Plaid Capri pants

Capri pants (also known as Capris, Crop pants, long or three-quarter shorts, and clam diggers) are mid-calf pants worn in warm weather. Variants end below the knee and calf. Though widely popular with women they are also worn by men in many countries, especially in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

History[link]

Capri pants were introduced by European fashion designer Sonja de Lennart in 1948.^[1] The pants' name derives from the Italian isle of Capri, where they rose to popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s.^[2] The American actress Grace Kelly was among the first movie stars who wore capris on the island.

Popularity[link]

Capris' acceptance in the United States was influenced by the 1960s television series The Dick Van Dyke Show. The character of Laura Petrie, the young housewife played by Mary Tyler Moore, caused a fashion sensation – and some mild controversy – by wearing snug-fitting capri pants during the show's run.^{[citation needed]} After a drop in popularity during the 1970s through the 1990s capris returned to favor during the 2000s.^{[citation needed]} Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal wore capris in the majority of his matches before 2009.^[3]

See also[link]

• Knickerbockers
• Overalls
• Pedal pushers

References[link]

Notes

External links[link]

• July 18, 2003 / sw Abbildung: The Fifties (Fashionsourcebooks), Paperback Verlag
• Sonja de Lennart
• Official Site for Sonja de Lennart
• Destination: Capri - Capri Pants Aren't Just For The Resort Set Anymore
• Capri Pants in Movies and TV shows

Capri

View of Capri from the sea
Geography
Location	Tyrrhenian Sea
Area	10.4 km2 (4.02 sq mi)
Highest elevation	589 m (1,932 ft)
Highest point	Monte Solaro
Country
Italy
Region	Campania
Province	Naples
Largest city	Capri (pop. 7,278)
Demographics
Population	12,200 (as of 2002)
Density	1,170 /km2 (3,030 /sq mi)

Capri (/kəˈpriː/; Italian pronunciation: [ˈkaːpri]) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town on the island shares the name. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic.

Features of the island are the Marina Piccola (the little harbour), the Belvedere of Tragara (a high panoramic promenade lined with villas), the limestone crags called sea stacks that project above the sea (the Faraglioni), the town of Anacapri, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), and the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas.

Capri is part of the region of Campania, Province of Naples. The town of Capri is the island's main population centre. The island has two harbours, Marina Piccola and Marina Grande (the main port of the island). The separate comune of Anacapri is located high on the hills to the west.

Etymology[link]

The etymology of the name Capri is unclear; it might either be traced back to the Ancient Greeks (Ancient Greek kapros meaning "wild boar"), the first recorded colonists to populate the island. But it could also derive from Latin capreae (goats). Fossils of wild boars have been discovered, lending credence to the "kapros" etymology, but on the other hand the Romans called Capri "goat island". Finally, there is also the possibility the name derives from an Etruscan word for "rocky", though any historical Etruscan rule of the island is disputed.^[1][2]

History[link]

Ancient and Roman times[link]

Capri harbour from Anacapri

According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Capri was once part of the mainland. This has been confirmed by geological surveys and archaeological findings.

The city has been inhabited since early times. Evidence of human settlement was discovered during the Roman era; according to Suetonius, when the foundations for the villa of Augustus were being excavated, giant bones and 'weapons of stone' were discovered. The emperor ordered these to be displayed in the garden of his main residence, the Sea Palace. Modern excavations have shown that human presence on the island can be dated to the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

In his Aeneid, Virgil states that the island had been populated by the Greek people of Teleboi, coming from the Ionian Islands. Strabo says that "in ancient times in Capri there were two towns, later reduced to one."^[3] Tacitus records that there were twelve Imperial villas in Capri (or Capreae, as it was spelled in Latin). Ruins of one at Tragara could still be seen in the 19th century.

Augustus' successor Tiberius built a series of villas at Capri, the most famous of which is the Villa Jovis, one of the best-preserved Roman villas in Italy. In 27 CE, Tiberius permanently moved to Capri, running the Empire from there until his death in 37 CE.

In 182 CE, Emperor Commodus banished his sister Lucilla to Capri. She was executed shortly afterwards.

