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Hamilton Spectator
2 days ago
- General
- Hamilton Spectator
Burlington Heritage Week ushers in August with 20 events in 8 days
Burlington Heritage Week returns the first week of August with a schedule of 20 events and presentations during eight days. This year's celebration of local heritage begins and ends at the Art Gallery of Burlington, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary . It features the guiding theme 'Living with Our Natural Heritage, Naturally' and runs from Aug. 2 to 9. The week kicks off Saturday, Aug. 2 at 10 a.m., with an opening ceremony at the art gallery ( 1333 Lakeshore Rd. ). Local organizations and businesses marking significant milestones will be recognized. Three heritage displays will be available for public viewing at Burlington City Hall ( 426 Brant St. ). As the busy week approaches, Heritage Burlington advisory committee and Heritage Week subcommittee chair Marsha Paley thinks about the effort put in by at least 35 individuals and groups that came together to organize the weeklong celebration. 'I never fail to be thrilled with all the groups that come together for heritage week, are willing to do an event or activity or try something new,' Paley said, in a telephone interview. 'I'm so impressed by all the organizations that want to celebrate heritage.' In addition to the city's heritage advisory committee, Burlington Historical Society, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington Public Library, Museums of Burlington, Burlington Halton Black History Awareness Society, Beach Canal Lighthouse Group and Kilbride History Group are among the groups that organized events. Paley said support for, and participation in, the annual Heritage Week continues to grow — and the driving force is building new connections between people. 'How can we get more people out and interested in the heritage of Burlington?' Paley asked. 'It's all around us. I think there are wonderful opportunities for heritage tourism.' Paley said Burlington began celebrating a Heritage Day in 1988. 'At some point, it moved to be a month of activities in February until 2020,' she said. 'In 2021 it changed to be a week of events in August. There appears to be more events in a week as was previously done in a month.' For the full Burlington Heritage Week schedule, including more information on all events, visit the City Burlington's Heritage Week website . All events are free, but some may require registration in advance. Check the website for details. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Axios
25-06-2025
- Business
- Axios
Venture capitalist Eric Paley accepts Mass. econ post
Eric Paley is moving on from venture capital, 16 years after helping to launch seed-stage firm Founder Collective and backing from such companies as Uber, Trade Desk, Cruise, Airtable, and Whoop. Driving the news: He's agreed to become the next Massachusetts secretary of economic development, with the switch effective after Labor Day. What they're saying: Paley tells Axios that the first outreach was from Yvonne Hao (ex-PillPack, Cove Hill Partners), shortly after she announced plans to step down from the post. "She said she was going to put me at the top of a short list requested by Governor [Maura] Healey, but that I could tell them no," he recalls. "My reply was that I could tell her no now and tell them no later. I felt I had the perfect career set-up." "But then I truly couldn't sleep that night, thinking about making a bigger societal impact and how this was an opportunity for me to serve within the constraints of what I'm good at and in a community I care deeply about." By the next morning, he wanted in and began doing research.
