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Time Out
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
George Lucas gave a sneak peek of the Lucas Museum at Comic-Con
The Force was strong in San Diego over the weekend as George Lucas made his Comic-Con debut. The Star Wars creator joined Oscar-winning artist and Lucasfilm senior vice president Doug Chiang, Oscar-winning filmmaker and Lucas Museum board member Guillermo del Toro and panel moderator Queen Latifah to talk about what Angelenos—and the scores of people the museum will undoubtedly draw to L.A.—have to look forward to from the eagerly awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. 'We're here today because my dear friend Goerge wanted to create a space where anyone could come and be inspired by the same art that inspired him,' Queen Latifah said to introduce Lucas. And while it was light on concrete details (like a specific opening date), the panel featured an interesting discussion of the upcoming museum that drew over 6,000 to Hall H on the final day of this year's Comic-Con. The creative minds assembled talked about the importance of narrative art—which 'tells the story of a society' and its common beliefs, according to Lucas—and shared some of the highlights of the museum's collection. Speaking to the Comic-Con crowd about the mission of the museum, Lucas explained that he's worked with hundreds of illustrators in his career, but lamented the fact that they don't receive enough recognition. To that end, he said his museum will be 'a temple to the people's art.' On his part, Chiang said he hopes that the Lucas Museum 'will inspire the next Norman Rockwell or Frank Frazetta.' And now for a bit of background on the museum itself. By now you're likely familiar with the verdant spaceship that's landed in Exposition Park between the Natural History Museum and the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. The curvaceous building topped with solar panels and gardens adds something decidedly different to L.A.'s architectural scene. Work on the $1-billion museum first broke ground in March 2018 after Los Angeles was chosen as the museum's home (San Francisco and Chicago were the other contenders). But due to delays including pandemic-related supply-chain issues, the opening date has been pushed back from 2021 to 2022 to 2023 to 2025 to finally (fingers crossed!) 2026. Situated on 11 acres, once it's completed the five-story, 300,000-square-foot museum will feature not only gallery space but two state-of-the-art theaters, as well as classrooms, a library, dining options and a gift shop. Outside, the lush landscaping is a draw unto itself—the green spaces will double as a public park open to all, no ticket needed. Inside the galleries, you'll find more than an institutionalized shrine to Star Wars, as might be expected. In fact, the 'Narrative Art' part of the museum's moniker reflects a collection Lucas has been amassing for the past 50 years, made up of tens of thousands of artworks that reflect the importance of illustrated storytelling. So you'll find pieces by Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Beatrix Potter, N.C. Wyeth, photographer Dorothea Lange and more modern names like cartoonist Alison Bechdel all under the same roof—in short, something for everyone. Some recently announced collection highlights include the first-ever Flash Gordon comic strip, an original splash page from Black Panther (1968) and original Peanuts strips from the 1950s and '60s.
Forbes
08-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Jerry Jones & family
Jerry Jones, co-captain of the University of Arkansas 1964 national championship team, has long had football in his blood. His most valuable holding is the Dallas Cowboys, which he bought for $150 million in 1989. The team is currently valued at roughly $10 billion. Jones made a name for himself as an oil wildcatter, making his first million in oil investments in the 1970s. He still invests in drilling opportunities as well as retail and residential real estate projects in Dallas. After a 2018 deal, Jones became the controlling shareholder in Comstock Resources, a publicly traded Texas oil and gas company. An avid art collector, Jones owns Norman Rockwell's "Coin Toss" as well as paintings by Picasso, Renoir and Matisse among others. Wealth History HOVER TO REVEAL NET WORTH BY YEAR Personal Stats Age 82 Source of Wealth Dallas Cowboys, Self Made Self-Made Score 8 Philanthropy Score 1 Residence Dallas, Texas Citizenship United States Marital Status Married Children 3 Education Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Arkansas; Master of Arts, University of Arkansas Did you know Jones jumped into the workforce at age 9 as a customer greeter at his parent's grocery store, named Pat's Supermarket. Jones' Dallas Cowboys have topped Forbes' list of most valuable NFL teams since 2018. In Their Own Words When I look back on my life, I overpaid for my big successes every time. And when I tried to get a bargain, get it a little cheaper or get a better deal on it, I ended up usually either getting it and not happy I got it. Or missing it. Jerry Jones & family
Vancouver Sun
24-06-2025
- Sport
- Vancouver Sun
Old-school baseball comes alive in this small town in Ontario
By Adam Waxman Time was, local communities would pick up a stick and a ball, and play a primitive form of what would one day become the world's most popular game. Baseball. But, contrary to popular belief, that historic 1839 game in Cooperstown, New York, wasn't all that historic. It was preceded by an earlier recorded game. The year was 1838. The town was Beachville, Ontario. Two local teams from Zorra and North Oxford faced each other. It was June 4 th . Militia Day. They used a ball of twisted-yarn wrapped in calf skin sewn with waxed ends. The bat was a straight stick of cedar from a wagon spoke. The baseball diamond had four bases, called byes, and they played their hearts out. Plan your next getaway with Travel Time, featuring travel deals, destinations and gear. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Travel Time will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. These days that field is located in a residential neighbourhood behind a church. Nearby, at the Beachville District Museum , housed in a 19 th Century home, lies a collection of old bats and mitts from a bygone era. In the backroom there's a table covered in soft hide leather from calves, cattle and water buffalo. We're given chalk, scissors, and a lemon peel template. Once we've traced the template on our chosen leather, we cut our design, punch holes along its perimeter, select a small super ball, tightly wrap it in yarn, wrap that ball of yarn in the leather, and then, sew it together. We're making baseballs! This is how they used to make them. Handmade. Leather. Old fashioned. It's like were living an antique experience. Sitting in the back of this old house, staring out at the green, learning how to sew, and sewing a baseball the way they would have done back in 1838, is disarmingly satisfying. I look over at my son. He's riveted. He's never sewn anything before. Torn a lot of jeans on the field, though. The silence of our focus is only punctuated by him telling me how much fun he's having. Sewing and Baseball! Who knew what an unexpectedly beautiful father-son experience this would be? Crafting the perfect baseball. In no time flat, we're done. Amazing. We grab our gloves and a couple wooden bats, and head out to the field. I'm pitching. First swing, he hits it high into the trees. The sound of this ball when its hit by the bat is not like the crack of the bat you hear at ballparks today. This is more like the sound made when you catch a ball in a leather mitt; like the thump of bass drum. These kinds of moments are timeless. Playing catch in the country all afternoon. It's like somewhere between a Norman Rockwell painting and a haiku. Tossing a ball back and forth with a kid — and this is his own ball that he just made all on his own. It truly is the best father-son sport. My Dad gave me a baseball glove when I was a kid. I sat on the front steps, rubbing it with a glove butter to treat the leather, so we could play a game of catch together. Somehow, it still has that fresh leather smell today as I slide my hand into it, and watch my son smiling as he winds up and says, 'Dad, catch!' It's magical. For more information go to: Beachville District Museum ; and while there, check out the Oxford County Cheese Trail. This post appeared first on DINE and Destinations Magazine .
