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Cleveland Browns fans know how to keep the faith
THEY START GATHERING four hours before the gates open. It's a muggy Friday morning in late July, with thunder forecast for the afternoon, but the fans lining up outside the back entrance to the Cleveland Browns' training facility in Berea, Ohio, will not be deterred. They're here, on a leafy suburban street six weeks before the regular season, for the Browns' first public day of training camp, which is free each year.
Pre-Match Analysis: West Brom prepare to face Coventry City
Can Carlos Corberan's side finally pick up a win at home for the first time since the end of September? After a hard fought point against league-leaders Sheffield United last weekend, West Bromwich Albion will be hoping they can get back to winning ways as they take on a Coventry side eager to get a second win under new manager Frank Lampard. The Sky Blues sit 14th of the Championship table.
What's slowing down West Brom's momentum?
EFL Championship VAVEL Carlos Corberan's Albion have failed to win in their last six games in the Championship, what has gone wrong? West Bromwich Albion currently sit 5th in the Championship table on 20 points after 12 games played. Despite winning four of the first five games thisseason, the Baggies have hit a roadblock when it comes to winning games. Let's take a deep dive into what might have caused this. Have West Brom become too predictable?
How to Start a Professional Sports Team, Win Games, and Save the Town
1. In 1972, the Portland Beavers, Oregon’s minor league baseball team of 69 years, relocated to Spokane. Fans grieved, but they assumed nothing could be done. Depressed sportswriters declared baseball dead in Portland. Then a swashbuckling former television actor decided to resuscitate it. His name was Bing Russell. He’d achieved semi-fame in the 1960s playing Deputy Clem Foster on a show called Bonanza.
When Fans Fight Back
Opening Day possesses a ritual significance for baseball fans. Writing in The New York Timesin April 1963, Roger Angell described Opening Day as “a ceremony of renewal and welcome” whose meaning, for baseball fans, is “psychic and profound”—an Easter in the church of grass and sky. This, Angell was suggesting, is true for all baseball fans every year—but I think he would have conceded that it was perhaps especially true for fans of the Oakland A’s this year.
The Lamp Magazine | Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling can be a tough ask for contemporary readers. But that’s nothing new: the ideas and associations that make him controversial now have restored to his fiction some of the shock and uncertainty with which his first readers greeted it. His whiggish High Victorian predecessors had disguised their skepticism with vague paeans to Providence; Kipling the arch-imperialist and conservative and (it turns out) freethinker does not even bother.
The Oakland Ballers want to rebuild Oakland baseball
On a warm Saturday afternoon in mid-October, before a group of community leaders, political officials, and former A’s diehards leaning forward intently on their elbows, Bryan Carmel and Paul Freedman called to order a “secret” meeting about the imperiled state of Oakland sports—and their audacious, multi-million dollar plan for saving a piece of it. The audacity of the plan stemmed, in part, from the scale of the peril.
Last Oakland A's home game of the season was a mix of melancholy and joy
Autumn is always a strange time for baseball fans. Games are gripping and often beautiful. Cool weather lends baseball a regality it lacks in the dog days of summer. But the season is imbued with a stubborn twinge of melancholy, an unshakeable sense of an end of things. Summer dies in September. Every fan mourns its passing. In Oakland, however, the end of the 2023 baseball season has brought with it a different kind of dissonance, born of a more tangible sense of mourning.
‘Incalculable loss’: Oakland battles to save last pro sports team
Oakland, United States – When the hall-of-fame sportswriter Frank Deford took a trip to Oakland, California in 1968 he did not seem to hold the hardscrabble city in high regard, but allowed that it at least had sport going for it. The Raiders of the NFL, the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, and Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball had all recently become based in the city.
Being Happy Is Hard Work
Like many people, I struggle semiregularly with depression — or, as David Foster Wallace so fittingly called it, The Bad Thing. It doesn’t define me, but it does flare up from time to time, a swamp creature rearing out of my mind’s chemical pulp. Recently, amid a surge of badness so forceful it took me by surprise, I found myself wondering how it is that people like me — people who are healthy, loved, and so privileged as to be blessed — can feel so sad. So beholden to The Bad Thing?
