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Wimbush, wife denied bond in child abuse case Recardo Wimbush, right, and attorney Teri Thompson watch the testimony of a police investigator Thursday in Gwinnett County magistrate court. Wimbush and his wife were denied bond in the child cruelty case against them. (Staff Photo: Tyler Estep)
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LAWRENCEVILLE — Believing a standard childhood immunization had triggered the negative change in their son’s behavior, the Wimbushes turned to their Hebrew faith and “went back to the Old Testament.”
According to testimony, an eye for an eye meant the boy, who turned 14 on Wednesday, would be confined to a locked basement room for about 18 months, isolated from his nine siblings and everything else. His only form of entertainment was peeling paint from the same walls where disciplinary words like “rude” were
scrawled. “He said he did not like it,” Gwinnett County police Investigator Felicia Churchill said. “But that he deserved it.” Gwinnett County Chief Magistrate Judge Kristina Blum on Thursday denied bond for Therian and Recardo Wimbush, the latter a former captain of the Georgia Tech football
team. Blum also bound over the charges of firstdegree child cruelty and false imprisonment filed against each parent, meaning the case against them will move on to superior court. Before those decisions were made, more details were revealed through the
See WIMBUSH, Page 9A
Cops look into identity fraud cases Two luxury cars taken from Duluth dealership By Keith Farner keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com
Gwinnett County police are investigating two identity fraud cases that involve luxury cars taken from United BMW in Duluth. Cpl. Jake Smith said detectives don’t believe the cases are related, but are looking into that possibility. A white woman in her early 30s stole an Audi S7, valued by police at $76,000, using a false identity before she drove the car away from the dealership on May 21. Atlanta Police later recovered the vehicle, but the woman hasn’t been identified or captured by police. Police have a fake ID the woman used, See CAR FRAUD, Page 9A
Longtime educator Beauty Baldwin is opening a charter school in Norcross at the site of the former Hopewell Christian Academy. Baldwin began her career in Schley County, near Columbus, in 1963 before she came to Gwinnett and Buford. She said she’s motivated to instill an elementary foundation and simply doing what she knows is good for kids. (Staff Photos: Keith Farner)
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New charter school to feature performing arts By Keith Farner
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Gwinnett Police obtained this photo from the fake ID used by a female suspect where the woman reportedly stole an Audi S7, valued at $76,000, using a false identity. (Special Photo)
Study: GCPS ranks high in productivity By Keith Farner keith.farner@gwinnettdailypost.com
When measured for educational spending, cost of living and students in poverty, Gwinnett County Public Schools received high marks from a new study released this week. The Center for American Progress examined nearly every major school district in the country — nearly 7,000 districts in 40 states — and said GCPS posted higher-than-average results. The study was conducted by Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow, and adopted the business world’s definition of productivity to education. The CAP website said, “this project See EDUCATION, Page 9A
NORCROSS — Beauty Baldwin has an issue about kids finishing high school. There aren’t enough doing it. The problem stretches from Gwinnett across the country, and the long-time educator who has worked in Gwinnett County Public Schools and led Buford City Schools believes she has a solution. While there have been programs established to combat the dropout problem, Baldwin believes reaching children as early as possible and introducing a way for them to want to stay in school is key. She hopes to do that by opening in August the North Metro Academy of Performing Arts, the newest charter school in Gwinnett, which will open with kindergarten through sixth grade, but eventually reach eighth grade. By high school, Baldwin believes it’s too late to reverse bad habits. “They know they have to be in school,” she said. “Some of them are waiting around to drop out, so all they do is cause problems in school, get suspended. Go back to school, get suspended. What we want to do is catch these kids at an early
Former Buford City Schools superintendent and Gwinnett County Schools administrator Beauty Baldwin is opening a new charter school in August that focuses on the performing arts to cut down on the number of students who drop out.
the same location as the recently closed Hopewell What we want to do is catch these kids at an Christian Academy, which early age ... We’re integrating the performing fell victim to the Great arts with academics beginning in kindergarten Recession. It expects to start so that these kids can get focused on somewith about 420 students — thing, dance or voice or acting or whatever the who will wear uniforms to performing arts piece is.” curb discipline problems — and 25 staff members, includ— North Metro Academy charter school founder Beauty Baldwin ing 23 teachers, Baldwin said. age. If we can show that, the performing arts to engage The principal will be maybe we can reproduce this and motivate students who Burrell Pope, who was the model in other areas.” might otherwise struggle with principal at Hopewell ChrisWritten in a mission state- behavioral, social and emotian since 2010, and who prement to the Gwinnett and tional issues that impede their viously worked in Gwinnett Georgia school boards in its academic achievement.” County Public Schools and application, the school plans The school is located at to “integrate academics with 182 Hunter St. in Norcross, See CHARTER, Page 8A
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BUFORD — Phillips State Prison was recently honored for its commitment to fitness. The Buford prison was given the “Facility Fitness Award” at the 10th-annual Georgia Department of Corrections awards ceremony. The recipient of such an award “must be a facility that organizes competitive events, demonstrates community involvement, sponsors community fitness programs and has a personal fitness plan for its employees,” officials said. “The department promotes a a healthy lifestyle in which we encourage our employees to follow,” Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens said in a news release. “Phillips State Prison’s dedication to fitness is commendable and I urge them and others to continue to make health a priority in years to come. Phillips State Prison is located on West Rock Quarry Road in Buford.
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Two Wednesday fires add to suspected arson spree By Joshua Sharpe
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Two house fires Wednesday afternoon were the latest in a recent string of suspected arsons around Gwinnett County. The fires count as the seventh and eighth potential arsons that fire department
officials have reported since April 26, though investigators don’t believe the incidents are related. “None of these cases of arson appear to be linked together,” fire department spokesman Capt. Tommy Rutledge said. “They’re each being investigated as individual incidents.” Firefighters responded to
the first fire Wednesday at a split-level Lilburn home on Kellys Mill Drive, after a neighbor called to report the blaze. “The fire was quickly extinguished and sent smoke throughout the structure,” Rutledge said. Extensive damage was found on miscellaneous household inside the home,
which neighbors told investigators had been vacant for sometime. Rutledge said there were no utilities in the house and no other reason for the fire to start, which makes investigators suspect arson. Around 5 p.m., Firefighters responded to a two-story home on Snellville’s Cordite Loop and found a small fire
in the living room. Like the first blaze, it was quickly extinguished, Rutledge said, adding that the fire was contained to the living room. “A squatter was seen frequenting the house in the recent past, according to neighbors,” Rutledge said. “Per fire investigators, the fire appears to have been intentionally set and is cur-
rently being investigated as an act of arson.” Like the other incidents since late April, no injuries were reported in either fire Wednesday. Rutledge wasn’t immediately aware early Thursday afternoon of the statuses of the other suspected arsons, except for one that happened Monday on Ga. Highway 20 in Buford. Initially, investigators suspected arson in the fire that destroyed the home, but Rutledge said they have since determined that two young boys accidentally caused the fire. “They were trying to use it as a clubhouse,” Rutledge said. “They had used a stick and some cloth to make a torch so they could see in the dark, because they were going down into the basement of the home. That material fell on the floor and ignited combustibles on the fire floor.” Rutledge said the boys thought they had the fire put out but it sparked back up. They made it out unharmed. They will be charged with criminal damage to property instead of arson, because they didn’t intend to start the fire, Rutledge said.
Firefighters work a small blaze at a Lilburn home Wednesday afternoon. (Special Photo)
Lawrenceville, Aurora to host Chalk Walk By Deanna Allen
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Inspired by the upcoming production of “Mary Poppins,” the Aurora Theatre and the Lawrenceville Downtown Development Authority invite the Gwinnett community to celebrate the arts with a Chalk Walk. Artists of all ages are invited to showcase their chalk drawing talents between 9 a.m. and noon July 19 on the Lawrenceville Square. World-renowned chalk artist Anthony Cappetto will also be on hand to unveil a 3-D chalk work of art drawn on a 20-by-20 canvas. “We are thrilled to partner with the city of Lawrenceville to bring the internationally known chalk artist, Anthony Cappetto, back to his region,” said Anthony Rodriguez, the theater’s producing artistic director. “At Aurora, our goal is to create accessible arts experiences for our entire community, and everyone can remember being a child drawing on the sidewalk. Imaginative experiences like the Chalk Walk tap into that magic place where anything is possible. I can’t wait to see Mr. Cappetto’s finished masterpiece alongside the original creations of our community.” Participants are encouraged to register online at www.auroratheatre.com and bring their registration form to the Chalk Walk booth at the Lawrenceville Farmers’ Market the day of the event. Thanks to Local Republic, a downtown Lawrenceville restaurant, chalk will be provided free of charge. Designated drawing spaces for participants will be assigned at check-in. For more information visit www.facebook.com/ lawrencevillechalkwalk.
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Neomycin nixes vaccine DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 61 years old, and was anxious to get a shingles vaccine shot. I was upset to learn that, because I am allergic to neomycin, an ingredient in the vaccine, I cannot get vaccinated. I have talked to my doctor and also to a pharmacist about other options, but they don’t know of any. Do you know of other options I could use to protect myself against shingles? — B.G.P. ANSWER: If it’s a severe (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says “lifethreatening”) reaction to neomycin, then you cannot get the vaccine. There is no other way to reliably prevent getting shingles. Keeping your immune system healthy (good diet, regular exercise, good sleep) may help. However, the most important thing for you and others who haven’t been vaccinated will be to recognize shingles early and get treated immediately. Being treated early, preferably within 24 hours of the rash, can reduce the duration of symptoms. Shingles usually starts with pain, burning or itching on one side of the body in a particular location, called a dermatome. This might be a band around the torso, the top of the arm or part of the face. The classic description of the rash is a clear, fluid-filled blister on reddened skin (“dewdrop on a rose petal”), but it does not always look so classic. See your doctor immediately after any painful rash shows up in a single area of the body. Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med. cornell.edu or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Health newsletters may be ordered from www.rbmamall.com.
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Wife’s snooping creates justification DEAR AMY: I have never had reason to be concerned about my husband’s fidelity, but a single event has got me worried, and I need your advice. Last week I sat next to him, grabbed his cellphone and punched in the password (I know the password because I have seen him enter it and it’s quite simple). He looked over, saw what I was doing, and literally batted the phone out of my hand. He then proceeded to admonish me for “snooping.” When I questioned his reaction, he was adamant that he was merely protecting his privacy and
present to justify your behavior (none), I think your husband has more reason to question your fidelity (i.e., trustworthiness) than you have to question his. After all, if you witnessed him grabbing your cellphone and punching in the security code, wouldn’t you question his motives Amy Dickinson and actions? Wouldn’t you feel he was behaving in an that he was not hiding untrustworthy manner? anything. I can’t help but My point is that you feel suspicious because have created the justificaof this uncharacteristic tion for snooping (your behavior. Am I just being a husband’s “uncharacworrywart? teristic” reaction) — by — Worried Wife snooping! DEAR WORRIED: Going through someone Based on the evidence you else’s cellphone is like
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WORLD Ukraine plans against rebels KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces regained more ground but sustained further casualties on Thursday in clashes with separatists, while two Western allies urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin to exert more pressure on the rebels to find a negotiated end to the conflict. Government forces have recently gained the upper hand in the three-month conflict against separatists in the Russian-speaking eastern regions in which more than 200 government troops have been killed as well as hundreds of civilians and rebel fighters. The Ukrainian military says it has a plan to deliver a “nasty surprise” to the heavily-armed separatists who have dug in in Donetsk, a city of 900,000 people, after being pushed out of their bastion in Slaviansk last weekend.
world&nation Congress eyes immigration changes By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell Reuters
WASHINGTON — Legislation to allow President Barack Obama to more easily deport thousands of Central American children who have migrated illegally appeared to gain steam in the U.S. Congress on Thursday as pressure grew to resolve a humanitarian crisis on the border. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner expressed support for changes to immigration law that would let the United States deport children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as quickly as it does those from Mexico. U.S. law allows Mexican minors to be sent back promptly, although there are some steps those children can take to try to remain in the United States. A 2008 victims trafficking law requires that children from countries not borPalestinian death dering the United States, including those in Central toll rises to 77 in America, be given added legal protections before Israel offensive they are deported. GAZA/JERUSALEM — “I think we all agree At least 77 Palestinians, most that the non-contiguous of them civilians, have been countries that now we’re killed in Israel’s Gaza offen- required to hold those sive, Palestinian officials said people, I think clearly we on Thursday, and militants would probably want the kept up rocket attacks on Tel language similar to what Aviv, Jerusalem and other we have with Mexico,” cities in warfare showing no Boehner told reporters. signs of ending soon. Eight Palestinian family members, including five children, were killed in an early morning air strike that destroyed at least two homes Colo. judge backs in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Palestinian Health county clerk’s gay marriage licenses ministry said. Israel’s military made no DENVER — A state comment on what would be judge in Colorado on the deadliest strike since the Thursday backed a county offensive began on Tuesday. clerk who has issued more “We have long days of than 100 marriage licenses fighting ahead of us,” Israeli to gay couples, and anothDefense Minister Moshe er county clerk in Denver Yaalon said on Thursday of said she would also begin the offensive which began issuing the permits. after a build-up of violence In a second day of following the killing of three victories for supporters of Jewish students last month gay marriage in Colorado, and the murder of a Palesa judge rejected a motion tinian teen in a suspected by the state’s attorney revenge attack. general seeking to stop Boulder County Clerk Turkey parliament Hillary Hall from handing out more licenses. recognizes Kurd Within hours, Denver County Clerk Deborah peace talks Johnson said her office ANKARA — Turkey’s would start issuing the parliament approved a legal permits on Thursday too. framework on Thursday for Noting his decision was peace talks with Kurdish part of a “fast-moving militants, in an important legal environment” nastep towards ending a three- tionwide, Boulder County decade insurgency a month District Court Judge before a presidential election. Andrew Hartman said the The bill could be a votestate had failed to meet winner for Prime Minister the high burden of proof Tayyip Erdogan, who is required for such a move hoping to pick up Kurdish against Hall, an elected support as he bids to become official. Turkey’s first directly elected president in a nationwide Teenager charged poll on Aug. 10. Turkey, a NATO member with killing soldier state, began peace talks with at Tenn. armory jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012, in NASHVILLE, Tenn. an effort to end a 30-year-old — A teenager has been insurgency that has killed arrested and charged with 40,000 people. criminal homicide in the Until now however there shooting death of a Tenhave been few legal provinessee National Guard sions for negotiating with soldier at an armory Ocalan’s banned Kurdistan southwest of Nashville, Workers’ Party, labeled a authorities said on Thursterrorist group by the Turkday. ish authorities, the European Christopher Farrar, 15, Union and the United States. is accused of gaining ac— From wire reports cess to the Perry County
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, right, and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, left, attend a Senate Appropriations hearing on “Review of the President’s Emergency Supplemental Request for Unaccompanied Children and Related Matters” on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday. (Reuters/Yuri Gripas)
In a letter to congressional leaders last week, Obama proposed giving the Department of Homeland Security additional authority to process the return and removal of unaccompanied children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Obama, battling political pressure to halt the influx of child migrants along the Texas border with Mexico, has asked Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds to address the crisis. Many Democrats and immigration advocacy
groups have strongly opposed changing the trafficking law, but congressional leaders indicated they might not block such legislation if it is tacked onto the spending bill. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday she would prefer the law be changed to give Mexican children the same protections as those from Central America. However, she said the issue should not stand in the way of quickly getting Obama the emergency funds he is seeking. Harry Reid, leader of
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Harris County Precinct 4 police officers stand at the door of a home where several people were shot to death, in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, on Wednesday. (Reuters/Daniel Kramer)
National Guard Armory on Wednesday afternoon and firing several shots, one of which struck the soldier, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Sergeant First Class Michael Braden, 45, died later at an area hospital, the bureau said. The circumstances of the shooting and its motive remain under investigation, it added. Braden served two tours during the Iraq war, in 2003 and 2007, when his unit was stationed in Kuwait to help resupply forces, the Tennessee National Guard said.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden and Senator Orrin Hatch, the panel’s ranking Republican, said their proposed bill would keep the Highway Trust Fund, which pays for highway construction and maintenance, from becoming insolvent next month while they negotiate longer-term transportation funding. The plan would use some of the funding mechanisms contained in a bill advanced on Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee, including a previously used revenue-raising move that allows companies to reduce employee pension contributions, thus boosting profits and taxable income.
Senate tax-writers agree on $10.8B transport plan Senate committee advances bill to WASHINGTON — The top Democratic and unlock cellphones Republican tax writers in the U.S. Senate announced on Thursday a $10.8 billion plan to extend federal funding for transportation projects into the summer of 2015, roughly matching legislation moving through the House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved bringing before the full Senate legislation that would give mobile-phone users the right to “unlock” their devices and use them on competitors’ wireless
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LOS ANGELES — ABC has officially confirmed that former co-host Rosie O’Donnell will be back on the daytime talk show. “It’s official! ABC confirms Rosie O’Donnell returns as co-host of #TheView w/ moderator Whoopi Goldberg for Season 18,” the show tweeted on its official Twitter account. O’Donnell will returning to “The View,” following the announcements that Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy are departing the series when the current season ends production. Producers are currently searching for additional panel members for Season 18, which reportedly include Meghan McCain, who TheWrap first reported will be guest-hosting the show on Monday. O’Donnell initially joined “The View” in 2006, gaining a reputation with her outspoken manner and liberal views. She left the following year.
the Democratic-controlled Senate, said he would not block an amendment to change the 2008 trafficking law, but would have to see what comes to the floor. More than 52,000 unaccompanied minors from the three countries have been caught trying to sneak over the border since OcTV newcomers tober, double the number ‘True Detective,’ from the same period a year earlier. ‘Orange’ storm Both Democrats and Emmys race Republicans have been LOS ANGELES — Telepressing for changes to vision newcomers “True address the child migrant issue but the money is not Detective,” a crime drama from HBO, and “Orange guaranteed. is the New Black,” a dark prison comedy from Netflix, racked up a dozen Emmy nominations each networks, something that is on Thursday in a challenge now technically illegal. to stalwarts like “Breaking The bill by Senate JudiBad” and “Modern Famciary Committee Chairman ily.” Patrick Leahy, a Democrat Online streaming comof Vermont, is similar to pany Netflix Inc., the big legislation passed by the disrupter of the Emmys last House of Representatives in February and is expected year, more than doubled its nominations for TV’s highto have bipartisan support est honors to 31 this year. when it reaches the Senate Its political thriller “House floor for a vote. of Cards,” which stars U.S. wireless carriers often tether, or “lock,” smart- Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, earned 13 nods for phones to their networks its second season. to encourage consumers HBO’s medieval thriller to renew mobile contracts. and fan favorite “Game of Consumers, for their part, Thrones” received the most can often buy new devices at a heavily subsidized price nominations — 19 — and pushed the premium cable in return for committing to service’s overall nods to 99, long-term contracts with a the most of any network for single carrier. the 14th year in a row. While cable networks Texas man and Netflix fared well, the charged with broadcast networks were shooting six dead once again shut out of the top competition, best SPRING, Texas — A drama. Last year’s winner, Texas man was charged with AMC’s gritty drug tale capital murder on Thursday “Breaking Bad,” will comafter appearing at the house pete for its final season, of his estranged wife’s rela- along with the network’s tives disguised as a FedEx ad world drama “Mad driver and gunning down a Men,” “House of Cards,” married couple and four of PBS’s British period drama their children, authorities “Downton Abbey,” “Game said. of Thrones” and “True Ronald Lee Haskell, 33, Detective.” was being held without bond “It’s a horse race besince his arrest on Wednestween ‘True Detective’ day night after the shooting and ‘Breaking Bad,’” said in the Houston suburb of Cynthia Littleton, the TV Spring, they said. editor-in-chief at trade “Mr. Haskell was married publication Variety. to a relative of the victims,” “Homeland,” a big winsaid Mark Herman, the ner in its first year, failed assistant chief deputy for to snag a nomination in the Harris County Conthe best drama category stable Precinct 4 office told despite good reviews for Reuters. the Showtime domestic“Mr. Haskell and his terrorism tale in its third spouse were divorced. I’m season. Claire Danes, who not sure what conclusion we has won best lead actress can draw from the motive for a drama for the last to attack family members,” two years, was nominated Herman said. again. — From wire reports — From wire reports
Citizen scientists out of options to rescue old NASA satellite By Irene Klotz
As ISEE-3 neared Earth’s orbit this spring, a volunteer team launched a crowd-funding camCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — International Sun-Earth Explorer-3, paign to raise money, eventually A valiant effort to put a defunct or ISEE-3. The spacecraft was ending up with nearly $160,000. NASA science satellite back to launched in 1978 to study the The group also petitioned NASA work came to a disappointing end solar wind, a continuous stream of to let it try to redirect the probe into this week after the 36-year-old charged particles flowing from the a stable orbit around Earth so it spacecraft’s propulsion system sun. could resume science operations. failed, project organizers said. A second mission to study comThe Arecibo Observatory in An ad hoc team of engineers ets followed in 1981, after which Puerto Rico offered free telescope and scientists won permission from the satellite entered a graveyard time and the group made two-way NASA to try to take control of the orbit around the sun. radio contact with ISEE-3 on May Reuters
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29. More than a month of painstaking checkouts followed. Last week, flight controllers finally coaxed a tiny thruster burn out of ISEE-3, which made it spin slightly faster, steadying it for the long series of engine firings needed to change its orbit. The trajectory shift began on Tuesday but the joy was short-lived. “We didn’t see the accelerometer moving,” Keith Cowing, one of the organizers of the ISEE-3
Reboot project, told Reuters. Initially, the team thought the spacecraft had a stuck valve, but additional troubleshooting on Tuesday and Wednesday pointed to a more serious problem: no more nitrogen to pressurize the fuel system. “We think there is a chance that the nitrogen may have been depleted,” the team wrote in a status report on the project’s website on Tuesday.