Middle and Modern Ages[link]

One of the symbols of Capri: the Blue Grotto

After the end of the Western Roman Empire, Capri returned to the status of a dominion of Naples, and suffered various attacks and ravages by pirates. In 866 Emperor Louis II gave the island to Amalfi. In 987 Pope John XV consecrated the first bishop of Capri.

In 1496 Frederick IV of Naples established legal and administrative parity between the settlements of Capri and Anacapri. The pirate raids reached their peak during the reign of Charles V: the famous Turkish admirals Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Turgut Reis captured the island in 1535 and 1553 for the Ottoman Empire, respectively.

The first recorded tourist to visit the island was French antiques dealer Jean-Jacques Bouchard in the 17th century. His diary, found in 1850, is an important information source about Capri.

Recent history[link]

French troops under Napoleon occupied Capri in January 1806. The British ousted the French in the following May, after which Capri was turned into a powerful naval base (a "Second Gibraltar"), but the building program caused heavy damage to the archaeological sites. The French reconquered Capri in 1808, and remained there until the end of the Napoleonic era (1815), when Capri was returned to the Bourbon ruling house of Naples.

The natural scientist Ignazio Cerio catalogued Capri's flora and fauna during the 19th century. His work was continued by his son, author and engineer Edwin Cerio, who wrote several books on life in Capri in the 20th century.

Norman Douglas, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Emil von Behring, Curzio Malaparte, Axel Munthe, and Maxim Gorky are all reported to have owned a villa there, or to have stayed there for more than three months. Swedish Queen Victoria often stayed there. Rose O'Neill, the American illustrator and creator of the Kewpie, owned the Villa Narcissus, formerly owned by the famous Beaux Art painter Charles Caryl Coleman. Gracie Fields also had a villa on the island, though her 1934 song "The Isle of Capri" was written by two Englishmen. Mariah Carey owns a villa on the island.

In 1908, Vladimir Ilic Ulianov, also known as Lenin, was hosted by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, also known as Maxim Gorky, a Russian, Soviet author, at his house near the Giardini Augusto. In 1970 a monument by Giacomo Manzù was erected during the centennial celebration in Lenin's honour.

Capri in art and literature[link]

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John Singer Sargent: Head of a Capri Girl (Rosina Ferrara), 1878

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Capri, a look from Santa Serafina, 1840

In the latter half of the 19th century, Capri became a popular resort for European artists, writers and other celebrities. The book that spawned the 19th century fascination with Capri in France, Germany, and England was Entdeckung der blauen Grotte auf der Insel Capri, 'Discovery of the Blue Grotto on the Isle of Capri', by the German painter and writer August Kopisch, in which he describes his 1826 stay on the island and his (re)discovery of the Blue Grotto.

John Singer Sargent and Frank Hyde are among the prominent artists who stayed on the island around the late 1870s. Sargent is known for his series of portraits featuring local model Rosina Ferrara. Claude Debussy refers to the island's hills in the title of his impressionistic prélude Les collines d'Anacapri (1910). Capri is the setting for "The Lotus Eater" (1945), a short story by Somerset Maugham. In the story, the protagonist from Boston comes to Capri on a holiday and is so enchanted by the place he gives up his job and decides to spend the rest of his life in leisure there. British novelist Compton Mackenzie lived there from 1913 to 1920, with later visits, and set some of his work on the island, e.g. Vestal Fire (1927).

As well as being a haven for writers and artists, Capri served as a relatively safe place for foreign gay men and lesbians to lead a more open life; a small nucleus of them were attracted to live there, overlapping to some extent with the creative types mentioned above. Poet August von Platen-Hallermünde was one of the first. Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen wrote the roman à clef Et le feu s’éteignit sur la mer (1910) about Capri and its residents in the early 20th century, causing a minor scandal. Fersen's life on Capri became the subject of Roger Peyrefitte's fictionalised biography, L'Exilé de Capri. A satirical presentation of the island's lesbian colony is made in Mackenzie's 1928 novel Extraordinary Women, inspired by the affairs of American painter Romaine Brooks (in the novel, under the pseudonym of Olimpia Leigh)^[4]. One of the island's most famous foreign gay exiles was Norman Douglas; his novel South Wind (1917) is a thinly fictionalised description of Capri's residents and visitors, and a number of his other works, both books and pamphlets, deal with the island, including Capri (1930) and his last work, A Footnote on Capri (1952).

