DOWNTOWN SERIES: Why Aren't More Restaurants Downtown?
(LAS CRUCES) -- According to Las Cruces city planner, Andy Hume, the old plan for downtown will be revisited during a series of community meetings called 'charettes' planned for October.
One piece of the downtown puzzle that's missing -- restaurants.
President of Coas Books, Mike Beckett, has been downtown more than 20 years.
I know books...I think you've certainly gotta have more than one restaurant.
So why aren't there more restaurants? Planner Andy Hume says a lot of it comes down to math.
The first question is usually the age of the buildings...we all remember from our microeconomics classes, an increased demand means an increased price.
The price of a liquor license is usually in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Cattle baron in Lincoln paid $350,000. One Las Cruces business owner paid $325,000.
Allison Kuper Smith lobbies on behalf of the New Mexico restaurant association. She says there's one way to save money.
There is a restaurant license...what you an I would call a beer and wine license and that is relatively easy to get.... but the drawback is, it's only beer and wine.
So if you want a margarita, you'll have to find a restaurant that has a full liquor license.
The beer and wine is a good way to go. The liquor licenses that don't have package are not as expensive generally speaking...but new Mexico being on a quota system...you can't get them through the state anymore...so those have to be done in a private sale or lease situation...it is a challenge, but it is doable.
Beckett was able to weather the storms over the years selling books downtown. Even in that industry, he had to think like a farmer.
A lot of people don't realize you have to bring in a lot of income...like a farmer, some years you have nothing and some years you have a lot.
It appears with high startup costs, well-funded or established businesses would be the ones to lead a restaurant movement downtown, but that's not for sure. Even so, Kuper Smith has this to say.
A lot needs to happen down here but it is a chicken and an egg. It's gonna taker a few restaurants...it may be a year or two before they see the traffic they need to see from downtown.
Sloan Patton reported.
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Marian Haddad / spiritual journey
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Marian Haddad, M.F.A, is a poet, essayist, visiting writer, manuscript and publishing consultant, private writing mentor, creative writing workshop instructor, public speaker, and artistic-event coordinator. Her works have been published in various journals and periodicals including The Texas Observer, The Rio Grande Review, Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders, Bat City Review, Redactions and Mizna. Her poems and essays have appeared in anthologies including Stories from Where We Live: The California Coast (Milkweed Editions); Is This Forever or What: Poems & Paintings from Texas (Greenwillow Books); Scheherazade's Legacy: Arab and Arab-American Women on Writing (Praeger); Pride of Place (University of North Texas Press; San Antonio in Color (Trinity University Press); Between Heaven and Texas (UT Press); Poetry Calendar 2007, Poetry Calendar 2008, and Poetry Calendar 2009 (Alhambra Publishing, Brussels); A Students' Treasury of Texas Poetry (TCU Press); ), Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists (Trinity University Press); and Inclined to Speak (University of Arkansas Press) and are forthcoming in a number of journals and anthologies. A feature chapter on Marian Haddad, her writing and opinions on writing, appears in The Good Writer's Kit published by National Geographic School Publishing (previously Hampton-Brown); she has also written for The State of Texas via Pearson Educational Measurement.
Her poem, We Are Born with Names, was included in a theater performance entitled Lost Recipes, a production whose efforts were to create dialogue between Jewish and Arabic women. Her chapbook, Saturn Falling Down, compiled under the request of Texas Public Radio in correlation with their Hands-On Poetry Workshops, was printed in April 2003 as a limited edition. Her first full-length collection of poems, Somewhere between Mexico and a River Called Home was published in 2004 by Pecan Grove Press and approaches its fourth printing (Top Five Book List, El Paso Times October 2004; recommended book by both Valparaiso Review and Small Press Review).
Previous appearances include speaking at Tufts University in Boston, The Border Literature Monte Series at Texas A&M Laredo, The Nature Writers' Series at The University of North Texas, The American-Arab Anti-Discriminatory Committee Conference in Washington, D.C., The El Paso Writers' League, COAS Books in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and DG WILLS BOOKS in La Jolla, California. She read her work and was featured on a panel entitled, Is Everything Political? hosted by Radius of Arab-American Writers at Hunter College in New York City.
