. The new larger office space is a milestone for the law firm.

In 2002, local Lafayette attorney Blaine Barrilleaux’s vision became a reality when he established his own personal injury law firm in his beloved hometown. Since then, The Law Offices of Blaine Barrilleaux has grown tremendously. Blaine’s slogan, “In Pain, Call Blaine”, has become recognizable around town as his clients recommend his legal services to friends and family.

Now, 20 years after seeing his original vision come to life, Blaine and his team have helped thousands of injury victims get the compensation they deserve. As they helped more and more people earn their business, they also overtook their office building. The time was right to find a bigger space, and River Ranch had exactly what they needed.

Blaine Barrilleaux’s law firm moves to River Ranch

River Ranch had the perfect property for the new location. Unfortunately, the perfect building could not be found.

“We designed and built the perfect building for our growing law firm, so it can better serve the needs of our clients and our team,” said Blaine Barrilleaux.

Blaine Barrilleaux Law Firms recently moved into their new premises, and the team and clients are thrilled to finally be using the new space.

The project lasted three years, but the results couldn’t be better. This state-of-the-art office building has all the space the firm needs to continue to thrive for years to come as it provides legal representation to the citizens of Lafayette and surrounding areas.

Need the services of a personal injury lawyer?

The Law Firm of Blaine Barrilleaux is a personal injury law firm representing victims of car wrecks, large truck accidents, dog bites, marine injuries, medical malpractice, etc If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident, don’t hesitate to contact Blaine today for a free consultation.

Blaine is licensed in all state and federal courts in Louisiana. With over 20 years of experience serving the Lafayette community, Blaine is dedicated to helping injury victims get the compensation they deserve. Contact us today and let us help you defend your rights!

Source: The Law Firms of Blaine Barrilleaux

La La Land Kind Cafe opens first drive-thru cafe in Richardson

Laura J. Boyer — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:02:38 +0000

La La Land Kind Cafe, the cheerful cafe with the can’t-miss yellow cups, has opened a drive-thru in Richardson. Employees began selling matcha lattes and teas on Monday, September 12, 2022; they will be fully open by Saturday, September 17, 2022.

La La Land is one of the hottest independent cafes in North Texas. He was featured on a segment of the Netflix show sell sunset and has a a quarter of a million Instagram followers. When the first opened near Greenville Avenue in Dallas, its 23-year-old entrepreneur made headlines by hiring foster kids looking for jobs in Dallas. (The company still employs foster kids at one location in each city, but the rest of the stores don’t follow the same schedule, he says.)

Founder Francois Reihani says this new drive-thru isn’t about coffee. It’s about “normalizing kindness,” a corporate buzzword.

François Reihani, left, created La La Land Kind Cafe when he was 23 years old. Now 26, he wants to expand his business across the United States. He is pictured here in 2021 talking to US Small Business Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman at the original La La Land on Lowest Greenville in Dallas.(Shelby Tauber / Special Contributor)

“We planted over 400 yellow flowers for you to drive through,” Reihani says. The former Great Outdoors sandwich shop has been reinvented into a cafe that feels like a home, not a business.

Reihani, now 26, throws rhetorical questions to prove his Kind Cafe’s mission. “How can we touch someone? he says in a Dallas Morning News interview. “Why is humanity so disconnected? Why aren’t all humans friends? La La Land staff aims to cover guests with kindness.

“Our intention is for them to go away and say, ‘What just happened? Why aren’t all human relationships like this?’

La La Land posted these videos on Instagram:

The Richardson Shop is La La Land’s premier drive-thru. It is Reihani’s eighth store nationwide and fifth in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Reihani intends to expand internationally one day. And he wants to “move fast” in the United States, to bring this pie-in-the-sky business to cities outside of Dallas, though he won’t say where or how many.

Talking to him is like flying off in a rocket to Happytown. Coffee is just the conduit for his mission, he says.

“We don’t work every day just to serve people coffee. Don’t get me wrong, I believe we serve the best coffee in the world,” he says: “We flew to Colombia and did a two-week tour just to find what we thought was the best bean. . In fact, I love coffee art. But that’s not why we’re doing this. »

They normalize kindness, he recalls.

He dares you to pick up a free smile — and, yes, a coffee — from Richardson’s drive-thru.

The La Land Kind Cafe is located at 242 W. Campbell Road, Richardson. It quietly opened on September 12, 2022. The grand opening is September 17, 2022.