Dead Friends
Exclusively Premiere
"Torches"
via The Noise
Listen HERE
Virginia Beach, VA - October 4, 2018 - 4-piece rock band Dead Friends is exclusively premiering their new single "Torches" via The Noise today! Give it a spin here: https://bit.ly/2DX1Yyv.
The track follows the release of the band's singles "Down For Good" back in July, and "Paimon (What You Omen)" last month, making "Torches" the third single since the release of their EP Set You Right last year. "Torches," "Paimon (What You Omen)" and "Down For Good," all recorded by Will Beasley (Asking Alexandria, Omarosa), come off of the band's forthcoming EP slated for an early 2019 release.
On the track, lead vocalist/guitarist Austin Redford shares, "I think subconsciously people feel like we need our lives to be defined by something comprehensible - anything from political or religious affiliation to a job or a favorite sports team. 'Torches' is about clinging too closely to those life defining elements, and the devastating realization that you're not a complete person without them."
For more information, and to keep up with Dead Friends, please follow along on Facebook and Instagram.
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Dead Friends is Austin Radford (vocals, guitar), Dan Worrell (guitar, vocals), Brian Zawacki (bass, vocals), and Christian Zawacki (drums, vocals).
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O1ARTS - NEWSLETTER - OCT 2018 vol.1 – CONNECTING OVER 4,600 CREATIVES
Kiki Coquette is Neo-Burlesque Performer, Producer, Choreographer, Dance Instructor, Entrepreneur, Multi-Disciplined Artist, Art Activist, Troupe Leader and Founder Of Rebelle Birds Burlesque in Ogden, Utah and founding Director of UVBC- The Utah Vaudeville & Burlesque Collective.
Kiki has an upcoming showing in the October 5th First Friday Art Stroll at Ogden Uncon Headquarters Mannequin Cosplay Contest from local designers. Go Vote for your favorite design & check out her latest project.
Ogden as Kaleidoscope
Happy #Ogtober, friends! (nope, not a typo… check out what Visit Ogden has to say about it!)
For us, the crisp fall air is pretty much our favorite time of year. After such a wickedly hot summer, we’re SO looking forward to getting out & about for #FirstFridayArtStroll again.
Of course, we’re biased, as we’ve got a special show opening at #O1PLATFORMS. Of course we’ve been over the moon about “#monarchinmoda, our beautiful new mural by Jane Kim and the Ink Dwell team… what a fantastic launch to our new #O1WALLS initiative. And if you haven’t seen it yet, we invite you to swing by on Friday to check it out.
5 Things You Need to Know about the Nine Rails Creative District
Jake McIntire
1. It’s officially a thing.
On August 14th, 2018 Ogden City Council unanimously voted to adopt the Nine Rails Creative District Master Plan, thus designating the stretch from 24th to 26th streets and Grant to Madison avenues as the Nine Rails Creative District. This makes Ogden one of only a few communities in Utah to have a designated creative or cultural district.
Along with our mural, we have another addition to our construction site. Have you noticed a van in our neck of the woods? We’re so excited to have The Banyan Collective hosting their podcasts #VanSessions and Nine Rails at our location. Van Sessions feature loading musicians into their 1987 Dodge Explorer camper for live semi-acoustic performances during Ogden's First Friday Art Stroll, and is in its 5th Season. They use the #TanVan to record podcasts on location from local trailheads and events. Other Banyan Collective produced podcasts include LITerally, and the new Nine Rails Arts Podcast. This Friday’s Van Session, October 5, will be The Reverend and the Revelry, and Morgan and the Mountain.
In Episode 5, we go on campus to talk Ink Dwell’s Monarch Butterfly Migrating Mural at Weber State University’s Kimball Visual Arts Building. We sat down with Ink Dwell studio co-founders, WSU Hurst Artist-in-Residence, Jane Kim, and adventure journalist, Thayer Walker, as well as Aubrey Eckhardt, one of three art student interns assisting with the mural. Scott Sprenger, the dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities, and Matthew Choberka, the Chair & Professor of Art at the Department of Visual Art & Design, joined us for the conversation as well. Ogden’s first Migrating Mural, discussed in Episode 4, is located at The Monarch building at 455 25th Street. Community members can view banner illustrations created by Kim at the Ogden Nature Center.
The Banyan Collective’s Nine Rails Arts Podcast explores what it means to be an Adventurous Creative in 2018. Through a partnership with arts non-profit, Ogden First, we will get to know Ogden’s new Nine Rails Creative District, as well as the district’s epicenter and future home to artisans, designers & creatives, the Monarch building.