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Reform for immigration needed now WASHINGTON — There’s no objective need for President Obama to visit the TexasMexico border and see the immigration crisis firsthand, but he shouldn’t have claimed that “I’m not interested in photo ops.” The line about photo ops was so absurd that it’s a good thing he wasn’t under oath. Every president since Abraham Lincoln has been interested in photo ops. Posing for the cameras amid artfully chosen people and props is something presidents do every day. Obama is very good at it, and there are times when he actually gives the impression that he enjoys it. Not all photo ops are created equal, though. It’s easy to understand why Obama might dig in his heels over a trip to the border that would do nothing but give a false impression. Pictures of the president among a group of Central American children — some of Eugene the tens of thousands Robinson who have entered the country without papers in recent months — would suggest that our dysfunctional government is serious about addressing what has become a humanitarian crisis. Sadly, this is not true. Reckless loudmouths such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who blast Obama for “lawlessness” on immigration, are pretending not to understand that the flood of unaccompanied children is primarily caused by Obama’s adherence to the law. In 2008, George W. Bush signed legislation — passed by Congress, of course — that gives special consideration to unaccompanied minors from countries other than Canada and Mexico. Children covered by the law cannot be sent home before completion of a lengthy process to determine whether there is any reason they should be allowed to stay. This can take as long as two years. In the interim, they often stay with family members already in the country. The intent of the law was to combat human trafficking. The result was pretty much the opposite: Traffickers recognized a growth opportunity. They could guarantee parents in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras that their children, once smuggled into the United States, would not immediately be sent home; instead, they would be released to the care of relatives. If the children happened not to show up for their scheduled status hearings, it was almost certain that no one would come looking for them. Cruz is an intelligent man and surely grasps this. But he and other Republican critics pretend the influx of children — about 50,000 so far this year — is somehow due to Obama’s decision to suspend deportation of undocumented immigrants brought here as children before 2007. None of the children entering the country now would qualify for the effective amnesty that Obama has given to the “dreamers.” They do qualify, however, for the effective amnesty given by Congress and a Republican president. If Congress wants to stem the flow, it should begin work immediately on changing that 2008 law. In an election year, however, Republicans apparently believe it is more profitable to bash Obama as “soft” on illegal immigration — and pretend not to understand what’s really going on. Democrats, meanwhile, are content to use the issue as a way of pointing out GOP hostility toward Latino voters. Still, the crisis mounts. Children’s lives are being put at risk during dangerous border crossings. Facilities for processing and housing the children are overwhelmed. Several communities along the border are up in arms. The swelling numbers mean that it could take even longer to schedule the required hearings in the deportation process. Obama asked Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds to address the situation. The Senate will vote on the request soon, Majority Leader Harry Reid said this week. The response from House Republicans has been a lot of hemming, hawing, moaning and groaning about being asked to give the president a “blank check.” But Obama has spelled out exactly how the money would be used — to properly care for the children, beef up the Border Patrol and add more immigration judges, among other things. The question is whether Republicans would rather have the crisis simmer until Election Day and use it to animate the party’s far-right base, which loves to get all riled up about immigration. What should the president and Congress do? The answer could not be more obvious: comprehensive immigration reform. The system is broken. We need to fix it. Now. We won’t, though. Both Republicans and Democrats see political advantage in the status quo. Why do the people’s business when we can all argue about the president’s travel schedule instead? Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.
Creatures great, small — and upset What’s that old saying about acting? Don’t share the stage with children or animals unless you want to get upstaged? Animals are at least trying to upstage us lately. While the fauna aren’t wreaking the death, destruction and mayhem that humans normally do, they are making for interesting stories. Take for instance the great white shark. I don’t think since “Jaws” nearly 40 years ago have I heard the name of the great white shark so much. The creatures have been sinking their teeth into folks lately, most recently the man who got bitten by a shark that had been caught by another man. An Internet site referred to the shark as “agitated.” At first, this seems like one of those no kidding moments — of course, the shark was agitated. It was trying to get off a hook and
in the news. A group of animal conservationists rescued an elephant that had been in captivity for decades, kept in place with spiked chains. What made the story extraordinary were the claims that the elephant cried upon its release. Nate I had to see that for McCullough myself. I’ve looked at the photos and I’ve watched the line. But then you have to video. I’ve not seen the first wonder: How did this Inter- elephant tear. But at least net “reporter” know? the old guy is now free. If he Maybe the shark likes has emotions, I’ll go ahead biting people. Maybe he was and speculate that he’s happy. happy. No matter his emotion at Finally, scientists have the time, another news site announced a pair of discovran with the story that shark eries about ancient animals. attacks were likely to go up From British Columbia in the summer. comes evidence of tiny Now I can say, “no kidhedgehogs no bigger than ding.” your thumb, wandering the Shark attacks will go up countryside some 50 milin the summer? When more lion years ago. But it’s the people are at the beach and other discovery that took my in the water? Shocking. breath away. The mighty elephant — Researchers in South and its demeanor — is also Carolina have discovered
evidence of the largest bird to ever live. The gargantuan pelagornis sandersi, an inhabitant of Earth until just a few million years ago, had a wingspan of 20 to 24 feet. And it most likely flew. I get a little freaked out when I see one of those luna moths that are about the size of my hand flittering around a light at night. Can you imagine if you looked up to see what cast that shadow that just passed over and found out it wasn’t an airplane but a bird? I’m not sure we could know (nor would I care) what the bird’s emotional state would be, but I know what mine would be. I’d be agitated. And I’d probably cry. Email Nate McCullough at nate.mccullough@ gwinnettdailypost.com. His column appears on Fridays. For archived columns, go to www.gwinnettdailypost.com/ natemccullough.
A University of Georgia Chapel wedding Kate and Kevin, delightful young friends, were recently married at the University of Georgia Chapel, which dates back to 1832 — when a bride and groom would have been spirited away by horse and buggy following a ceremony, which would have been more like a sermon. The chapel offers an atmosphere to make a wedding that will leave you with elevated emotions. Where better for a ceremony, garnished with originality, to be hosted and embraced than in this structure located in the center of campus. The chapel’s six Doric columns remind you that there was a time when any edifice that had a religious purpose was built to reflect the best of architecture and designed to bring pause to all who entered its doors. The chapel was the finest building on campus and remains the crown jewel of the North Campus today. A perfect place for a wedding. Over the years, I have wandered into the chapel for emotional refreshment, to meditate about the past, and to pay tribute to our founding fathers and their succes-
There were readings and music, but the focal point of the afternoon was the union of a couple who grew up only a few miles from each other in the Philadelphia suburbs, with undergraduate matriculation for Kate at Rutgers and Kevin in Athens. Different Loran pursuits brought them to the Smith Classic City where romance began in a manner which sors, who at times quibbled, might have made Ripley’s privately if not openly, about Believe It or Not in another evolution. The hard liners in day. Although they were the administration usually introduced in Athens, they won out. Today, an evolufirst learned about each other tionist would be welcomed to on the campus of Ole Miss express his views to a chapel when Kate (Burkhalder) and audience. Kevin (Copp) were in official The chapel seats 433 and capacity for the UGA soccer has no acoustical imperteam, Kate representing the fections. With its giant oil sports information staff and painting of the interior of Kevin there to cover the event St. Peter’s in Rome and its for International Manageclassic Greek Revival conment Group, which has the struction, the Chapel is the broadcast rights to Bulldog most becoming building on competitions. Mutual attraccampus. tion had begun to take root. With the latest couple Their first date certainly had to marry in the chapel, the matrimonial overtones, with atmosphere was less theologi- Kevin heading to an outlet cal and more personal—the store in nearby Commerce to bride and groom each wrote buy some new jeans to wear. out vows to each other—but What brought them to not without dignity and not Athens is a charming story— without respect to the laws of Kevin was looking for a God and man. warm-weather campus and
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Kate sought a sports information opportunity in the Southeastern Conference, which had a reputation for more attractive compensation for internships. Now that you know the rest of the story, you can be further charmed and illuminated by the couple’s attachment to a place where they would like to remain. Each at a private party a week before the wedding were generous in their praise of UGA. “I have feeling for Georgia,” Kate said. “Feeling I never had anywhere else. There is something very special about Athens and Georgia. Mostly the people. We feel very comfortable here.” Kevin said, “I liked this place immediately. The university and Athens have everything.” To add an exclamation point to their feelings, following the ceremony, they went out back and rang the chapel bell. Time now for all Bulldogs to raise a hearty toast in Kate’s and Kevin’s honor. Loran Smith is co-host of “The Tailgate Show” and sideline announcer for Georgia football. He is also a freelance writer and columnist.
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Girl tried to stop father stabbing mother, police say By Joshua Sharpe
Marisol Rodriguez, 32, died last Wednesday night. After the girl’s pleas for Armed with only a high- help, Gwinnett Police heel shoe, a 10-year-old found the husband with a Duluth girl beat her father knife sticking out of his over the head trying to chest, laying partially on stop him from stabbing her top of his wife, Kenck said. mother to death last week, Rivadeneira-Torres, who testimony revealed in court has been released from a Thursday. local hospital, was in court Gwinnett Police invesThursday for a prelimitigator Matthew Kenck nary hearing on charges of testified Vicente Rivadenei- felony murder and aggrara-Torres’ daughter saw vated assault in the death the 36-year-old stabbing of his wife at their home his wife after an argument on Club Place. escalated and tried to fight Chief Magistrate Judge him off until he turned the Kristina Blum found probknife in her direction and able cause for the state said “Don’t move.” to proceed with its case But the girl ran for help, against him, after the brief banging on neighbors’ hearing, with no argudoors and asking them to ments from Chief Assistant call 911 as her mother, District Attorney Dan joshua.sharpe @gwinnettdailypost.com
Mayfield or the defendant’s attorney, Stacy Levy. Blum also said her Vicente Rivadeneira- court was Torres unable to consider bond, because of the severity of the charges. A native of Ecuador, Rivadeneira-Torres sat quietly as an interpreter whispered in his ear and Kenck, the only witness, gave the state’s version of the story. No family or friends were in attendance. Kenck said 911 calls started coming in around 11 p.m., after the girl, who turned 11 Wednesday,
began frantically begging neighbors for help. The girl also called 911 and said her father was stabbing her mother, according to authorities. The incident happened following an argument in which Rivadeneira-Torres accused Rodriguez of cheating on him, the investigators said. Initially, the girl allegedly told police, the altercation was verbal, but the husband grabbed Rodriguez and shook her, which led to them throwing things. The wife threw a glass jar that hit RivadeneiraTorres in the back of the head, and he got a kitchen knife, Kenck said, adding that the girl could see this
from inside her bedroom. The couple’s 2-year-old daughter was also at home but sleeping in another room as the scene turned took a turn. The girl watched until she saw her father follow the mother into their bedroom with the knife. Then, the girl grabbed the shoe from under her bed, ran into the room and swung for the back of his head. Because the girl ran away seconds later, she isn’t exactly sure how her father ended up with the knife stuck in his chest, the investigator said. But police believe he did it himself. Rodriguez was stabbed 10 times, three times in the chest, two times in the
back and five times in the neck, Kenck said. Last week’s incident wasn’t the first violent incident with the couple, police records suggest. Gwinnett County jail records show RivadeneiraTorres has been arrested five times since 2008. He was incarcerated in May after he allegedly violated the probation given as a sentence in a 2012 battery case involving his wife. If found guilty in the alleged murder, he faces life in prison. The girl and the couple’s toddler are living with their grandmother while the Division of Family and Children Services determines where they will be allow to go permanently.
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If the school can help develop that interest in Clayton County Schools, students, “they’re not Baldwin said.. going to want to quit The teachers will be school in eighth grade,” certified elementary Baldwin said. “Gwinnett school teachers who also offers a lot of electives have an interest in music, in high schools, so these art or movement. kids are going to want to During the registrastay in school so they stay tion period, Baldwin said focused on that particular about 450 students or thing they’re interested in. families have expressed Nobody’s ever done that interest, and depending on before this young. There’s residence clearances, there not one like this in the could be a waiting list. state of Georgia.” Baldwin credits support This is considered the from State House Rep. last hurrah for Baldwin in Brooks Coleman, who her career in education, chairs the House educawhich began with her tion committee, Norcross work in Schley County, Mayor Bucky Johnson and near Columbus, before Rusty Warner, who heads she came to Gwinnett and Norcross’ economic deBuford. She said she’s velopment efforts. It was motivated to instill an Coleman who years ago elementary foundation and encouraged Baldwin to is simply doing what she pursue a charter concept. knows is good for kids. “Children can get state “You may not find a support, you can do creclassroom where students ative, innovative things, are copying or writing, you can have a lot of you’re going to have kids flexibility and freedom,” that are active and up Coleman recalled saying. Former Buford City Schools superintendent and Gwinnett County Public Schools administrator Beauty Baldwin is and about and learning,” “That’s critical. Music, opening a new charter school in Norcross that focuses on the performing arts to cut down on the number of stu- she said. “That’s the cool art, is such a critical area thing about this whole dents who drop out. (Staff Photo: Keith Farner) for young minds, and idea of integrating the many times it’s over“We need to do anytive. The school’s format kids can get focused on “You don’t really know arts with academics. They looked. It’s really imthing we can to encourage includes two extended something, dance or voice you’re doing it but you need to know academics portant because research children to stay in school school days on Tuesdays or acting or whatever the are,” she said. “Plus they is not boring. You’re going will show you children and encourage anything and Thursdays when performing arts piece is,” have fun doing that while to learn, but it’s going to who participate in band, they’re interested in,” he students will be tutored or Baldwin said. “We want they’re learning.” be somewhat in a fun way. orchestra, theater, they’re said. practice for two perforto get them all exposed By sixth grade, students You think you’re playing, good communicators; it’s The charter school is mances they are required to that from kindergarten could be expected to know but you’re really learning. another dimension of life- considered a sort of pilot to give throughout the through the fifth grade.” an interest in the perform- You can tell the differlong learning.” program that appealed to year. It starts in kindergarten ing arts, such as guitar or ence because it will be an Coleman acknowledged the state charter school “We’re integrating when Baldwin said chilvoice. The school would air of everybody getting that this concept gives committee, which is the performing arts with dren can learn letters by then provide a profesinvolved and doing things children a reason to come known to look for new academics beginning in dancing or singing them sional to give lessons in and yet you can see learnto school. schools that are innovakindergarten so that these out. that focus. ing is taking place.”
Berlin tells CIA station chief to leave in spy scandal By Madeline Chambers Reuters
BERLIN — Germany told the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country on Thursday in a dramatic display of anger from Chancellor Angela Merkel at the behavior of a close ally after officials unearthed two suspected U.S. spies. The scandal has chilled A child attempting to open a toy with a lighter caused a relations with Washington fire at a Lawrenceville Walmart on Wednesday afternoon. to levels not seen since (Special Photo) Merkel’s predecessor opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. It follows allegations that Merkel herself, who grew up in Stasi-ridden East Germany, was among thousands of Germans whose mobile phones have been bugged by American agents. “Spying on allies … is a while attempting to open a waste of energy,” the chanBy Tyler Estep box containing a toy.” cellor said in her most pointtyler.estep @gwinnettdailypost.com “The flames were ed public remarks yet on the quickly doused by a store issue. “We have so many A child trying to open a employee who used a problems, we should focus toy with a lighter caused a portable fire extinguisher on the important things.” Lawrenceville Walmart to prior to the fire departSenior conservative be evacuated Wednesday ment’s arrival,” Rutledge supporters denounced afternoon. said. “The quick action of U.S. “stupidity” and some Gwinnett County the employee helped to Americans said spying on firefighters responded contain the fire to a small their friends had backfired. to the Walmart at 1400 area within the aisle.” “In the Cold War maybe Lawrenceville Highway at Approximately 100 there was general mistrust. about 4:50 p.m. Wednescustomers and 65 store Today we are living in the day, finding the store employees were temporar- 21st century. Today there evacuated and a small, ily evacuated and the store are completely new threats,” already-out fire in the toy was shut down for several Merkel said in Berlin, once section on arrival. Gwinhours to clean up. a key CIA listening post nett County police spokes“The child and parents behind the Iron Curtain man Capt. Tommy Rutwere questioned by fire during the superpower duel ledge said a child started investigators and released,” with Moscow and now the the blaze “with a lighter Rutledge said. reunited capital of Europe’s
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most powerful economy. Her spokesman said the request for the top U.S. intelligence official in the Berlin embassy to leave was made in response to questions raised in recent months on U.S. intelligence activity in Germany and prosecutors’ investigations. A U.S. government source said the official — whom neither side named — was Berlin station chief for the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency. A German source said the man would face possible forcible expulsion if he did not leave voluntarily. Washington’s embassy and Merkel’s office sit a few hundred meters apart. They lie east and west of what was the Berlin Wall, for the removal of which many Germans still give great credit to their U.S. ally — deepening today’s sense of betrayal. On Wednesday, Berlin said it had discovered a suspected U.S. spy in the Defense Ministry. That came just days after a German foreign intelligence worker was arrested on suspicion of being a CIA informant and admitted passing documents to a U.S. contact. The scale of public outrage at these revelations has put pressure on Merkel to take action against the United States, an ally whose defense of West Germany in the Cold War long assured Americans a warmer wel-
come there than elsewhere in Europe. However, there is a limit to what she can do and both sides stressed the need to continue to work closely together. They have done increasingly in recent years, on issues from Iran to Ukraine, as Germany shakes off its postwar reticence in foreign affairs and takes on a role more suited to its economic weight. Trade Deal Experts said that talks on a free trade deal between the European Union and United States, called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, may be affected; Berlin may push harder on some aspects of the deal in areas such as data protection — long a major concern for Germans after the abuses of the Nazi Gestapo and East German Stasi secret police. “But the idea that Merkel would somehow try to torpedo TTIP is not really likely,” Germany expert Hans Kundnani said at European Council on Foreign Relations in London. John Kornblum, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany who still lives in Berlin, said: “I believe the Germans are telling the Americans, ‘We want to continue close cooperation but you’ve pushed us too far and have forced us to react.’” Merkel’s government poured scorn on the alleged espionage.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the information the United States appeared to have obtained was “laughable,” contrasting that with the “disproportionate and serious political damage” the scandal had caused. Merkel was “not amused,” Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said, adding: “This is so stupid, it can only make you weep.” Tensions have risen since revelations last year stemming from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a contractor with the U.S. National Security Agency. Those caused Berlin to demand a mutual “no-spy deal” which Washington has resisted. “Ever since the NSA disclosures broke last year, the issue of U.S. spying has been an extremely sensitive issue in Germany,” said Karen Donfried, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which promotes U.S.-European ties. Some Americans asked whether the espionage activities were worth the bother: “I am not troubled that the United States conducts espionage, even against friendly states,” said one former senior U.S. intelligence official. “I am troubled when we attempt espionage and do not do it well. We learn nothing and we embarrass a friend and ourselves.”
