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- 5 Fair Trade Clothing Sites to Check Out! - Associated Content
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| 5 Fair Trade Clothing Sites to Check Out! - Associated Content Posted: 20 Aug 2010 11:10 AM PDT According to the Fair Trade Federation (FTF) website, "Fair Trade is an economic partnership based on dialogue, transparency, and respect." The principle that Fair Trade is founded on is very noble and ambitious.  1. Fair Indigo Fair Indigo is a clothing website with many fine pieces. Most of their fashion costs a pretty penny, but they make sure to provide high-quality pieces for their customers. Women, men, baby, and kid's clothing is available. If you peruse the website it is easy to see that they have some wonderful items to be purchased. Fair Indigo even sells beautiful jewelry too add that extra flair to an outfit. One of their unique items include a Boheme bag that is reusable. Buyers can use this bag for shopping or carrying everyday items. Another interesting buy would be their best-selling Alpaca Scarf. It is 100% eco-friendly and totally fashionable! 2. Global Mamas Global Mamas is another interesting store that provides Fair Trade clothing. Their clothes are appropriate for all ages and sizes. Their pieces also have attractive, lively patterns. One of the aspects that attracts buyers to Global Mamas would be the name. It truly encompasses what Fair Trade is about. It is not about just one person but everyone around the globe. Some of their best sellers include reversible aprons, decorative ornaments, and beaded bracelets. Not only can these things add style to your wardrobe, but they can add style to your home. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Kids corner: Galaxy Theatres, Jaycox fund combine to help kids - Tacoma News Tribune Posted: 19 Aug 2010 01:42 PM PDT The cool people of Galaxy Theatres at the Uptown Gig Harbor Shopping Center have scored again with Jaycox Gig Harbor Police Benevolent Fund-sponsored movies for kids every Wednesday at $2 per kid. Every one of those dollars goes to the GHPD's program to collect items for kids in need. The cool people of Galaxy Theatres at the Uptown Gig Harbor Shopping Center have scored again with Jaycox Gig Harbor Police Benevolent Fund-sponsored movies for kids every Wednesday at $2 per kid. Every one of those dollars goes to the GHPD's program to collect items for kids in need. "Galaxy's community service is a wonderful project for kids' movies during summer break," Fred Labayen said. To daycare employee Brianna Jones, "Having a kid-friendly outing for summer is a great, inexpensive way to have a bonding activity each week with kids of our community." Annie Rozinka, 8, said the movie was great, "and I am glad I have a home" — which the main character in the movie "A Bug's Life" did not. Lindsay Danaher, 10, said she "would like to share stuff with people who don't have stuff." "A great opportunity for both the kids and the community," said Katrina Cardinal who, with 4-year-old Thomas and 2-year-old Kate, said Galaxy Theatres are offering a wonderful service to the GHPD. "It's so wonderful to be able to offer these kids' movies at such a discount," said Amber Burns, an assistant manager at Galaxy Theatres. "Watching kids get excited about seeing the movies on the big screen for the first time is adorable." Snow White to play at Encore!I happen to have a passion for Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." When my friend Kathy McGilliard told me that Encore! Theater and PenMet Parks were parterning for a family friendly musical, I wanted to share the news because I've often witnessed the magic McGilliard imparts on her productions. The show opens at 7 p.m. Friday in the open-air amphitheater at Sehmel Homestead Park, 10123 78th Ave. NW and Sehmel Drive in Gig Harbor. It will be performed six times on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 29. "I think it will be fun to be a bird because it's fun flying and being around Snow White," said Naomi Cummings, 6, who plays a bird in the production. "My favorite character is the queen because she's really mean for pretend. I like being in the show because you get to be around other kids, and you are not the only one on stage." Jamin "Ticklish" Cummings, 9, who plays said she thinks she's a good actor because she likes her character, "Happy." "I used to be afraid, but Kathy is helping me by putting me in front of other people," Jamin said. "This is my first play, and I think it will be good." Count on it! Jamin's mom, Rebecca Cummings, said she was surprised by how much work is involved, even for a show as familiar as this one. "There are so many personalities and personal skills that come to bear," Rebecca said. "Every production is like a little miracle, a true communal experience. We would be honored to have the community at large come to share in the fruits of our labors!" Tickets are available at the site one hour prior to showtime. They are $10 for adults, seniors, military and teens and $5 for children 12 and younger. Cash or check only. There is terraced seating, but your own blankets or lawn chairs are recommended. A jacket also is encouraged for when the sun goes down. Maleah Cummings, 4, who plays a baby bird, said, "Snow White is my favorite because she sings a lot of songs. My other favorite is the prince because he's a good singer. I like Ticklish because he's a good dancer, and he is my brother!" She also liked all the dwarves' names. Here's a test for you: How many of the dwarfs can you name? Rebecca Cummings, who plays a "crone," said it's a "great opportunity to share in my children's artistic pursuits in a formal setting. Not every day do you get to pretend with your kids in front of people! "If ever there was a way to get your kids to cooperate, it's getting them on stage together," she said. "Plus, now we all can sing the same songs in the car." Directed by McGilliard, the cast boasts the talents of Kasey Dickason as Snow White, Colin Briskey as the Prince and Heather Cummings as the Queen. Fifteen other actors round out the cast. For information, call 253-858-2282 or visit www.encoretheater.org. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Posted: 20 Aug 2010 09:59 AM PDT