Boston Globe
24-06-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Healey taps venture capitalist Eric Paley to lead economic development
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'It's just a huge catch,' said Diane Hessan, an entrepreneur who has known Paley for years. 'It shows how serious we are about economic development in Massachusetts. [Paley] is highly respected, he's razor sharp, and he has a great nose for ideas that really have the potential to be transformational.' Advertisement Hao came to know Paley when she helped lead Somerville startup PillPack, which counted Founder Collective among its investors. (Amazon acquire PillPack in 2018.) After she announced she was leaving the Healey administration, Hao reached out to Paley and suggested he apply for the job. He was reluctant at first, but then decided to reconsider. Advertisement Paley said he had a tough time sleeping the night after being pitched for the job. Paley said he realized much of his professional success is due to the state's unique innovation ecosystem. 'I owe a lot to this state and to the people and the capabilities and the talents and the resources,' said Paley, who lives in Lexington with his family. 'At some point, you want to find a way to give back.' Former economic development secretary Yvonne Hao (right) alongside Ashley Stolba, the state's current interim economic development secretary. LEISE JONES While studying at Harvard Business School in the early 2000s, Paley began working with Micah Rosenbloom and David Frankel to launch Brontes Technologies, a Lexington company that specialized in 3D dental imaging with technology spun out from MIT. (Manufacturing conglomerate 3M acquired Brontes for $95 million in 2006.) Paley was the CEO, HBS classmate Rosenbloom was chief operating officer, and Frankel was an early investor. Paley, Rosenbloom and Frankel teamed up again to launch Founder Collective in 2009 to focus on early stage, or seed, funding for promising technology startups. In addition to PillPack, the firm was also an early investor in Uber, Omada Health, Cruise Automation, Whoop, and Formlabs, among other startups. Paley also launched an annual innovation conference, called Collective Future. As he enters state government, Paley will relinquish any control over the firm's investment decisions, but retain his existing equity in the firm's funds. 'I don't know if I would get another opportunity to do something like this,' Paley said. 'They don't come up very often.' Hao said Paley was the first person she contacted about the economic development secretary job. 'He understands startups and founders and the innovation economy,' Hao said. 'He [also] cares deeply about Massachusetts. ... He's always been generous about trying to do more for the broader ecosystem.' Advertisement David Shapiro, chief executive of the YMCA of Greater Boston, had recruited Paley to join the Y's board. Now, Paley will have to step down from that role as well. 'This guy is brilliant as a strategist and a connector,' Shapiro said of Paley. 'Ultimately, I want the commonwealth to be an economically dynamic and vital place. I'm excited that this guy will be in that role.' As economic development secretary, Paley will directly oversee a staff of 700 people and will chair the boards of quasi-public agencies such as the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (aka MassDevelopment) and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (aka MassTech). Paley's staff is starting to implement elements of last year's Hao's top lieutenant Ashley Stolba has been running the department on an interim basis, and the Healey administration expects her to stay in a senior leadership role. Paley isn't a complete stranger to state policy debates: He's been active in pushes to end or reform noncompete agreements, for example, and to try reining in bad-faith patent litigation. 'He's been at the forefront of our future economy,' said Katie Rae, chief executive of the Engine Ventures VC firm in Cambridge. 'If there's a problem to be solved, he's definitely a thinker people go to and somebody who will lend a hand.' Jon Chesto can be reached at
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The $200,000 height-enhancing surgery from 'Materialists' is real — and more common than you might think
In Celine Song's new romantic drama, Materialists, Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is perpetually on the hunt for a tall man. Not for herself, however — Lucy is a matchmaker, and her clients have height requirements they refuse to budge on. It's why, early in the film, Lucy says she understands why some men choose to go through with a $200,000 surgery that gives them up to 6 more inches of height: It adds to their value on the dating scene. Without spoiling too much, this surgery comes up for a second time in the film — a twist that reframes what it means to be a catch in today's dating market. But this height surgery isn't just a plot point. It's a real way some people are coping with body image issues around their stature. Dr. Dror Paley, founder of the Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute's Stature Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., told Yahoo that he's done more than 25,000 limb lengthening surgeries over the course of his 38-year career. Most of these are done in order to correct imbalances in the body — if