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•From Page 1A testimony of investigators from Gwinnett County police and the Division of Family and Children Services. Two people — including a school teacher whose children were tutored by Therian and Recardo’s older brother — also took the stand in support of the Wimbushes. After receiving an anonymous tip, DFCS visited the Wimbushes’ Buford-area home on June 15, 16 and 18. Two different case workers found that the couple’s 13-year-old was being kept in a locked basement bedroom. Estimating the room to be about 8-feet-by-10feet, case manager Patricia Boone testified Thursday that it contained only a mattress and a plastic jar for urinating. She said the mattress had about four inches of dirt, hair and dead skin on top. “My first response was, ‘Is an animal living in this room?’” Boone said. Therian Wimbush, a veteran of the U.S. Navy with a pair of engineering degrees, reportedly told both
•From Page 1A but witnesses told police that the photo is of the same woman, but she appeared much heavier in person. In the other case, a black man in his late 30s or early 40s purchased a BMW 650XI, valued by police at $98,000, using a false identity on May 27. The car was recovered in Chicago, but the man remains at large. Both suspects completed the purchasing process to the point they were allowed to drive the car. Anyone with information on either of these suspects or cases is asked to call Gwinnett Police
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Linda Anderson Linda Lee Anderson, age 72, of Duluth, died Monday, July 7, 2014. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, July 12, 2014 at Bill Head Funeral Home, Duluth Chapel. Ms. Anderson was born in Gary, IN and was a retired nurse. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Robin and Bob Salomon of Alpharetta; grandson, Michael Salomon and brother and sister-in-law, Rick and Kathy Wanamaker. Condolences may be left at www. billheadfuneralhome. com. Arrangements by Bill Head Funeral Homes and Crematory, Duluth Chapel, 770-476-2535.
Gwinnett County school teacher Rebecca Moore testified Thursday on behalf of the Wimbush family.
when a lock was placed on his door. The boy said he unGwinnett County Chief District Attorney Dan Mayfield (center) was joined in court derstood that his mom Thursday by Therian and Recardo Wimbush and their attorneys. (Staff Photos: Tyler was “trying to fix him,” Churchill said. Estep) Therian Wimbush, who DFCS and police officials given a beating. house in the middle of the reportedly delivered most that the boy had been kept — A few years later, night, Recardo Wimbush of her son’s meals over the almost solely in the room he said, he touched his allegedly hit him “with his 18 months or so he was for many months. younger brother’s “diaper” fist all over his body.” kept locked in his room, The child himself outbefore being beaten and — In August 2012, the told officials that she had lined the timeline of his “sent to the basement for youngster ran away but noticed a change in the discipline for Churchill, four months.” was quickly located. child’s behavior after he the police investigator: — When he was about — Sometime around received an MMR immu— The young victim 12, the boy said, he was January 2013, the boy took nization. told police that, when he sent back to the basement a book and a DVD player “Jesus said that you’re was 6 or 7 years old, he room, at that point with to his basement room. He supposed to forgive,” the inappropriately touched no lock on his “bedroom” told police he lied to his mother said, according to three of his sisters and was door. Caught wandering the mother about it and that’s Churchill. “But there’s no
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grandchildren and nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Life Care Center of Gwinnett, 3850 Safehaven Dr., Lawrenceville, GA 30044 or Hawkinsville United Methodist Church, 44 Merritt St., Hawkinsville, GA 31036. The Graveside Service will be held at 2:30 pm, Saturday, July 12th in Eternal Hills Memory Gardens. Visitation with the family will be held Saturday, July 12th, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm; then the family will have a reception 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm at Eternal Hills Funeral Home, Snellville, GA 770-972-3155.
America. He acted as a personnel administrator until he retired, and they moved to Lawrenceville. Ken is a former deacon of Royston Baptist Church and most recently a member of Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church. Ken attained the rank of Eagle Scout, and has served his community as a member of both the Lions Club and the Rotary Club. Ken recently celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary and enjoyed a week at the beach with his family in Garden City, South Carolina. Ken is survived by his loving wife, Brenda Howell of Lawrenceville; his son Mike Howell and wife Robin of Boiling Springs, South Carolina; his daughter Lisa Baggett and husband Jimmie of Lawrenceville; his three grandsons Matthew, Chris, and Alex Howell; his granddaughter Amanda Graham; and his brother Wayne Howell and wife Annette of Linwood, North Carolina. A celebration of his life will be held this weekend, and friends may contact Flanigan Funeral Home of Buford, Georgia for further information about the memorial service. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Hamilton Mill United Methodist Building Fund. To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www. flaniganfuneralhome. com. Arrangements by: Junior E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory, Buford, GA (770) 932-1133.
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Kenneth Edwin Howell, age 70, of 3054 Brookgreen Trail, Lawrenceville, Georgia, was called to his heavenly home on Thursday, July 10, 2014, at Gwinnett Medical Center. Ken was born September 8, 1943, in Erwin, North Carolina, the younger of two sons of the late Clifton and Pauline Howell. He lived with his parents and brother in Cooleemee and then Erwin, North Carolina until he attended and subsequently graduated from North Carolina State University in 1967. Ken married Brenda Moore in Four Oaks, North Carolina on May 31, 1964. Ken and Brenda Howell lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Royston, Georgia while Ken served a long and distinguished career in the textile industry. He served as the plant manager of Candlewick Yarns in Royston, which later became Beaulieu of i d
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it has the highest level of achievement at the lowadopts that concept to mea- est cost. The district spent sure public school districts’ $9,226 per student, had academic achievement 52 percent of its students relative to their educational considered low-income spending, while controlling and a 93 score on the state for cost of living, student achievement index. poverty, the percentage of With 107,315 students students in special educaCobb County Schools, by tion, and the percentage of comparison, spent $8,831 English-language learners.” per student, had 43 percent The spending data came of its students considered from the 2010-11 school low-income and a 91 score year, the most recent year on the state achievement for which data are availindex. able, while achievement “The results for the came from the results of districts in Georgia are 2010-11 state reading and fascinating,” Boser wrote. math tests in elementary, “Atlanta receives relatively middle and high school. low productivity results; Gwinnett was given a Gwinnett County gets high“green” rating meaning er than average scores.”
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Joseph C. “Cal” Jaynes, age 89, of Lithonia, passed away on Thursday, July 10, 2014. Peachtree Cremation Society. www.peachtreecremation. com
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Jeffrey Jackson Jeffrey Brian Jackson, age 35 of Lawrenceville, GA passed away Sunday, July 6, 2014. A Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 PM on Friday, July 11, 2014 at Sunrise Baptist Church with Rev Ty Blackburn and Rev. Jack Lawson officiating. The family will receive visitors on Thursday, July 10, 2014 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Crowell Brothers Funeral Home and Friday, July 11, 2014 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM at the church. Jeffrey is survived by his daughter, Amelia Leigh Jackson; parents, Richard and Glenda Jackson; maternal grandparents, Clyde and Doris Abercrombie; brothers, Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Jackson (Jessica); fiancé, Wendy Davidson; nephews, Aidan Jackson, Cameron Jackson; nieces, Meghan Jackson, Grace Jackson. In lieu of flowers, a trust has been set up to benefit his daughter, Amelia through SunTrust Bank, account #1000175274108, routing #061000104. On-line condolences can be made at www.crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements by Crowell Brothers Funeral Home Peachtree Chapel, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Peachtree Corners/ Norcross, Georgia 30092. 770-448-5757.
more forgiveness.” Defense attorneys Dwight Thomas and Teri Thompson argued Thursday that their clients had the right to “send their child to their room” and that religious beliefs were behind the Wimbushes choice of punishment. Blum wasn’t buying it, saying she was “disturbed by the facts” she heard Thursday. “It almost bothers me more that I’ve got educated, intelligent, talented (people) … and then I hear what I heard today,” the judge said.
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Atlanta Public Schools, with 49,796 students, spent $14,483, had 76 percent of students considered low-income and had a state achievement index of 80. In a summary about the report, Boser noted leaders facing difficult budget choices in the wake of the Great Recession. “The bottom line is that we believe policymakers and educators need to focus on what works in education and scale up those practices,” Boser wrote. “This means focusing on effectiveness and on equity. We need, in other words, to look at both who gets education dollars and what they do with those dollars.”
ers in her early years as an artist and distribution specialist. The family will receive friends on Saturday, July 12, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at Crowell Brothers Peachtree Chapel Funeral Home, Peachtree Corners, GA; A private graveside service will be held at Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA with Dr. Terry L. Buice officiating. Online condolences may be expressed at www.crowellbrothers.com. Arrangements entrusted by Crowell Brothers Peachtree Chapel Funeral Home, 5051 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092. 770-448-5757.
Margret Ragin Margret Ragin, age 92, of Dacula, GA , loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend went to be with her Lord and Savior on July 9, 2014. Ms. Ragin is preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, John F. Ragin Jr; son, Timothy Ragin; grandsons, Kevin Cook, Kenneth Cook Sr, and Kris Tuck. Ms. Ragin is survived by her daughter Elaine and husband Dr. Terry L. Buice of Dacula, GA; son John F. Ragin III and wife Genie of Cumming, GA; grandchildren, John F. Ragin IV and wife Jacqueline and Angela Brock and husband Charles; great-grandchildren, Kenneth Cook Jr, and Kristina Brock; sister, Dorothy Hall of Sarasota, FL; brother, Richard Box; she is also survived by several nieces and nephews. Ms. Ragin was a member of Rehoboth Baptist Church for 54 years of her life. Margret was an accomplished seamstress and enjoyed many years of her creative hobbies. She worked for Warner Brothi h l
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Ray Runels Ray Runels, age 72, of Oxford, GA, passed away on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Tim Stewart Funeral Home, Loganville Chapel, 770-466-1544.
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Hospital chain HCA’s push to have its Augusta hospital designated as a trauma center has unsettled leaders in the state’s hospital industry. A trauma center is a medical facility that’s specially equipped and staffed to treat seriously injured people. Georgia authorizes four levels of such centers, depending on their capabilities. The critics of the HCA effort point to the trauma center growth in the Florida market. Such centers in the Sunshine State are charging a “response fee” — essentially an entry fee into the hospital — for each trauma case that averages more than $10,000 per patient, according to a Tampa Bay Times investigation in March. HCA’s Doctors Hospital said through a spokesman that if it receives trauma center status, it plans to set its trauma activation fee at about $9,900 for each such case at the Augusta facility. The HCA initiative in Georgia was first reported by Tom Corwin of the Augusta Chronicle. The two current trauma centers in Augusta, Georgia Regents Medical Center and Trinity Hospital, said they charge activation fees of $1,949 and zero, respectively, for a comparable Level III trauma patient, the Chronicle reported. Nashville-based HCA’s bid for trauma designation has drawn strong opposition from the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, an organization of nonprofit hospitals. In a recent letter to a Department of Public Health official, the Georgia Alliance said the HCA effort to get trauma designations is targeting areas of the state “that are already well served by existing hospital trauma centers and will be adversely impacted.’’ HCA has seven hospitals in Georgia. An HCA spokesman, Adam Landau, told GHN on Wednesday that Doctors Hospital is the only HCA affiliate in Georgia currently planning to open a trauma center.
“We have been providing lifesaving trauma services to Augusta residents and visitors for 20 years, and now we are seeking formal designation as a Level III trauma center,” Landau said in an email statement. One HCA hospital, Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome, already has a Level III trauma designation. That means the hospital can provide prompt assessment, resuscitation, surgery, intensive care and stabilization of injured patients, and emergency operations. Levels I and II must offer a full range of trauma resources 24 hours a day to handle all types of traumatic injury. A national study found that the risk of death is 25 percent lower when care is provided in a Level I trauma center compared to a non-designated hospital. Funding is a recurring issue Trauma care has been a major health issue in Georgia for several years. Health care experts, calling the state’s trauma network inadequate, have estimated that on average, 700 lives are lost per year in Georgia because of the lack of accessible trauma services. A survey of the 17 hospitals within the Georgia trauma network in 2007 showed that the combined operating loss on trauma services exceeded $70 million. In 2010, a referendum was put before Georgia voters to impose a $10 annual fee on vehicle license tags to help pay for trauma care. It was narrowly defeated. Money in the current Trauma Commission budget helps defray the expenses of operating such a center, including uncompensated care of patients who have no ability to pay. In recent years, despite the funding situation, several new trauma cen-
ters have been established at Georgia hospitals, including WellStar Kennestone in Marietta and Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. Atlanta Medical Center’s trauma center was upgraded to a Level I status – the kind that handles the most serious cases. A total of 27 trauma centers exist in Georgia currently, though one of them, Lower Oconee Community Hospital, has recently closed. Wide areas of South Georgia remain largely uncovered by this network, Jim Pettyjohn, executive director of the Georgia Trauma Commission, told GHN on Wednesday. When asked about trauma activation fees, Pettyjohn said, “We don’t get into internal financial activities of trauma centers.” The Tampa Bay Times reported that since 2006, at least 120,000 Florida patients have been charged a trauma fee, with the most expensive hospital regularly charging $33,000. The fees are intended to help offset the high costs of specialists and equipment needed to save the most severely injured. HCA’s average $28,000 trauma response fee is the highest in the state, the Tampa Bay newspaper reported. “The hospitals do not collect every dollar they charge,’’ the article said. “But trauma centers commonly are paid a percentage of what they bill, meaning the more they charge, the more they stand to make.” There is virtually no government oversight on these fees, the Tampa article reported. Poor allocation of surgeons? The letter from the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals’ Monty Veazey said trauma centers must have a certain volume of patients to remain high-quality and cost-effective. He said
trauma surgeons may end up being shared between HCA trauma centers and existing ones, thus hampering the surgeons’ ability to serve patients. Landau said Wednesday that Doctors Hospital “was first approached by local EMS providers to consider applying for Level III trauma status, and our application to the state was unanimously approved by the Regional EMS Council.” “We have made significant investments to increase access to trauma care and recruited surgeons and other staff from outside Georgia’s existing trauma network,” he said. Landau said the trauma activation will be based on the costs of assembling the trauma team. “Patients who do not have insurance (including third party liability coverage) receive an uninsured discount, including a 100 percent discount on trauma activation,’’ he said. “Insured patients are only responsible for their out-of-pocket expenses, co-pays or deductibles.” Still, Dr. Patrick O’Neal, the director of health protection for the state Department of Public Health, who will make the decisions on trauma designation, said he was concerned about adding trauma centers, the Chronicle reported. “My great concern with the HCA situation is that there may be a fairly marked change in the number of cases that a given trauma surgeon is able to handle because they get divided up among more hospitals than they need to be,” he said. The long-established view that trauma hospitals lose money has been changing, Kaiser Health News reported in 2012. That’s especially true in suburban communities, where trauma patients are more likely to be car crash victims who have health or auto insurance
to pay for their care. “Trauma centers make money,” Mike Williams, president of the consulting firm Abaris Group
in Martinez, Calif., told KHN. “If a hospital is not making money on trauma, then it’s not structured the right way.”
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in the name of raising awareness for the statewide “move over” law, which orders drivers to change lanes when LAWRENCEVILLE — they come upon emergency Hey, Gwinnett — need a vehicles working roadside. reminder to “move over” “You would be amazed when you see emergency at how often we have heard personnel on the side of the from police and fire and tow road? truck drivers that they are Representatives from ev- lucky to be alive, because ery Gwinnett County police they were grazed by a side agency, the Gwinnett County mirror,” said Wanda Johnfire department, Georgia son, the wife of LawrencevState Patrol, the local towing ille Police Chief Randy industry and more will park Johnson and leader of Gwintheir vehicles at the local nett’s Move Over Georgia fairgrounds Saturday. They’ll Save A Life Committee. entertain and interact with families, answer questions and offer demonstrations. When the sun goes down, they’ll flip a switch and “Light Up Gwinnett” — all tyler.estep @gwinnettdailypost.com
Saturday’s event, organized by the above committee and the Gwinnett Police Chiefs Association, will be held from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds. Admission and parking are free and refreshments will be available. Lilburn Police Chief Bruce Hedley is the president of the Gwinnett Police Chiefs Association. He stressed the importance of spreading awareness of the move over law, adding that it was “designed because it saves lives.”
Loganville, Gwinnett to improve intersection By Carole Townsend Staff Correspondent
LOGANVILLE — City administrator Bill Jones said Thursday that the final draft of an Intergovernmental Agreement between Loganville and Gwinnett County is near completion. Council members voted to give Mayor Dan Curry the go-ahead to sign the final version of the agreement, which details improvements to be made at the Brand Road and U.S. Highway 78 intersection. According to Jones, a little over $1 million will be spent to add an additional right turn lane and more directional arrows. A traffic study at the site showed the need for the enhancements. Gwinnett County set aside $25 million in SPLOST funds for joint city and county projects like this one in Loganville. Cities in Gwinnett had the opportunity to submit requests for transportation improvements. A special committee reviewed the requests and chose projects to be completed with the designated SPLOST funds. “We submitted this (project) because it’s necessary, and because we felt sure that Gwinnett County would agree,” Jones said. Home Depot Foundation selects American Legion Post 233 for volunteer project About 350 volunteers from Home Depot will come to Loganville on Sept. 18 with one goal in mind: to make needed improvements to the American Legion Post 233 complex. According to Councilman Chuck Bagley, the American Legion is one of just a few fortunate area recipients of the Home Depot Foundation’s benevolence this year. “They hope to complete all the work in just one day,” Bagley said. The volunteers are coming from local Home Depot stores. American Legion Post 233 is one of the most active in the state. “They may look like they have a lot of money, but they give away a lot, too,” Bagley said. Aid for veterans returning from active duty and a scholarship fund for the children of veterans are two of the more than 60 charities the Legion assists. DDA members sworn in Curry administered the oath of office Thursday to most of the new DDA members recently appointed by city council. Last month, city leaders officially asserted Loganville’s commitment to a rejuvenated Downtown Development Authority, vowing to support the Authority’s goal of revitalizing the city’s downtown district.
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“One of our core missions is to educate the public so they are aware of this important law and how to react if they ever approach one of our first responders in the roadway,” Hedley said in an email. “Our hope is that with this education we will see a steady reduction in the number of injuries and fatalities to police officers, paramedics, firefighters, wrecker operators and highway maintenance workers.” For more information, email Johnson at moveoverga@gmail.com.
Road resurfacing work resumes this weekend By Keith Farner
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With the Fourth of July holiday break in the rearview mirror, the Georgia Department of Transportation is resuming summer resurfacing projects around metro Atlanta and Gwinnett. Weather permitting, Interstate 85 will have one northbound outside (right) lane closed from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, from Jimmy Carter Boulevard to Center Way.
Other projects where delays or detours are expected are for resurfacing and restriping sections of I-20, and several sign structure projects and a concrete slab replacement effort along I-285. All of these jobs — as well as others on I-85 and Ga. 400 — will require lane closures and have the potential to create significant traffic delays, GDOT officials said. Officials suggest calling 511 or visiting 511ga. org before traveling to learn current work status and traffic conditions.