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: During your recent IFC Live chat (watch from 28:00), the most fun you had was reminiscing about the time on your 2008 tour when Scott rolled off the stage during the Headcrusher encore in San Francisco and fell into the orchestra pit and down some stairs. What's one thing you know you shouldn't laugh at another guy in the troupe for, but you just can't help yourself? Dave Foley [putting away his phone after reading a text]: Apparently I looked hot on TV last night. Kevin McDonald: Who said that? Foley: A girl. Mark McKinney: That's laughable. Scott Thompson: Dave's acrimonious divorce would be one. McKinney: Bracket-s-closed brackets. [Foley laughs] Foley: My father's stroke was good for some laughs in 2000. Thompson: Yes, it was. My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity. [He filmed Death Comes to Town in between chemo and radiation after being diagnosed with large B-cell non-Hodgkin's gastric lymphoma last spring.] McKinney: I don't know. Something better. Foley: Better than cancer? McKinney: What do we actually laugh at Scott for? McDonald: Well, there's the video incident in the tour bus when he was mad at us and storms back to the bus and plays Portal. Foley: Angrily. McKinney: It's the best footage we ever shot. WATCH McDonald: What he didn't know that Mark knew was that you could watch what Scott was playing on the screen [in the front of the bus], and he was having trouble with part of the game. McKinney: You had to figure out a way to get the gate to open, and Scott was like stoned and in a bad mood. Thompson: Stoned and angry. Foley: And stuck in the first room. McKinney: Scott was in the back of the bus all by himself, and we were at the front just f—ing killing ourselves, and we filmed it. The best was when the computer voice comes on. We could hear it. McDonald: "You have failed. Attempt again." We heard that for a half hour. "You have failed. Attempt again." And it sounded like the voice was getting mad. "YOU HAVE FAILED. ATTEMPT AGAIN." We knew we had a month before we could tell him that we filmed it, because he would have been angry. McKinney: But the thing is, we spent a lot of money making [the videos] "Car F—ers" and "Rape Kevin," which were very funny pieces for the tour. Thompson: We thought they'd go viral — nothing. But this one went viral. The funniest thing I've ever done, I'm not even in it. McKinney: You are. Thompson: Well, sort of. McKinney: When I showed it to him, Scott was like, [in dramatic voice] "I can't believe you posted that. How dare you?" Three minutes later, 90,000 views. "90,000 views?" Thompson: That's how shallow I am in a nutshell. "I can't believe you posted my actual bowel movement. What? A million hits? A MILLION HITS? I'm gonna s— more often! This could turn into a series!" WATCH That's a segue into my next question: Name one sketch you'd like another troupe member to finally admit was as funny as you always said it was. McDonald: Over the years, we've slowly admitted to everything. McKinney: [To Thompson] Admit the Cops are good. Admit it now. Foley: [To McKinney] Admit the Hookers were good. McKinney: That was their revenge sketch for the Cops, which I think turned out to be quite funny. They were so jealous of the insane success of the Cops. Foley: Of course the Cops sprang forth from my body, like parasitic twins. McDonald: On that sketch that we did "On the Run." Foley: 'Cause it was snowing, and we had to wait for the snow to stop. So they improvised. McDonald: I was in the car with Mark and Bruce all day as they were doing the characters, as the characters were born. WATCH Thompson: [To McDonald] I'll admit Gay's Bar. McDonald: You've done that already. That was a scene I wrote that was killed by Scott. I was a bar owner, and his name happened to be Gay, and so it was called Gay's Bar, but people kept thinking it was a gay bar. So I'd be like, "I love you gentlemen very much, I just want to let you know this is a sports bar. You gentlemen are invited, but I want you to know it's not a gay bar. My name is Gay. It's Gay's Bar." We had an actor who looked like Rocket Richard, a famous hockey player, and he had a yellow scarf around his neck, and a bunch of gay men were lined up to get his autograph. Thompson: And I thought it was very homophobic. McDonald: One of Scott's best friends was an extra. We finished taping the scene in front of a live audience. I was about to say, "Thanks for doing it," and he just walked by me. Foley: "I'll take your money, but not your gratitude." And wasn't there a division over Buddy Cole at one point? McDonald: Remember we were against the enormously successful softball scene. The four of us didn't get that at all. McKinney: I think that was production value jealousy because it was a big shoot. Thompson: No, it was one night! McDonald: I remember we didn't like the script, and then we didn't like the edit of it. Foley: I just kept saying, "So Buddy's magic now?" Thompson: They didn't like Buddy when he had magic. McDonald: He got off the stool and did the cartwheel [and came up holding sparklers]. We were totally against it. We saw the edit, and the four of us didn't laugh at all, and we were all convinced it was going to be a failure, and then it got the biggest laughs. Foley: And it ends with a Bugs Bunny gag. Thompson: It had a Bugs