The Vindication of Green Day
Green Day released “Good Riddance” as the penultimate track off their fifth studio album, Nimrod, on October 14, 1997. The band recorded the song alongside their producer, Rob Cavallo, inside Conway Recording Studios, in East Hollywood, over the spring and summer of that year. The song’s true roots, however, like those of Green Day itself, trace back to Berkeley, California, and the DIY punk scene that germinated there during the late ’80s and early ’90s. Read Full Article »
How Green Day Finally Won the War With "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"
Every song has a story. Sometimes the details are perfunctory, signifying little. Other times, they can be revealing. That Noel Gallagher wrote “Supersonic” in 10 minutes high on cocaine tells you much of what you need to know about Oasis circa 1994, for example. In rare cases, however, such stories can prove not only revealing, but redemptive. So it is with the story of “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” released 25 years ago this week by Green Day, the Oakland-based punk-rock outfit.
The Oakland Roots’ recipe for success
This is part three of a three-part series. Click here to read part one and part two. The lowest point for the Roots may have come on Saturday, June 19th, 2021, on what was to have been the team’s Division II USL Championship home debut. This was a night the Roots had been working toward for some time. The club had begun its young life playing in the Division III National Independent Soccer Association (NISA).
The remarkable rise of the Oakland Roots: The Town’s homegrown soccer club
Your support is powering our newsroom! Thank you for supporting The Oaklandside and being a part of our community. This is part one of a three-part series. Read Parts 2 and 3 The Roots logo is almost synonymous with the city of Oakland itself. Here’s how that happened. How Oakland’s hometown soccer team overcame a slow start and internal strife to build a team with purpose.
What Do Cities Lose When They Lose Pro Sports?
(AP Photo/José Luis Villegas) In negotiations between the Oakland Athletics and city officials over the future of the A’s in Oakland, more is on the line than just baseball Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
What Do Cities Lose When They Lose Pro Sports? Original
The moment couldn’t have been more Oakland. It was a warm afternoon in June, the sky free of fog. Marshawn Lynch was there; twice, he and Draymond Green bounded off their bus to dap up fans on Lakeside Drive. The confetti that is de rigueur at these events speckled the sun, but it commingled with rising wafts of blunt smoke, creating a bewitching tactile haze that trawled the airspace over Broadway and slinked suggestively inside open storefront windows. And music, of course, was everywhere.
10 Questions with Witch Hunt Production Designer Holly Trotta
In honor of Momentum Pictures recent release of Witch Hunt, we spoke with the film’s production designer, Holly Trotta. Below she answers ten questions about her work on the film and other projects. -What made you want to become a production designer? While studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, I focused on a career in Art Direction.
Can the A's recapture Oakland's love, so fans can get back to being fans?
On July 16, the Oakland A’s Friday night home matchup against Cleveland resembled other night games played at the Coliseum in every way except one. The place was cold and canyon-like. The A’s played admirably. Their fans cheered hard. Fans were dogged by a sense of gloom, or weariness. Earlier that day, Oakland City staff had previewed its new plan for the $12 billion stadium-anchored development project at Howard Terminal first proposed by A’s owner John Fisher in April.
10 Questions With "Lupin" Composer Mathieu Lamboley
Since Netflix’s heist tale, Lupin, was released on January 8, 2021, the show has become a huge hit, becoming the first French series to rank on Netflix’s top 10 list. Part II was released a few weeks ago and critics/audiences have been buzzing about it since. A big part of the show is the music, so we spoke with the show’s composer, Mathieu Lamboley, below and asked him the below ten questions. -You composed your first original score at 25. What were you doing before you got into music?
10 Questions with F.E.A.R. Cinematographer Jimmy Matlosz
New Era Entertainment’s horror-thriller F.E.A.R. (Forget Everything and Run) was released this week on VOD and to celebrate we wanted to learn more about one of the film’s creatives, cinematographer Jimmy Matlosz. Below we asked Jimmy ten questions about everything from his experience on F.E.A.R. to working on The Nightmare Before Christmas. -Your new film, F.E.A.R. (Forget Everything and Run) is out now. What are you most proud of with that film?
10 Questions With The Djinn Composer Matthew James
Dan Moore 13 seconds ago IFC Midnight’s latest horror/thriller, The Djinn, is currently in select theaters and VOD. To celebrate the recent release, we spoke with the film’s composer, Matthew James, and had him answer the below ten questions. Matthew’s score for the film is also available on all digital sites. -When did you first know you wanted to be a film/tv composer? Honestly, like many of us, it wasn’t necessarily a conscious choice.
