Lobos Send 13 Athletes to the NCAA West Regionals
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Thirteen track and field athletes from The University of New Mexico will represent the school and state in the NCAA West Regional tournament, tabbed to take place Wednesday through Saturday in College Station, Texas. Events for UNM will start Thursday.
The top 12 competitors from each individual event will advance from the Preliminary Rounds to the NCAA Championship, which will take place June 9-12 in Eugene, Ore.
On the women’s side, ten athletes qualified in seven different events. Kicking off for the Lobos will be Steffi Jones in the women’s 1,500m run at 5:30 p.m. MT. Tianna Holmes will then compete in the women’s 400m and 200m, tabbed to take place at 6:25 p.m. MT and 7:45 p.m. MT respectively. Closing out the UNM events on Thursday will be Hannah Miller in the women’s 10k, which will start at 8:10 p.m. MT.
Vision Quest
We may not be Hollywood, but Spokane and the surrounding area has occasionally taken a starring role in major theatrical releases sometimes as itself and sometimes as other cities, but most often in the role of Anytown, U.S.A. (And no, the
Red Dawn remake and the 2019 comedy
Tag were not filmed in the Inland Northwest, despite being set here.) From a Steven Spielberg fantasy to a thriller by horror master John Carpenter, here are some notable films shot in and around Eastern Washington.
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Why Would I Lie? (1980)
One of the first major features to use Spokane as a backdrop was this long-forgotten comedy starring Treat Williams as a compulsive liar who adopts a precocious kid and tries to track down the boy s mother. The film was critically panned and was never released on home video in the U.S.
28 popular TV shows you probably didn’t know were filmed on Staten Island
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island has seen its share of the small screen over the years even if you didn’t always know it.
Many TV and streaming shows have used the borough as a backdrop. While some have referenced Staten Island, others have transformed the Island into unrecognizable spots.
All that said, here are 28 shows you may not know were filmed on Staten Island.
Around 2008, The CW’s
“Gossip Girl” took over the St. George Theatre and a major part of Hyatt Street for filming purposes. According to those who recall the shoot, production crew spent two days taking down the theater’s elaborate Christmas tree and other holiday decorations in December 2008.