Middlesex Middle School has a thing for Darién. The tiny Panamanian province has received more than $30,000 in aid for school improvements in Nicanor, Darién, thanks to donations by the Darien to Darién program. To keep the giving ball rolling, Middlesex will host Variety Show 5 on Thursday, May 5, to raise money for the Pueblo Nuevo School of Darién. Continue reading
A slice of “Beverly Hills 90210” came through Darien Tuesday, when actor Ian Ziering stopped by the Spree clothing store on the Post Road to promote a skin care product. Ziering played the brash rich kid Steve Sanders in the hit 1990s television series, arguably his most well known artistic effort. Crowds of women piled into the Post Road shop to catch a glimpse of Ziering and see why he was in town. Cameras flashed while local ladies posed with the star, and visitors were hard-pressed not to associate him with his long gone “90210” character, like a close friend who had grown apart from his hometown clique. Continue reading
Middle schooler Christopher Jessup learned to sing before he learned to speak. As a baby, his parents remember him humming in his crib, perhaps recalling a classic jazz tune from the home stereo. “I like to sing,” Chris said, pausing from rehearsals for the Middlesex Middle School variety show last spring. “I like to sing a lot.” Continue reading
Anti-aircraft shells explode in black puffs around George Walsh as he flies his Helldiver around the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in February of 1945. Below him, thousands of U.S. Marines disembark from landing crafts to face an enemy 18,000-strong in a campaign to capture this strategic location from Japanese forces. Continue reading
Holy bucket of bat-bolts, it’s the Batmobile! A downtown Darien service station drew crowds late last week as it revitalized a 1966 Batmobile — a replica of the speedsters built for the famous “Batman” television series of the same decade. Continue reading
By Patricia Gay and David DesRoches
A new effort to battle Lyme disease in Weston could help to reduce the number of tick-borne illnesses in the area, but critics worry that the proposed pesticide could damage the environment. Continue reading
All instruments played, programmed, recorded and mixed by me. If you’d like to use any of them for a commercial purpose, such as for a film, please contact me here. Enjoy!
Feeding After Midnight: My favorite song so far, though it remains a work in progress. Some Tool and Mogwai influences here.
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Golosa: This song was mostly recorded in Ethiopia using an old Mac PowerBook as the mic, hence the high frequency ring. Reminiscent of Stone Temple Pilots or Soundgarden.
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Warm Rain: Recorded in Ethiopia using the Mac’s mic, this song came to me strangely as I was staying with a music teacher, Chris Cameron, who taught at the American school in Addis Ababa.
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This Sorrow Will Die on the Morrow: A merging of electronica and a finger-picked guitar riff. Starting off almost Portishead-like, it eventually slows down before kicking into a breakbeat a la Aphex Twin.
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Harlem Jazz Night: Hip hop. Please feel free to laugh at my terrible singing on the chorus. I always do.
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Holy Shiite: Pretty straightforward ska-punk, with a little rockabilly and a splash of carnival fun.
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Pop Tards: Written and recorded in Ethiopia, it reminds me of a mix between Dave Matthews and some kinds chicken-picken’ country tune.
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Stolen Eyes: Reggae. The singing could be better…
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Telekinetic Hydrotherapy: Another favorite. It came to me soon after one of my best friends visited me, after his girlfriend was killed in a tragic accident. I almost want to add some free verse to the beginning, which is a bit slow moving. The middle to the end is my favorite (it takes off at 2:15)… it takes me on a journey every time. It’s Smashing Pumpkins-esque, with a hint of Clutch and Mono.
Franklin Brice spent his adult life working among cancer patients at the Medical College of Virginia. Soon after retirement, he began his own battle with the debilitating disease. Continue reading
In the wake of much controversy, Nutri-Blend’s permit application to apply biosolids on 1,555 acres in Goochland was approved by the State Water Control Board on Oct. 26. Continue reading
New textbooks are history
Goochland County Public Schools will suffer a $1.9 to 2.5 million reduction from county funds for its 2010 budget, according to Dr. Linda Underwood, superintendent of schools. Continue reading
David DesRoches 