Robert Ford and Trent Adkins shaped the bold, subversive, gossipy, funny, deeply engaged voice of
Thing, felled by the AIDS pandemic in 1993.
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Thing published ten issues between November 1989 and summer 1993. Zine cofounder Trent Adkins appears on the cover of the third issue, pictured here at lower left. Amber Huff In February 2021, dance-music site Selector republished a list of 100 important house records taken from a 1992 issue of a short-lived Chicago zine called
Crossfade. Chicago s House: A Checklist originally ran in November of that year as part of a story package about house history, sandwiched between a brief but trenchant essay by copublisher and editor Terry Martin on the birth and evolution of Chicago s underground dance culture and a six-page interview Martin had conducted with the godfather of house, Frankie
As kickoffs go, this one is Rockettes level.
A collaboration between a Palm Beach couple and two Palm Beach foundations has created a $250,000 matching gift to support the food programs of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County.
More Palm Beach society news here.
The gift from Christine and Bob Stiller, the Marjorie S. Fisher Fund, and the Smith Brothers Family Foundation kicks off the Boys & Girls Clubs 50th anniversary year.
Quite the
grand battement, no?
The gift also is a show of support for tonight s No Show Winter Ball, the virtual event to replace funding lost from the traditional Winter Ball, which was canceled because of COVID-19 concerns.
KINGSTON – Health care providers, local leaders and pharmacists are scrambling to acquire scarce coronavirus vaccines, as the public bombards them with requests and state leaders keep expanding eligibility.
Some local governments across New York, particularly counties, have set up local vaccination sites for the general public, and vaccines are trickling into a handful of local providers such as hospitals.
But as of Wednesday, Orange County’s government had just 200 doses and Sullivan County’s government had none, while Ulster County officials said they were on pace to expend their 1,200 doses some time on Friday. And they did not know when they might receive a new shipment of vaccines.