Haddad was awarded an endowment from The National Endowment for the Humanities to study philosophy at the graduate level through an NEH Seminar at The University of Notre Dame. She participated in graduate studies at Emerson College in The Prose Poem and earned her M.F.A in Creative Writing -- Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction at San Diego State University where she served as an associate editor for Poetry International Vol. III.
She founded and directed The Writing Center at Bowie High School, five minutes from the US/Mexico Border.
She has co-produced and moderated Telly-Award winning television shows for San Diego's Instructional Television which currently air and which focus on renowned poets dialoguing with young students of poetry. She has moderated television shows on the arts for programs aired on San Antonio's Cable Channel 20. Her work has been profiled on internet radio (WSRADIO) and on The Hallmark Channel, as well as other media venues. Haddad was featured as Arab-American of the Month (Feb. 2006) by Shems Magazine alongside actors Tony Shalhoub and Kathy Najimy and Dr. James Zogby.
In the Health and Wellness Field: Marian Haddad has led workshops and lectures on WRITING YOUR WAY INTO HEALING: DEALING WITH DEATH, CANCER, AND AGING, classes held at Our Lady of the Lake University on a continuing education basis in the early 2000s. In addition, Haddad has consulted with pharmacist, Dr. George Tohme, of the Dallas area and has edited his 270-page book entitled, Lifestyle Makeover for Diabetics:
A Guide No Diabetic Can Live Without. In addition, Haddad has edited a guide for this same pharmacist entitled, Smoking Cessation which is still in progress with the author.
She is involved in the literary community with various doctors inasmuch as notifying the local and national community, on a voluntary basis, about their medical and literary achievements
(Dr. Abraham Verghese and Dr. Gerald Winakur).
Marian Haddad comes from a family which includes a minimum of 15 physicians, ranging from nephews, an uncle and numerous cousins practicing as neurologists, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, internists and dentists in The States and internationally in Germany and The Middle East.
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Bill Schnoebelen Interview with an Ex Vampire (4 of 9) Multi - Language
According to Bill, there was a movie in the 80s called The Howling that featured a real werewolf transformation on camera because the special effect guys at the time couldn't make a transformation look authentic.
Bill said they closed the set and filmed it. (I'll try to upload it if it doesn't get flagged for copyright infringement).
This is part 4 in a 9 part series on the rituals and lifestyle associated with vampires.
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Suspense: I Won't Take a Minute / The Argyle Album / Double Entry
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.
Words at War: Barriers Down / Camp Follower / The Guys on the Ground
Alfred Friendly (December 30, 1911 -- November 7, 1983) was an American journalist, editor and writer for the Washington Post. He began his career as a reporter with the Post in 1939 and became Managing Editor in 1955. In 1967 he covered the Mideast War for the Post in a series of articles for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1968. He is credited with bringing the Post from being a local paper to having a position of national prominence.
Friendly was born in Salt Lake City. After graduating in from Amherst College in 1933, he came to Washington, DC to look for work. A former professor who worked in the Commerce Department hired him, but his appointment to a high position at such a young age earned him criticism in the press and he resigned. For the next year he travelled the country in the middle of the Depression, eventually returning to become a reporter at the Washington Daily News, writing a column for government employees. Less than two years later he was hired to write the same kind of column for the Post, where he was soon assigned to cover war mobilization efforts and anti-war strikes.
When World War II broke out he entered the Army Air Force, rising to the rank of Major before leaving in 1945. While in the military he was involved in cryptography and intelligence operations, finally becoming the second in command at Bletchley Park, and the highest ranking American officer there. After the war he remained in Europe as press aide to W. Averell Harriman supervisor of the Marshall Plan.
A year later he returned to Washington and to the Post, where he became assistant managing editor in 1952 and managing editor in 1955. In 1966 he became an associate editor and a foreign correspondent based out of London. Hearing rumors of war in 1967 he headed to the Middle East where he was present throughout the 1967 War and wrote his series of award winning articles. He retired from the Post in 1971, though he continued writing occasional editorials and book reviews.
During his retirement he wrote several books, and after his death the Alfred Friendly Foundation was established. It administers the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships to bring foreign journalists to the United States for internships at prominent newspapers. The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds a collection of his papers.
The Great Gildersleeve: Leila Returns / The Waterworks Breaks Down / Halloween Party
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.