Associated Press
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Book Review: 'Fatherhood' studies the impact of family ties through history
The painter Norman Rockwell was known for his depictions of calm, domestic life in America, but his home life was nowhere near those idyllic portraits. In the beginning of 'Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power,' Augustine Sedgewick recounts the troubles that Rockwell faced at home. The artist complained about his wife's drinking and her criticism, and once told one of his sons that he would kill himself if not for his boys. The misery endured by Rockwell kicks off Sedgewick's wide-ranging history of fatherhood, which he calls a 'succession identity crises spanning thousands of years.' Sedgewick's book doesn't offer a clear answer on what it means to be a father, but he offers a series of enlightening stories about how several famous figures have approached fatherhood. It's a motley assortment of dads, ranging from Plato to Bob Dylan. The profiles, at times, feel disjointed, but that doesn't make the details Sedgewick unearths about how the approach to fatherhood changed over the years any less interesting. The book shows how naturalist Charles Darwin's close relationship with his sons helped shaped his research on natural selection. And how Dylan rewrote his happy childhood in Hibbing, Minnesota, as he gained fame and re-invented his story to fit his image. 'Dylan understood, arguably before anyone else, one of the defining emotional truths of rock 'n' roll: a perfectly nice home can sometimes be the worst kind of all,' Sedgewick writes. Sedgewick's book shouldn't be viewed as a guide for fathers or families, but it is a timely read for a point where family roles continue to evolve and be challenged. ___ AP book reviews:
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Fatherhood by Augustine Sedgewick: Daddies not so cool...
Fatherhood by Augustine Sedgewick (Picador £20, 320pp) This is the first time, in a longish reviewing career, that I have been given a book to review on the same subject as a book I have written myself, and what's more, with the same title as the one I had written myself. My own Fatherhood: The Truth, a guide to early childcare with jokes, came out in 2005, has sold 80,000 copies (my biggest seller) and is still in print. This Fatherhood is an altogether more serious volume. Augustine Sedgewick, with a name like that, could only be a historian, and he has delved into the distant past to write about how the great and the good related to fatherhood, from ancient times to (nearly) the present day, from Aristotle and St Augustine to Thomas Jefferson, Sigmund Freud and Bob Dylan. No one in this book has changed a nappy, or cooked a disgusting dinner of pasta shapes, as we mere mortals had to. (My own children are now 25 and 23, so those days are very much gone.) Sedgewick begins with the American artist Norman Rockwell, who painted all those cosily domestic covers for the Saturday Evening Post. In real life, of course, his second wife was an alcoholic who killed herself, his first wife having divorced him, and nor was he much of a dad. He 'hid his private conflicts behind public images of fatherhood and family he could never live up to'. Sedgewick thinks we 'need better shared stories about fatherhood', for 'without a deeper and more humane understanding of the role of men in the world, we will continue to struggle to know ourselves, one another, and the richest parts of our lives. The goal of this book is to find just that.' For all these fine sentiments, I'm not sure Sedgewick's book is really about fatherhood at all. It seems to me more a history of patriarchy, although maybe that's not a word that sells books these days. It's about how men came to be in charge, and how they came to stay in charge. In Plato's Athens, for instance, women were not eligible to govern. They were there to have babies. At a marriage ceremony, the father of the bride would announce to the groom, 'I give you my daughter for the ploughing of legitimate children.' This represented a commonplace view that 'women were essentially soil in which men planted seed and cultivated produce'. Most of Sedgewick's men seem to think the same way. Sedgewick is, happily, an indefatigable researcher, who has unearthed many stories about these often terrible men, some of whose connections with fatherhood were at best peripheral. Both Plato and John Locke fathered no children at all, but that didn't stop them both becoming widely read authorities on the whole business. And the philosopher Rousseau and his partner conceived five children, all of whom he persuaded her to abandon at the door to a home for foundlings in Paris after their birth. Years later he tried to track them down but no trace of any could be found. I think he rather deserved that.