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NORCROSS — Like most high school football coaches, Greater Atlanta Christian’s Tim Hardy isn’t so much concerned with results of summer 7-on-7 tournaments and games as he is what his players take away from the experience. So the fact the Spartans won the eight-team GAC 7-on-7 Tournament at Spartan Stadium wasn’t what made him so happy on Thursday. It was how they won it, and not just the fact they went 7-0 in pool and tournament play, including an 18-8 win over Woodward Academy in the championship final. “The thing I told the guys at the end is, there’s a difference between playing hard and coming close and finding a way to win,” Hardy said. “There was a lot of good work here, but we found a way to win every game we played. A lot of them weren’t pretty. A lot of them were real close. But we found a way to come out out on top, and I think as much as passing and catching and tackling, they learned how to win.” That learning process culminated with the title game win after GAC rallied from an early 8-0 deficit that looked like would get even larger after Woodward completed a pass to gain a first down at the 2-yard line. But the Spartans’ defense stiffened on four straight plays to hold the War Eagles out of the end zone to not only gain two points to pull to within 8-2, but also to gain momentum. “You’re sitting there first and goal at the 2-yard line, (a touchdown) happens 99 percent of the time,” Hardy said. “But we just kept coverage, and that (stand) swung the game, no doubt about it.” The Spartans made that swing wider when sophomore Davis Mills hooked up with Malcolm Cunningham on a 40-yard touchdown pass on the very next snap to pull GAC even at 8-all. Another stop on downs produced two more points that vaulted the Spartans into a lead they would never relinquish at 10-8 and they padded that lead with a TD reception by Paul Carothers and a final stop by the defense as time See PASSING, Page 2B
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experience all of his young players gained last season, along the maturation of spring and summer practice, to get his team back into the playoffs this year. The Rams’ returning players include talented two-way lineman Justin Young, a Georgia commitment, as well as defensive stalwarts Mohamed Barry and Daniel Fennell at linebacker and Jordan Hayes in the secondary. Mykelle McDaniel and Chris Martin
NORCROSS — Spring practice and summer workouts are important to any high school football program, not just for conditioning, but to help build a sense of team chemistry with the influx of new players and with the departure of others. Given how transient its school enrollment has been in recent years, perhaps nowhere is spring and summer more important than at Meadowcreek. This summer, Mustangs head coach George Pugh is pleased not only with the number of players from last year he has back, but the overall number of players who have been participating in summer workouts. And Pugh believes having more players taking part in the summer program is Step 1 of a multi-step process toward improvement for a program that has won but two games over the past 10 seasons. “(Summer) is important to build continuity and build some depth,” Pugh said. “The biggest thing is to get in the weight room and get bigger, faster and stronger. I think in (Region 7-AAAAAA), which is the SEC of high school football in the country, if you’re not strong in the fourth quarter, you’re going to get beat. … The returning guys are good. I think where we added some strength at is some numbers. We’ve gotten more kids out. “I must tell you, this is a process. There are a lot of things we have to overcome. Our kids are positive, we (coaches) are positive. The thing I like about them is, we make no excuses. … We just ready to play.” Not only has there been a little more continuity with the Mustangs’ roster this summer, there also has been some important continuity in the coaches’ office. Pugh, who coached the Mustangs from 2003-04 before coaching in the college ranks for almost a decade, will begin his second season back at Meadowcreek after taking over the reins when Deario Grimmage left about this time last year. And after five different coaches over the past seven years, Pugh understands it’s important to see the same faces giving them a consistent set of instructions and expectations during summer workouts. “These kids deserve that,” Pugh said. “They deserve someone who truly cares. … You show them, like I’ve shown them, by being here. The mere fact that I’m here speaks volumes.” Pugh is hopeful a number of players, returning or new, will also speak volumes as the Mustangs must replace several key players lost to graduation last year, including starting quarterback Kortez Towels, leading rusher Ryan Moore and the multi-talented Laquan Johnson. Among the hopefuls are senior Kalu Onumah and junior Darin Hammonds, whose potential battle for the No. 1 quarterbacking job when preseason practice begins later this month fills Pugh with hope. And that position battle isn’t the only one he is looking forward to seeing. “I think the opportunity for some of the younger guys who are returning to step up to the plate is going to be huge. So far, they’ve met the challenge. I’m
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Grayson running back Cameryn Brent (33) carries the ball against Brookwood last season. (File Photo)
Ram rebound Grayson ready to bounce back after uncharacteristic 2013 season By Will Hammock
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After seven games last season, the Grayson football team was in a good spot. Despite its extreme youth and inexperience, it had a 4-1 record in Region 8-AAAAAA and controlled its own destiny. Then came three straight losses to close the season against rivals South Gwinnett (28-21), Archer (34-21) and Brookwood (30-27 in overtime) that eliminated head coach Mickey Conn’s team from the postseason. The difficult finish snapped a seven-year run of state playoff appearances by the Rams, who also had won 10 or more games for six straight years. Instead, they finished an unGrayson like 4-6. “There are always a number of factors (on what went wrong), but replacing 22 kids, all 11 on offense and all 11 on defense, from (the 2012 team) was tough. It’s hard to find the right guys when you have that many to replace. Usually you have to replace half that many.
SUMMER GLANCE Team: Grayson Rams Head coach: Mickey Conn 2013 record: 4-6 Key returning players: OL/DL Justin Young, Sr.; LB Mohamed Barry, Sr.; LB Daniel Fennell, Sr.; DB Jordan Hayes, Sr.; RB Cameryn Brent, Jr.; DL Mykelle McDaniel, Jr.; QB Chase Brice, Soph.; WR Cedric Asseh, Sr.; WR/DB Germell Jenkins, Sr.; OL/ DL Chris Martin, Jr.
We had to get guys settled in and having to evaluate 22 positions every single day with about 60 guys is tough. That’s a tall order. “But we put ourselves in a situation where we could have made a run. We lost a couple of close ones where maybe if we get those wins it’s a different season. … The kids fought really hard and we gave ourselves chances to make the playoffs until we lost some close ones. But we’re excited about this season.” Conn is banking on the
2014 schedule: Aug. 29 Gainesville Sept. 5 at Langston Hughes Sept. 12 at Archer Sept. 19 Parkview Sept. 26 at Berkmar Oct. 3 South Gwinnett Oct. 10 at Shiloh Oct. 17 Central Gwinnett Oct. 24 at Dacula Oct. 31 Brookwood
Getting to Know … Josh Alexander Josh Alexander has served as offensive coordinator for Archer’s football team since the school opened in 2009. During his tenure, the Tigers have transformed from a 2-8 team in 2010, when they played their first full varsity season, to 11-1 in 2013. Last season, Archer secured its first ever region title, went unbeaten in regular-season play and picked it up its first playoff win in school history, a 34-7 victory over North Forsyth. Alexander grew up in Clayton County and attended the University of Georgia. He and his wife Katherine will celebrate their 11th anniverJosh Alexander is the offensive coordinator at Archer. (Staff Photo: Mitch sary this month. They have Blomert) two daughters, Laura Elliott,
5, and Courtland, 3. In this installment of “Getting to Know…” Alexander chats with sports writer Mitch Blomert about his coaching background, Archer’s recent success, and what the future holds for the up-and-coming Tigers.
with, and I was blessed to be around good coaches. And of course, I got lucky to be with Andy Dyer here.
MB: What positions have you coached over the years, other than just being offensive coordinator? JA: I’ve coached pretty MB: Having coached much every position. At at programs like Clarke Clarke Central, I coached Central, Washington-Willinebackers, defensive line kes, Parkview and Archer, and running backs. I went to you’ve won a lot of football Washington-Wilkes and did games. linebackers, running backs JA: I’ve been blessed to be — we coached both sides of around a lot of good football the ball. And then I went to coaches, as a young coach. Parkview and coached tight It has absolutely nothing to ends and helped coach (Cedo with me. It’s just being in cil) Flowe with the offensive good places with good players. That has everything to do See ALEXANDER, Page 2B
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Suarez loses appeal against biting ban By Mike Collett
Association although it can still take the case to the Court of Arbitration RIO DE JANEIRO — for Sport, a FIFA spokesUruguay forward Luis woman said. Suarez, banned from all The controversial Liversoccer activity for four pool striker sank his teeth months and nine cominto Chiellini’s shoulder petitive internationals during Uruguay’s 1-0 win for biting Italy defender over the Italians on June Giorgio Chiellini during a 24. World Cup match, has lost The win sent Uruguay his appeal, FIFA said on through to the last 16 Thursday. where, without the banned FIFA’s appeals comSuarez, they lost 2-0 to mittee rejected the apColombia. peal filed by the UruSuarez initially denied guayan Football biting Chiellini but apoloReuters
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Today
11:30 a.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup: Camping World RV Sales 301, Practice. FS1 1 p.m. — NASCAR Nationwide Series: New Hampshire, Practice. FS1 3 p.m. — NASCAR Nationwide Series: New Hampshire, Final Practice. FS1 4 p.m. — IndyCar Iowa Corn Indy 300, Qualifying.NBCSP 4:30 p.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup: Camping World RV Sales 301, Qualifying. FS1 8:30 p.m. — NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Iowa. FS1
BASEBALL
4 p.m. — Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs FSN
BOXING
9 p.m. — Mike Gavronski vs. Tureano Johnson. ESPN2
CYCLING
8 a.m. — Tour de France Stage 7: From Epernay to Nancy NBCSP
GOLF
9 a.m. — Ricoh Women’s British Open, Second Round. ESPN2 4 p.m. — U.S. Senior Open Championship, Second Round. ESPN2
SOCCER
11 p.m. — MLS: D.C. United at San Jose Earthquakes. NBCSP
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9 a.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup: Camping World RV Sales 301, Practice. FS1 10 a.m. — NASCAR Nationwide Series: New Hampshire, Qualifying. FS1 11:30 a.m. — NASCAR Sprint Cup: Camping World RV Sales 301, Final Practice. FS1 3 p.m. — Motorcycle Pro Motocross Championship: Budds Creek. NBCSP 8 p.m. — IndyCar Iowa Corn Indy 300. NBCSP
BASEBALL
4 p.m. — Cardinals at Brewers. FS1 4 p.m. — Braves at Cubs. FSS, WGN 7 p.m. — Nationals at Phillies. FOX
BASKETBALL
7 p.m. — WNBA: Dream at Fever. SS
CYCLING
8 a.m. — Tour de France Stage 8. From Tomblaine to Gerardmer La Mauselaine. NBC
GOLF
8 a.m. — Ricoh Women’s British Open, Third Round. ESPN2 2:30 p.m. — U.S. Senior Open Championship, Third Round. NBC 3 p.m. — PGA Tour Golf John Deere Classic, Third Round. CBS 3:30 p.m. — FIFA World Cup Third-Place Match: Brazil vs. Netherlands. ESPN
SOFTBALL
1 p.m. — Softball World Cup: Mexico vs. United States. From Irvine, Calif. ESPN2 8 p.m. — Softball World Cup: Taiwan vs United States. From Irvine, Calif. ESPN2
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July 19: Kids and Pros will host its free youth football safety clinic for children ages 7-14 at Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville. The event, from 9 a.m. to noon, will feature former Atlanta Falcons Buddy Curry and Bobby Butler, who will teach safe Heads Up Football tackling techniques, position fundamentals and character-based lessons. Participants must sign up online at www.kidsandpros.com. Ongoing through July 28: The Georgia Force football program, which features varsity and middle school teams, is looking for players ages 11-18 for the 2014 season. Players ages 15-18 will compete in the Glory For Christ League and players 11-14 will compete in the Christian School Athletic Association. Players must be homeschooled, attend a private of Christian school without a football program or take online courses without being registered at a public school to be eligible. For 2014, the program can register up to four players
who attend a high school with a football program. For more information, go to www.forcehsfootball.com or email to scott.willis@ forcehsfootball.com.
LACROSSE
Ongoing through July 19: The Gwinnett Lacrosse Academy will offer a Summer Indoor Lacrosse League for current first- to 10th-graders on Saturdays. It also will offer Learn to Play Clinics for basic skills for rising first- to ninth-graders on Thursday evenings. Both will be at Silverbacks Sports Center in Suwanee. Go to www.gwinnettlacrosseacademy.com for more information.
MULTI-SPORT
Ongoing through Aug. 1: Jack City Sports Center in Dacula will host weeklong Multi-Sports Camps weekly through Aug. 1. Camps are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and open to ages 5-13. Cost is $175 per session with discounts for multiple sessions. For more information, go to www.jackcitysportscenter.com.
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Team: Meadowcreek Mustangs Head coach: George Pugh 2013 record: 1-9 Key Returning Players: OT/DE Oliver Niyungeko, Sr.; QB Kalu Onumah, Sr.; RB/ LB, Brandon Jackson, Sr.; DB Freeney Dunbar, Sr.; DB/QB Darin Hammonds, Jr.; OT Hal Drayton, Sr.
2014 schedule: Aug. 29 Newton Sept. 5 at Rockdale Sept. 12 Clarkston Sept. 19 Peachtree Ridge Sept. 26 at Collins Hill Oct. 3 Mill Creek Oct. 10 at Norcross Oct. 24 Mountain View Oct. 31 at North Gwinnett Nov. 7 at Duluth
with how the day went. “We had some young guys step up and get a lot of reps,” Alexander said. “It’s always good when you can play a lot of people. We entered two teams for that reason, so that we could play as many guys (as possible). And that ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams, that means nothing because we’ve got guys mixed all over the place. “Right now, we don’t
know who’s who — who’s the starter, who’s not the starter. So what we tell (the players) is, as Archer, go out there and play hard and do the best you can with it.” Gwinnett’s other representative in the tournament was Mountain View, which went 2-3 on the day, including a narrow loss to Milton in the first round of tournament play.
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“We’re excited about him. We’re excited to see what also are important players he can do because he’s on the lines. stronger, bigger and faster Offensively, running than last year.” back Cameryn Brent is Chase Brice, still just a the top returning playsophomore, returns as the maker. He rushed for starter at quarterback. He 1,128 yards and nine will throw to a receiving touchdowns last season as corps that includes Cedric a sophomore. Asseh, David Stinson, “He’s a great running Germell Jenkins and conback and he’s a year verted quarterback Hunter older,” Conn said of Brent. Schuessler, along with
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and a 19-16 loss to Woodward in the semifinals expired to seal the win. on an interception on the The tournament title game’s final play. was part of an overall The Archer “B” team good day for Gwinnett didn’t fare quite as well, County’s representatives, going 0-5, though the including Archer, which Tigers did give GAC a divided up into two teams scare in the first-round of for the tournament. tournament play before The Tigers “A” team falling 34-26. had big day, going 4-2 Offensive coordinator overall, with the only loss- Josh Alexander, who was es coming by six points to filling in for head coach eventual champion GAC Andy Dyer, was pleased
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his return. FIFA later explained that Suarez was given a heavy punishment partly because he had twice before been banned for biting and because he had shown no remorse. The English Premier League club have since held talks in London over the possible transfer of Suarez to Barcelona, although no deal has been finalized. Chiellini himself has described the ban as excessive.
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ing ingredients we’ve had. A lot of kids have played excited about it. I’m look- because they had no choice ing forward to it. I can’t but to play. This is a tough wait because I think we’re league to be in, and if going to build. … There you’ve got to get on the job will be an improvement. training, you’re in trouble.” “One potential battle The Mustangs are also that could be really good hopeful others like running is the battle at quarterback back Brandon Jackson, ofbetween Hammonds and fensive lineman Hal DrayKalu. And you know, ton, defensive end Oliver going back to my playing Niyungeko and defensive days, the more competition back Freeney Dunbar can you have, the better your also provide the experience football team is going to and leadership the team is be. That’s one of the miss- going to need.
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gisied nearly a week later. “The truth is that my colleague Giorgio Chiellini suffered the physical result of a bite in the collision he suffered with me,” Suarez said in a statement on Twitter. FIFA’s disciplinary committee ruled that he acted intentionally and handed him the longest ban ever imposed on a player at the World Cup, prompting fury in his South American homeland, where he was given a hero’s welcome on
tight end Ryan Carriere. The Rams should benefit from a pair of early season tests in non-region play, with Gainesville and Langston Hughes on tap before the 8-AAAAAA schedule arrives. Conn said his players are eager to get on the field again after a disappointing end to last season. “They’ve worked extremely hard to prepare
for this season,” Conn said. “They’re excited. There’s a new energy. We’re ready to go. These kids hustled and fought hard last year, too. It’s just unfortunate the three or four games we lost in overtime, by a touchdown, by a field goal. If it could go wrong last year, it went wrong. This year there’s a lot more continuity as a team and as a staff.”
Alexander
in just four years playing a full schedule. line and running backs. JA: When we got here, we didn’t know coach MB: Is there any posi- Dyer very well. Our first tion you enjoy coaching practice was at McConmore than others? nell Middle School. JA: Offensive line. We’ve come a long way I just love work ethic from hauling trailers the guys put on. It’s a to McConnell Middle low-maintenance group. School, all the way over They’re always fun to be here to Archer. around and carry on conversations that are very MB: What was it like football-oriented. I just getting the program’s enjoy the personalities of first playoff win last those guys. year against North Forsyth? MB: What’s your JA: It was really, really playing background? neat. Especially doing it JA: Just playing in here at our school. It was high school, then I went fun, because that senior to the University of Geor- class wasn’t a real large gia and was a student senior class for us — it coach there, under (forwas a real good senior mer Clarke Central head class. They were some coach) Steve Brooks, really super-talented while I was in college. individuals. I say super I coached eighth-grade talented as in not college football my first year at football players, but just Clarke Middle School, a lot of try-hard kind of and then moved up. I guys. It was fun to coach don’t have a very cool re- them, with just the charsume, other than I’ve just acter. They knew how to been blessed to be around win, and we as coaches good people. learned a lot from that class. MB: What are your personal goals? Do you MB: Recently, Archer want to move on to a won the Corky Kell head coaching position? 7-on-7 tournament. How JA: I have to be honmuch of an accomplishest, I’m just truly blessed ment was that for your to be at Archer. I know team? that’s cliché to say, but JA: It’s always good to it’s been fun doing this win at anything you do, and just building it. We’ve but 7-on-7 has absolutely had some success. I don’t nothing to do with footsee myself doing anyball (laughing). I’m just thing other than this for a being honest. It was a big while. accomplishment for us, because there some really MB: At Archer, it’s a good football teams there. heck of an accomplishBut on the other side of ment what you’ve done things, it has absolutely
nothing to do with how good or bad we’ll do this year. I wish it did, but it doesn’t. MB: Without giving away too many secrets, what kind of things can we expect to see out of Archer’s offense this upcoming season? JA: I’d like to just get better that we were last year. More consistent play. Have some new players step in and step up. We didn’t lose a lot on offense, but we lost (wide receiver) K.J. Parmer and he’ll be hard to replace. So we’re hoping as a coaching staff that an individual steps up. We don’t know who he is right now, but K.J. had a lot to do with our offense last year. MB: In Class AAAAAA, if you’re going to be successful, you have to be successful in Gwinnett. That’s what you did last year. Is it getting to the point where your team can talk about bigger goals than region titles? Is there any talk of getting to the Georgia Dome? JA: Since we got here, we’re like every other school across the state of Georgia — it’s win each Friday night, then win a region championship, then win in the state playoffs, then win the state championship. That’s something we’ve preached since we got here. Sometimes we were not successful at doing that. We’ve been beat up pretty good at times
earlier when the school started. But it’s one of those things we preach to these kids. If there’s one thing we tell our kids, it’s to be very good at trying hard. We don’t really get into the wins and the losses against this team or that team. Just show up every day, and do what you’re supposed to be doing. MB: Did you feel like last year’s group was humble, having been through the tough seasons early on in team history? JA: I’m biased, but these are the best kids I’ve ever been around, as far as character, attitude and work ethic. It’s a very low-maintenance group. They’re just very fun to be around, and our coaching staff is the same way. There’s no egos, no attitudes. It’s just fun to be around. MB: When you’re off the field, away from coaching, what do you like to do? JA: I have two kids. When I’m not here, that’s what I do. I don’t hunt, I don’t fish, I don’t play golf. Football, then go home and do that. MB: But after a long day of teaching and coaching, that’s probably not a bad way to end the day. JA: (Laughing) Yes. As coaches, we work a lot. Sometimes we say we’re working more than we’re actually working. We are here a lot.
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G-Braves rained out, game moved to Saturday NORFOLK, Va. — The Gwinnett Braves’ series opener against Norfolk Tides on Thursday was postponed by rain and will be played as part of a doubleheader Saturday. The rescheduling forces back-to-back doubleheaders between the two teams today and Saturday at Harbor Park in Norfolk, Va. Game 1 of tonight’s twin-bill makes up a previous rainout from April 7 in Norfolk. First pitch of the opening game on both nights is 5:05 p.m. G-Braves Right-hander Cody Martin (6-6, 3.17) will start for the G-Braves in game one on Friday. Atlanta Braves righthander Pedro Beato (1-0, 3.68) will make his second minor league rehab start for Gwinnett in Game 2. Gwinnett returns to Coolray Field at 6:35 p.m. Thursday to start a fourgame series against the Durham Bulls. The G-Braves will not play Monday-Wednesday during the All-Star break. Infielder Phil Gosseelin and pitcher Juan Jaime will represent Gwinnett in the International League AllStar Game on Wednesday in Durham, N.C.
