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This weekend, Jan. 25-26, the eighth annual Katy Home and Garden Show will invade the Merrell Center and Robinson Pavilion to bring trends in home improvement to the Katy area.
The show brings over 250 exhibits and a variety of different products for all sorts of homemakers. Jason Cameron, DIY Network host for television shows like Desperate Landscapes and Man Caves will join in to talk about trends in landscaping as well as how to make the perfect man cave. Cameron will be at the show on Saturday only.
Cameron told The Rancher that in places like Texas where water can be scarce, synthetic turf is becoming a popular low-maintenance alternative to sod. He said the product has come a long way since the days of the carpet-like turf.
Its really hard to distinguish now between authentic grass and synthetic grass, Cameron said. The TV star said many are starting to use turf in combination with putting greens in their own back yards. He also indicated that while manufacturers have worked to make the turf maintain lower temperatures in the midst of harsh weather, a little bit of shade provides an optimal experience. Cameron said that in extremely harsh climates, low-level irrigation systems could be used to keep the surface cool.
For man caves, Cameron said it really depends on who the man in question is.
Every guys different, Cameron said. He might be into cigars. He might be a baseball guy, a football guy. Maybe he brews his own beer. It all depends on what his interests are.
On the local level, James Terry from Terrys Landscape will be around to talk about the specific services his company can do to improve outdoor landscapes. Terry said that anyone who visits his booth will feel like they are walking into a backyard. Current trends Terry sees Katy area residents adding are summer kitchens, fireplaces and patio extensions.
I think more people have decided that theyre going to invest in their house, and are thinking were going to stay at home and provide our own entertainment, Terry said.
Of course, if one decided to go the route of authentic grass, they would usually need to closely monitor their lawns growth and cut it themselves, or hire an outside lawn service to take care of it. That is, until the lawn bott was released. Lawn botts are robotic lawn mowers, programmed to mow a certain area automatically at a specific height and time of day. The small robots will mow a lawn everyday, parking in their own mini garages located in a discreet area to recharge. Since the mower cuts every day, small grass clippings are merely released back onto the lawn.
Robert McCormack opened up a Lawn Bott dealership in the Katy area after witnessing their feats in Italy. He said that while there are several dealerships on the East coast, he believes hes the only major dealer in the Gulf coast area.
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One of the lesser known duties of a mayor is to unite couples in marriage.
Since he took office Jan. 1, 2008, Cambridge Mayor Tom Orr has done so on 225 occasions through the end of last year.
"I feel honored to stand at all of them," Orr said. "I've done them in some very unusual areas. The covered bridge at the City Park. I've been at Seneca Lake and Salt Fork. I've had brides and grooms come off a boat. I've had them stand in that special place where they met. I've had them [at City Hall] in different offices. I've been at swimming pools in family yards. Stood in gazebos. I've done them Christmas Eve. I've done them in front of fireplaces at special occasions. It's been a little bit of everything, quite honestly. It's a unique experience."
Among Orr's most notable officiations: The marriage of Cambridge native and stage and screen actor Corey Brill with girlfriend and actress Joy Osmanski. The ceremony took place on the steps of the Guernsey County Courthouse on Dec. 31, 2009.
Officiating the union of a man and woman did not come easily for Orr in the early years.
"I really struggled with that when I got the job," he said. "I wondered if the good Lord really wanted me to do that. It seemed to me like it was the short version of what should be a little bit more in depth. But then I realized that's between the two people who take the vow. The vow is the most important thing."
Though a wedding is often thought of as a time for happiness at the prospect of a long life together, Orr admits to a few times wondering what the future would hold for newlyweds.
"The one's that are going off to the service," he said. "Maybe they only have a 24-hour or 48-hour window of opportunity. And you see the little kids looking, and the parents ... and you just get a feeling. And no matter what the world tells you, it's easier to do with two than it is with one."
Orr averages about 38 marriages per year. His first year in office was his most officious to date, with 60 weddings performed. His slowest year was in 2011, when he wed 25 couples.
Orr's fee? He asks only for a donation.
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SINGAPORE - The year of the horse could be a challenging year for many, feng shui master dato' Joey Yap said in a recent seminar held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center.
However, the year also promises to hold many opportunities for serious investors. For those who feel that their initial outlook is a little gloomy, things are expected to pick up towards the second half of the year, he added.
"It all boils down to how you take full advantage of the positive points available and make the best of the energies of the Wood Horse Year," he said.
According to the geomancer, 'fire-related' industries such as technology, hospitality, airline, food, telecommunication, military and electronics will perform especially well in the year of the horse.
'Wood-related' industries like fashion, education, advisory services, furniture, timber, and plantation are also expected to thrive this year.
The Feng Shui & Astrology seminar for 2014 will be held in eight cities across the world this year. Dato' Joey will speak to Singapore audiences on January 26.
Check out AsiaOne's zodiac forecast to find out about your Chinese horoscope in the year of the horse.
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SINNED AGAINST AND SINNING: Troy Maxson (Esau Pritchett), former Negro League baseball star, confronts death and an abundance of domestic and social adversities in McCarter Theatres production of August Wilsons Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences through February 16.
James Earl Jones was the star of the original production of Fences, at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985 and on Broadway in 1987, where it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play. Then it was Denzel Washington, in a 2010 Broadway revival, in the larger-than-life role of Troy Maxson, his name itself evoking the grandeur and tragic fall of the unforgettable protagonist of Wilsons drama. But in McCarter Theatres searing, deeply moving production of this masterpiece, its August Wilson, the playwright himself, who emerges as the star of the show.