10 Questions with "Initiation" Composer Alexander Arntzen
Dan Moore 12 mins ago Composer Alexander Arntzen has scored everything from Christmas movies to short films. His latest project is Saban Films’ college slasher, Initiation, which hit VOD platforms last Friday. To celebrate the release, we sat down with Alexander and had him answer the below ten questions. -When it comes to your score for Initiation, what are you most proud of? I’d say I’m most proud of the overall cohesive nature of the score.
10 Questions with 'Making Monsters' Cinematographer Stuart Cameron
Cinematographer Stuart J. Cameron has working on everything from award-winning short films (Kookie, Latched) to shows such as The Amazing Race Canada and Top Chef Canada. His latest title is the horror film, Making Monsters, written and directed by Justin Harding. In honor of the film’s recent release by Samuel Goldwyn Films, we had Stuart answer the below ten questions about Making Monsters, Derrick Pottle: Keeper of the Flame and much more.
An ode to the Oakland Coliseum
As a piece of architecture, it’s tempting to disregard the Oakland Coliseum as a relic—or, worse, an embarrassment. USA Today ranked it the worst stadium in Major League Baseball. Last year, The Guardian called it “a blight.” Before that,Deadspin, citing the Coliseum’s unfortunate tendency to flood with sewage, called it “a concrete toilet.” In truth, the Oakland Coliseum—which will —is much more than its far-flung detractors realize.
10 Questions with The Crew and Black Summer Composer Alec Puro
Dan Moore 6 seconds ago Composer Alec Puro has scored everything from Netflix’s zombie horror series Black Summer to Hulu’s animated kid show, The Mighty Ones. His latest project is Kevin James’ NASCAR comedy The Crew, which recently premiered on Netflix. To celebrate the release of The Crew, we asked him the below ten questions about everything from his company, Gramoscope Music, to his songs that have been featured on Glee and Burn Notice.
10 Questions With "Willy's Wonderland" Composer Émoi
The wait is finally over! Nicolas Cage’s much anticipated horror film, Willy’s Wonderland, that has him playing a Janitor battling evil animatronics, is now available on VOD and in select theaters. To celebrate the release, we spoke with one of the film’s creatives, Émoi, whom not only served as the film’s composer, but also provided the voice of Willy Weasel. Below we asked him ten questions about everything from his background, to what his favorite Nicolas Cage film is.
Interview: Composer Chris Thomas discusses scoring Nick Sasso’s Haymaker
Muay Thai meets globe-trotting romantic drama is the theme of Nick Sasso’s new film, Haymaker, which is now available on VOD. Sasso’s debut feature is quite ambitious, taking place in five different countries and starring many familiar faces such as Zoë Bell (Death Proof), Udo Kier (Blade) and D.B. Sweeney (Taken 2) to name a few. Sasso also leads the cast as Nick Malloy, a retired Muy Thai fighter, who is now looking for his way in the world.
10 Questions with "The Ultimate Playlist of Noise" Composer Erick Schroder
Dan Moore 8 seconds ago The Ultimate Playlist of Noise is now streaming on Hulu and to get to know the composer, Erick Schroder, a little better, we asked him ten questions about the scoring process for the film. Read what he had to say here: -What did the pre-scoring process look like for you before starting work on The Ultimate Playlist of Noise? Did you get together a palate of sounds you wanted to use and go from there?
10 Questions with "Haymaker" Composer Chris Thomas
Dan Moore 44 seconds ago Nick Sasso’s latest Muay Thai drama, Haymaker, comes out this Friday, so ahead of the release we wanted to spotlight one of the film’s creative talents, composer Chris Thomas. Some of Thomas’s other credits include Jeffrey Reddick’s recent horror film Don’t Look Back, Life Gets in the Way and Jezebeth 2 Hour of the Gun. When discussing his approach to Haymaker, Thomas explains, “We decided to let it play as if concert music had been dropped into the movie.
Opinion: The Oakland Coliseum deserves a better name than RingCentral Original
Dan Moore In December, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority announced it had once again sold the naming rights to what is now Oakland’s only home for professional sports. The new, reliably lame corporate moniker? RingCentral Coliseum.
