Gay City News is an award-winning, free weekly newspaper based in New York City that focuses on local and national issues relating to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.^[1] It was founded in 1994 as Lesbian Gay New York, later LGNY, and was sold to Community Media LLC in 2002, which renamed the publication.^[2][3] It is the largest LGBT newspaper in the United States, with a circulation of 47,000.^[4]

Gay City News came into existence after several incarnations. The newspaper began to form in the late 1980s after the collapse of the LGBT newsmagazine OUTWEEK (which came into existence in 1985 to compete against the then-dominant New York Native -- which itself folded in 1997). OUTWEEK was famous for firebrand activist style journalism and provided groundbreaking coverage of a then nascent gay civil rights movement. It was one of the first publications to undertake scientific reporting on the growing AIDS crisis.

After an investor squabble that closed the magazine, Troy Masters, then an advertising director at OUTWEEK, led the formation of a group to create a new publication; that publication became known as QW, the first glossy gay magazine, and was funded by William F. Chafin. Mr. Chafin died before the publication could make a profit, and the magazine was closed upon his death.

Two years later, Masters sought to establish a newspaper and founded LGNY. LGNY published for 8 year and was relaunched in 2002 as Gay City News.

Its current editor-in-chief is Paul Schindler, and the associate editor is Duncan Osborne.

Contributing editors are Christopher Byrne (Theater), Susie Day, Doug Ireland (International), Brian McCormick (Dance), Dean P. Wrzeszcz, and Duncan Osbourne. ^[5]

Contributing Writers have included: ^[6] Betsy Andrews, Seth J. Bookey, Anthony M.Brown, Kelly Jean Cogswell, Dean Daderko, Tate Dougherty, Andres Duque, Michael Ehrhardt, Steve Erickson, Nick Feitel, Jim Fouratt, Joe Fyfe, Deborah Garwood, Erasmo Guerra, Emily Harney, Andrey Henkin, Frank Holiday, Andy Humm, James Jorden, Brendan Keane, David Kennerley, Gary M. Kramer, Arthur S. Leonard, Rachael Liberman, Michael T. Luongo, Lawrence D. Mass, Winnie McCroy, Eileen McDermott, Gregory Montreuil, Ioannis Mookas, Carrie Moyer, Stephen Mueller, Christopher Murray, David Noh, Wayne Northcross, Lori Ortiz, Pauline Park, Sheila Pepe, John Reed, Nathan Riley, Andrew Cornell Robinson, Gerard Robinson, Chris Schmidt, Sarah D. Schulman, Jason Victor Serinus, Linda Shapiro, David Shengold, Gus Solomons Jr., David Spiher, Drew B. Straub, Stefen Styrsky, Jerry Tallmer, Stefanos Tsigrimanis, Kathleen Warnock, Benjamin Weinthal, Lee Ann Westover, James Withers, Kai Wright, Susan Yung

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Jason Paul Collins (born December 2, 1978) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Atlanta Hawks. Collins attended Stanford University, where he was an All-American in 2000–01 and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on March 15, 2000. He finished his career ranked #1 in school history for field goal percentage (.608) and #5 in blocked shots (89).

High school career[link]

He graduated from Harvard-Westlake School, where his backup was actor Jason Segel.^[1] Collins, playing alongside his twin brother, Jarron, won 2 California Interscholastic Federation state titles during his four year career with a combined record of 123-10. Over those 4 years, he broke the 31-year California rebounding record with over 1,500.^[2][3]

Professional career[link]

As a rookie along with Richard Jefferson, Collins played a significant role in the New Jersey Nets' first ever NBA Finals berth in 2002 against the Los Angeles Lakers.

In the 2002–03 NBA season Collins took over the starting center role for the Nets and helped the franchise back to the NBA Finals. Prior to the 2004–05 season, he signed a $25 million contract extension with New Jersey for five more years.