Harang, Braves escape series sweep against Mets By Jerry Beach
scored when left fielder Justin Upton grounded into a double play. NEW YORK — Aaron Braves third baseman Harang allowed one run Ramiro Pena also had two over seven innings, and singles. Freddie Freeman and Harang (9-6) gave up Jason Heyward each had four hits and four walks RBI hits in the first inning while striking out two. He as the Atlanta Braves beat threw seven no-hit innings the New York Mets 3-1 the last time he opposed Thursday at Citi Field. the Mets on April 18. The Braves (50-42) Atlanta right-hander Jorsnapped a four-game losdan Walden recorded two ing streak, moved back into outs in the eighth, allowa first-place tie with the ing a hit and a walk before Washington Nationals atop giving way to right-handed the National League East closer Craig Kimbrel, who and avoided their first four- recorded the last four outs game sweep at the hands of for his major-league-leadthe Mets since 1989. ing 28th save. The Mets (42-50) saw It was the fourth career their season-best, fourfour-out save for Kimbrel, game winning streak end. who pitched more than an Freeman finished 2-for- inning for the sixth time 4 while improving his in 269 big-league appearlifetime batting average ances. against the Mets to .324 For the Mets, third (80-for-247). The first baseman David Wright baseman’s RBI double walked twice and hit an in the opening inning RBI single in four plate brought home shortstop appearances. Andrelton Simmons. Mets right-hander BarFreeman scored one out tolo Colon (8-8) allowed later on a single to left three runs and scattered 10 by Hayward, the Braves’ hits in eight innings. He right fielder. walked none and struck Simmons and Freeman out seven. opened the third with There was plenty of vetsingles. Simmons went to eran craftiness on display third on Freeman’s hit and between the 41-year-old The Sports Xchange
Colon and the 36-year-old Harang, who entered the evening with 759 combined big league starts. Colon allowed hits to nine of the first 17 Braves batters before retiring 14 of the final 15 batters he faced. He got to a three-ball count twice and ended up throwing just 98 pitches (73 for strikes). Harang, meanwhile, stranded seven baserunners between the second and fifth. NOTES: Mets LHP Jonathon Niese (left shoulder strain) was scheduled to throw Thursday for the first time since being placed on the disabled list Sunday. He is expected to return to the Mets’ rotation immediately after the All-Star break. … Braves 3B Chris Johnson got a rare day off. He started 87 of the Braves’ first 91 games at the hot corner. INF Ramiro Pena drew the start and went 2-for-3. … The Braves have one home run in their past 11 games (379 at-bats). Meanwhile, the Mets failed to hit a homer Thursday, ending a run in which they homered in nine consecutive games at Citi Field, the longest stretch in the park’s history.
Johnson takes share of lead at John Deere Reuters
just 90 miles away in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and has Former champion and recorded top-three finish“local” favourite Zach es in four of his last five Johnson charged into a starts in his “hometown” share of the lead with event, was delighted with a sizzling, bogey-free his opening round. display in Thursday’s “Extremely pleased,” opening round of the John the 11-time PGA Tour Deere Classic in Silvis, winner told Golf Channel. Illinois. “The word of the day for Winner of the PGA (his caddie) Lance (BenTour event in 2012, the nett) and me was oppor38-year-old fired an eight- tunity and I had a lot of under-par 63 in ideal opportunities. scoring conditions at the “I missed just three TPC Deere Run to end a greens but I putted on sunny day level with fel- two of them. So I put low American Brian Har- myself into position man and South African to make birdies, I put Rory Sabbatini. myself into position basiJohnson, with his driv- cally to eliminate the big ing and renowned short numbers, certainly even game in sparkling order, a bogey. covered his outward nine “Everything was really in an explosive six-under solid,” said Johnson, who 30 to raise thoughts of a hit 14 of 14 fairways. “I possible 59 but he picked drove it great, a couple up just two more shots of iron shots I’d like to after the turn. have back but nothing Americans Todd Ham- significant. I actually had ilton and William McGirt, a couple more putts that and Australian Steve could have dropped but Bowditch, opened with I’m not complaining.” 64s while Zimbabwe’s Asked whether he had Brendon de Jonge and thoughts of shooting a Americans Kevin Tway, 59 after getting to eight David Toms and Robert under after 11 holes, Streb carded 65s in the Johnson replied: “It hit final PGA Tour event me. I’m like, ‘How many before next week’s holes have we played, British Open. how many under am I?’ Johnson, who was born That kind of thing.”
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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2014 PUBLIC HEARINGS CONSTRUCTION/ SERVICE BIDS INVITATION FOR BID #2015-2 FOR MILLING, PATCHING AND RESURFACING OF APPROXIMATELY 2.14 MILES ON VARIOUS CITY STREETS SUWANEE, GEORGIA The City of Suwanee is soliciting competitive sealed bids from qualified contractors for MILLING, PATCHING AND RESURFACING WORK ALONG APPROXIMATELY 2.14 MILES ON VARIOUS CITY STREETS, ETC. Sealed bids will be received by the City of Suwanee, Public Works Department, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia 30024, until 10:00 A.M. local time on Monday, August 11, 2014, and then publicly opened and read aloud at the “Public Bid Opening” at 10:10 A.M. at City Hall Meeting Room, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee, Georgia 30024. Any bid received after 10:00 A.M. will not be accepted. Bid envelope must be marked on the outside with Bid Number, Name of Bidder, date and time of opening and Contractor’s License Number. A 5% bid bond is required as part of the bid submittal. Work required under the Contract generally includes traffic control, asphalt milling, asphalt patching, leveling, resurfacing, adjusting sewer manholes and water valves, shoulder work, turf establishment, and installation of pavement markings along approximately 2.14 miles on various City streets, Suwanee GA. Bids in the case of Corporations not chartered in Georgia must be accompanied by proper certification stating that said Corporation is authorized to do business in the State of Georgia. Award will be made to the vendor submitting the lowest responsive and responsible bid. The City of Suwanee reserves the right to reject any or all bids as deemed in its best interest. Interested parties should contact Tammy Hiler at thiler@suwanee.com or 770-945-8996 to request a bid package, or additional information is available at the City of Suwanee Public Works Department, 330 Town Center Avenue, Suwanee GA 30024. CITY OF SUWANEE GWINNETT COUNTY, GA 902-200868, 7/11,25
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PUBLIC AUCTION There will be sold at public outcry for cash at Eagle Towing, located at 115 Arcado Rd., Lilburn, GA, 30047, 770-279-1646 Thursday July 17th , 2014 @ 9:00 am. The following vehicles, declared abandoned and foreclosed vehicles pursuant to OCGA Section 40-11-5 as follows:
sure Washer, Bed Frame, Office Printer, Artwork, Window Joshua Wood Unit 1608 Couch, Loveseat, Chairs, Washer, Dryer, TV, Pet Crate, Board Games
Terrance Gistorb Unit 3138 Couch, headboard, microwave, boxes Gacindy, Merzier Unit 3204 Couch, bed, boxes Regina Lauderdale Unit 3304 Mattresses, couch Violet McKenzie Unit 3427 Boxes, bags
lic auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on TUESDAY, July 29, 2014, @ 10:00 AM. SPACE NO.; CUSTOMER NAME; INVENTORY
2004 Volvo S60 VIN: YV1RS61T642339184 TAG: BVD 8651 GA 2003 GMC Yukon VIN: 1GKEK13Z93J283081 TAG: BQ9BX7 GA 2009 Chevrolet Aveo VIN: KL1TD56E59B357829 PDH 7466 GA 929-200983, 7/11,16
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF INTENT IN APPLYING TO THE CITY FOR LICENSE TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AND WINE I, Juan C. Gonzalez Representing: Delia’s Bar and Grill International LLC. Located at: 5530 Buford Hwy Ne. Suite #302 Norcross, Ga. 30071 Have made application to the City of Norcross, Georgia for a: Business License and Alcohol Beverage License for the Sale of: Restaurant Food International and also Beer Wine and Distilled Spirits. Inquiries should be directed to the office Of The General Government Administration Department, City of Norcross, Georgia 65 Lawrenceville Street, Norcross, Georgia, no later than ten days from the date of this notice. 928-199718, 7/9,10,11,16,17,18,23,24, 25,30 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that this office received an application for a distilled spirits license from EL BOTANERO JR, located at 5050 JIMMY CARTER BLVD, SUITE 510, NORCROSS GA 30093. Said establishment is owner EL BOTANERO JR LLC. Please submit in writing any information affecting the issuance of a license at said establishment to this office by JULY 23, 2014. BRANDI EVERETT Licensing & Revenue Supervisor Gwinnett County Department of Planning & Development 446 WEST CROGAN STREET SUITE 125 LAWRENCEVILLE GA 30046 928-200331, 7/11,17 PUBLIC NOTICE GWINNETT COUNTY BOARD OF REGISTRATIONS AND ELECTIONS The Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections, through Elections Director Lynn Ledford, hereby provides public notice of the Gwinnett County Election Superintendent’s intent to begin the absentee ballot tabulation process prior to the close of the polls on July 22, 2014. Pursuant to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 212-386(a)(3), the Gwinnett County Election Superintendent shall open absentee ballots and begin tabulating absentee ballots beginning at 3:00 pm on July 22, 2014. The tabulation process will be monitored as authorized by law. In addition, all persons conducting the tabulation of absentee ballots on July 22, 2014, including the Vote Review Panel required by law, shall be sequestered until the time for the closing of the polls. Dated this 9th day of July 2014. -sLynn Ledford Elections Director Voter070914 928-200824, 7/11
PUBLIC AUCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 YES HOMESALES EXP LLC, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S). 1999 DESTINY 12X62 HOGA18I00153/B 275 UPPER RIVERDALE RD JONESBORO GA 30236 6192 1989 DESTINY 25X56 017894A/B 141 FALCON CREST TRAIL JONESBORO GA 30238 6181A 1993 BREEZEWOOD 24X52 11424979A/B 1101 ELK RIDGE COURT JONESBORO GA 30238 6180A 1986 CONNER 14X50 CHCANC541413636417 44 WILLOW LAKE LANE RIVERDALE GA 30296 6178 WILL BE AUCTIONED ON JULY 18, 2014 AT 10 AM. 929-199473, 7/4,11 PUBLIC AUCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE OCGA 40-11-2 YES HOMESALES EXP LLC, WILL HOLD AN AUCTION FOR THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S). 1986 HYATT DESTINY VIN HH1007DA WILL BE AUCTIONED ON JULY 18, 2014 AT 10 AM. THE AUCTION WILL BE HELD AT 397 STONE HILL DR STN MTN GA 30087 6197 929-199468, 7/4,11 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, to satisfy lien of the owner, at public sale by competitive bidding on July 21, 2014 via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com SmartStop Self Storage Buford 9:00 AM via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com 4257 Buford Dr. Buford, GA 30518 770-614-4863 DeShawn Dennard Unit 113 shelves, tables, wine rack, boxes, bags, industrial fan, toys, totes Shawn Dennard Unit 113 shelves, tables, wine rack, boxes, bags, industrial fan, toys, totes DeShawn Dennard Unit 516 c o m p u t e r, toys, shelves, table, chairs, bed frame, boxes, bags, totes Shawn Dennard Unit 516 c o m p u t e r, toys, shelves, table, chairs, bed frame, boxes, bags, totes SmartStop Self Storage Peachtree Industrial 10:00 AM via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com 1790 Peachtree Industrial Blvd Duluth, GA 30097 770-814-7776 Venky Ramana Unit 1125 Bedroom Set, Televisions, Mattress, Box Springs, Rug, Toys, Boxes Jasper Sienkiewicz Unit 1227 Dresser, Pres-
SmartStop Self Storage N. Berkeley Lake 1:00 PM via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com 2801 North Berkeley Lake Rd. Duluth, GA 30096 770-814-7420 Wyen Cho Unit 0221 Bookcase, dresser, chairs, pressure washer, microwave, metal shelving Dong Yong Choi Unit 0231 Luggage, swim fins, blankets, boxes Wallace McGhee Unit 4401 Washer, children’s bike, dining room table, clothing, household items SmartStop Self Storage Old Norcross 2:00 PM via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com 2044 Old Norcross Rd. Lawrenceville, Ga. 30044 770- 338-2522 Annie Moise Unit 550 Couch, Mattress, Dresser, Boxes Rhonda Idowu Unit 508E Couch, Boxes, Table, Chairs SmartStop Self Storage Lawrenceville 4:00 PM via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com 3564 Lawrenceville Highway Lawrenceville, GA 30044 770-279-4515 Phil White Unit # 0224 Cocktail Table, End Tables, Bar Stools, Tool Box, Dryer, Microwave Boxes, Bins, Iron Board Christopher Rios Unit # 0228 Tool Box, Tools, Ladder, Pots/Pans, Fishing Poles, Heater, Cash Register, Helium Tank, ATV Joseph Jenkins Unit # 0309 Sofa, Tables, TV, Home Theater Stacy Scobel Unit # 2043 Sofa, Dresser Cameshia Clarke Unit # 2063 End Tables, Sofa, Table, Chairs, Play Pen, Mattress, Box Spring, TV Stand, Artificial Plants James Stuckey Unit # 2097 Bike, Engine Parts, Bumper, Seat for Car Amad Bussie Unit # 2118 Bags, TV Tables Lenora Crawford Unit # 4011 Lamps, Table, Wicker TV Stand, 3-TV’S, Mattress, Box Spring, Bags SmartStop Self Storage Breckinridge 5:00 PM via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com 3357 Breckinridge Blvd. Duluth, Ga. 30096 770-925-4034 Corliss Leisure Unit 1104 Mattresses, couch, toys bags, boxes Adeyemi Adedibu Unit 1404 Chairs, table, bags Djeneba Diakiie Unit 1501 Car tires with rims, speaker tower Darnell Ethridge Unit 1505 Clothes, shoes Nekeya Black Unit 1511 TV, boxes, bags Kimberly Baldwin Unit 2008 Couch, mattress TV, clothes, bedding, shoes Gloria Blackeney Unit 2011 Table, chairs, fridge, dryer, boxes Corey Hart Unit 2104 Chair, box Amber Simmons Unit 2156 Table, chair, dresser, night stand, boxes Shamieka Falana Unit 2223 Dresser, microwave, washer, dryer mattress, headboard, clothes Eric Stokely Unit 3036 Table, chairs, washer, deep freezer boxes
SmartStop Self Storage 2040 Lawrenceville Hwy 6:00 PM via online auction at: www.storagebattles.com 2040 Lawrenceville Hwy (US Hwy 29/ GA 8) Lawrenceville GA 30044 770-962-4330 Victor Patterson Unit 507 Chair, Clothes, Kids Toys Johnny Wimpey Unit 081 Tool Boxes, Dolly, Wheel Barrel, Chairs Olivia Reynolds Unit 090 T.V, Mattress, Sofa, Chairs, Dresser, Mirror Phat Chan Unit 094 Chairs, Bar stools, Computer, Grill Phat Chan Unit 345 Mattress/Boxspring, Shelves, Cabinet, Frames The personal goods stored therein by the following may include, but are not limited to general household, furniture, boxes, clothes, and appliances. All vehicles and recreational vehicles are auctioned as parts only. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Smart Stop Self Storage reserves the right to bid. Sale is subject to adjournment. 929-199386, 7/4,11 PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Uncle Bob’s Self Storage located at: 875 Marathon Parkway Lawrenceville, GA 30046, 678-242-1441; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on Tuesday, JULY 29th, 2014 @ 10:30 AM. SPACE NO.; CUSTOMER NAME; INVENTORY 1051; Equisha S. Adkins; Household Goods, TV or Stereo Equip, Tools/Appliances 2070: Steven Lewis; Household Goods, Furniture, Boxes, Tools, Appliances, TV’s or Stereo Equip. Office Furniture, Office Machines/ Equip. Construction Equip. Account Records. 3036; Larry Wilson; Household Goods/Furniture 4176: Cynthia Crocker; Household Goods/Furniture 929-200904, 7/11,18 PUBLIC SALE In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Uncle Bob’s Self Storage located at: 2655 Langford Rd. Norcross, Ga. 30071, 770-2420468; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at pub-
115; Terrie Moore; Household Goods/Furniture, 127; Yolanda Mason; Household Goods/Furniture/Boxes, Sporting Goods, TV’s, or Stereo Equip., Office Furniture, Office Machines/Equip. 137; German Medina; Household Goods/Furniture, 175; Marcus Foster; Household Goods/Furniture, TV/ Stereo Equipment, Tools/ Appliances 183; Yolanda Mason; Household Goods, Furniture, 243; Jay Donohue; Household Goods, furniture, Boxes, Sporting Goods, Tools 286; Charles Horne; Household Goods/Furniture 311; David Grimes; Office Equipment/Machines, Office Furniture, Account Records/ Files 929-200280, 7/11,18
PUBLIC AUCTION The following rooms will be sold at the public auction on July 18, 2014 starting at 300 Peters St Atl Ga, 30313. @ 10:00a.m. 300 Peters St Atl Ga, 30313 404-681-0502 WILLIAM HALL 4828 LUENELL RAY 3242 REGINA MARIE CANNON 6177 MICHAEL MCMICHAEL 6563 OHIJI CORBIN 6426 MICHAEL SIMPSON 6055 MARCELL HENRY 1815 DEMARQUECION GARDNER 6012 DANNY BAILEY 2502 RONALD WARE 6080 TRACY NORMAN 4412 CHANCES WILLIAMS 6460 MARQUETTA QUALLS 4701 MARQUETTA QUALLS 4713 TRACETTA WILLIAMS 2414 CATHERINE JONES 6331 VENCENTRA DILLARD 3020 STEPHEN ATKINSON 3230 WILLIAM HALL 4802 CALVIN ARRINGTON 2405 MALCOLM MCDOWELL 6503 BRANDON THOMAS 1017 ANTHONY BRIAN CRISS 3014 MARCUS WRIGHT 1410 ROBERT SMITH 6600 SHERONDA CASON 4904 ELIJAH TUTT 3098 TERESA WADE 6100 TERESA WADE 6645 CHRISTOPHER PRESTON 2315 WALTER RICKS 2304 QUCELL LAFAVOR 3228 QUANZONDRA WIGGINS 4433 EBONY MITCHELL 3145 SHAYLA SHAW 3096-97
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GERONEY BAKER 6370 CHARLES SCOTT 4106-12 NAKIRA HAYNES 1126 MICHAEL WATERS 6313 WHO ROOM 2610 2610 TEEAUNA WOODS 2604 EVI AKI 2313 ROBERT DC7321M HAITH 4111 GWENDOLYN LEE 3192-11 AMBER WILLIS 6608 SHAWN CABELL 3220 CORNELIUS WILLIAMS 3261 TIFFANY KIRKLAND 6165 SHAUNTIA LASHEY FLOYD 6569 DAMIAN NICHOLSON 6076 GENE JONES 4026 CLYDE WILLIAMS 6061 PATRICIA BANKS 4517-19 JEANETTE BENTON 2508 PETER BP 4556N JOSEPH 1516 CASY BP2010S CASON 2215 KIMBERLY SPRINGER 4605 GLORIA WILLIAMS 6495 LIVIA MERRITT 2000 MERRY HILL 6545 LEONARD JOINER 3006 EUGENE JONES JR 4718 HATTIE MATTIC 1714 DESMOND HOLLINGSWORTH 1315 KRISTINA GODFREY 3092 ERROLL MARSHALL 3268 WILLIE NEAL 2500
770-458-8353 DONNA MARSHALL 1106 TODD JOHNSON 2641 CHERYL HARRIS-MITCHELL 2503 LATOYA THOMPSON 1817 JOHN GRAHAM 2004 DERRICK LEE 2019 WILLIAM CHATMAN 1827 JAMAL HINCKSON 1302 DARRIN COLEMAN 1407 OPAL BROWN 2521-23 MUURILLO OREGON 2607 KIEKO THOMAS 2313 TAMIKA BAH 2031 JAMES CALLOWAY 1108 REKESHEA HENDERSON 1111 KEVIN FORD 1719 KEVIN FORD 1715 ANDREA MCRAY 2428 CARLA LEMONS 2207 CARLA LEMONS 1603 TAMA BARTHELEMY 1313 NATHANIEL KENDRICK 1509 929-200305, 7/11,18
2885 Clairmont Rd Atl Ga, 30329 404-315-0681 ANN WILLIAMS E003 ANN WILLIAMS D007 CHRISTIAN RYANS C010 KIMBERLY HARRIS B009 MICHAEL JONES B028 BRANDY MCMURRY B027 KAREN MUNNA B368 KAREN MUNNA B393 ABDOULIE NJIE A357 ANGEL S. MELVIN AA5672C KAREN MUNNA B413 MARIO GONZALEZ A337 LEON BOLEMEN A128 JACQUELYN HYLTON A102 DONTE WILLIAMS A011 ANTHONY J. WATSON A375 VIRGIL ARRINGTON A221 ADAM VANOVERSCHELDE A136 ROBERT BANKS B013 TASHAE LAWRENCE B315 JAVORIS HURSTON A397 ANN WILLIAMS A021 ANN WILLIAMS A030 FELICIA PRINTIS A144 FELICIA PRINTIS A143 2951 NE Expressway Chamblee Ga, 30341
FORECLOSURES NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE UNDER POWER GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Under and by virtue of the Power of Sale contained in a Security Deed given by Osei Bonsu to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., dated February 9, 2004, and recorded in Deed Book 37119, Page 0016, Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, subsequently modified by a Loan Modification Agreement recorded May 28, 2004 in Book 38434, Page 212 in the amount of No and 00/100 ($0.00) Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, as last transferred to SunTrust Bank by assignment recorded on October 22, 2012 in Book 51734 Page 426 in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia Records, conveying the after-described property to secure a Note in the original principal amount of One Hundred Thirty-Nine Thousand Two Hundred and 0/100 dollars ($139,200.00), with interest thereon as set forth therein, there will be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the courthouse door of Gwinnett County, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale on August 5, 2014, the following described property: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lots 19 and 20 of the 5th District, Gwinnett County, Georgia, being Lot 86, Block A, River Bridge, Unit Three, as per plat recorded in Plat Book 32, Page 223, Gwinnett County records. Reference to said plat is hereby made for a complete description of the property herein described. Said property is improved property known as 2630 Deer Isle Cove according to the present system numbering property in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Subject to any and all easements, rights of ways, restrictive covenants and
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public utilities of record. The debt secured by said Security Deed has been and is hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in Security Deed and by law, including attorney’s fees (notice of intent to collect attorney’s fees having been given). Your mortgage servicer can be contacted at (800) 443-1032–Loss Mitigation Dept, or by writing to PO Box 27767, Richmond, Virginia 23261, to discuss possible alternatives to avoid foreclosure. Said property will be sold subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not yet due and payable), any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above. To the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the party in possession of the property is Comfort A. Bonsu or tenant(s); and said property is more commonly known as 2630 Deer Isle Cove, Lawrenceville, GA 30044. The sale will be conducted subject to (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the holder of the security deed and (3) any right of redemption or other lien not extinguished by foreclosure. SunTrust Bank as Attorney in Fact for Osei Bonsu. Brock & Scott, PLLC 4360 Chamblee Dunwoody Road Suite 310 Atlanta, GA 30341 404-789-2661 B&S file no.: 14-13500 9 5 0 - 2 0 0 6 4 4 , 7/11,17,24,31
FULL TIME AUTOMOTIVE Salvage yard needs experienced
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Tools a must. Monroe. Call 770-207-7669 DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVER Norcross Electric Supply in Suwanee needs to hire Truck Drivers. These positions consist of pulling and organizing orders and delivering these to our customer locations and/or job sites. Truck driving experience is preferred and electrical supply knowledge is a plus. We are a DRUG FREE WORKPLACE and a DOT physical will be required. Please apply in person at Norcross Electric Supply, 4190 Capital View Dr., Suwanee, GA 30024 Should you have questions you may contact Douglas Mathis at 770-623-4350
Gwinnett Daily Post
Friday, July 11, 2014
‘Dawn’ brings battle to the big screen
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week end what to do, hear, see, watch, read, visit and eat in Gwinnett and Atlanta
upcoming best bets
The Daily Post gives you a list of upcoming events you won’t want to miss.
