‘Plaster-like substance’ found on wraps

ESPN.com: Boxing

Saturday, January 24, 2009
‘Plaster-like substance’ found on wraps

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By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com

LOS ANGELES — Welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito was forced to re-wrap his hands before Saturday night’s defense against Shane Mosley at Staples Center after Mosley trainer Nazim Richardson discovered an abnormality during the pre-fight inspection.

“It was a plaster-like substance,” Golden Boy Promotions attorney Stephen Espinoza told ESPN.com. “It was bagged up by the commission and taken as evidence.”

Espinoza said that Dean Lohuis, co-executive director of the California State Athletic Commission, said it was discovered under both of Margarito’s wraps.

Margarito’s camp could not be reached for comment.

Richardson originally had objected to the amount of tape on Margarito’s hands and when it was removed, the foreign substance was discovered, Espinoza said.

Richardson, who trains Bernard Hopkins, had also objected to Felix Trinidad’s hand wraps before their historic 2001 undisputed middleweight championship fight. Trinidad was forced to have his hands re-wrapped and Hopkins went on to knock him out in the 12th round to unify titles.

RED ALERT: 18 Yr. Old Carrell Johson Shot In Chest 4 Cost Now Is Handcuffed & Isolated ~ HELP!

RED ALERT: 18 Yr. Old Carrell Johson Shot In Chest 4 Cost Now Is Handcuffed & Isolated ~ HELP!

 18 year old Carrell Johnson, III, was shot in the chest between 12:30 – 1:AM on 140th Adam Clayton Powell Blvd & 8th Ave. in an attempted robbery for his ‘Marrott Coat’. Mrs. Denise Johnson reports her son whispered to her “McDonald’s & a Puerto Rican man shot me for my coat.” When Mr. Carrell Johnson, Jr. & Mrs. Denise Johnson arrived at Harlem Hospital to find their son handcuffed to the bed.

 After leaving the room to inquire, the parents were told by Police Office Nevis, of the 32nd Precinct, and Captain Officer Perez, “their son was under arrest charged for possession of marijuana ($10 bag) & they would not be able to see him until his was booked at central booking.”; all while a bullet is lodged near his heart of their son, Carrell.

 · Right now, 14 hours after the shooting, 1/24/2009 3:17 PM, Carrell, III, lies in Harlem Hospital, isolated.

· The Johnsons were told by the trauma physician, Dr. Cox, he will not give them any information regarding their son’s condition.

· Other nurses & doctors respond the same

· Carrell Johnson, III, is handcuffed to the bed for a class D Misdemeanor.

 The Johnson’s have contacted New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) for legal representation. Await answer.

 Intervention is needed on as many levels as are open!

 · Legal Representation

· News coverage

· Physical access to their son

· Authority over their son’s medical treatment

· Calls to the hospital

· Calls to the 32nd precinct

 Harlem Hospital: Dr. Cox, 212 939-1000

32nd Precinct: Captain Perez, (212) 690-6311 250 W 135th St., New York, NY 10030

 

For more information, please contact Mrs. Denise Johnson, 917 443-8058

White-to-Black Passing in American Culture.

Long Time Passing

By AMY FINNERTY

NEAR BLACK

White-to-Black Passing in American Culture.

By Baz Dreisinger

184 pp. University of Massachusetts Press. Paper, $24.95

How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest “Near Black,” by Baz Drei­singer. A freelance journalist and an assistant professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, she explores cases of “reverse racial passing” — as distinct from the more conventional, black-as-white “passing,” for so long a feature of our tortured society. Presenting “narratives about white people who either envision themselves or are envisioned by others as being or becoming black,” and drawing on examples ranging from Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson” to the sophomoric genre film “Soul Man,” she argues that the appropriation of black identity by whites — both literally and metaphorically — has been a potent strain in American culture for centuries. READ MORE…[NYT]

Examining Race and a Future Beyond It

Examining Race and a Future Beyond It

By DENNIS LIM

“MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY,” an independent feature by the first-time writer-director Barry Jenkins, opens the morning after a one-night stand. Micah and Jo, who don’t yet know each other’s names, are young and black, and for want of a more descriptive term you might call them hipsters. In San Francisco, where the African-American population is less than 7 percent and where “black indie kids” (to use Mr. Jenkins’s term) are scarce, that gives their hookup added significance — at least for Micah. As he puts it to Jo, “You ever realize just how few of us there really are?”READ MORE….[NYT]

York Theater Company Presents Developmental Reading Series

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York Theater Company Presents Developmental Reading Series

by BWW News Desk

The York Theater Company presents the Developmental Reading Series

GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK
BOOK BY MELBA THOMAS, MUSIC BY David Friedman, LYRICS BY Muriel RobinSON
Based on the wonderful short story by Grace Paley, set on Manhattan’s lower east side during the era of the Yiddish theatre, Goodbye and Good Luck tells the story of Rosie Lieber, whose life is upended and set on a new track when she loses her job in a sweatshop because she wants to sit by a window. Her search for her “window” leads to a job as cashier at a famous Second Avenue theatre and a livelong involvement with its charismatic and considerably older star. This is the story of an “ordinary” girl who makes “extraordinary” choices that lead to a life full of surprises, twists and turns.
Monday, February 2, 2009 • 3:00 PM
Thursday, February 5, 2009 • 3:00 PM