one leg is shorter than the other, for example. But on average, he said, he performs about 100 surgeries per year on patients who are just hoping to inch up in height. Paley explained that limb lengthening involves gradually pulling apart a broken bone (the tibia or the femur) so that new bone grows in the gap. Traditionally, this was done using external metal frames, but now, it's typical to use implantable devices with motors or magnets that go inside the bone and are controlled remotely and adjusted slowly over weeks. With each adjustment, the devices extend the bone — no more than 1 millimeter per day — and the body naturally generates new bone and soft tissue to fill in the space. Recovery is about five months long, Paley said, and physical therapy is required in order to get back functionality. Depending on the device used, some people may need a walker or crutches to move around initially. As an orthopedic surgeon, Paley corrects 'pain and disability,' not aesthetics, which is why he was initially concerned about being judged by others in his industry for the procedure. 'It's very odd for us to treat patients for cosmetic reasons,' Paley said. 'It took a long time to figure out what the plastic surgeons knew all along: that they were treating body image issues.' The price tag on such a procedure can vary but starts at around $80,000 to lengthen just the tibia, which can give a patient around 3 more inches of height, Paley said. But if a patient wants more height by lengthening the femur as well, that effectively doubles the cost of the surgery. With physical therapy and other recovery costs, Paley said that the $200,000 price quoted in Materialists is more or less accurate. But for many patients, that cost is more than worth it. Paley recalled one patient, a young man fresh out of law school who could barely look him in the eye during their initial appointment. Paley performed the limb lengthening surgery on him, adding 3 inches to his tibia. A decade later, Paley said the patient came back to thank him with a firm handshake. He told the doctor that due to the surgery, he found the confidence to pursue a career in TV writing — something that he said he never would have done had he not had the surgery. 'We're looking to change how patients feel about themselves,' Paley said of the surgery. 'It changes their life.' Alyson Curtis, a New York City-based mental health counselor specializing in body image issues, told Yahoo that she believes many straight men are 'suffering in silence' with body image issues, and that height tends to be a major insecurity for men on the shorter side. 'As a therapist, I fully validate that 'pretty privilege' is real, like no matter who you are,' she said. 'Our clients are swiping on the dating apps, and height is one of those metrics where you might not even be considered if you don't meet a certain requirement. And I think that the movie really accurately portrayed that.' Ultimately, Curtis explained, the society we live in is 'obviously patriarchal' and 'made by men.' 'Their definition of masculinity is to be big and powerful still, and height represents that,' she said, noting that at the same time, many men expect and desire women to be 'very small,' leading to women experiencing body image issues around thinness. (In Materialists, a client tells Lucy that he doesn't want any 'fatties,' while another insists on dating a woman with a BMI no greater than 20.) 'We do live in a world that prefers people in a certain body type, or a taller height, or whatever,' she said. While Curtis said she always validates her clients for feeling bad about the ways in which society judges us, she noted that these standards don't have to define who we are. 'It can be very tormenting to sort of always feel inferior. But is it enough to hate yourself for the rest of your life? Is it enough to undergo a really intense surgery that not everyone has the means to do anyway?' Instead, Curtis said, her work with patients comes from a place of finding acceptance in the things you can't or don't want to change. 'There are people in this world who want to change things about you, who are going to judge you — whether it's a personality attribute or even other features like the color of our skin,' she shared. 'There's so many things about us that people are going to reject that we just can't please everyone.'
Los Angeles Times
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
The Paley Archive, Arcangelo Corelli and Atomic Café: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
Another reason to visit the Beverly Hills Public Library: As of this month, the Rexford Drive destination is the new home of the Paley Archive, which includes over 160,000 television and radio programs and advertisements, as preserved by The Paley Center for Media. The archive spans more than a century of programming, across the genres of comedy, drama, news, public affairs, performing arts, sports, reality, animation, documentary and more. Visitors can experience everything from the oldest offering — a 1918 speech by labor leader Samuel Gompers — to countless historic moments in media like Orson Welles' infamous 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, Jacqueline Kennedy's tour of the White House and the first broadcast hour of MTV. Also available are recordings of past Paley Center-produced events and star-studded discussions like PaleyFest L.A. — this year's edition of which starts tonight at the Dolby Theatre and runs through next Saturday. The archive is open during the library's hours of operation and is managed by the knowledgeable Paley staff. Plus, the Paley will present screenings, conversations and family-friendly events at the library. Until then, I'm Ashley Lee, here with my fellow Times staff writer Jessica Gelt with more arts and culture headlines and happenings. 