‘A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN’ Lionheart Theatre Company’s children’s theatre will present “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” July 18 through 20. The show is a musical based on the Peanuts characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. For more information, including show times and ticket prices, visit www. lionhearttheatre.org.
‘HOT! HOT! HOT!’
Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford will present the exhibit “Hot! Hot! Hot!” now through Aug. 2. The exhibit will showcase work by Tannery Row’s latest members. Admission is free. For more information, call 770-904-0572 or visit www.tanneryrowartistcolony.com. To submit an event for the Weekend section, email features@gwinnettdailypost. com.
Singer-songwriter Holly Williams is set to perform at the Red Clay Theatre in Duluth on July 31. (Special Photo)
EDDIE OWEN PRESENTS HOLLY WILLIAMS Eddie Owen Presents at the Red Clay Theatre in Duluth will host a performance by Holly Williams, Hank Williams Jr.’s daughter, Thursday, July 31. The singer-songwriter’s latest album is titled “The Highway.” For more information or to purchase tickets, call 404-478-2749 or visit www.eddieowenpresents.com. To learn more about Holly Williams, visit her website at www.hollywilliams.com.
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Gwinnett Center’s Performing Arts Center in Duluth will host its second annual international film festival Friday, Aug. 1, through Sunday, Aug. 3. Titles of some of the feature films include “Blackbird,” in its Georgia premiere, “Coffee, Kill Boss, “A Horse for Summer” and “The Morningside Monster.” The festival will also include short films, student films and music videos, as well as special screenings. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.gcifilmfest.com.
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The “Weekend” arts and entertainment guide includes select events in the coming week. To be considered for a listing, send a fact sheet to: Weekend, Features Department, Gwinnett Daily Post, 725 Old Norcross Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30045; or call 770-963-9205, email features@gwinnettdailypost. com or fax 770-339-8081. Weekend Section Editor: Deanna Allen Weekend Design: Bobbi Otis
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“Speechless” and ended with a salute to our country and its heroes with “America the Beautiful.” The event on the Fourth of July was just one of many happenings involving Norwood as he makes his trajectory toward stardom. The national video release of his song “Gravity” will occur in October, and it has some mysterious rumors floating around about its production. “Norwood has spent the last year preparing and training for something very exciting and unexpected that he will be doing in the video,” Madigan said. “We can’t give it away at this time, but we can say that he is the only pop artist that has done this on a video. It’ll definitely leave the crowd feeling ‘high.’ “We are seeking sponsors and setting up a crowd funding campaign for this video,” Madigan added. All sponsors and contributors will receive prizes and perks. Crowd funding through Indiegogo is being kicked off this week with the goal of raisAtlanta area singer Norwood, a Lawrenceville native, was chosen as Atlanta’s Next Legend. As the winner, Norwood received the opportunity to ing $3,000. To contribute, visit www.norwood-muperform at the 55th annual Legendary Fourth at Lenox Square event and also received a $500 Simon gift card. (Special Photo) sic.com. Norwood has also been What makes a man a band members kicked off asked to perform for the Art legend? Atlanta-based Atlanta’s Next Legend was Lenox Square’s the celebration with a 20 second time at the Alive! Beat singer Norwood, with second annual search for a rising star via minute, high energy set at Pre-Emmy Party in Los many ties to Gwinnett, is video submissions. The videos were re6 p.m.” Angeles. He has been crefinding out the fun way. viewed by a panel of five judges. We were Other acts on the stage ating YouTube videos and The artist, now in his told that there were hundreds of submissions. that evening were “Deis in a television commid-20s, is the newest AtHowever, Norwood won unanimously!” parture,” a Journey tribute mercial for the Atlanta lanta’s Next Legend. The band, and “Party on the Humane Society. — Jayne Madigan, Norwood’s manager title was bestowed on him Moon,” a 15-piece cover To find out more about just in time for the Fourth band. Norwood, download his of July event at Atlanta’s second annual search for As the winner, Norwood As Atlanta’s Next music, watch his videos Holley Calmes Lenox Square last week. a rising star via video received the opportunity Legend, Norwood was and even order a Norwood “It was an incredible submissions,” Norwood’s to perform at the 55th an- definitely the star of the tee shirt, visit his website honor to represent the and I was so excited to Manager Jayne Madigan nual Legendary Fourth show. He performed three at www.norwood-music. ATL as Atlanta’s Next have the opportunity.” said. “The videos were at Lenox Square event covers — “Locked Out com. Legend,” said Norwood, The selection process reviewed by a panel of and also received a $500 of Heaven” by Bruno Holley Calmes is a a Lawrenceville native. for the honor was long and five judges. We were told Simon gift card. Mars, “Happy” by Pharfreelance writer and public “The Legendary Fourth at filled with competition that there were hundreds “We estimated the rell Williams and a Katy relations consultant speLenox Square is an event I from other artists. of submissions. However, crowd to be at 6,000 Perry/Rihanna mash up. cializing in the arts. Email always wanted to perform “Atlanta’s Next LegNorwood won unanipeople,” Madigan said. He then sang two original her at hcalmes@mindat for several years now, end was Lenox Square’s mously!” “Norwood and his four songs titled “Gravity” and spring.com.
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Currylicious 2400 Satellite Boulevard, Duluth 678-878-3410 www.curryliciousatl.com By Emily Clance Staff Intern
• Open since: May 2014 • Owners: The Hooda family of Lawrenceville • Location: Currylicious is the centerpiece of a shopping center on Satellite Boulevard just past its intersection with Duluth Highway. • Hours: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 10 p.m. Sundays • Atmosphere: The restaurant is quiet, with elegant, dark wood floors and furniture. Bright orange napkins and decorations pop among the muted colors of the walls, tables and chairs. Natural light from large windows along the front of the restaurant combines with soft lighting from fixtures on the ceiling to give the restaurant its open, relaxed mood. • Menu: Currylicious specializes in authentic, homestyle Indian cooking and Bombay street food. Appetizers range from punjabi samosa, a flaky pastry with spicy potatoes, peas and tamarind and cilantro chutney, to murgi na farcha, a chicken leg marinated in a masala paste rolled in bread crumbs and deep fried. Entrees include tandoori chicken gravy, ghost shahi korma, which is goat meat simmered with yogurt, fried onions and herbs, and
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• Lal aloo — Spicy tangy baby potatoes prepared with special homemade spices, topped with fresh cilantro and served with tamarind chutney, $6 • Kathi roll chicken/ paneer — Juicy morsels of spicy chicken or paneer wrapped in a whole wheat tortilla that has been coated with egg and deep fried, $7 • Bhuna Ghost — Small cubes of beef cooked with onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and green chiles, $9 • Shrimp Tandoori — Shrimp seasoned in a marinade of cilantro, mint, ginger, garlic, lemon and yogurt, market price • Pineapple Halwa — Rich Indian dessert made with pineaple, mava (milk solids) and garnished with raisins and cashews, $4
a variety of kabaks. All entrees are served with rice. The menu also includes different types of naan, including butter naan, chili naan, garlic naan and onion kulcha, which is naan stuffed with onions and spices. For dessert, Currylicious offers pineapple halwa, gajar halwa, pav ka halwa, an Indian-style bread pudding, and kufli, an Indian ice cream. Drinks include assorted sodas, Indian specialty
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Clockwise from the back, Currylicious serves up lasooni (garlic) chicken, butter naan, a harabhara kabob an a tangdi kabob. In the center is tandoori chicken gravy. (Staff Intern: Emily Clance)
Currylicious in Duluth offers authentic, homestyle Indian cooking and Bombay street food. (Staff Intern: Emily Clance)
drinks, pakola and lassi. • Things you might not know: Currylicious has a hall that can be reserved
for special events, and they Fateema Hooda, the offer a lunch buffet Tuesmother of head chef Azym day through Saturday from Hooda, has written several 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. cookbooks published in
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India. Two of her most popular are a Chinese cookbook and a cookbook of traditional Muslim food.
GWINNETT TASTES A selection of local eateries recently featured in the Gwinnett Daily Post: Eat Something Else Eat Something Else focuses mainly on sandwiches, and the owners put their own spin on several classics. Their most popular sandwich, the spicy BLT, includes bacon, lettuce, fried green tomatoes instead of regular tomatoes, pepper jack cheese and the restaurant’s special homemade spicy sauce. The newest sandwich is a chicken hoagie with bacon, fried green tomatoes, avocado, lettuce, onions and ranch dressing. Also on the menu are grilled items such as burgers and grilled hoagies, as well as the Pow Dog, a foot-long, Angus beef hot dog covered in bacon, chili, shredded cheese and topped with slices of red onion. 2033 Buford Highway, Buford, 678-926-8121, www.eatsomethingelse. com • Capaldis New York Pizza Company Pizza is Capaldis’ best seller. Other popular items are the steak and cheese sub sandwich, calzones and stromboli. The restaurant offers a variety of specialty pizzas, such as the bacon double cheeseburger pizza, chicken pesto pizza, buffalo chicken pizza, taco pizza, a veggie pizza and a white pizza. Also on the menu are salads, such as a garden salad or a grilled chicken salad, and pasta dishes like lasagna, baked ziti, cheese ravioli and spaghetti.
dining and cocktails. 15 E. Main St. N.E., Buford, 678-745-0379, www.adamsrestaurantandpianobar.com
3170 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Duluth, 678-957-8748, www.facebook.com/pages/Capal• Naan Spicy dis-New-York-Pizza-ComNaan Spicy serves pany/1388253218077966 Indian and Pakistani cuisine. Popular dishes • Kingston 30 include the beef or Jamaican Restaurant chicken chapli kabab, The menu at Kingsa Naan Spicy specialty ton 30 consists entirely of hand pressed kababs of authentic Jamaican made with exotic herbs cuisine. Some of the and spices and pan fried. most popular items are The chicken and goat the jerk chicken, served biryani — aromatic with a sweet pineapple basmati rice cooked with mango sauce that can be chicken curry or sauteed prepared either mild or with goat meat — are spicy, the curry chicken also popular dishes. Naan and the brown stew Spicy offers four to six oxtail. Entrees are served daily specials from the with a choice of white menu and one special rice or rice and beans, as dish that’s not on the well as sweet plantains menu, as well as a long and cabbage. Kingston list of daily specials on 30 also offers a breakfast the weekends. A Sunday menu, with dishes such lunch buffet is offered as ackee and salt fish and from noon to 3 p.m. four different porridges. 3255 Lawrenceville All breakfast dishes are Suwanee Road, Suite 1, served with dumplings, Suwanee, 678-482-6334, either boiled or fried, and www.naanspicy.com boiled green bananas. 1820 N. Brown Road, • Sushi Niko Niko Lawrenceville, 678-847Sushi Niko Niko has 0465, www.kingston30. a wide and varied menu. com Appetizers include edamame, popcorn lobster • Adam’s Restaurant tempura, tako fondue The menu is on the and Japanese tacos. The upscale side, with dishes restaurant also offers a such as escargot, Colovariety of salads, such as rado rack of lamb, Cape a spicy tuna salad, seaCod diver scallops and weed salad and a squid gorgonzola-crusted filet salad, among others. The mignon. The restaurant restaurant has more than also offers a selection 100 different types of of prime steaks, three sushi rolls, ranging from different salads and two the bagel roll, which has soups: a she-crab soup smoked salmon, cream and the chef’s soup du cheese and avocado, to jour. Some of the most one called the Exit 115 popular menu items are Roll, which is eel inside the scallops, Chilean sea white seaweed paper bass, Colorado lamb and topped with spicy tuna the steaks. The restauand avocado. rant offers more than 70 3260 Buford Drive, different wines and more Suite 30, Buford, 770than 40 types of martinis 614-3442, www.sushin-
ikoniko.com • Taqueria 78 Taqueria 78 serves authentic Mexican food, including fajitas, burritos and quesadillas. Tacos are a customer favorite, and house specialties
include the chivito, which consists of French fries topped with bacon, ham, steak and one egg, and carne asada, which is sliced steak served with rice, beans and a side of salad. Guests order their food at the front counter
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Going to the movies has become an essential part of the summer, along with picnics and spending time in the outdoors. Cities around Gwinnett County combine all three of these things into various outdoor movie events, in some cases complete with food trucks and pre-screening concerts. Through the rest of the summer, cities, parks and the Mall of Georgia will be showing a variety of films on the big screen and are inviting families to come and enjoy a free movie each weekend. Saturday, July 12 The Mall of Georgia will host a concert by the Hill Street Roots and a screening of the movie “Rio 2” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12. The event will take place at the mall’s Village Amphitheater. Admission is free. The mall is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For more information, call 678-4828788. Rhodes Jordan Park will host a movie night from 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 12. Admission is free. The park is located at 100 East Crogan St. in Lawrenceville. For more information, call 678-277-0900. Friday, July 18 The city of Duluth will hold a screening of the movie “Pitch Perfect” at dusk Friday, July 18. Admission is free. The movie will be shown at the Duluth Festival
located at 2500 Sawyer Parkway in Snellville. Admission is free. For more information, visit www. snellvilletourism.com.
Crowds gather to watch a free outdoor movie at the Mall of Georgia in Buford. (File Photo)
Center and Amphitheatre, located at 3142 Hill St. in Duluth. For more information, call 770476-3434 or visit www. duluthga.net. The city of Sugar Hill will host a screening of the film “Gravity” at dusk Friday, July 18. Admission is free. The movie will be shown at the Sugar Hill City Hall Amphitheater, located at 6195 Austin Garner Road in Sugar Hill. For more information, call 770-945-6716 or visit www.cityofsugarhill. com. Saturday, July 19 The Mall of Georgia will present a concert by The Woodys and a screening of “The Great Gatsby” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19. The event will take place at the mall’s Village Amphitheater. Admission is free. The mall is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For more information, call 678482-8788.
The park is located at 2500 Sawyer Parkway in Snellville. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.snellvilletourism.com. The Mall of Georgia’s Village Amphitheater will host a concert by the Asphalt Cowboys and a screening of “The Lego Movie” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Admission is free. The mall is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For more information, call 678-482-8788. Lillian Webb Park will host a screening of the movie “Rio 2” from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Admission is free and guests are welcome to bring a picnic, but no glass will be allowed. The park is located at 5 College St. in Norcross. For more information, call 678421-2049 or visit www. norcrossga.net.
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Friday, July 11
Scott Douglas Scott Douglas will perform at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, July 11. Admission is free. The courthouse is located at 185 Crogan St. in Lawrenceville. For more information, call 770-8225450 or visit www.lawrencevillega.org. Connor Christian Solo Acoustic with Daphne Willis The Red Clay Theatre will present a performance by Connor Christian at 8 p.m. Friday, July 11. Admission is $12 in advance and $15 at the door. The theater is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 404-478-2749 or visit www. eddieowenpresents.com.
Movies Under the Stars The Mall of Georgia will host a concert by the Hill Street Roots and a screening of the movie “Rio 2” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12. The event will take place at the mall’s Village Amphitheater. Admission is free. The mall is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For more information, call 678482-8788. Summer Celebration at McDaniel Farm McDaniel Farm Park will host a summer celebration and tour of the park from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 12. Admission is $6, and pre-registration is required. The park is located at 3251 McDaniel Road in Duluth. For more information or to
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Monday, July 14
Movies on Mondays The Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center will present screenings of the film “Prisoners” at 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 23. The center is located at 10 College St. in Norcross. Admission is free. For more information, call 678-4212049 or visit www.aplaceto-
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Wednesday, July 16
Jess Klein & Mike June with Adam Klein The Red Clay Theatre will host a performance by Jess Klein and Mike June, with special guest Adam Klein, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16. Admission is $10 in advance and $14 at the door. The theater is located at 3116 Main Street in Duluth. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 678-892-6373 or visit www. eddieowenpresents.com.
Thursday, July 17
Little Chef Party The Gwinnett Place Mall will host a Little Chef Party as part of their summer kids’ clubs at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 17. Admission is free.
The mall is located at 2100 Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth. For more information, call 770-813-6840 or visit www. shopgwinnettmall.com.
dusk Friday, July 18. Admission is free. The movie will be shown at the Duluth Festival Center and Amphitheatre, located at 3142 Hill St. in Duluth. For more Friday, July 18 information, call 770-476‘You’re A Good Man, 3434 or visit www.duluthga. Charlie Brown’ net. Lionheart Theatre ComReels on the Lawn pany will present a producThe city of Sugar Hill will tion of “You’re A Good Man, host a screening of the film Charlie Brown” at 7:30 “Gravity” at dusk Friday, p.m. Friday, July 18, and July 18. Admission is free. Saturday, July 19, as well The movie will be shown as 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20. Admission is $12 to $15. at the Sugar Hill City Hall Amphitheater, located at The theater is located at 6195 Austin Garner Road in 10 College St. in Norcross. Sugar Hill. For more inforFor more information, visit mation, call 770-945-6716 www.lionhearttheatre.org. or visit www.cityofsugarhill. Flicks on the Bricks com. The city of Duluth will hold a screening of the movie “Pitch Perfect” at See CALENDAR, Page 8
Saturday, July 12
Herman Pennamon and Friends The Red Clay Theatre will host R&B musicians Herman Pennamon and Friends on Saturday, July 12. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. Tickets are $25 in advance and $28 at the door. The Red Clay Theatre is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 404-478-2749 or visit www. eddieowenpresents.com.
