Lake Affect Magazine announces poetry contest (0)

Posted 8 March, 2006 in Rochester

Hot on the heels of the MoKA announcement (see below), Michelle Cardulla sent this message announcing a poetry contest run by her excellent arts mag, Lake Affect Magazine:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

MICHELLE CARDULLA
PUBLISHER, LAKE AFFECT MAGAZINE
585-317-9191

Lake Affect Magazine to Honor Book Publisher with Poetry Contest

Lake Affect Magazine is sponsoring a poetry contest to honor BOA Editions, Ltd. the award-winning Rochester-based publisher of poetry books. The contest will help mark BOA’s 30th anniversary. The winning poem will receive $250. The second place poem will receive $150, and the third place poem, $75. In addition, all three winning poems will be eligible for publication in an upcoming issue of Lake Affect Magazine. And each winner will receive three copies of BOA Editions poetry books. There are no limits on style, length, or content, although overtly religious or political poems are not encouraged. Poems which, because of content, are not suitable for publication in a family-oriented magazine, will still be eligible for the monetary prize, but will not be published in the magazine. The contest is open to all residents of the greater Rochester, Buffalo, and Syracuse areas. Entrants must be citizens or legal residents of the United States, at least 18 years old, and cannot be employees, board members, family or volunteers at either BOA or Lake Affect. Each entry may contain up to two poems and must be accompanied by a check or money order for $5 payable to Lake Affect Magazine. All entries must be postmarked no later than May 1, and should be sent to Poetry Contest, Lake Affect Magazine, P.O. Box 10016, Rochester, NY 14610. Poems will not be returned. Entrants wanting to know the results of the contest should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Thom Ward, Editor of BOA, will serve as final judge of the contest.

Announcing the Museum of Kids Art (MoKA)! (0)

Posted 8 March, 2006 in Rochester

Michelle Cardulla is a great supporter of the arts here in Rochester. She publishes the excellent arts magazine Lake Affect Magazine, and she’s about to launch a new and exciting creative space — The Museum of Kids Art (MoKA). She can really use your help to make this a lasting success. Please visit mokarochester.com and give her some money. Here’s the press release:

Warm Greetings To All!

The Museum of Kids Art (MoKA) will officially open its doors on Tuesday, March 20th, as a registered museum of New York State. We will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 1-6 pm. We are offering modern dance as our very first program in April. The program will be conducted by Nicolette Depass, a Garth Fagan dancer. Nicolette joined the company in 1994. She was raised in Queens, New York, and graduated cum laude from SUNY Brockport with a Bachelor of Science degree in dance and communications. So cool!

All programming will be free to kids in the Sector 8 area. We plan to have 16 programs ranging from cooking, dancing, gardening painting, sculpture and film. There will be regularly scheduled exhibits throughout the year to display the children’s work.

Our grand opening will be held this summer after we’ve worked the bugs out of the start-up transition to our new facility.

Please come and visit. And please note this advisory:

Be sure to bring an extra pair of socks with you, because MoKA will knock the other ones off!

Much Love and Peace to all.

Michelle Cardulla, Executive Director
Museum of Kids Art
90 Webster Avenue
Rochester, NY 14609
mokarochester.com
phone: (585) 288.4239

Board of Directors:

• David Aboyoun
• John Anderson
• Michelle Cardulla
• John Page
• Christine Wilson

MetroStars no more? (0)

Posted 7 March, 2006 in Soccer, Sports

As you may know, I’m a huge fan of the MetroStars, the Major League Soccer team based in the New York City area. Jen and I used to have season tickets when we lived in Brooklyn, and I’ve followed them ever since. Now, in my sixth season as a Metros fan, it looks like my team is about to disappear.

New York Post columnist Ives Galarcep wrote a story yesterday detailing the offer by Austria’s Red Bull company to buy the MetroStars. Here’s an excerpt from the full story:

Dietrich Mateschitz, the billionaire owner of Red Bull, the energy drink, is known for investing in sports in an effort to advertise his product. He owns a racing team, he has sponsored extreme sports events, and last year, Mateschitz bought a soccer team in his native Austria. All these endeavors have one thing in common. Mateschitz splashed the Red Bull logo all over all of them.

This is apparently the plan for the MetroStars, only with a cruel twist. According to sources within MLS, if Red Bull buys the MetroStars they intend to change the team’s name and colors, and erase the franchise’s history.

So rather than rooting for the Major League Soccer’s lovable losers, MetroStars fans who have endured a decade of disappointment would be forced to root for a glorified billboard for Red Bull or find a new team altogether.

This was the option presented to fans of SV Austria Salzberg, a team with 77 years of tradition at the time Red Bull bought them. That tradition didn’t jive with the new owners’ plan to use the club as new way to advertise their soft drink so Red Bull changed the club’s name to Red Bull Salzberg, erased the history books and told the club’s fans that if they didn’t like the changes they could hit the road.

Very, very scary. According to ESPN, the deal was sealed today. We’ll know more soon, but it looks like this could spell the end of my beloved Metros.

Still no baby (0)

Posted 5 March, 2006 in Family

It was back on February 10 that I wrote a post titled “We almost had a baby tonight.” Here it is, the 5th of March, and we still haven’t had the baby!

As happened with Bernie, Jen’s health has been an issue this time around. Her blood pressure has been quite high, which can be a sign of preeclampsia. So she’s been on bed rest for the last three weeks, which is annoying on its own. Why? Well, no two doctors have the same definition of “bed rest.” Doctor #1 said it meant lying in bed and getting up only to go to the bathroom. Doctor #2 said, “Most of my colleagues would prescribe bed rest, but there’s no evidence that it has any effect, so just take it easy.” And Doctor #3? “Bed rest means bed rest, but you shouldn’t just stay in bed. You can move around.” Got it?

Doctor #3 also made a 9-months-pregnant woman on bed rest wait for 45 minutes in his office until he showed up for our appointment on Friday. We’d already been at the hospital for 90 minutes before that for our weekly tests, too. Good stuff all around.

Not to mention that we picked this doctor (after our midwife plan was nixed) because he’s a family practitioner with an OB specialty. That means that he’ll be the guy who actually delivers the baby, rather than just getting whoever is on call. Except that he’s going on vacation on Friday, so he probably won’t be around when the baby’s delivered after all. If we’d had this doctor for the whole pregnancy, that might just be the luck of the draw. But we didn’t even get this guy until two weeks ago, and he knew he’d be on vacation.

This whole thing just needs to end. A nice, healthy baby. A happy, healthy mommy. And a less stressed me.

All that said, it’s still fantastic that the baby has had three more weeks in the womb than we expected. It’s over 7 pounds now, which is also really great. Bernie was 5 lbs 15 oz, and he was three weeks early. At this point, Baby #2 isn’t technically premature (just two weeks early), and the baby’s weight is fine.

Who knew having a baby could be so challenging? What’s that? You say everyone knew? Oh.

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