10 Questions with "Hunter Hunter" Composer Kevon Cronin
Dan Moore 10 seconds ago IFC Midnight has had great success in the last year with titles such as The Wretched, Swallow and The Rental. Their most recent thriller is Shawn Linden’s Hunter Hunter starring Devon Sawa (Final Destination) and Nick Stahl (Sin City), which is out now. We wanted to shine a spotlight on one of the film’s creatives, so we spoke with Hunter Hunter composer Kevon Cronin. Below he answered ten of our questions. -How did you get your start composing?
9 Questions with "Anything for Jackson" Composer John McCarthy
Dan Moore 7 seconds ago Justin G. Dyck has directed over 15 feel-good, holiday films including Christmas in Paris, Christmas Catch and Christmas with a Prince. This year he is mixing it up with his “anti-Nativity” horror tale Anything for Jackson. The film follows a bereaved Satanist couple who kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson’s spirit into her unborn child, but end up summoning more than they bargained for.
10 Questions with Smiley Face Killers Cinematographer Michael Marius Pessah
Dan Moore 16 hours ago Bret Easton Ellis is the writer behind hit films such as American Psycho and The Rules of Attraction. His most recent project is the horror/thriller Smiley Face Killers starring Crispin Glover. To get some insight about how the film was made, we spoke with the film’s cinematographer Michael Marius Pessah. Below we asked him ten questions about everything from working with director Tim Hunter, to his 2019 Super Bowl commercial. -Tim Hunter directed Smiley Face Killers.
Ten Questions with PARALLEL Composer Edy Lan
Dan Moore 11 mins ago Vertical Entertainment’s sci-fi/thriller, Parallel, is getting released today, so in honor of the release, we spoke to the film’s accomplished composer Edy Lan. Below he answered 10 questions, not only about Parallel, but about his love for Bernard Herrmann and his previous Grammy nomination. -What was the initial appeal of Parallel for you? What did you think when you first read the script? The appeal was that it was clearly a grounded character driven sci fi film.
9 Questions With "Breaking Surface" Composer Patrick Kirst
Dan Moore 11 mins ago Composer Patrick Kirst has scored everything from Netflix’s The Kissing Booth to Lionsgate’s Inherit the Viper. His next film is the horror/thriller Breaking Surface, which is getting released by Music Box Films December 15th. A short description of the film: A winter diving trip in Norway turns into a desperate race against time for two sisters when one of them becomes trapped at the bottom of the ocean by falling rocks.
What I Hope To Learn From This Horrible, No-Good Year
Thoughts for a strange Thanksgiving Adobe Stock News last week of the development of two covid-19 vaccines gave mankind license to do something it hasn’t been able to do for a long time: imagine a world free of the coronavirus — and, implicitly, of chaos. The writer and founding editor of Deadspin Will Leitch put it this way: the vaccines have given us license to “Dream of spring.” This license most have embraced full-heartedly. It’s not hard to understand why.
Production Designer Ryan Brett Puckett Talks Star Wars and More
Dan Moore 13 seconds ago After looking at Ryan Brett Puckett’s resume, its safe to say the production designer enjoys working in the sci-fi, genre world. Some of his titles include The Walking Dead: World Beyond, The Star Wars Show, Jedi Temple Challenge, Science and Star Wars and the upcoming horror/thriller The Boy Behind the Door. We wanted to learn more about his process for designing these projects, so we conducted the below Q&A with him.
Cinematographer Andrey Nikolaev Breaks Down Crypt TV’s Water's Edge
Dan Moore 11 seconds ago Cinematographer and 3D previs specialist, Andrey Nikolaev has worked in basically every medium, whether it be a comedic TV show or a dramatic short film. Since October is the month of horror, it’s his work on Crypt TV’s “Water’s Edge”, that is currently receiving acclaim from horror fanatics.
Interview: Composer Daniel Rojas on creating score for Netflix’s Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
The wait is officially over, the third and final season of Dreamwork’s Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeast is now available to stream on Netflix. In case you need a refresher of the show’s premise: Kipo is set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where animals have become sentient and are called mutes, while humans have been forced underground. But when a young human girl, Kipo, is lost on the surface and discovers she has both human and mute DNA, she becomes the key to making peace between the two groups.
Why the Fires Feel More Unsettling This Time
A home in Vacaville, California, is reduced to ashes, Wednesday morning, August 19, 2020. Photo: Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/Getty Images Here we are again. The Bay is choked with smoke. San Francisco, viewed from the east, is entirely concealed by it, smothered by a charcoal bog. The Berkeley hills are too. Beyond — everywhere — our world wavers under a hazy drifting skein, eerie as a haunted bridal veil. The horizon is grainy tarnished film.