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Jim McBride and Gary Nicholson The Red Clay Theatre will present a performance by songwriter Jim McBride with Gary Nicholson at 8 p.m. Friday, July 18. Admission is $20. The theater is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. For more information or to purchase titwindckets, call 404-478-2749 or visit www. eddieowenpresents.com.t
Saturday, July 19
Metro Jazz Band Snellville’s Town Green will host the Metro Jazz Band from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 19. Food trucks will be on site and beer and wine will be available for purchase. The Snellville Town Green is located at 2342 Oak Road in Snellville. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.snellvilletourism.com. Shaun Hopper The Red Clay Theatre will present a performance by Shaun Hopper with special guest Joe Smothers at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 19. Admission is $15 in advance and $20 at the door. The theater is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 678-892-6373 or visit www.eddieowenpresents.com. Movies Under the Stars The Mall of Georgia will present a concert by The Woodys and a screening of “The Great Gatsby” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19. The event will take place at the mall’s Village Amphitheater. Admission is free. The mall is located at 3333 Buford Drive in Buford. For more information, call 678-482-8788. Opening Reception for ‘Japanese Calligraphy’ The Hudgens Center for the Arts will host an opening reception for its new exhibit “Japanese Calligraphy” from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 19. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. The Hudgens Center is located at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway in Duluth. For more information, call 770-623-
6002 or visit www.thehudgens.org. PlayTown Suwanee 10th Birthday Party PlayTown Suwanee will host a party celebrating its 10th birthday at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19. Admission is free. The playground is located at Buford Highway at Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road in Suwanee. For more information, call 770-945-8996 or visit www. suwanee.com. Nature Walk McDaniel Farm Park will host family nature walks at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19. Admission is $5. Reservations are suggested. The park is located at 3251 McDaniel Road in Duluth. For more information, visit www.gwinnettehc.org. The Jagged Stones The Duluth Festival Center and Amphitheatre will present a concert by The Jagged Stones from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, July 19. Admission is free. The amphitheater is located at 3142 Hill St. in Duluth. For more information, visit www. duluthga.net. Lawrenceville Chalk Walk The Aurora Theatre and the City of Lawrenceville will host a chalk walk celebration in honor of the Aurora Theatre’s production of “Mary Poppins” from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 19. Admission is free. The event will take place at 128 Pike St. in Lawrenceville. For more information visit www. lawrencevillega.org.
Thursday, July 24
John Carter Cash John Carter Cash will give a special performance at the Red Clay Theatre at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 24. The show is general admission and costs $21.50 in advance or $26.50 at the door. The Red Clay Theatre is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 404-478-2749 or visit www. eddieowenpresents.com. Little Artist Party The Gwinnett Place Mall
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Broadway in the Park Suwanee’s Town Center Park will host performances of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” and “Spellbound: The Musical” at 7 p.m. Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26. General admission is free but seats near the stage can be purchased for $10. The park Friday, July 25 is located at the intersecAngie Aparo and Levi tion of Buford Highway and Lowrey The Red Clay Theatre will Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road in Suwanee. For more host musicians Angie Aparo information, call 678-482and Levi Lowrey at 8 p.m. 6333 or visit www.suwaneeFriday, July 25. Tickets are performingarts.org. $20 in advance and $25 Movies Under the Stars at the door. The Red Clay The Mall of Georgia’s VilTheatre is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. For more lage Amphitheater will host a concert by the Asphalt information or to purchase Cowboys and a screentickets, call 404-478-2749 or visit www.eddieowenpre- ing of “The Lego Movie” at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26. sents.com. Admission is free. The mall is Electric Avenue located at 3333 Buford Drive The band Electric Avin Buford. For more informaenue will perform as part of the Moonlight and Music tion, call 678-482-8788. Princess Tea Party Concert Series from 8 to 10 Ippolito’s at the Suwanee p.m. Friday, July 25 at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse. Admission is free but tables can be reserved ahead of time. The courthouse is located at 185 Crogan St. in Lawrenceville. For more information, call 678-226-2639 or visit www. lawrencevillega.org. Broadway in the Park Suwanee’s Town Center Park will host performances of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” and “Spellbound: The Musical” at 7 p.m. Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26. General admission is free but seats near the stage can be purchased for $10. The park is located at the intersection of Buford Highway and Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road in Suwanee. For more information, call 678-482-6333 or visit www. suwaneeperformingarts.org. will host a Little Artist Party as part of their summer kids’ camps at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 24. Admission is free. The mall is located at 2100 Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth. For more information, call 770-8136840 or visit www.shopgwinnettmall.com.
Saturday, July 26
Popcorn in the Park Briscoe Park will host a screening of “Rio 2” at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 26. The park is located at 2500 Sawyer Parkway in Snellville. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.snellvilletourism.com.
Town Center will host a tea party with Broadway in the Park’s princesses from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Admission is $30. The restaurant is located at 350 Town Center Avenue in Suwanee. For more information, call 678-482-6333. Summer Celebration at McDaniel Farm McDaniel Farm Park will host a summer celebration and tour of the park from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 26. Admission is $6, and pre-registration is required. The park is located at 3251 McDaniel Road in Duluth. For more information or to register, visit www.gwinnettehc. org. Movie in the Park Lillian Webb Park will host a screening of the movie “Rio 2” from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Admission is free and guests are welcome to bring a picnic, but no glass will be allowed. The park is located at 5 College Street in
Norcross. For more information, call 678-421-2049 or visit www.norcrossga.net.
Monday, July 28
Movies on Mondays The Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center will host a screening of the film “August: Osage County” at 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 28. Admission is free. The center is located at 10 College St. in Norcross. For more information, call 678-421-2049 or visit www. aplacetoimagine.com.
Wednesday, July 30
Quincy Mumford and The Reason Why The Red Clay Theatre will present a performance by Quincy Mumford and The Reason Why at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 30. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. The theater is located at 3116 Main St. in Duluth. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 678-892-6373 or visit www.eddieowenpresents. com.
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Marvel in its latest superhero caper will expand its comic empire to live U.S. audiences this year, with a tour packing Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man and two dozen characters into a familyoriented show filled with fight scenes and explosions. Marvel Universe LIVE! debuted in Florida on Thursday, July 10, and will hit 85 cities including Duluth in December, marking the character licensing company’s most ambitious move into live entertainment. Marvel seeks to emulate the success of its parent company, Walt Disney Co., in translating popular film and television into a lifestyle brand with wide consumer reach. “This is legacy building,” said Tom Marvelli, Marvel’s vice president of global creative services and live events, who expects the show to appeal to both adult fans and their children. “For the first time, they are going to get to see the characters right in front of them, fighting it out and conquering evil.” The show features more than 25 characters — from Wolverine and the Avengers’ Captain America and Hulk to rivals Loki, Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus — in a duel for control of the Cosmic Cube, a coveted and feared power source in the Marvel realm. The plot fuels an almost non-stop sequence of action scenes, orchestrated by the stunts coordinator for “The
Actors take part in an action car chase scene during a rehearsal for the new Marvel Universe LIVE! show. (Special Photo: Reuters/Marvel Universe Live)
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Amazing Spider-Man” movies. Among the highlights are a car that flips, racing motorcycles and a bad guy who goes up in flames.
The production features a stage that doubles as a massive projection screen, transporting audiences from Manhattan’s skyscrapers to the farflung desert while heroes and villains fight battle after battle. The action takes place as much in the air as on the ground, with costumes designed to move according to characters’ powers, producer Juliette Feld said. Spider-Man swings on a pendulum, while Iron Man has a jetpropulsion effect.
The tour is expected to go on to Canada and the UK, although no dates are set. The concept was pitched by Feld Entertainment, a family-owned company that puts on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, building on its threedecade relationship with Disney. Feld produces the popular “Disney on Ice” and “Disney Live!” tours and has featured Marvelthemed cars at its Monster Jam events.
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“We saw the success of the films. The characters are so endearing, so relatable and so well loved,” said Feld, executive vice president of the Floridabased company. “We really wanted to bring them to life and expand our portfolio.” She declined to discuss the cost of the production, which has been two years in the making. Marvel will share in the revenues generated, Marvel executives said, declining to provide additional detail. The show, while
suitable for most ages, especially targets 5- to 12-year-old boys. Producers hope to lure audiences into the action with a new Marvel collectible, the Lectro Link. The interactive wristband, on sale at performances for $25, provides a remote power source for the Iron Man suit. Tickets are already on sale for the show at the Arena at Gwinnett Center from Dec. 26 through 28. For more information, visit www.gwinnettcenter. com.
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‘Dawn’ pushes boundaries of motion capture By Piya Sinha-Roy Reuters
‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ is lesser realized version of predecessor Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)
ment and a terrific story, it benefited from nearly a half-century’s worth of technological advancements that dwarfed those in the first five installments. Although it didn’t become official until this past January, the 2011 film is now just the first in a trilogy that will end in 2016, thus making “Dawn” the second or “bridge” installment and sadly, it includes many of the negative aspects By Michael Clark often found in productions of this ilk. The story Movie Critic is thinner, the length longer and instead of further character development we get rote action One of the best movies of 2011, “Rise of the sequences top-heavy with pyrotechnics. “Dawn” Planet of the Apes” is regularly mislabeled by many isn’t bad as much as it is a lesser realized version as a reboot of the original 1960s and 1970s franof what preceded it. chise when it is actually a prequel or origin story. In That said, there are many aspects that make addition to deft plotting, sharp character developit a more than worthwhile investment of time
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and money for dedicated fans of the series. However, if you’ve never seen an “Apes” movie, don’t make this one the first. Do yourself a huge favor and rent “Rise” and then prepare to be just slightly disappointed. Picking up 10 years after “Rise” ended, the epidemic that was just starting has now wiped out most of the Earth’s human population and what’s left of them — at least in San Francisco — are living in rancid squalor. Desperate to find a replenishing power source, the leaders venture deep into a nearby forest inhabited by an ever-increasing (in number and intelligence) band of apes. Their leader Caesar (Andy Serkis, amazing as usual) now has a wife (Judy Greer as Cornelia) and two sons — a headstrong teen and a newborn.
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Highly leery of the humans, Caesar nonetheless is initially open to helping them in their quest, something that doesn’t sit well with some members of his immediate inner circle. This sub-plot is one of the best in the film, often taking political infighting and power struggles to Shakespearean levels. Far less impressive and crass are the filmmaker’s similar attempts later on at symbolic class warfare and racial intolerance. The opening 30 minutes is easily the best part of the film where Caesar and his human counterpart (Jason Clarke as Malcolm) must overcome a series of avoidable gaffes executed by their more extreme and knee-jerk underlings. If this section of the narrative reminds you of the centuries-old squabbles in the Middle East you won’t be alone.
Malcolm gets the most static from Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) who is convinced the apes plan on wiping out all of the humans, a parallel position shared by Caesar’s longtime friend and right hand Koba (Tony Kebbell). A victim of lab experiments at the hands of humans, Koba is scarred both mentally and physically and believes that the only way to deal with them is with brute force. Replacing Rupert Wyatt in the director’s chair is Matt Reeves who, on paper, was an outstanding choice. After cutting his teeth on high-end TV dramas, Reeves made the leap to feature films and his first two efforts (“Cloverfield,” “Let Me In”) were highly intelligent (and more importantly restrained) sci-fi and vampire masterpieces. The visual economy and narrative shorthand that served Reeves so
well in those productions is absent during the film’s final 90 minutes where most of what takes place is at night, in the rain with muted backdrops and lousy 3-D. It doesn’t help matters that the committee of three screenwriters couldn’t settle on a uniform tone and left too many plot threads dangling. Reeves and at least one of his screenwriters will be collaborating of the final installment — one rumored to connect the ending here to the start of the first movie from 1968. If that is indeed the case, it will almost certainly be more satisfying, if not better than “Dawn.” When the narrative destination is clear and long established, the journey to get there will become much easier to navigate. Presented in English with sign language and English subtitles. (Fox)
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It’s not easy playing an ape, even a highly intelligent one, but if Andy Serkis succeeds in captivating moviegoers, he will be thanking the obscure world of “motion capture,” a digital technology that accurately translates performance into animation. For “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” opening in theaters this weekend, director Matt Reeves said he pushed the boundaries of motion capture to achieve “photo-reality” in rendering the apes, particularly in their facial expressions. In doing so, “Dawn” could usher in a new age for actors, allowing them to dream of delivering award-worthy dramatic performances using a technology generally used in sci-fi blockbusters. “One of the hardest things to do is to create characters which are emotionally engaging and truthful,” said Serkis, a British actor who has become a seminal figure for motion capture by bringing to life creatures such as Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and King Kong. Serkis said advancements now mean that a character’s facial expressions and emotions have a “one to one” relation to the actor’s. In the sequel to 2011’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” Serkis plays Caesar, a brainy ape who leads his species and negotiates their interactions with humans. In motion (or “performance”) capture, multiple cameras record an actor playing scenes in a suit covered in hundreds of dot-like sensors, often against a green screen that visual effects artists then digitally transform into locations. The cameras capture the movements and feed them to computer software, where digital-effects artists animate characters accordingly. For “Dawn,” Reeves eschewed the green screen and instead had the actors playing apes don their motion-capture suits on location, interacting with the actors playing humans. Once filmed, the scenes featuring the apes were sent off to Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based company that created the fantastical world of Middle Earth in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and “The Hobbit” films. The Weta artists digitally layered ape qualities, from their anatomy to fur to movements, onto the faces and bodies of the actors. Lighting was often key to the illusion: each individual strand of fur and the glint in the apes’ eyes responded to the light of the forest. Joe Letteri, the Oscar-winning visual-effects supervisor at Weta working on “Dawn,” said making human movements mimic an ape’s took enormous effort, but the emotion came from Serkis. “If you look at (the film) side by side, there’s no question that’s Andy’s performance,” he said.
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BUFORD Regal Cinemas, Mall Of Georgia 20 3333 Buford Drive 678-482-9263 www.regmovies.com
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3-D RealD RPX (PG-13)
10:00, 4:00, 10:00
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3-D (PG-13)
10:40, 11:00, 11:20, 12:40, 1:40, 2:00, 3:40, 4:40, 5:20, 6:40, 7:40, 8:00, 10:40, 11:15
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11:35, 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40
11:30, 2:05, 4:55, 7:55, 11:00
Deliver Us from Evil (R)
22 Jump Street (R)
11:15, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55
Earth to Echo (PG)
11:40, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35
12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15, 12:40
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2:25, 5:25, 8:35, 10:20, 11:30
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Deliver Us from Evil (R)
11:15, 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 9:45, 10:45, 12:30 Earth to Echo (PG)
11:35, 2:05, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35, 11:50 Tammy (R)
12:00, 1:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 12:15
Transformers: Age of Extinction — An IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13)
11:30, 3:15, 7:00, 10:45 Begin Again (R)
10:10, 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:50, 12:20
Transformers: Age of Extinction 3-D (PG-13)
9:45, 1:30, 5:15, 9:00, 12:45
Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13)
Tammy (R)
Transformers: Age of Extinction RealD 3-D (PG-13)
11:30, 3:15, 7:00, 10:00
Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13)
12:00, 3:45, 7:30
Jersey Boys (R)
1:05, 4:15
Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)
7:40, 10:20
22 Jump Street (R)
1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00
The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13)
4:45, 10:40
12:00, 3:45, 7:30, 11:15 PM
Maleficent (PG)
10:00, 3:45, 9:15
X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13)
11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40, 12:15
1:20, 7:40
Jersey Boys (R)
Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)
11:40, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:45
22 Jump Street (R)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
11:40, 2:10, 7:10, 9:40
How to Train Your Dragon 2 3-D (PG)
4:40
Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13)
11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15
The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13)
2:30, 8:15
Maleficent (PG)
11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30
X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13)
10:20, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20, 12:10
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes RealD 3-D (PG-13)
10:40, 11:20, 1:40, 2:20, 4:20, 4:40, 5:20, 7:40, 10:40, 11:00
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3-D RPX (PG-13)
1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)
11:00, 1:20, 2:00, 5:00, 7:20, 8:00, 10:20 America (PG-13)
10:50, 2:30, 4:25, 8:20, 10:50
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3-D (PG-13)
Tammy (R)
12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes RealD 3-D (PG-13)
1:45, 4:30, 7:45, 10:45
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)
1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25
America (PG-13)
11:45, 5:15, 8:10, 10:55
Earth to Echo (PG)
10:30, 11:25, 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 9:50 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 8:15, 10:45 Begin Again (R)
11:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25
Transformers: Age of Extinction RealD 3-D (PG-13)
12:50, 7:30
Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13)
11:10, 2:40, 7:00, 10:35
11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50
Jersey Boys (R)
11:30, 2:15, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45
Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)
Deliver Us from Evil (R) Earth to Echo (PG)
10:35, 1:35, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 10:45, 1:25, 7:35, 10:30
22 Jump Street (R)
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Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13)
11:35, 2:15, 5:10, 8:05, 10:50
The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13)
10:55, 1:55, 4:45, 7:50, 10:40 Maleficent (PG)
11:05, 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45
X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13)
4:05, 10:10
10:15, 11:15, 1:45, 4:05, 6:05, 8:40 Tammy (R)
9:40, 10:50, 12:05, 1:20, 2:40, 3:40, 5:10, 6:25, 7:45, 9:05, 11:40 Snowpiercer (R)
7:40, 10:45
Transformers: Age of Extinction RealD 3-D (PG-13)
10:30, 10:40, 11:20, 3:05, 6:50, 10:05, 10:35
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Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)
12:30, 3:05, 5:45, 8:30, 11:05
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
11:00, 1:05, 3:55, 6:30, 9:05
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3-D (PG-13)
10:15
Tammy (R)
11:45, 2:05, 4:35, 7:30, 10:05 Earth to Echo (PG)
11:00, 1:15, 3:35, 6:15, 8:35 Maleficent (PG)
1:30, 4:05, 6:45 P Rio (G)
11:00
Deliver Us From Evil (R)
11:00, 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:45, 11:35 22 Jump Street (R)
11:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35
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11:10, 1:55, 4:25, 7:05
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7:20
The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13)
11:30, 2:35
Maleficent (PG)
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10:40, 1:30, 4:15
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Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13) Maleficent (PG) X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13)
1:30, 4:30
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes RealD 3-D (PG-13)
10:00, 10:45, 1:15, 2:00, 4:30, 5:15, 7:45, 8:30, 10:50
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)
11:45, 12:30, 3:00, 3:45, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 10:15 America (PG-13)
10:55, 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00
Deliver Us from Evil (R)
12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 10:10, 10:45 Earth to Echo (PG)
10:20, 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Tammy (R)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes RealD 3-D (PG-13)
America (PG-13)
Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13)
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Snowpiercer (R)
9:35, 10:20, 10:40, 11:35, 1:50, 2:40, 5:00, 5:45, 8:10, 8:55, 11:05, 11:20, 12:00
10:50, 1:25, 4:00, 9:20
12:40, 3:50
11:35, 2:10, 4:40, 5:45, 7:15, 8:20, 9:50, 10:45
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
Chef (R)
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11:40, 2:30, 3:20, 6:15, 7:15, 9:45, 11:00 Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13)
How to Train Your Dragon 2 RealD 3-D
X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13)
Jersey Boys (R)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13)
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
Begin Again (R)
11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 10:25, 1:20, 4:20, 7:35, 10:40
Transformers: Age of Extinction RealD 3-D (PG-13)
11:20, 3:15, 7:05, 9:15
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10:30, 2:15, 6:10, 10:00
Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)
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12:50, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 Blended (PG-13)
1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40
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12:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:30 Earth to Echo (PG)
12:00, 2:20, 3:10, 5:25, 7:00 Tammy (R)
12:15, 2:45, 5:45, 10:30, 11:30
Think Like a Man Too (PG-13)
12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15
Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13)
12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Maleficent (PG)
12:00, 3:05, 5:25, 7:25, 8:00, 9:45 Blended (PG-13)
12:10, 2:45, 7:35, 10:15
X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13)
12:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Chef (R)
12:30, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13)
12:00, 2:45, 7:45, 11:00
Heaven Is For Real (PG)
12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 9:10 Rio 2 (PG)
12:05
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22 Jump Street (R)
11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 America (PG-13)
12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15
Deliver Us From Evil (R)
12:00, 12:30, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:40, 10:10
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
11:50, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Jersey Boys (R)
1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
The Fault in Our Stars (PG-13)
12:00, 3:00, 6:30, 9:25
Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG-13)
12:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:45, 4:15, 5:45, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30
Transformers: Age of Extinction 3-D (PG-13)
1:00, 1:30, 4:45, 5:15, 8:30, 9:00
A Million Ways to Die in the West (R)
SUWANEE
7:10, 9:35
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG-13)
1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Rio 2 (PG)
12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG-13)
1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50
Heaven is For Real (PG)
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and a surprisingly menacing Zac Efron (as a frat house Recently reviewed films • “The Fault in Our president) play oil and water now playing in metro area Stars” (PG-13) Based on the neighbors in this man-boy theaters: best-selling YA novel of the comedy steeped heavily in same name, “TFIOS” spends sex, drugs, booze and mean• “Tammy” (R) For the 90 original minutes avoiding spirited one-upmanship. 2 third time in a row (fourth if every cancer-movie cliché stars — MC you count “The Hangover you could imagine then uses • “Captain America: The Part III”), Melissa McCarthy to last half-hour to include Winter Soldier” (PG-13) plays a plus-sized gal with them all and then some. Bril- Second only to the first “Iron a foul mouth, poor hygiene liant start, lousy ending. 2 ½ Man” in terms of overall and bad luck in love in a racy stars — MC quality, this sophomore incomedy that goes absolutely • “Blended” (PG-13) stallment of Marvel’s Captain nowhere fast. She is now of- Little of this third movie star- America plays out less like a ficially and forever typecast. ring Adam Sandler and Drew comic book extravaganza and 1 star — Michael Clark Barrymore clicks, mostly due more a topical commentary • “Jersey Boys” (R) The to the filmmakers (and the on covert U.S. operations. 3 worst film Clint Eastwood leading man) wanting it both stars — MC has ever directed, “Jersey ways. It’s far too tame for • “Divergent” (PG-13) Boys” — based on the wildly Sandler’s frat boy fan base The latest entry in the youngsuccessful stage musical — and way too risqué for the adult-novel-blockbusterstarts out bad and only gets desired family demographic. hopeful adaptation covers all worse. A plodding pace, 2 stars — MC of the required bases (dyssub-par acting and too much • “X-Men: Days of topia, death, romance), does filler overwhelm great songs Future Past” (PG-13) The more things right than it does delivered with rote boredom. seventh installment of the wrong and doesn’t embarrass 1 ½ stars — MC “X-Men” series continues itself much but is overlong by • “22 Jump Street” (R) the franchise’s uninterrupted at least 30 minutes. 2 ½ stars With the exception of a few winning streak. In addition — MC minor tweaks, “22” is basito (mostly) dazzling special cally the same as “21 Jump effects and great acting, it Street,” which is not necesis one of the very few films sarily a bad thing as sequels ever to use the time travel go. Leads Jonah Hill and concept correctly. 3 ½ stars Channing Tatum push the — MC “bromance” thing into new • “Neighbors” (R) The territory and have chemistry usually blah Seth Rogen (as to burn. 2 ½ stars — MC a married man with child)
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In his directorial debut and first full-fledged lead performance, Jason Bateman pushes the good taste envelope to the breaking point with this black comedy that suggests “Spellbound” by way of “Bad Santa.” Bateman plays Guy, a 40-year-old man with attitude to burn and an old score to settle and after finding a loop-hole in the rules,
he enters a national spelling bee contest. The dialogue is beyond explicit, extremely graphic and is guaranteed to offend but also comes with a welcomed slice of unexpected warmth and humanity. Not great but very good. Technical specifications: aspect ratio: Widescreen (2.40:1/1080p), audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), Spanish (DTS surround 5.1), subtitles: English, French and Spanish. Special features include: • DVD, digital and UltraViolet copies • Featurette • Deleted and extended scenes • Filmmaker commentary • BD live • First edition slipcover case Focus, $34.98
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“Dances with Wolves” is the highest grossing Western of all-time. (Special Photo: MGM)
Test your film knowledge with Michael Clark So, you think you’re good at movie trivia? Every week, we give readers the opportunity to flex their movie muscles by answering five trivia questions from our movie critic, Michael Clark. Congratulations to last week’s winner, Donald Griffin of Snellville. Here are last week’s questions again and the answers: 1. Name the last movie where two people of the same gender won Academy Awards for acting. A: “Dallas Buyers Club” 2. Who was director Brian DePalma’s original choice to play the title character in “Scarface?” A: Robert De Niro 3. What is the highest grossing Western of all-time? A: “Dances with Wolves” 4. What was the first DreamWorks studio film to make more than $100 million at the box office? A: “The Peacemaker” 5. Name a movie in which Jennifer Connelly appears in the nude. A: “Requiem for a Dream”
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto star in “Dallas Buyers Club.” “Buyers Club” was the last movie where two people of the same gender won Academy Awards for acting. (Special Photo: Focus Features)
Now, for this week’s questions: 1. The opening scene in “The Exorcist” takes place in what country? 2. What was the favorite dish of the main characters in “Diner?” 3. What Alfred Hitchcock movie was shot in black and white because of budget concerns? 4. Name a man who has both a Super Bowl ring and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 5. Name a performer from both “The Sopranos” and “GoodFellas” whose character died in both. The first person (located in the U.S.) to respond with all the correct answers receives a
prize package of movierelated goodies, which could include promotional T-shirts, hats, posters, DVDs, video games and more. The winner also gets their name published in the next Weekend section. Please e-mail your answers, along with your name to clarkwriter@mindspring. com. Include “Gwinnett Daily Post Trivia Contest” in the subject line. In the event no one answers all of the questions correctly, the person with the most correct answers submitted by 6 p.m. the Monday after the contest is posted will be the winner. Only one winner per household is eligible each 30-day period.