TRAV’LIN
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY J.C. JOHNSON & FRIENDS, BOOK BY GARY HOLMES AND
ALLAN SHAPIRO
This warm-hearted musical follows the romantic travails of three couples in 1930’s Harlem – 50-, 30- and 20-somethings. The story centers on George, the older gentleman and a self-proclaimed expert on love, who meets his match when he befriends a down-on-her-luck stranger only to find out she is not the person she seems to be. The show’s jazz-inflected score rediscovers Harlem songwriter J. C. Johnson, who wrote with and for luminaries such as Fats Waller and Andy Razaf (“The Joint Is Jumpin’”) and singers Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 • 3:00 PM

THE ROAD TO QATAR!
A True New Musical Comedy
BOOK AND LYRICS BY Stephen Cole, MUSIC BY David Krane,
What do you get when two short Jews go to the Middle East to write a musical for the Emir of Qatar? A hilarious, tuneful and totally true musical comedy that brings the old Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road pictures into the 21st century!
Thursday, February 19, 2009 • 3:00 PM

SWEET WILLIAM
BOOK BY Bill Solly AND
Donald Ward,
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY Bill Solly
In this 2008 Kleban Award-winning musical by the authors of Boy Meets Boy and The Great American Backstage Musical, the young Will Shakespeare goes on the road with the Stratford Players and meets a girl called William. Along the way he also has to cope with a vicious boy-player, several theatrical crises, unexpected romance, and a bear.
Monday, February 23, 2009 • 3:00 PM

York Theatre Company
212-935-5824 x24
The Theatre at Saint Peter’s
54th Street, Just East of Lexington
www.yorktheatre.org

ADMISSION IS FREE!

Reservations are suggested.
Email Jeff Landsman
(please mention your name, phone number, the show you want to see, and the number of tickets you’d like)
or call 212-935-5824, ext. 24.

There is no admission charge.

THIS SERIES MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH A GENEROUS DONATION FROM
THE DOROTHY STRELSIN FOUNDATION

Would YOU like to submit a show for inclusion in the Developmental Reading Series?

Our mission here at York concerns musicals only; we do not accept submissions of plays. A completed script must be submitted, as well as a sound recording of at least most of the songs. While each submision will get a reply, we are unable to return your materials.

As we are one of the only theatres in the country which accepts unsolicited scripts, we receive around 400-500 scripts per year. We pride ourselves in properly evaluating each script, which takes time as we have a small staff and a loyal group of volunteer readers. It generally takes at least 6 to 12 months to get a script through our entire process.

Material should be submitted to:
York Theatre Company
DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES
The Theatre at Saint Peter’s
619 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10022

http://www.yorktheatre.org/Reading%20Series.htm

Sources: Son, 3, of Knicks center Eddy Curry witnesses murders of mom, baby-sister in Chicago

BY FRANK ISOLA, RICH SCHAPIRO and DORIAN BLOCK
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Sunday, January 25th 2009, 2:20 AM

Sabo/News

Sources say Eddy Curry’s 3-year-old son witnessed his mother and baby-sister’s murders in their Chicago apartment Saturday.

Knicks center Eddy Curry’s 3-year-old son witnessed his mother and baby-sister’s murders in their Chicago apartment Saturday, according to a source close to Curry.

Nova Henry, 24, a former girlfriend of Curry’s, and her 9-month-old daughter, Ava, were found shot dead by Henry’s mother around 6 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.

Curry’s son was found unharmed inside the South Side apartment, but his father was still described as “despondent” Saturday night.

The killer is a “known acquaintance,” said Chicago Police Officer Amina Greer.

Henry had a boyfriend and had filed a restraining order against him, according to team sources.

Greer did not say whether the suspect was being questioned last night, just that the case is still “under investigation.”

A Knicks source close to Curry described him as “distraught” upon learning of the woman’s death and what his son witnessed.

Curry was told of the murders after the team’s loss to Philadelphia last night and cried upon hearing the news, said the source.

Henry had claimed the murdered 9-month-old infant was Curry’s child, but the player has adamantly denied it.

Autopsies were set to be performed Sunday.

Curry flew back to New York from Philadelphia with the team last night, and the source was not sure if he was staying in the city or going to Chicago.

Curry is married and has four children with his wife, Patrice – Eddy III, Reign, Reigan and Reiganna, according to the Knicks media guide.

In 2007, Curry and his wife were bound and robbed at gunpoint in the family’s suburban Chicago mansion by three gun-wielding thugs.

Saturday’s tragic incident comes during an especially tumultuous period for Curry.

Two weeks ago, the Knicks star was sued by his former driver who accused him of making sexual advances, forcing him to perform demeaning tasks and twice pointing a gun at him.

Ex-driver David Kuchinsky also claimed that Curry bombarded him with racial and religious epithets.

Curry has played in just one game this season after missing the first 35 games with a right knee injury.

He arrived for preseason training out of shape and was set back further by a bacterial infection that forced him to miss the first six days of training camp.

Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni has repeatedly insisted Curry needs to improve his conditioning and drop some weight before he can become an effective player again.

dblock@nydailynews.com

With Eric Barrow, Joe Belock and News Wire Services

Henry Hudson’s View of New York: When Trees Tipped the Sky

By SAM ROBERTS

What F. Scott Fitzgerald called the “fresh, green breast of the New World” that greeted Henry Hudson 400 years ago has been reimagined by a senior ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Drawing on 18th-century British military maps, the ecologist, Eric W. Sanderson, has painstakingly recreated Manhattan’s rolling landscape — Mannahatta in an American Indian dialect meant “island of many hills,” many of which were all but leveled when the street grid was imposed in the 19th century — that Hudson encountered.

Markley Boyer/The Mannahatta Project

A composite image splits Manhattan into two visions; how it looked in 1609, left; its more vertical profile today, right.

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