'María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold'The Cuban-born artist's vivid and activism-driven work reflects global histories of enslavement, indentured labor, motherhood, and migration. The exhibition, on view through May 4, brings together more than 50 pieces, including large-scale photographic grids and immersive installations, videos, paintings and performance art documentation. This weekend at the museum, Campos-Pons performs with composer and multi-instrumentalist Kamaal Malak (Saturday, 5 p.m.), and discusses her artistic practice with the exhibition's curators (Sunday, 4:30 p.m.). Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr, Brentwood. 'Little Tokyo Goes Nuclear: Three Decades at the Atomic Café'Center Theatre Group's latest commissioned community play reading is a love story, set amid the racial tensions of the '60s, the emerging reparations movement for Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII and the titular café's '80s punk rock heyday. Alison Minami's piece will be presented for free at two Boyle Heights libraries; first on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Malabar Library (2801 Wabash Ave.) and again on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Robert Louis Stevenson Library (803 Spence St.). Both readings, directed by Fran de Leon, feature CJ Cruz, Mika Dyo, Janet Song, Tamlyn Tomita and Thomas Winter in the cast. 'Il Nuovo Orfeo: The Legacy of Arcangelo Corelli''Baroque music may not strike the average casual music fan but the 17th- and early 18th-century style of music has certainly struck a chord with a group of young musicians,' wrote TimesOC staff writer Sarah Mosqueda of the chamber ensemble Kontrapunktus. The group's current concert pays homage to the Italian composer, as well as those who either studied under him or composed opuses in his honor: George Frideric Handel, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Francesco Geminiani and Jean-Marie Leclair. This program will be performed Sunday at 7 p.m. at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (555 W. Temple St., downtown L.A.) and again in Long Beach (March 28), Laguna Beach (March 29) and Pasadena (March 30). — Ashley Lee FRIDAY🎹 According to Ray: Ray Charles' Message to America In its season opener, MUSE/IQUE celebrates the work of the genre-defying musician and singer,⏰ 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2:30 p.m. Saturday; 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. March 23. Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 🎼 Haïm Leads Handel & Bach Conductor Emmanuelle Haïm and her ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée join the L.A. Phil for Handel's 'Dixit Dominus' and Bach's 'Magnificat.'⏰ 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 🎼 Beyond Neoclassical A magical journey beyond space and time with cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist Ian Maksin singing in nearly 40 languages.⏰ 7 p.m. Anaheim First Presbyterian Church, 310 W. Broadway. 🎵 Tarta Relena The Catalan folk duo sing a capella, wielding influences that span the Mediterranean. ⏰ 8 p.m. UCLA Nimoy Theater, 1262 Westwood Blvd. 🎵 Intuition Festival An eclectic two-night event inspired by the current exhibition 'Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature' features live music and short films.⏰ 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The Broad Museum, 221 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 🎭 Unreconciled Written by Jay Sefton and Mark Basquill and directed by Geraldine Hughes, the play is based on a true story about a teenager cast as Jesus in a school play directed by a Catholic priest.⏰ 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, through March 31. Moving Arts, 3191 Casitas Ave., Atwater Village. SATURDAY🎞️ Director's Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho On the eve of an exhibition focusing on the Oscar-winning filmmaker's creative process, filmography and cinematic influences, Bong Joon Ho discusses the 1982 sci-fi classic 'The Thing' with its director John Carpenter; Bong will also appear Sunday for 4K screenings of 'Okja' and 'Parasite.'⏰ 7:30 p.m. Saturday. 'The Thing. 2 p.m. Sunday. 'Okja'; 7:30 p.m. Sunday. 'Parasite'; exhibition runs Sunday through Jan. 10. Academy Museum, 6067 Wilshire Blvd. 🎻 Pasadena Pops Brett Mitchell leads violinist Stefan Jackiw and the ensemble through Mozart's 'Turkish' Violin Concerto No. 5, plus works by Adolphus Hailstork, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.⏰ 2 and 8 p.m. Ambassador Auditorium, 131 S. St. John Ave., Pasadena. 🎤 Rhinestone Cowboys The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles belts out country classics by Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire and Johnny Cash, plus countrified contemporary tunes by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Brandi Carlile, Shaboozey, Lil Nas and Chappell Roan.