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Film Fans: McCarthy tries too hard in ‘Tammy’ McCarthy. I have seen several of her movies and her character in this one seems to be the same as all the others. What was once funny is now getting tired. McCarthy seems to always play the crude, tough 2 out of 4 stars on the outside, bumbling loser. This can be funny in doses Melissa McCarthy can be a but not so much when it is real hoot, which is one reason constant. I wanted to see her newest The story is just a series of movie — and Susan Sarandon random moments that don’t as a co-star certainly doesn’t really add up to much. Mchurt. Sarandon delivers a solid Carthy’s type of comedy is performance with what is losing steam for me because it sometimes a flimsy script. is simply overdone. I may skip The story begins with what her next endeavor if it appears has become the usual for to be a repeat of so many other McCarthy’s characters, i.e., of her films. nothing comes easy for her, — Francine Benoit, it’s all an extra effort. There Lawrenceville are some funny moments for sure, mostly during the first 1.5 out of 4 stars half, but there is no newness When I saw the previews injected into the plot; it is refor this movie, the producers ally predictable and getting to had successfully done their be the same old, same old for job and motivated me to go EDITOR’S NOTE: Film Fans features local residents reviewing the movie of the week: “Tammy.” Want to be a film fan? Email features@ gwinnettdailypost.com.
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and see it. Unfortunately, the previews turned out to be the best parts, and I was sorely disappointed, probably because I was expecting too much. In the previous movies I have seen with Melissa McCarthy — “The Heat” and “Identity Thief” — her character has been rude, vulgar and overbearing but somehow manages to be somewhat charming and even funny, much like a mischievous child. Here, she is still rude and messy, just not as funny. Much like a joke you have heard too many times before, she’s the one who stayed at the party too long. As one of the writers/producers of this movie, she has been caught up in the customary Hollywood trend of capitalizing on previous success and then milking it for all it’s worth, i.e. “Meet the Fockers” and the disap-
pointing sequels. As the story begins, McCarthy’s character loses her dead-end job at a fast-food restaurant, crashes her car and catches her husband commiserating with another woman. In her desperation, she decides to escape and take a road trip (Huh?), but the only car available belongs to her alcoholic grandmother, played by Susan Sarandon, who is anything but funny and should have stayed home. The rest is a considerable effort of them trying too hard to be funny, while adding a little romance for good measure. Nowhere near the same “buddy” chemistry as with Sandra Bullock. There were some funny scenes and a few surprises, but not enough to live up to the hype. I am sure there are some people that will enjoy this movie, it just wasn’t worth
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the price of admission for me. else to play this part better, — Steve Kalberg, for I like Susan Sarandon, but Lawrenceville just didn’t think she played this role well, although she 2.5 out of 4 stars was funny in some parts. “Tammy” was co-written The movie is all about and stars Melissa McCarthy, Tammy’s mishaps and a great actress and comedian, journey to self discovery and although I think she tries too how important family really hard to be funny, when she is. The language is too much already is. Despite Tammy and unnecessary. Other big losing her car because she stars in the film are Dan Akyaccidentally hit a deer, and rod, Kathy Bates and Sandra losing her husband, because Oh. Overall, I like Melissa of him being unfaithful, and McCarthy as an actress and losing her job, and her dignity look forward to seeing more and self-esteem she lost long of her in the future, yet I ago, she sets out on a journey believe she’s a funny person of self discovery, although naturally and goes a bit overshe doesn’t know it. She sets board trying to be too funny. out with her free-spirited, al- When she tones it down a coholic grandmother (Susan bit and leaves out the bad Sarandon), after she’s lost language, she’s much better at all hope and ends up finding it. The movie is a “Road Trip” herself and truly liking the movie worth the road trip to real her. Susan Sarandon, as the movies! her grandmother, I think she — Kelly Cain, could have chosen somebody Lawrenceville
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‘Third Person’ collapses under own weight Third Person (R) HHHH
Taking a break from his role as action hero, Liam Neeson plays Michael, a writer with about 10 novels to his credit, each one not as good as the last. Michael By Michael Clark left his attorney wife TheMovie Critic resa (Maria Bello) for pretty young thing Anna (Olivia If you are a big fan of the Wilde), another writer who Paul Haggis film “Crash,” might be eclipsing him chances are you will love talent-wise and their relation“Third Person,” as well. ship is passionate but highly Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson star in “Third Person.” Although the plot is different, (Special Photo: Sony Pictures Classics) volatile. the story structure is exactly Back in New York, Thethe same: seemingly uncon- think it’s the most overrated between New York, Paris and resa is defending actress Julia nected characters eventually Best Picture Oscar winner Rome and all three world (Mila Kunis) in a vicious collide at the end resulting ever, you still should have a cities look phenomenal. The child custody battle that they in a major mind-bending certain amount of respect for set locations and cinemaare currently losing because twist. In all fairness, you’ll Haggis who is a much better tography are breathtaking, Julia’s artist husband Paul be hard-pressed to figure out writer (he also penned two so much so you might think (James Franco) has accused the twist here before Haggis Oscar-winning films by Clint Haggis was merely stringing her of trying to kill their son. gets around to it and it is very Eastwood) than director and together a series of high-end Her own worst enemy, Julia good but you’ll have to wait is even better at casting. fragrance commercials. The is beyond broke and must 130 minutes for it to arrive. Unlike “Crash” that was problem is some of the dialower herself by taking a job Even if you didn’t like set fully in L.A., “Third Per- logue would also be at home as a hotel maid and is regu“Crash” all that much and son” divides it’s time equally in a fragrance commercial. larly late to legal hearings.
The third sub-plot takes place in Rome and is arguably the best of the lot mostly because of its thriller elements and almost total lack of melodrama. Scott (Adrien Brody) is a quasi-art thief, an American who hires black marketers to pilfer the rough new designs of major fashion houses and farms them out to lower-end, knock-off companies back home. Why Scott does this is unclear given his marked disdain for all things Italian, but his attitude softens when he locks eyes in a bar with Monika (Moran Atias), a drop-dead gorgeous, olive-skinned brunette who may or may not be playing him as a mark in an intricate con game. Why the film doesn’t work better is baffling considering the talent both in front of and behind the camera and
Haggis’ usual Midas touch as a writer. Perhaps it was the pressure to copy himself and draw again from the winning well after the dismal critical and commercial reception to the back-to-back follow-ups to “Crash” (“In the Valley of Elah,” “The Next Three Days”) but whatever the reason, Haggis seems desperate, unfocused and floundering. If trimmed down by at least 30 minutes and helmed by someone like, say Woody Allen or Steven Soderbergh, “Third Person” could have been less stiff and longwinded but should haves and could haves are no longer an option. This is a great movie that collapses under its own weight and lofty expectations. But that ending, wow — what a sublime doozy it is. (Sony Classics)
‘Supermensch’ one of the best behind-the-scenes features ever produced Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (R) HHHH
clients because if he does his job right, there is no reason for you to know his name. Pestered for years on end and always saying no regarding a movie documentary about him, Gordon finally consented and the result is one of the best beBy Michael Clark hind-the-scenes Hollywood Movie Critic features ever produced. It’s even more impressive that What do Alice Cooper, it marks Myers’ debut as a Anne Murray, Sylvester director and it couldn’t have Stallone, Michael Douglas, come at a better time — Teddy Pendergrass, Mike career-wise — for him. Myers, Emeril Lagasse, WilAfter giving Gordon’s lie Nelson, Groucho Marx, formative years the attention Raquel Welch, Sharon Stone it deserves without rushing, and Tom Arnold have in Myers gets into Gordon’s common? All of them are or entry into the management were among the many perbusiness with some impresformers managed by Shep sive and efficient nameGordon. If you’ve never dropping. During his first heard of Gordon, that’s OK weekend after landing in and good for him and his L.A., Gordon (in one night)
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bended elbows with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison and landed his first client (Cooper) in a lost weekend haze of drugs and booze. Up to this time, managers were almost exclusively older, uptight corporate types and Gordon broke new ground by being of the same age as his clients, a de facto hippie and (as Hendrix wryly observed) had an instant “in” because he was Jewish. For the next 30 minutes, Myers concentrates solely on the working relationship between Cooper and Gordon and the movie starts to feel more like a history lesson about the former and not the latter, yet it is ultimately fitting. Cooper and his eponymously named band were broke, lost in some
netherworld between glam and art-metal without a solid identity. Gordon’s gonzo approach and freewheeling, whatever-goes mentality instantaneously created a new musical archetype: horror rock by way of Vaudeville. In less than a year Cooper became one of the top draws on the global concert circuit, all thanks to Gordon’s deft marketing. Gordon next took the relatively straight-laced Murray and made her hip overnight by setting up a photo op with her, Cooper, John Lennon and a handful of other minor rock legends. The guy never failed to identify a client’s niche audience and broadened their appeal by exploring avenues other managers either wouldn’t think of or dare consider.
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In the ’80s Gordon expanded his business circle to high-end chefs who were making scads of money for the publishing and hospitality industry while getting paid next to nothing. Starting with Lagasse, Gordon turned haute cuisine into an entirely new entertainment medium. All of those cooking shows that are strewn over cable TV and the Internet would not have been possible without Gordon’s vision. Throughout the film, Myers tosses in just enough anecdotal interviews from current and former clients that — while lavishing loads of praise on Gordon — also make it clear he was no choir boy and was something of a serial lothario who bedded hundreds if not thousands of women. The third act
concentrates on Gordon’s life now and how a multimillionaire living on a huge Hawaiian oceanside estate still feels as if something is missing — and he’s right. Obviously one of Gordon’s closest friends, Myers walks a fine line between fawning homage and warts-and-all honesty and it is riveting, anything but a whitewash and highly refreshing. In addition to being savvy beyond belief, Gordon is a man who understands the true meaning of privacy and is likely sitting on a vault of dirty laundry yet has no intention whatsoever of ever opening his mouth or writing a cowardly tell-all book. Supermensch indeed. (Radius-TWC)
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Slow summer
Even with ‘Transformers,’ summer box office is down nearly 13 percent from 2013
By Todd Cunningham
It’s not that there haven’t been hits this summer. “XMen: Days of Future Past,” Even with “Transformers: “The Amazing Spider-Man Age of Extinction” delivering 2” and “Maleficent” have the year’s first $100 million all topped $200 million, and opener, the summer box of“Godzilla” will get there. fice is still struggling, at least But there’s been nothing to in comparison to last year. compare with “Iron Man 3,” Paramount’s “Transformwhich had taken in more than ers,” with Mark Wahlberg double that by this time last replacing Shia LeBeouf as year. It hurt when Universal leading man, was projected pushed “Fast & Furious 7” to be summer’s biggest movto next year in the wake of ie — and it will be. It brought Paul Walker’s death, and in more than $200 million Erik Lehnsherr (young Magneto) played by Michael Fassbender, wields his powers there hasn’t been a breakout from overseas last weekend, in “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” one of the summer’s hits at the box office. (Special animated movie this year, Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation) including a record-breaking either. $90 million from China. The Melissa McCarthy That means that overseas it’s domestic total appears in nearly 13 percent behind the last year’s record-breaking comedy “Tammy,” kids’ pacing ahead of the previous range for “Age of Extinc$2.3 billion of last year at this $10.9 billion domestic haul. film “Earth to Echo” and the film in the franchise, 2011’s tion,” so hitting $1 billion point. It’s a safe bet that it The overall box office, which horror film “Deliver Us From “Dark of the Moon,” and globally is a real possibility. isn’t going to match last year, was up 9 percent at the end Evil” tried to bring box office that one took in $771 million But the summer box office and that’s going to make it of April, has now fallen just fireworks but were overshadfrom abroad. A $250 million is now at roughly $2 billion, difficult for 2014 to match behind 2013. owed by “Transformers.” Reuters
As for the rest of the summer, Fox’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” released Friday, looks strong, as does “Guardians of the Galaxy,” set for release on Aug. 1, and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is a wild card. But when it comes to potential blockbusters, that looks like it. What that means is that if 2014 has any chance of matching last year’s recordbreaking domestic box-office total, it will be because of fall and the holiday season. That’s when Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” (Nov. 7), “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” (Nov. 21), Fox’s biblical epic “Exodus” (Dec. 12) and “The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies” (Dec. 19) roll out.
‘Transformers’ crushes ‘Tammy’ to lead July 4 weekend box office By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud Reuters
“Transformers: Age of Extinction” collected $36.4 million in ticket sales over the three-day July 4 weekend, storming ahead of new films “Tammy,” “Deliver Us From Evil” and “Earth to Echo” to lead the U.S. and Canadian box office for a second consecutive weekend. The special effects-laden blockbuster, starring Mark Wahlberg and a cast of form-changing robots, had the year’s biggest opening weekend a week ago with $100 million in sales. The comedy “Tammy,” starring Melissa McCarthy as
Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager alongside the Transformer Lockdown in “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” which stormed ahead of new films “Tammy,” “Deliver Us From Evil” and “Earth to Echo” to lead the U.S. and Canadian box office for a second consecutive weekend. (Special Photo: Paramount Pictures)
a fast food worker who has a very bad day, was second with $21.2 million, according to studio estimates. Horror film “Deliver Us from Evil” generated sales of $9.5 mil-
lion for third place. “Transformers: Age of Extinction” has enjoyed a huge worldwide reception, generating more than $212 million in China alone, where it had
a flashy star-studded premiere. The film has generated more than $575 million globally, according to box office tracking firm Rentrak. “Tammy” fell short of industry experts’ $24 million estimate on the heels of weak reviews. The film, which received a “fresh” rating from only 29 of 111 reviewers tabulated by Rotten Tomatoes, was written by McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone, who also directed. The movie, made for a relatively inexpensive $20 million, features a high voltage cast including Susan Sarandon as Tammy’s grandmother, Dan Aykroyd as her father and Kathy Bates as a cousin.
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“Deliver Us From Evil” stars Australian actor Eric Bana as a New York City cop who solves a case he believes involves the devil. The movie is based on the investigative experiences of New York policeman Ralph Sarchie, who developed a knowledge of demonology, which he used in many cases. The buddy comedy “22 Jump Street,” starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as undercover cops in college, took the No. 4 spot with ticket sales of $9.4 million in its fourth weekend in movie theaters. It has totaled nearly $159 million at the box office, according to Rentrak. Rounding out the top five, animated “How to
Train Your Dragon 2” took in $8.75 million, ahead of the PG-rated action adventure “Earth to Echo” which totaled $8.25 million. The movie tells the story of three young friends who are directed by signals on their cellphones to a small, friendly alien robot that they need to help find his way home. Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom, distributed “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” “Tammy” was released by Time Warner’s studio Warner Brothers. Sony distributed “Deliver Us from Evil” and “22 Jump Street.” “Earth to Echo” was distributed by Relativity Media.
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