Memoirs set on Capri include Edwin Cerio's Aria di Capri (1928) (translated as That Capri Air), which contains a number of historical and biographical essays on the island, including a tribute to Norman Douglas; The Story of San Michele (1929) by Swedish royal physician Axel Munthe (1857–1949), who built a villa of that name and Shirley Hazzard's Greene on Capri: A Memoir (2000), about her reminiscences of Graham Greene.

French singer Hervé Vilard released the song "Capri c'est fini" in 1965, which became a worldwide hit.

Main sights[link]

A clickable map showing some of the most important sights on Capri. (Use icon on the right to enlarge.)

Annual events[link]

• Capri Art Film Festival (every April since 2006)^[5]
• Festival of San Costanzo (Capri patron saint) – May 14^[6]
• Festival of Sant’Antonio (Anacapri patron saint) – June 13^[6]
• Capri Tango Festival (every June since 2007)^[6]
• International Folklore Festival (Anacapri) – August^[7]
• Settembrata Anacaprese (Anacapri harvest festival) – September^[7]
• Capri International Film Festival (every late December/early January since 1995)^[8]

Tourism[link]

Panoramic view from Piazzetta, in Capri Centre

Capri is a tourist destination for both Italians and foreigners. In the 1950s Capri became a popular destination. In summer, the island is heavily visited by tourists, especially by day trippers from Naples and Sorrento.

Transportation[link]

Typical taxi of Capri

Capri is served by ferry or hydrofoil from Naples, Sorrento, Positano or Amalfi as well as by boat services from the ports of the Bay of Naples and the Sorrentine Peninsula. Naples is served by two ports, Mergellina and Molo Beverello. Molo Beverello has a higher frequency of departures and a larger selection of boats than Mergellina.

From Naples, the ferry takes 80 minutes, and the hydrofoil 40 minutes. From Sorrento, the ferry takes about 40 minutes while the hydrofoil takes about 20 minutes.

Boats call at Marina Grande, from where a funicular goes up to Capri town. From Anacapri, a chair lift takes passengers to the top of the island.

Airports[link]

The nearest airports are:

• Napoli-Capodichino (NAP)
• Salerno-Pontecagnano (QSR)

Gallery[link]

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  Faraglioni. Top view

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  Villas on Capri

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  Overlooking Capri harbour from the rotunda in Villa San Michele]]

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  View from Monte Solaro

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  Faraglione

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  Grotta Meravigliosa

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  Natural arch

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  San Giacomo

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  View from August´s Garden

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  Marina Piccola from August's Garden

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  Marina Piccola viewed toward the Faraglioni

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  Monte Tiberio

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  Il Funiculare from Marina Grande to Capri

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  Capri

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  Capri

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  Villa Malaparte

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  The funicular railway cuts across the picture, on the left

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  Capri at sunset, from the tip of the peninsula of Sorrento

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  Overlooking the island from Anacapri

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  Charles Caryl Coleman: In the Shade of the Vines, Capri (1898)

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  A pier in Capri

Twinning[link]

• Capri is twinned with Crosby, Merseyside in the United Kingdom

See also[link]

• Ischia
• Amalfi Coast

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Capri

• Capri on Wikitravel
• Capri 360 panoramas (French)
• Capri Island APP, a complete guide to Capri on Ipad

Coordinates: 40°33′N 14°14′E / 40.55°N 14.233°E / 40.55; 14.233

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Lisa Robertson (born on July 22, 1961 in Toronto) is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in France.

Life[link]

In 1979, she moved to British Columbia, where she remained for twenty-three years. During her time there, she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which is a non-profit society that offers an alternative to the mainstream pedagogy of most Canadian universities.

She has been integrally involved in Vancouver's art scene and is an honorary board member of Artspeak Gallery. She has written on and reviewed exhibitions and pieces by Kelly Wood, Robert Garcet, Liz Magor, Allyson Clay, Kathy Slade, and Hadley+Maxwell, among others. She has also written on architecture and sites in British Columbia. Robertson contributed the "Beneath the Pavilions" column to Mix from 1997-1999.