Bunny gag, how could you not love that? It's the most famous Buddy piece. McDonald: When I watched it with the audience, I thought Oh, it's funny, I was wrong. Thompson: I didn't really know that you guys hated it that much. Foley: We kept telling you. Thompson: I don't remember, I blocked that out. McDonald: You were mad at us. WATCH What sketch would Bruce want one of you to admit was funny? Foley: All of them. Thompson: Love and Sausages? Foley: I've admitted that one. I did hate that while we were shooting it [pretends to weep] 'cause it was taking all the money and time. WATCH Thompson: Oh, I know… No, I still don't like it: 30 Second Stories. They are these little puppet shows. I can't even pretend. I still hate it. McDonald: Oh, Steps! I would like Mark and Bruce to admit that Steps was funny. Thompson: I would too, Mark. McKinney: I'd have to see it again. Thompson: There's a ton of them! Foley: You should see all of them again. One of them has Gus Van Sant as an extra. Thompson: We're watching a Hollywood gay movie where the gay men never touch — they wore so many clothes they can't even get close to each other — but the woman is bare-breasted the whole time. It was mocking the way gays were portrayed on American television. We go to a movie, I make out with a guy, really quite heavily, and there's Gus Van Sant sitting right behind us. Foley: Eating popcorn. McDonald: He was there for a couple days just taking pictures of all of us. Thompson: I didn't even know you didn't like the Steps. McDonald: Am I making that up? I don't remember them actually not liking it, I just assumed they didn't like it. It was low-key. To me it was like a little comic strip. Foley: I was such a cute little chicken in those days. Thompson: You were. And that's what Johnny Depp seems to be impersonating in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dave in the Steps. And then you did him again in that movie — Foley: With Brendan Fraser [Blast From the Past]. Yeah, pretty much. Slightly toned down version. Thompson: [To McKinney] You don't even know who Riley is? McKinney: No. Thompson: Smitty, Riley, and Butch? McKinney: Who's Smitty? Thompson: Kevin's Smitty, Dave's Riley, and I'm Butch. McKinney: [Applauds] Oh, okay, good. Those are great names. Foley: And who's this Headcrusher? WATCH Speaking of faulty memories: The miniseries starts with Shuckton waiting for news on its bid to host the 2028 Olympics, which made me think of how during NBC's coverage of this year's Vancouver Games, Mary Carillo filed a segment on Canadian comedy that did not include a mention of the Kids in the Hall. Foley: It was a national embarrassment. An international embarrassment. Agreed. What clip would you have chosen to represent you? Thompson: Shirling! Shirling was this things of Mark's which was basically a strange Scottish sport that combines, what is it curling and — McKinney: No, it was people chained around a spitting cobra in kilts. Foley: And they get blinded. I remember shooting that because I had the worst flu I've ever had in my life. I had like a 104° fever and so did half our crew. McDonald: Or you could just be crass and commercial and have them show The Headcrusher because it's our most famous thing. McKinney: Exactly. Foley: But I think they did the tasteful thing in completely ignoring us. Thompson: Maybe we're too controversial or something? I don't know. McDonald: No, maybe they didn't hear of us. McKinney: See, at this point, Bruce would say, "We got as big as we could get without actually getting big." That's exactly the niche that we are in. WATCH
When I spoke to Bruce during filming, he said you weren't actually telling the child actor who plays Rampop, the adopted son of the mayor and Marilyn, what was going on in the scenes. You'd just tell him what to do. What is the worst lie you told that boy? Foley: That this was the start of big things for him. McKinney: That night shooting was fun. It's like a camp out with hot dogs and marshmallows and a film crew. Foley: For a while, he was going, "I'm up at midnight! I'm up at midnight!" "I'm up at four in the morning. What is wrong with these people?" And what's the worst lie Bruce told him? Foley: That a parent's love is unconditional. Bruce also said — Thompson: You and Bruce. McKinney: "Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce." He said — McDonald: [In his female voice] "Bruce said…" He said there were sketches done of Death's codpiece, and — Thompson: They were all done by Mark because he's always drawing his c—. Foley: We hired the late Moshe Safdie to design it. McKinney: There's a museum of flea circuses inside my codpiece designed by the great Moshe Safdie with a cantilever thrust. Foley: It's elegant. Where I was headed with this — Foley: [Sips his coffee, faux belligerently shouts] Who cares? He said there were sketches and like all things, you debated the decision to death. What is the strangest conversation you've ever had? McDonald: I know in Brain Candy it was "Happiness Pie," how thick or thin the consistency of the pie should be. McKinney: We had to dance in a gigantic pie, and yes, there was a debate about how gelatinous the liquid should be. McDonald: Every lunch the [director] Kelly Makin and the whole team would be discussing it, and then when we get there — Thompson: It's orange water. McKinney: Just suffice it to say that if we collectively added up all the man hours we have spent arguing about unbelievably arcane trivia, then you could actually give life to another life form. Foley: There is the theory that for every decision we took endless hours to make, the opposite decision was made after endless hours of debate in another universe. WATCH More Kids in the Hall: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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