On February 4, 2008, Collins was traded along with cash considerations to the Memphis Grizzlies for Stromile Swift.^[4] Later that year, on June 26, Collins was dealt to the Minnesota Timberwolves in an eight-player blockbuster deal involving Kevin Love and O. J. Mayo.^[5] After his contract expired at the end of the 2008-09 NBA season, the Timberwolves' management decided not to re-sign him. Collins signed with the Atlanta Hawks on September 2, 2009.^[6] Collins re-signed with the Hawks in the 2010 offseason.^[7]

Collins' twin brother Jarron Collins has also played in the NBA.^[8]

NBA career statistics[link]

Regular season[link]

Playoffs[link]

References[link]

1. ^ "Fastbreak to Silver Screen". Daily News of Los Angeles. October 30, 1996. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF77098E8A329AA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. 
2. ^ "Jarron Collins". Stanford University. http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/collins_jarron00.html. Retrieved 2009-09-23. 
3. ^ "Boys Basketball". Los Angeles Daily News. March 31, 1997. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF7C1B58F993F9D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. 
4. ^ Grizzlies acquire center Jason Collins from Nets
5. ^ Bulls go for Rose over Beasley in NBA draft; Mayo, Love swap places
6. ^ Hawks sign C Jason Collins. September 2, 2009. Retrieved on September 3, 2009.
7. ^ ATLANTA HAWKS RE-SIGN JASON COLLINS
8. ^ Jarron Collins. USA Today. Retrieved on October 26, 2009.

External links[link]

• NBA.com profile
• NBA and college stats @ basketballreference.com

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Taras Bulba (Ukrainian: Тара́с Бу́льба) is a romanticized historical novel by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on an epic journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland.

Taras Bulba is Gogol’s longest short story. The work is non-fictional in nature with characters that are not exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol's later work, though his characterizations of Cossacks are said by some scholars to be a bit exaggerated. This story can be understood in the context of the romantic nationalism movement in literature, which developed around a historical ethnic culture which meets the romantic ideal.

Plot (1842 revised edition)[link]

Taras Bulba’s two sons, Ostap and Andriy, return home from an Orthodox seminary in Kiev. Ostap is the more adventurous, whereas Andriy has deeply romantic feelings of an introvert. While in Kiev, he fell in love with a young Polish noble girl, the daughter of the Governor of Dubno, but after a few meetings, he stopped seeing her when her family returned home. Taras Bulba gives his sons the opportunity to go to war. They reach the Cossack camp at the Zaporozhian Sich, where there is much merrymaking. Taras attempts to rouse the Cossacks to go into battle. He rallies them to replace the existing Hetman when the Hetman is reluctant to break the peace treaty.

They soon have the opportunity to fight the Poles, who rule all Ukraine west of the Dnieper River. The Poles are accused of atrocities against Orthodox Christians, in which they are aided by Jews. After killing many of the Jewish merchants at the Sich, the Cossacks set off on a campaign against the Poles. They besiege Dubno Castle. Surrounded by the Cossacks and short of supplies, the inhabitants begin to starve. One night a Tatar woman comes to Andriy and rouses him. He finds her face familiar and then recalls she is the servant of the Polish girl he was in love with. She advises him that all are starving inside the walls. He accompanies her through a secret passage starting in the marsh that goes into the monastery inside the city walls. Andriy brings loaves of bread with him for the starving girl and her mother. He is horrified by what he sees and in a fury of love, forsakes his heritage for the Polish girl.

Meanwhile, several companies of Polish soldiers march into Dubno to relieve the siege, and destroy a regiment of Cossacks. A number of battles ensue. Taras learns of his son’s forsaking his Cossack heritage from Yankel the Jew, whom he saved earlier in the story. During one of the final battles, he sees Andriy riding in Polish garb from the castle and has his men draw him to the woods, where he takes him off his horse. Taras then shoots his son from close range. Taras and Ostap continue fighting the Poles. Ostap is captured while his father is knocked out. When Taras regains his composure he learns that his son was taken away by the Poles. Yankel agrees to take him to Warsaw where Ostap is held captive, hiding Taras in a cart of bricks. Once in Warsaw a group of Jews help Yankel dress Taras as a German count. They go into the prison to see his Ostap, but a guard recognizes Taras as a Cossack. He lets them in and out only after being paid 100 gold pieces, and suggests they go to the Cossacks' execution the following day.