She co-edited the poetry journal Raddle Moon with Susan Clark in Vancouver, and has worked as an arts journalist, a book seller, a copy editor, an astrologer, a guest lecturer, and an essayist. She has written on the work of Robin Blaser, Denise Riley, Dionne Brand, Peter Culley, Ted Berrigan, John Clare, Lorine Niedecker, Pauline Reage, Michele Bernstein and Albertine Sarrazin.

In 2006, she was a judge of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Holloway poet-in-residence at UC Berkeley. From 2007- 2010 she taught at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In Fall 2010 she was writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Work[link]

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Her work is a deep questioning of language, history and gender.

She intentionally alters her writing style for each book-length work, although tends to not to stray too far from the form of the sentence and the issue of civic referentiality. Robertson refers to pronouns and self-referentiality as masques or puppets.

Many poets and writers have influenced Robertson. She has mentioned Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, the French feminists, Marguerite Duras, Nicole Brossard, Erin Mouré, Gail Scott, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, bpNichol, Steve McCaffery, and Charles Bernstein.

The Weather[link]

One of her best known works, The Weather was written following her six-month Judith E Wilson visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Variously described by others as a collection of poems inspired by BBC shipping forecasts, Wordsworths's The Prelude based upon a poetics derived from British meteorology and its importance in contemporary culture and history, Robertson herself suggests "the weather" can refer to culture-specific customs, the problematic concepts of the universal, sincerity, friendship, the constitution of the English subject, and the historical merging of Romantic conceptions of identity and language.

In preparation for its completion, she researched pastoral poetry, meteorological prose, and Anglo-centric subjectivity, guided by authors like Wordsworth, Reverend Blomefield, Luke Howard, Thomas Forster, Aikin, Aratus, John Constable, and William Cobbett.

Selected bibliography[link]

• The Apothecary (Vancouver, BC: Tsunami, 1991; reissued 2001)
• The Barscheit Horse with Catriona Strang and Christine Stewart (Hamilton, Ontario: Berkeley Horse, 1993)
• XEclogue II-V (Vancouver: Sprang Texts, 1993)
• XEclogue (Vancouver, BC: Tsunami Editions 1993, reissued by New Star Books, 1999)
• The Glove: An Essay on Interpretation (Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1993)
• The Badge (Hamilton, Ontario: The Berkeley Horse/Mindware, 1994)
• Earth Monies (Mission, BC: DARD, 1995)
• The Descent (Buffalo, NY: Meow, 1996)
• Debbie: An Epic (Vancouver, BC: New Star, 1997; UK: Reality Street, 1997)
• Soft Architecture: A Manifesto (Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery, 1999)
• The Weather (Vancouver, BC: New Star, 2001; UK: Reality Street, 2001)
• A Hotel (Vancouver: Vancouver Film School, 2003)
• Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (Astoria, OR: Clear Cut Press, 2003)
• Face/ (New York: A Rest Press, 2003)
• Rousseau’s Boat (Vancouver, BC: Nomados, 2004)
• First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant. Belladonna 75. (Brooklyn: Belladonna Books, 2005)
• The Men: A Lyric Book (Toronto: BookThug, 2006)
• Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House Press, 2009)
• R's Boat (University of California Press, 2010)

Selected Essays[link]

• "Coasting" with Jeff Derksen, Nancy Shaw, and Catriona Strang. Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s. Ed. Mark Wallace. (Tuscaloosa: Alabama UP, 2002)
• "The Weather: A Report on Sincerity," from DC Poetry Anthology 2001.^[1]
• "How Pastoral: A Manifesto." A Poetics of Criticism. Ed. Juliana Spahr. (Buffalo: Leave Books, 1994)
• "My Eighteeneth Century." Assembling Alternatives. Ed. Romana Huk. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2003)
• "On Palinode." Chicago Review 51:4/52:1 (2006)

Selected Interviews and Conversations[link]

• "Correspondence" with Steve McCaffery. Philly Talks #17. (Philadelphia: Kelly Writers House, 2000)
• "Lifted" with Kai Fierle-Hedrick. Chicago Review 51:4/52:1 (2006)

References[link]

Notes[link]

1. ^ "Robertson, Lisa". Dcpoetry.com. http://www.dcpoetry.com/?module=keywords&keyword=Robertson,%20Lisa. Retrieved 2011-07-02. 

