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Walter Yenkosky, Director of Operations for Orange County Music and Dance, a non-profit performing arts school in Irvine, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer effective immediately, it was announced today by Doug Freeman, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of OCMD.
OCMD is a community performing arts school dedicated to providing high quality education, training and performance opportunities in music and dance for students from ages 18 months to 18 years old. Featuring a diverse student body, the school’s mission is to make the arts accessible to every child, and to provide all children the opportunity to learn music and dance, regardless of their family’s ability to pay.
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Willie and weed are two foundational tenets of this here alt-weekly, so when an opportunity presented itself, however tangentially, to combine these loves, we leapt at it.
This week s sprawling cover package – just in time for 4/20 – includes Doug Freeman s look at Luck Presents, the folks behind the annual Luck Reunion musical showcase held at Willie Nelson s ranch and now the go-to producing company for livestream events like Willie s 4th of July Picnic, Farm Aid, the Long Center s Good Vibes Only, and next week s cannabis convention, Luck Summit: Planting the Seed. Jessi Cape gets further into the Luck Summit, the Cannabis Voter Project, and the cheeky marketing push to re-dub the time between April 20 and 29 the High Holidays, while Kevin Curtin goes deep on what s happening with cannabis reform (currently a topic of interest in the Texas Lege) and Clara Wang profiles local coffee and CBD truck Radix House Coffee Shop. Roundin
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Pre-Form, Future Museums latest release for renowned Austin electronic outfit Holodeck Records, experienced what lead sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord calls synchronicity. It s been an incredibly surreal experience regarding the timing of it all, he states about the release and the recent birth of his son.
The album puffs and drenches in an unusual clarification, each notion more defining than the one before it. Where much of Future Museums work typically introduces varying levels of haze, this iteration – based on Lord s lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences – finds the local producer in a period of evolving clarity. The all electronic
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