During the execution, Ostap does not make a single sound, even while being broken on the wheel, and only near the end calls out to his father, asking if he "can hear this?" Taras calls out that he can. Yankel turns to him terrified, but he had vanished. Taras returns home to find all of his old Cossack friends dead and younger Cossacks in their place. He goes to war again. The new Hetman wishes to make peace with the Poles, which Taras is strongly against, warning that the Poles are treacherous and will not honor their words. Failing to convince the Hetman, Taras takes his regiment away to continue the assault independently. As Taras predicted, once the new Hetman agrees to a truce, the Poles betray him and kill a number of Cossacks. Taras and his men continue to fight and are finally caught in a ruined fortress, where they battle until the last man is defeated.

Taras is nailed and tied to a tree and set aflame. Even in this state, he calls out to his men to continue the fight, claiming that a new Russian Tsar is coming who will rule the earth. The story ends with Cossacks on the Dniester River recalling the great feats of Taras and his unwavering Cossack spirit.

Differences between editions[link]

The original 1835 edition reflects the Ukrainian context of the story. In response to critics who called his The Government Inspector "anti-Russian", and under pressure from the Russian government that considered Taras Bulba too Ukrainian, Gogol was forced to revise the book. The 1842 edition was expanded and rewritten to include Russian nationalist themes in keeping with the official tsarist ideology at the time, as well as the author's changing political and aesthetic views (later manifested in Dead Souls and Selected Passages from Correspondence with his Friends). The changes included three new chapters and a new ending (in the 1835 edition, the protagonist is not burned at the stake by the Poles). The little-known original edition was translated into Ukrainian and made available to the Ukrainian audience only in 2005.^[1][2]

Depiction of Jews and Poles[link]

Felix Dreizin and David Guaspari in their The Russian Soul and the Jew: Essays in Literary Ethnocentrism discuss "the significance of the Jewish characters and the negative image of the Ukrainian Jewish community in Gogol's novel "Taras Bulba," pointing out Gogol's attachment to anti-Jewish prejudices prevalent in Russian and Ukrainian culture."^[3] In Léon Poliakov's The History of Antisemitism, the author states that "The 'Yankel' from Taras Bulba indeed became the archetypal Jew in Russian literature. Gogol painted him as supremely exploitative, cowardly, and repulsive, albeit capable of gratitude. But it seems perfectly natural in the story that he and his cohorts be drowned in the Dnieper by the Cossack lords. Above all, Yankel is ridiculous, and the image of the plucked chicken that Gogol used has made the rounds of great Russian authors."^[4] However, the famous brutality of the Cossack Khmelnytsky Uprising preceded Gogol's lifetime by about two hundred years and in Taras Bulba as in Gogol's work generally, his treatment of the Jews is realistic and sometimes sympathetic, as in the closing lines of "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich." In Yiddish, that character in "The Two Ivans" is referred to as a "balagoola: a well known character in Yiddish literature. In his story "Viy," there is a reference to the Jewish Innkeeper, a common occupation for Jews within the Pale at that time^[5] and even a reference to the Talmud. There is no mass slaughter of Jews in Taras Bulba nor are they reviled by the narrator. There is a scene where Jews are thrown into a river, a scene where Taras Bulba visits the Jews and seeks their aid and reference by the narrator of the story that Jews are treated inhumanely^[6] Certainly Cossacks are portrayed as disparaging Jews in what is obviously serving as comic relief in the story.

Following the 1830–1831 November Uprising against the Russian imperial rule in the heartland of Poland – partitioned since 1795 – the Polish people became the subject of an official campaign of discrimination by the Tsarist authorities. "Practically all of the Russian government, bureaucracy, and society were united in one outburst against the Poles. The phobia that gripped society gave a new powerful push to the Russian national solidarity movement" – wrote historian Liudmila Gatagova.^[7] It was in this particular context, that in many of Russia's literary works and media of the time Hostility toward the Poles "associated with dark powers" became popular as part of the state policy,^[7][8] especially with the emergence of the Panslavist ideology accusing them of betraying the "Slavic family".^[9] According to sociologist and historian Prof. Vilho Harle, Taras Bulba, published only four years after the rebellion, was a part of this anti-Polish propaganda effort.^[10] Inadvertently, Gogol's accomplishment became "an anti-Polish novel of high literary merit, to say nothing about lesser writers."^[10]

Adaptations in other media[link]

The story was the basis of an opera by Ukrainian composer, Mykola Lysenko.

