Naples News http://www.naplesnews.org Your Source for Non-Politically Correct News Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Cirque Dreams Illumination cast comes to WINK News! http://www.naplesnews.org/cirque-dreams-illumination-cast-comes-to-wink-news/ http://www.naplesnews.org/cirque-dreams-illumination-cast-comes-to-wink-news/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:06:39 +0000 rohit http://www.naplesnews.org/cirque-dreams-illumination-cast-comes-to-wink-news/ Cirque Dreams Illumination cast comes to WINK News!

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CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION is an out of this world, all-new, street smart spectacle from the creators of the groundbreaking hit CIRQUE DREAMS Jungle Fantasy–the only show of its kind to ever perform on Broadway. The show is in town at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall beginning March 16th for eight performances.

Audiences of all ages will marvel as city dwellers reinvent familiar objects, balance on wires, leap tall buildings and redefine the risks of flight in a story filled with astounding occurrences. One of a kind artists populate the streets of this magical metropolis and breathe energy into its landscape with urban acrobatics and never before seen phenomenal thrills of disbelief. Over 1,000 Cirque Dreams critically acclaimed dazzling costumes come alive to the sounds of jazz, ballroom, pop and more in this original score. CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION will surely live up to the Cirque Dreams brand of notoriety proclaimed “The grandest circus spectacle east of Vegas” by New York Magazine.

Created and directed by Neil Goldberg, CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION is the latest brainchild of Goldberg’s theatrical imagination and the Cirque Dreams brand of entertainment, creators of international performance, touring and Broadway sensations Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, Cirque Dreams Holidaze, Cirque Dreams Pandemonia, Cirque Dreams Coobrila, Cirque Ingenieux and the first show of its kind at sea…Cirque Dreams & Dinneron board the Norwegian EPIC. Over 10 million fans have experienced the phenomenon of a Cirque Dreams show in the past decade.

CIRQUE DREAMS ILLUMINATION plays March 16 – 21 at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall. Tickets are affordably priced starting at $20.00 and may be purchased by calling (239) 481-4849 or online at www.bbmannpah.com.

Performance Dates:
Tuesday, March 16 – 7:30PM
Wednesday, March 17 – 7:30PM
Thursday, March 18 – 7:30PM
Friday, March 19 – 8:00PM
Saturday, March 20 – 2:00 & 8:00PM
Sunday, March 21 – 1:00 & 6:30PM

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Wrong city in address window has some concerned.

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cape coral, FL- Some residents in Cape Coral are wondering if neighboring Fort Myers is going to get credit for the Cape’s population when Census forms are sent in.
That is because in the address window of the Census envelope, the street name and zip codes are correct but the city is listed as Fort Myers.
Cape Coral’s Mayor, John Sullivan says he believes this is a serious issue that needs to be, “addressed”.
The Mayor says the Census tallies are essential for receiving federal funding and grants and he wants to ensure that all monies that could be allocated to the Cape are received without a problem.
A Census spokesperson tells WINK news, the bar codes above the address are geo-encoded and have all the necessary location information needed. Regardless of what the address on the form says.
Not taking any chances, Mayor Sullivan has drafted a letter to the Census Bureau alerting officials to the confusion.

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The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the voluntary
recall Thursday involving the product made by Graco Children’s
Products, Inc., of Atlanta.

The regulatory agency said “screws holding the front legs of
the high chair can loosen and fall out” and said cracking plastic
brackets can cause the high chair to “tip over unexpectedly.”
These tip-overs resulted in 24 reports of injuries including bumps
and bruises to the head, a hairline fracture to the arm and cuts,
bumps and bruises and scratches to the body.”

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LONDON (AP) — Charlie Gillett, a DJ and music historian who helped bring music from around the world to wider attention, has died at the age of 68, his employer, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Thursday.

The BBC said Gillett died in a London hospital on Wednesday. He had an autoimmune disease and last week suffered a heart attack.

Soft-spoken Gillett was a fixture of the BBC’s domestic radio stations and its international World Service, where his show “Charlie Gillett’s World of Music” offered a wildly eclectic mix of music from around the globe.

In contrast to the narrow formats of most Western radio stations, Gillett played everything from Cajun boogie to Nigerian soul to Portuguese fado, gaining a devoted international following.

World Service director Peter Horrocks said Gillett was “an inspiration whose spirit of adventure and passion for the rich diversity of global music opened the ears of the world.”

Many musicians had reason to be grateful to Gillett. Among the artists he championed were Senegal’s Youssou N’Dour and Mali’s Salif Keita, and he was credited with launching the career of Dire Straits by playing the then-unknown band’s song “Sultans of Swing” on his BBC London radio show in 1976, prompting a battle to sign them by record companies.

Born in Morecambe, northwestern England, in 1942, Gillett studied at Cambridge University and at Columbia University in New York, where he wrote an MA thesis on the history of rock ‘n’ roll. He expanded it into the book “The Sound of the City,” published in 1970 and regarded as one of the best accounts of the genre’s early years.

In the 1970s Gillett co-founded the Oval record label, whose releases included the influential Cajun compilation “Another Saturday Night,” and for a time managed pub-rock band Kilburn and the High Roads, whose lead singer, Ian Dury, went on to fame with The Blockheads.

Gillett is survived by wife Buffy and their children Suzy, Jody and Ivan. Funeral details were not immediately available.

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities are hailing the arrests of 149 people in one of New Jersey’s most dangerous cities, which Conan O’Brien mocked on NBC’s “Tonight Show.”

Mayor Cory Booker announced the arrests Wednesday outside the notorious Academy Spires apartment complex in Newark, just west of New York City.

Twenty-eight arrests Wednesday morning capped a six-month drug investigation focusing on the complex. Seven guns, $15,000 in cash and $25,000 worth of drugs were seized.