External links[link]

• Lisa Robertson's piece titled "The Venus Problem"
• Chicago Review special issue (51:4/52:1) on Lisa Robertson (poems, essays, interview)
• Dispatches from the PoetryFoundation.org Journal
• Readings from The Office For Soft Architecture
• Test Reading: from The Men
• Lisa Robertson reads at a Toronto Value Village
• "Mostly Experimental: Recent Writings By and About Contemporary Women Poets & Writers" review of American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, ed. Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr.
• Steve Evans reviews Rousseau’s Boat This piece, titled "Solitary and Free", appeared in "Jacket Magazine", #27 (April 2005)
• "Wooden Houses" poem by Robertson in "Jacket Magazine", #27 (APR 2005)
• Review @ Village Voice: 09/29/06 Alan Gilbert discusses The Men
• Joshua Corey discusses The Men extended piece from the popular weblog Cahiers de Corey
• Conversation review of 'The Men' by Melissa Flores-Bórquez and Edmund Hardy at poetry mag "Intercapillary Space"

See also[link]

Poetry portal

• Canadian poetry

Bikini Kill was an American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington in October 1990. The group consisted of vocalist and songwriter Kathleen Hanna, guitarist Billy Karren, bassist Kathi Wilcox, and drummer Tobi Vail. The band is widely considered to be the pioneer of the riot grrrl movement, and was notorious for its radical feminist lyrics and fiery performances. Their music is characteristically abrasive and hardcore-influenced. After two full-length albums, several EPs and two compilations, they disbanded in 1998.

While occasionally collaborating with high-profile acts such as Nirvana and Joan Jett, Bikini Kill was well known for shunning major labels and the mainstream rock press.

Biography[link]

The band formed in Olympia, Washington, in October 1990, by Kathleen Hanna (vocals), Billy Karren (guitar), Kathi Wilcox (bass), and Tobi Vail (drums). They began working together on a fanzine called Bikini Kill and, with the addition of former Go Team guitarist Billy Karren, formed a band of the same name. The band wrote songs together and encouraged a female-centric environment at their shows, urging women to come to the front of the stage and handing out lyric sheets to them.

After an independent demo cassette, Revolution Girl Style Now!, Bikini Kill released the Bikini Kill EP on the indie label Kill Rock Stars. Produced by Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, the album began to establish the band's audience. The band's debut album, Pussy Whipped, was released in September 1993. Bikini Kill toured in London, England to begin working with Huggy Bear, releasing a joint recording together and touring the UK. The tour was the subject of a documentary film by Lucy Thane entitled It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In The U.K. Upon their return to the United States, the band began working with Joan Jett of The Runaways, whose music Hanna described as an early example of the Riot Grrrl aesthetic. Jett produced the single "New Radio"/"Rebel Girl" for the band.

By the following year, Riot Grrrl was receiving constant attention in the media, and Bikini Kill were increasingly referred to as pioneers of the movement. Hanna called for a "media blackout" amongst Riot Grrrls, as they felt the band and the movement were being misrepresented by the media.^{[citation needed]}

The band's final album was Reject All American (1996). Shortly before breaking up in 1998, a collection of singles were released only on vinyl between 1995 to 1996, titled The Singles.

Post-breakup[link]

During the summer of 1992, the band The Frumpies was formed by Karren, Wilcox, Vail, and Molly Neuman of Bratmobile, and toured as late as the early 2000s along with a similar Italian punk rock band Dada Swing.^[1][2]

Vail, notorious for her numerous side projects and being in several bands at a time, later resurfaced in a band called Spider and the Webs, and she is now^[when?] playing with the Old Haunts. Kathi Wilcox plays in the Casual Dots and Bill Karren is in GHOST MOM. Hanna first contributed to an LP^[which?] as a member of The Fakes, and then turned to more dance-based New Wave music (with similar feminist lyrical themes) on her solo debut, Julie Ruin. She then became a member of the political New Wave outfit Le Tigre.^[3]

Influence[link]

Bikini Kill is recognized as an influence by Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Jack Off Jill, Mika Miko, and many others. Mike Park (of Skankin' Pickle, The Chinkees, The Bruce Lee Band, and founder of Asian Man Records) has a song about the band titled "Tobi Vail 4 President" on the album Beans & Toast from his acoustic solo project. J Church's album Prophylaxis features a song called "Why I Liked Bikini Kill", a response to criticisms of the band and their message. Music journalist Steve Palopoli has described the song as addressing an "unspecified critic of Kathleen Hanna".