This poetic drama is set in 1957 in the early years of the civil rights movement and focuses on the struggles of a former Negro League baseball player, now a Pittsburgh sanitation worker, and his family. The dialogue is at the same time natural and poetic, and so powerful, humorous, and moving. Wilson, who died in 2005 after completing his highly acclaimed Century Cycle of plays set in every decade of the twentieth century, frequently cited the influence of the blues on his work, and Fences in its sympathetic, suffering characterizations, in its bitterness and solace in alcohol, humor, language, music, and humanity resonates with the rich life and tone of a blues song that sticks in the mind and soul.
Fences depicts a family in conflict. Troy (Esau Pritchett), the middle-aged patriarch, is at odds not just with the society that barred him from the major leagues through the 20s, 30s, and 40s and consigned him to a job carrying garbage, but also with his wife Rose (Portia) and sons, 34-year-old Lyons (Jared McNeill) from a failed earlier marriage and 17-year-old Cory (Chris Myers). Troy is indeed a victim of the racism of his time and environment, but he is also a victim of his own bitterness, his personal excesses, and his wary detachment from family and friends.
Early in the first of two acts Troy and Cory clash over Corys hopes of gaining a football scholarship to college. Troy, who hit 43 home runs in one season in the Negro League but was born too soon to break the color barrier in the Major Leagues, distrusts the white mans enticements for Cory and also harbors his own resentment and jealousy over this opportunity that he never had. The conflict grows increasingly hostile as Cory attempts to assert his independence from Troys influence, and Troy, seeing his authority and control challenged, fails to accept the changing world of America on the cusp of upheaval, along with his sons entrance into adulthood and his own aging.
The shattering of the fragile family is complete when Troy comes home, early in the second act, to announce to Rose that he has fathered a child with another woman.
August Wilson and his characters are brilliant storytellers. In the tradition of Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman in particular where intense family conflict plays out its tragic drama of the common man against a background of powerful destructive social forces, Fences is a story about families, a marriage and, especially, through the generations, fathers and sons, with the sins of the fathers repeatedly being visited on the sons. It is also a play about the power of speech as our greatest weapon in shaping our stories and our lives and in battling against oppression and death.
In McCarters production, in association with Long Wharf Theatre where it opened last month, Mr. Pritchett as Troy is convincing, powerful, charismatic as a man past his prime, finding himself in a new world, on unfamiliar ground with wife and sons. Hes a storyteller, angry but loving his family, his friends, his life, and fighting, as a great athlete fights to win the game, his battle to turn back mortality. Mr. Pritchett, of course, lacks the physical magnitude of James Earl Jones (Rose describes Troy: when (he) walked through the house he was so big he filled it up) and the instant star- recognition of Denzel Washington, but Mr. Pritchett thoroughly engages the audience in his joy and loves, his frustrations, and his anguish. He radiates a gift for spell-binding storytelling, a warm humor and a virtuoso musicians gift for delivering the music of Wilsons rich poetic language.
Portia establishes Rose as a worthy counterpart and counterbalance to Troy. She is enormously sympathetic as she moves through the rich territory of emotions required as wife and mother in her fight to keep her family together. Troy and Rose may be the most finely, fully, and convincingly developed husbandwife portrayal in all of Mr. Wilsons ten plays.
Jesus, be a fence all around me every day, Rose sings as she hangs out the laundry at the start of the second scene. The fence that Troy and Cory are building emerges on both sides of the stage as the action progresses. It becomes a symbol of the security and protection from white America, from his own inner demons, from death itself that Troy seeks. And it also represents Roses struggle to keep the family together against the forces that threaten to pull it apart.
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Malcolm Gladwell brings 'David and Goliath' to Michigan Theater
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of David and Goliath Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants, will read from and answer questions about his book during an event at the Michigan Theater.
The book is really about how being big doesnt guarantee that youll win, and how sometimes being small and nimble counts for more than having a large presence, said Nicola Rooney, owner of Nicolas Books, which is presenting the event at the Michigan Theater. Its classic Malcolm Gladwell in that it doesnt have a lot of statistics, but rather examples and anecdotes to illustrate points.
Gladwell will also be signing books.
7 p.m. Monday, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor. Nicola's Books: 734-662-0600 or http://www.nicolasbooks.com. $35 main floor; $150 for VIP, which includes copy of the book, main floor seating, first-in-line book-signing access and a meet-and-greet with the author; $85 for Gold Circle, which includes copy of the book, main floor seating and second-in-line book-signing access. The $15 balcony tickets are sold out.
More than 100 international, regional and local craft beers will be served at the Royal Oak Music Theatres Annual Craft Beer Fest.
There also will be food and music by Yorg and Sheehanm. Proceeds will benefit Camp Casey, a nonprofit that offers horseback-riding programs and therapy for children with cancer.
7 p.m. Saturday, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth, Royal Oak. 248-399-2980 or http://www.royaloakmusictheatre.com. General admission tickets, which include 20 drink samples, cost $40 in advance and $45 at the door; VIP tickets, which include entry at 6 p.m., VIP balcony access, rare and specialty brews and 20 drink samples, cost $60 in advance and $65 at the door. $5 tickets for designated drivers at the door.
The Wayne State University Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance will offera staged readings of Fences on Saturday.
August Wilsons play exploring the African-American experience is set in the 1950s.
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