⏰ 8 p.m. Saturday; 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. 🎵 🎭 Shipping: A Musical A fantastical whale tale about a 19th-century Nantucket woman and an interspecies friendship, with a book by Jen Jackson and Louisa Kellogg, music by Brian Heveron-Smith, directed by Cassie Ahiers.⏰ 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The Elysian Theater, 1944 Riverside Drive. 🥁 Yamato: Drummers of Japan The Taiko group performs 'Hito no chikara/The Power of Human Strength.'⏰ 3:30 p.m. The Soraya, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. SUNDAY🎞️ 🤡 The Big Whoop to Benefit LA Fire Relief A benefit screening for LA Fire Relief of the new indie comedy about three washed-up party clowns stars Jim Turner, Mark Fite, Dave 'Gruber' Allen, Sandra Oh and Penn Jillette; the event includes a live performance by Puddles Pity Party and a cast Q&A.⏰ 3 p.m. Dynasty Typewriter, 2511 Wilshire Blvd. 🎼 🎭 La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'Isola di Alcina The UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata mark the 400th anniversary of the first opera composed by a woman with an outdoor performance.⏰ 10 a.m. grounds open; 11 a.m. performance. UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron St., West Adams. 🎻 Theotime Langlois De Swarte & Les Arts Florissants The acclaimed French violinist is joined by the early music ensemble for a program featuring Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons.'⏰ 2 p.m. Samueli Theater, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 🎨 Zheng Chongbin: Golden State The artist's largest U.S. solo exhibition highlights his explorations of water, light and movement, and connection to California's natural landscape.⏰ Through Jan. 4. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Monday night's severe Coachella Valley windstorm, clocking in at 30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph, took down at least one Desert X sculpture installation, just over a week after the outdoor show's opening. In Palm Desert, Swiss artist Raphael Hefti had stretched an impossibly long strip of reinforced fire-hose material, jet black on one side and mirror-bright silver on the other, between a high rocky cliff at one end and a tall steel support drilled into the flat desert at the other. Swaying overhead, the aerial strip was roughly 1,300 feet long — more than 3 ½ football fields. Monday night's fierce winds took it down, damaging the support structures in the process. According to workmen at the site, repairs are expected to take a week to 10 days. Here are 'before' (above) and 'after' (below) photos of the work, titled 'Five things you can't wear on TV,' a sly reference to cautions against wearing pinstripes on camera, lest moiré patterns interfere with a television monitor's crisp electronic imagery. — Christopher Knight To read Knight's full review of Desert X, click here. After fire came perilously close to the Getty Villa during January's devastating Palisades fire, Times art critic Christopher Knight asked a question: Should the Getty and Getty Villa move? Acknowledging that both structures are well protected by state-of-the-art building infrastructure, Knight pointed out that, 'Urban fire — explosive structure-to-structure conflagrations, rather than ordinary ignition of wildland vegetation — had arrived at astounding scale.' But where would the collections go? Knight suggested the soon-to-be-vacant Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown L.A. Needless to say, readers had many thoughts on Knight's column and suggestions, so we compiled their letters in a separate story. 'Absolutely not! The venue is a big part of both the Center and the Villa. That is what makes the Getty Museums so 'special.'' wrote one reader. 'Yes, definitely. The move to downtown Los Angeles would expose thousands more people to the incredible art of this priceless collection,' wrote another. Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich's play, 'Here There Are Blueberries,' was a 2024 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama, and is being performed at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts through March 30. Times theater critic Charles McNulty sat down for an interview with Kaufman and Gronich in New York a few days before their trip to L.A. The main topic of conversation was how the duo turned a photo album featuring the banal daily activities of workers at Auschwitz-Birkenau into a searing play. East West Players, in collaboration with Outside In Theatre, announced a fundraising campaign to make a professional video recording of Lauren Yee's play, 'Cambodian Rock Band,' setting a goal of $15,000. The company reached that goal in under 20 hours and expanded the goal to $25,000. The hope is to preserve the historic work for posterity, and to make it globally accessible. The fundraising campaign will be active through March 31. In his first visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since taking over as chairman, President Trump suggested that he was interested in hosting the annual awards gala and suggested giving a posthumous award to Elvis Presley. He also made sure to announce that he had never liked 'Hamilton.' — Jessica Gelt A delightful gathering of Willy Lomans (including Joe Cortese, who led Colony Theatre's wonderful production of 'Death of a Salesman' earlier this year).
