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The opposition Sikkim Democratic Front received a massive jolt when about 5,000 members and senior leaders shifted their allegiance to the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha at a mass joining programme here on Tuesday.
The new entrants were welcomed to the SKM by party president and Sikkim chief minister P. S. Tamang (Golay) by offering them khadas. Among the senior SDF leaders who switched to the SKM included vice-president (organisation) and former minister O.T. Lepcha, former minister Menlom Lepcha, former advisor of the urban development department Sher Hang Subba and former chairperson of Sikkim OBC Board and women’s leader Bina Rai.
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Update 9 a.m. Tuesday Feb. 23: Jerry Springer called from his Sarasota home to talk about his old pal Pat Barry, and told me how and why Pat left radio to become WLWT-TV s main weatherman in 1984. It was Springer s idea.
Springer says he suggested to general manager Tony Kiernan that they hire Barry in an attempt to replicate the success of Willard Scott, NBC s hugely popular
Today show weatherman who was not a meteorologist.
Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie Pat Barry was a big name on local radio, on Q102. Instead of hiring a meteorologist, I told Tony, Why not spice up our newscasts with this big, funny, boisterous personality? He could be our Willard Scott.
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Pat Barry, who parlayed his Q102 popularity into a Greater Cincinnati radio and TV career spanning five decades, died of COVID-19 Saturday afternoon, Feb. 20. He was 69.
The Springfield, Ohio, native burst upon WKRQ-FM’s airwaves in 1974, playing Top 40 hits, and became one of the best known TV/radio personalities in town, thanks to his welcoming smile, loyalty to friends and self-deprecating humor.
Pat Barry in the WKRQ-FM (Q102) studio in the early 1980s.
Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie
He liked to joke that he started his career in his hometown at a really big station – it had 12 pumps!
Barry, who had been on a ventilator at Christ Hospital all February, also worked for WLWT-TV, WXIX-TV, Fox Sports Ohio, WLW-AM, WKRC-AM, WMOJ-FM, WSAI-AM, WDJO-FM, WNKR-FM/WNKN-FM and Hamilton s old WOKV-FM. He started in radio at Springfield s WIZE-AM (1340) while in high school.
Mike Muthu on adapting ‘The Burglar’s Christmas’
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Theatre director Mike Muthu on adapting the short story for a film format, and why he feels virtual plays defeat the purpose of theatre
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Theatre director Mike Muthu on adapting the short story for a film format, and why he feels virtual plays defeat the purpose of theatre
For the past 20 years, veteran theatreperson Michael (Mike) Muthu has been directing plays to raise funds for Mellow Circle’s Prathyasha, a home for HIV positive children.
If not for the pandemic, this would have been Mike’s 21st play for them. His plan was to adapt Willa Cather’s short story,
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