OLDBOY
“GONE”
The original plan for Oldboy — Mike Kinsella (bass, vocals), Greg Hyland (drums), Shawn Brewster (guitar, vocals), Joshua Davis (guitar) and Chris Volpe (banjo) — was to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by getting together with a few other groups and playing cover songs.
The Savoy Cocktail Book proclaims one cocktail has “been responsible for more proposals than any other cocktail that has ever been mixed.” It’s the Leap Year Cocktail and it was first served at the Savoy Hotel in London on Leap Day in 1928. Feb. 29 is the day folk tradition allows ladies to propose to their beaus.
If you’re planning a proposal today, mix this elixir for luck.
The Leap Year Cocktail
Ingredients
2 ounces gin
½ ounce Grand Marnier
½ ounce sweet vermouth
¼ ounce fresh lemon juice
Directions
- Stir and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Serve with twist of lemon.
Source: Hannah Boen
Hip-hop
Hometown: Cleveland
Years performing: Five
Day gigs: Barista, producer, clothing retail store salesman, sneaker store owner
Cleveland hip-hop act Keyel — Antoine “Twizz” Franklin, Vince “Eso” Manzano, Garry “Holy” Barnes and Paul “PS” Simmons — has finally crafted its own Midwest sound, which is the driving force behind the act’s debut EP, “CLVLND. CTY. CNQRS.”
“I guess you’d call it a hip-hop album that takes its roots from funk and soul, as well as experimental,” said DJ Manzano, a 2007 Cleveland Heights High School graduate.
“We just kind of push the boundaries of what we’re doing into a regular realm of hip-hop.
Nellie Doneva/Reporter-News Tom Perini shows Miss Frontier Texas contestants how to keep a cooking fire going to at Perini Ranch Steakhouse on Tuesday.
BUFFALO GAP — They’re familiar with the classroom, but 30 Abilene college women have some unexpected homework this week after their first frontier life training session as part of the Miss Frontier Texas scholarship pageant contest.
The women traveled Tuesday to Perini Ranch Steakhouse, where Tom Perini showed them the ins and outs of making a chicken-fried steak over an open flame.
The training session was meant to prepare the women for one aspect of a series of competitions that will take one contestant to the title of Miss Frontier Texas and a $3,000 scholarship.
Freshman, sophomore and junior students are competing in the first pageant organized by Abilene downtown museum Frontier Texas! a
Though Houston’s “Greatest Hits” CD sold enough to make it the sixth biggest selling album in the land last week, its age makes it ineligible from appearing in the Top 200. It does, however, top Billboard’s Catalogue Album list, with sales of 63,853.
Still, McCartney’s album, as well as most others on the chart, had a full week to tally those numbers. Houston’s boost came from just a single day, since Nielsen SoundScan cuts off its counting on Sunday night (for the Wednesday chart).
Expect Whitney’s disk to sell far more by the time next week’s chart hits.
In the meantime, Houston’s self-titled debut disk also made the Top Catalogue Chart, at No. 5.