Czech composer Leoš Janáček's Taras Bulba, a symphonic rhapsody for orchestra, was written in the years 1915–1918, inspired in part by the mass slaughter of World War I. The composition was first performed on 9 October 1921 by František Neumann, and in Prague on 9 November 1924 by Václav Talich and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

The story has been made into several films, with varying degrees of success. The first silent adaptation was in 1909, directed by Aleksandr Drankov. The second, a 1935 German production, was directed by a Russian director Alexis Granovsky, with superb decor by Andrei Andreyev. A third, in 1936, was produced in Britain under the title The Rebel Son, starring Harry Baur with a supporting cast of significant British actors. Another adaptation was made in the US in 1962, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis and directed by J. Lee Thompson; this adaptation featured a significant musical score by Franz Waxman, which received an Academy Award nomination. Bernard Herrmann called it "the score of a lifetime". "The Ride to Dubno" has become a standard concert piece and has been recorded many times. "Sleighride" uses Schedryk, the Carol of the Bells, as a counterpoint to Waxman's own melody. The finale, an upbeat march as the Cossacks ride into Dubno, is based on a Ukrainian folk song.

A 2008 Russian movie directed by Vladimir Bortko, was commissioned by the Russian state TV and paid for totally by the Russian Ministry of Culture. It includes Ukrainian, Russian and Polish actors such as Bohdan Stupka (as Taras Bulba), Ada Rogovtseva (as Taras Bulba's wife), Igor Petrenko (as Andriy Bulba), Vladimir Vdovichenkov (as Ostap Bulba) and Magdalena Mielcarz (as a Polish noble girl) premiered in 2009. The movie was filmed at several locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilskyi during 2007. The screenplay used the 1842 "pro Russian" edition of the novel.

The 2010 Hindi movie Veer starring Salman Khan is an adaptation of Taras Bulba.

In popular culture[link]

• Ernest Hemingway called Taras Bulba "One of the 10 greatest books of all time."
• In Jane Smiley's 2007 novel Ten Days In The Hills, the aging director, Max, is asked by a Russian oligarch to consider filming Taras Bulba.
• Eugene Hütz, the Ukrainian-born singer and lyricist of the critically acclaimed New York Gypsy punk rock band Gogol Bordello, wrote the introduction for the Subculture Books Edition of Taras Bulba, released in December 2008.
• The villain in the premiere episode of Disney's animated series Darkwing Duck was named Taurus Bulba—a play on the book title and the fact that the character was an anthropomorphic bull.
• Taras was an early nom de guerre of Albanian Communist Enver Hoxha
• Taras Boulba is the name of a Belgian IPA from the Belgian brewery Brasserie de la Senne.
• On Steve Vai's album Fire Garden, the last movement of The Fire Garden Suite is called "Taurus Bulba".
• A fine Moscow Restauant, near Red Square, serving traditional Russian and Ukrainian food is called "Taras Bulba".

References and notes[link]

External links[link]

Russian Wikisource has original text related to this article: Тарас Бульба (Гоголь)

• Taras Bulba at Project Gutenberg
• Taras Bulba 2008 theatrical trailer

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Charles Pugh (born August 3, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American television journalist, radio personality and politician best known for his work at WJBK in Detroit from 1999 to 2009. Pugh was elected council president of Detroit City Council in Detroit's city elections in 2009. He also served as the radio personality on CoCo, Foolish and Mr. Chase in the Morning and his own talk show, That's What's Up, which originally aired Sunday evenings on WJLB.^[1]

Pugh resigned from the station in March 2009 to pursue his political campaign.^[2] He won the most votes of any council candidate on election day,^[1] giving him the title of council president, despite a controversy late in the campaign when he acknowledged that he had been struggling financially and his home had been foreclosed.^[3]

Pugh, who came out as gay in 2004, is the city's first openly gay elected official.^[3]

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