Oct 5: Van Sessions at The Monarch
Oct 5-31: Kaleidoscope
Oct 5: Jaxen Layton First Friday Exhibit
Oct 5: Block Party Mural:Four Seasons
Oct 6: Ballet X
Oct 11: Jaxsen Layton at The Argo House
Oct 12: Jane Kim Public Lecture #xpectunexpected
Oct 15: Art + Action: Think / Act BIG with Thayer Walker of Ink Dwell
Oct 18: Art + Action: Creative Inclusivity - Creativity as a Tool for Change
Ogden First is a non-profit (501c3) corporation established to create and deliver artsprogramming, in all forms, in the context of adaptive reuse of historic or iconic spaces, tocreate vibrant venues where artists can create, learn, perform and exhibit, amplified by ourcity’s architectural legacy.
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FROM CARSWELL TO KAVANAUGH
By Robert C. Koehler
823 words
These words did in G. Harrold Carswell nearly five decades ago:
“I am Southern by ancestry, birth, training, inclination, belief and practice. And I believe that segregation of the races is proper and the only practical and correct way of life in our states. I have always so believed and I shall always so act.
“I shall be the last to submit to any attempt on the part of anyone to break down and to weaken this firmly established policy of our people.
“If my own brother were to advocate such a program, I would be compelled to take issue with him and to oppose him to the limit of my ability.
“I yield to no man, as a fellow candidate or as a fellow citizen, in the firm, vigorous belief in the principles of white supremacy, and I shall always be so governed.”
Wow, white supremacy once had “principles,” but that was in 1948. Carswell, then a young man, delivered these words to an American Legion chapter in a small town in Georgia when he was running for a seat in the state legislature. Twenty-two years later, when Richard Nixon nominated him for the Supreme Court, these words from a different era were unearthed and Carswell immediately apologized: “I renounce and reject the words themselves and the thoughts that they represent. They’re obnoxious and abhorrent to my personal philosophy.”
Too late.
Thirteen Republicans abandoned ship and voted against the nomination, leading to his defeat in the Senate. It was Nixon’s second straight Supreme Court nominee not to make it. Six months earlier, Clement Haynsworth’s nomination had also been rejected, at least partly because of pro-segregation court decisions he’d made.
Something bigger than politics was going on in this moment. The national consciousness had shifted, thanks to the civil rights movement, and suddenly the monstrous ugliness of white supremacy — no matter that it had quietly festered at the nation’s psychological foundation for two centuries, fomenting laws and wars and national policy — was unavoidably, politically apparent. It could no longer be defended. An apology couldn’t remove its stain. White supremacy had officially been shoved to the political margins, at least for the moment.
Welcome to 2018. Is something similar happening today in the uproar over Brett Kavanaugh? If so, what?
As I write, his nomination remains a possibility, but what seems unavoidably apparent is that Kavanaugh and his defenders have been caught, unexpectedly, in another profound shift in national consciousness. What’s different is that the shift is occurring right now. Kavanaugh is the movement, or rather, its trigger. He’s the bus driver, telling Rosa Parks to move to the back of the bus, even though he adamantly denies having done so.
He’s suddenly the poster boy of disrespect for women’s rights — for their safety, for their humanity — at a moment when the wrong of it is suddenly apparent. “It’s a man’s world” is suddenly not the way things are anymore, just as “the principles” of good, old-fashioned white supremacy had collapsed into non-existence by the time Carswell was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1970.
As the fight to stop Kavanaugh’s nomination struggles forward, I think it’s crucial to nurture this moment and see it for what it is, regardless what happens next. This moment transcends politics. It transcends a man’s past behavior. It transcends legal procedure and the possibility that Kavanaugh lied under oath.
Kavanaugh doesn’t belong on the nation’s highest court because what he stands for is too small, too arrogant, too buried in prejudice and the devaluation of many lives. The sexual assault accusations aren’t his only disqualifying actions. Like Carswell and Haynsworth, his political and judicial record indicate obeisance to beliefs that should not control the nation’s future.
During his tenure in the George W. Bush administration, as both associate White House counsel and, later, White House staff secretary, Kavanaugh was involved in the administration’s controversial decisions on the rights of detainees, including the use of “enhanced interrogation” techniques, i.e., torture. When he became part of the U.S. Court of Appeals, he continued to function as a force to let the Bush administration torture and indefinitely detain its prisoners, maintaining in his decisions that the United States was not obligated to obey the norms of international law, such as the Geneva Conventions, which ban torture.
“Kavanaugh’s radical views have momentous implications,” Jamie Mayerfeld writes at Just Security. “A core purpose of international law is to shield individuals from the worst abuses of state power. If Kavanaugh is elevated to the Supreme Court, his insistence on marginalizing international law will severely undermine human rights.”
We’re at another moment of change. People are crying out to build a better world, one that does not devalue anyone. As Mayerfeld notes, Donald Trump once said, during his campaign, “I would bring back waterboarding, and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
The past and the future are colliding once again.
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Robert Koehler, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. His book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound is available. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