Undercover officers made numerous drug buys at the complex. Booker says police will stay there “for as long as it takes.”

Booker has tried to clean up Newark, which has been blighted by unemployment and shocking violence such as the execution-style slayings of three college-bound students in 2007. O’Brien donated $100,000 last September after joking Booker’s health care program consisted of a bus ticket out.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The fashion world has announced one more tribute to designer Alexander McQueen.

McQueen, who died in an apparent suicide in London last month, will receive the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s special board of directors honor at the industry’s annual celebrity-studded gala this summer. The announcement was made Wednesday.

Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and last year’s pick for up-and-coming talent, Alexander Wang, will compete in the womenswear category, considered the big competitive prize of the night.

The emerging-talent nominees in womenswear this year are Joseph Altuzarra, Prabal Gurung and Jason Wu.

In menswear, Tom Ford, making a return to fashion, will compete in the main category with Michael Bastian and Rag & Bone’s David Neville and Marcus Wainwright. Richard Chai, Patrik Ervell and Simon Spurr were selected for the Swarovski rising-star award.

Perennial accessories designer of the year nominee Jacobs is up against Alexis Bittar and Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez. The designers, editors, retailers and stylists who pick nominees named Eddie Borgo, Dana Lorenz and Wang as the ones to watch in accessories.

All emerging-talent winners will receive financial support from Swarovski, the Austrian crystal company.

Michael Kors will get the lifetime achievement award, and model-turned-entrepreneur Iman is the year’s fashion icon.

The gala will be held in New York on June 7.

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Lee County school board member Bob Chilmonik plans to announce Thursday afternoon he will withdraw from the school board race and instead seek a seat on the Lee County Commission.

Chilmonik is going after the seat recently vacated by the death of Bob Janes.

A press conference is planned for 1 p.m. Count on WINK News to be there and bring you all the details.

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Why it’s important to check deliveries

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MARCO ISLAND, FL. – A tough economy is forcing thieves to get creative. Deputies say an Amerigas employee in naples tried stealing pounds of propane from restaurants and selling it back to them on the side for cash.

Denis Meurgue has been in the restaurant business for many years. He knows during the busy season he may spend about $500 a month to have Amerigas fill up his tank with propane to keep his kitchen going at Bistro Soleil.

So, when he started running out he got a little curious and talked to his supplier. “He asked me if I wanted the next day he would come back, and instead of paying the full price I would pay half price basically,” Meurgue tells me.

Meurgue says Amerigas driver Lazaro Albejas offered to sell him gas on the side, but not for the $1.60 Amerigas was charging. Instead, he just wanted to charge a dollar per pound, cash.

It dawned on Meurgue that something was up, “Since I was out of gas I said you know what maybe he’s doing a scam on some other people, and me too in the past. And maybe that’s why I was running out of gas!”

With Amerigas’ help, Marco Island Police investigated and found out Albejas was actually shorting customers pounds of propane, without them knowing, and then selling it back to them and pocketing the cash.
“To rob me and then try and rob me a second time, he shouldn’t have done that,” Meurgue says. This restaurant owner is concerned other businesses could be scammed in the same way and urges them to check their gas gage before and after a supplier leaves. He tells me it’s something he always took for granted, that the delivery driver was giving him what he paid for.

Amerigas did not return my call, but tell police they plan to prosecute Albejas. He is being charged with grand theft.

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Bonita business stays true to roots and is happy for business

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BONITA SPRINGS, FL. – St. Patty’s Day festivities were in full swing in Bonita Springs.

Fitzgerald’s on Bonita Beach Road normally only sees a few hundred guests a day in season, but Wednesday night they had a few more. When all is said and done, owners tell me their little restaurant will see about 3,000 people come through, which is excellent for business.

I’m told this is the 7th year Fitzgerald’s has had their St. Patrick’s day celebration, which had become quite a tradition for Bonita residents.

There’s music, Celtic dancers, but what’s the holiday without a little corn beef and cabbage, with a little green beer. “Not everybody drinks green beer, we’ll sell a lot of green beer. But we’ll probably sell a ton and a half of corn beef, that’s a lot of corn beef,” part owner Cecil Ashe tells me in his thick Irish accent.

Fitzgerald’s even gave away a trip for two to Ireland. In all, Ashe says business wise, a night like tonight is thanks to the luck of the Irish.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Break out the briefs and red cape, if you dare. More tales of “Captain Underpants” are coming.

Author Dav Pilkey has agreed to write four more of the multimillion-selling series that helped establish the giggly genre known as “poop fiction.” The first book, “The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future,” comes out in August with a worldwide printing of 1 million copies, Scholastic announced Thursday.

“I think fans of Captain Underpants will be very happy with this new book,” Pilkey said in a statement Thursday. “It has all of the action, laffs and ridiculousness that kids love, plus all the unapologetic irreverence and questionable potty humor that grumpy curmudgeons love to complain about. It’s got something for everybody!”

The new book is the first “Captain Underpants” in four years. In an e-mail message to The Associated Press, Pilkey said he and his wife “had to take some time off to care for my father, who had terminal cancer.” (His father, David M. Pilkey, died in 2008).

The return of “Captain Underpants” may not be amusing to all. In 2002, the American Library Association ranked the “Underpants” books among those most frequently complained about by parents and educators. That year, “Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants” was removed from an elementary school in Page, N.D., after a parent objected to the book’s language and “innuendos.”

In 2006, a high school principal in Long Beach, N.Y., banned students from dressing up as the title character. Three 17-year-old girls wore beige leotards and nude stockings under white briefs and red capes on the school’s “Superhero Day.”

The “Underpants” series, which started in 1997, has more than 45 million copies in print, according to Scholastic.

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