The Isolating Sadness of Living in Smoke
Weeks ago, when the fires started, Californians responded with stoicism. We mourned the fire season’s early arrival, bemoaned the prematurely compromised air, grieved for our neighbors whose homes had been lost, and wondered aloud just how the hell 2020 could get any damn worse… but we muddled on. Deep down, we knew it was only the beginning. Last week, overnight, the beginning got worse. The sky turned ochre, the light diffused in dismal, bloody hues. The sun didn’t rise.
Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach Talks You Cannot Kill David Arquette and More
Dan Moore 8 seconds ago Super LTD’s most recent documentary, You Cannot Kill David Arquette, is currently getting a lot of buzz for showing audiences a very raw side of the Scream star trying to make it right with wrestling fans. To learn more about how the film was made, we spoke with someone who worked on the project, accomplished supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach.
9 Questions with Duncanville Editor Nina Helene Hirten
Earlier this year, Amy Poehler’s animated series, Duncanville became Fox’s most-streamed new comedy. So it was no surprise when Fox renewed the series for a second season back in April. While fans are anxiously awaiting season 2, we spoke with the series’ editor, Nina Helene Hirten about the show’s unique style along with her other upcoming projects. -When did you first realize you wanted to be an editor for animation?
You Cannot Kill David Arquette Supervising Sound Editor Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach Discusses the Sounds of Broken Bones, Bodyslams and Spandex
You Cannot Kill David Arquette Supervising Sound Editor Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach Discusses the Sounds of Broken Bones, Bodyslams and Spandex Who’s Ready to Rumble with David Arquette again? The wrestling documentary You Cannot Kill David Arquette opens digitally on August 28th and is also screening at the Fantasia Film Festival August 24th.
Why the Fires Feel More Unsettling This Time
A home in Vacaville, California, is reduced to ashes, Wednesday morning, August 19, 2020. Photo: Karl Mondon/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/Getty Images Here we are again. The Bay is choked with smoke. San Francisco, viewed from the east, is entirely concealed by it, smothered by a charcoal bog. The Berkeley hills are too. Beyond — everywhere — our world wavers under a hazy drifting skein, eerie as a haunted bridal veil. The horizon is grainy tarnished film.
Interview with Emmy Nominated Modern Family Sound Mixer Peter Bawiec
Dan Moore 22 seconds ago ABC’s Modern Family has been in our homes for 11 years now. The show came to an end this past April, but continues to receive accolades. It recently received three Emmy nominations, one of them being “Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series”. In honor of this nomination, we spoke with one of the sound team members, Peter Bawiec. Below he talks about mixing the finale season of Modern Family, Roland Emmerich’s Midway and the podcast, Blockbuster.
Writer/Director Michael Carnick Talks His Latest Drama, Obsidian Dolls
Dan Moore 9 mins ago Michael Carnick’s latest film, Obsidian Dolls, tells the story of an Ethiopian-born rabbi, Nate (Sammi Rotibi), as he’s approached by a troubled young man, Isaac (John Berchtold). Isaac tells Nate that he wants to end his life, but before that, he wants Nate to recite the Mourner’s Kaddish for him. But Isaac’s life is ultimately saved by the rabbi’s counsel, and the limitless strength of what it means to be a part of a loving community.
Thundercats Roar and Fatal Affair Composer Matthew Janszen
Dan Moore 7 mins ago What does Netflix’s Fatal Affair and Cartoon Network’s Thundercats Roar have in common? Composer Matthew Janszen. Janszen’s range can currently be heard on both of these projects, along with Netflix’s other animated series Archibald’s Next Big Thing. We spoke with Janszen about these projects and much, much more below. -You are currently scoring Cartoon Network’s Thundercats Roar, which was based off the original Thundercats series. Were you familiar with the original series?
Behind the Score: Interview with Followed Composer Jason Soudah
Something very interesting is happening this summer in the horror world. Low budget horror films are becoming box office hits. Not just one, but many. Paving the way, IFC Midnight’s The Wretched, which now belongs to a small group of films that have topped the U.S. box office for five weekends in a row, others in this club include Titanic and Avatar.
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