NOFX has a song titled "Kill Rock Stars" on their album So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, written as a response to Kathleen Hanna labeling the band as misogynists.^[4]

Bikini Kill's song "Rebel Girl" is number 445 in Blender's The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Revolution Girl Style Now! self released cassette (1991)
• Bikini Kill EP on Kill Rock Stars (1991)
• Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah split LP with Huggy Bear on Catcall Records in the UK, Kill Rock Stars in the US (1993)
• Pussy Whipped LP on Kill Rock Stars (1993)
• The C.D. Version of the First Two Records (1994)
• Reject All American LP on Kill Rock Stars (1996)

Singles[link]

• New Radio/Rebel Girl 7" single on Kill Rock Stars (1993)
• The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation Single on Kill Rock Stars (1995)
• I Like Fucking/I Hate Danger 7" single on Kill Rock Stars (1995)
• European Tour Single split 7" with Team Dresch on Banda Bonnot (1996)
• Peel Sessions 7"

Compilations[link]

• "Feels Blind" on Kill Rock Stars LP/CD (1991)
• "Candy" on Throw: The Yoyo Studio Compilation on Yoyo Records (1991)
• "Daddy's Li'l Girl" on Give Me Back LP Ebullition Records (1991)
• "Suck My Left One" on There's A Dyke In The Pit, Outpunk Records/Harp Records (1992)
• Bikini Kill:The Singles (1998)

See also[link]

• Ladyfest
• DIY ethic

References[link]

External links[link]

• Fact sheet
• Tigerbomb.net - a Bikini Kill archive site
• Kathleen Hanna's Bikini Kill Archive at Wordpress.com
• Bikini Kill at Rolling Stone

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Dick Van Dyke
Van Dyke in December 2007
Born	Richard Wayne Van Dyke (1925-12-13) December 13, 1925 (age 86) West Plains, Missouri, U.S.
Residence	Malibu, California
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor, comedian, producer, writer, singer
Years active	1955–present
Home town	Danville, Illinois
Television	The Dick Van Dyke Show Diagnosis: Murder
Spouse	Margie Willett (1948–1984) (divorced), 4 children Arlene Silver (2012–present)[1]
Partner	Michelle Triola (1976–2009) (her death)
Children	Christian Van Dyke Barry Van Dyke Carrie Beth Van Dyke Stacy Van Dyke
Relatives	Jerry Van Dyke (brother) Shane Van Dyke (grandson)
Awards	Disney Legend (1998)

Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke. Van Dyke starred in the films Bye Bye Birdie, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show and Diagnosis: Murder. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.^[2]

Life and career[link]

Early and personal life[link]

Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri, to Loren (nickname "Cookie") and Hazel (born McCord) Van Dyke, but he grew up in Danville, Illinois. He is the older brother of actor Jerry Van Dyke, who is best known for his role on the TV series Coach. His grandson, Shane Van Dyke, is also an actor, and directed Titanic II. He is of Dutch descent on his father's side, and his mother was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Peter Browne from England.^[3]

During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps where he became a radio announcer and served in Special Services entertaining troops in the Continental United States.^[4] While Van Dyke appeared at the Chapman Park Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, he and the former Margerie Willett were married on the radio show Bride and Groom in 1948.^[5] They had four children: Christian (Chris), Barry, Carrie Beth, and Stacy.^{[citation needed]} They divorced in 1984 after a long separation. He lived with longtime companion Michelle Triola for more than 30 years until her death in 2009.^[6][7] Van Dyke's son Barry Van Dyke and grandsons Shane Van Dyke and Carey Van Dyke are also actors; both of these last two, along with other Van Dyke relations and grandchildren, appeared in various episodes of the long-running series Diagnosis: Murder. All of Van Dyke's children are married, and he has seven grandchildren. His son Chris was district attorney for Marion County, Oregon in the 1980s.^[8] In 1987, his granddaughter Jessica Van Dyke died from Reye's syndrome,^[9] which drove him to do a series of television commercials to raise public awareness of the danger of aspirin to children. In 2010, he said he had once been rescued from drifting out to sea and possible death by a pod of dolphins.^[10]