#Grant Hutchison

[internatlvelvet]

Clive Bell and his mistress Mary Hutchison (seated), with Duncan Grant and E. M. Forster in the walled garden at Charleston, Firle in Sussex.

1923

[arsenicflame]

or: 11 songs about divorce & 1 song about having a glove kink (while your marriage is falling apart)

(lyric snippets & audios below the cut)

5 Years Into Marriage - Matt Owens & Hannah White

5 years into marriage And it's looking like we're almost done. I love you, I'm just not in love with you any more (no, no, no) Both floated down the aisle, Started taking each other for granted somewhere between- The pulpit and those church doors. Confetti kissed your face, And I trod it right into the floor. We can stick it out another ten years, and we probably will.

Barricade - Stars

I found you on a Saturday, and that was where I lost you You had to finally walk away because of what it cost you Years later on, I saw your face In line to catch the morning train You looked like you'd been softened Like you never really loved the pain

I Don't Want Love - The Antlers

If I leave before you, And I walk out alone, Keep your hands to yourself When you follow me home.

If You Love Me, You Will Lie - Out lines

And shouting through the bathroom door You said that I was keeping score Why can't we accept that there's no more We never say goodbye

It's Beginning To Get To Me - Snow Patrol

I tried to tell you before I left But I was screamin' under my breath You are the only thing that makes sense Just ignore all this present tense

Midnight Love - Girl In Red

I hope that the right time one day arrives So, I'll be willing to let this die Able to look you right in the eyes Say I'm not your consolation prize

Mothers - Daughter

You will grow all you need to grow inside my spine And then take what you need to take, what's yours is mine And then just give all you want of it to some new thing I'll stay here, the provider of that constant sting they call love

Nothing New - Rio Romeo

So, won't you please spare me indignity? And won't you please give me some decency? And won't you please call it if our time is through? 'Cause I know that we fall apart when nothing's new

Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise - The Mountain Goats

Making contact gets harder As the silence grows longer Why would you think of me? When you were not the one in love When you were not the dreamer When you were just the dream I'm under no illusion As to what I meant to you But you made an impression And sometimes I still feel the bruise

Splinter - Scott Hutchison & James Graham

‘Cause I always took the cutting, And you only missed my heart Although it amounts to nothing, The nothing’s left it’s mark

The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit

Well, I crippled your heart a hundred times And still can't work out why You see, I've got this disease I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life Well, this is how we do things now Yeah, this is how the modern stay scared So I cut out all the good stuff Yeah, I cut off my foot to spite my leg

Wedding Gloves - Frightened Rabbit FT. Aiden Moffat

Do you even remember What we said in the vows? God was watching on Saturday But He is not with us now, with us now

[meebochii]

FE17 English Voice Actors

[spoilers under cut]

Alear (Male): Brandon McInnis

Alear (Female): Laura Stahl

Lumera: Julia McIlvaine

Vander: Jason Vande Brake

Framme: Lisa Reimold

Clanne: Justin Briner

Firene

Alfred: Nick Wolfhard

Boucheron: Joe Hernandez

Etie: Trina Nishimura

Céline: Rachelle Heger

Louis: J. Michael Tatum

Chloé: Elizabeth Simmons

Jean: Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Ève: Megan Hollingshead

Brodia

Diamant: Stephen Fu

Amber: Parker Way

Jade: Katelyn Gault

Alcryst: Micah Solusod

Lapis: Kimberly Woods

Citrinne: Britney Karbowski

Yunaka: Laura Post

Morion: Josh Petersdorf

Elusia

Ivy: Reba Buhr

Zelkov: David Matranga

Kagetsu: Khoi Dao

Hortensia: Amber Connor

Rosado: Brian Timothy Anderson

Goldmary: Maureen Price

Anna: Monica Rial

Hyacinth: Brook Chalmers

Solm

Timerra: Dani Chambers

Merrin: Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela

Panette: Melissa Hutchison

Fogado: Zeno Robinson

Pandreo: Ricco Fajardo

Bunet: Ian Sinclair

Seadall: Griffin Puatu

Seforia: Afi Ekulona

Others

Veyle: Megan Taylor Harvey

Sombron: Erik Braa

Lindon: James Wade

Saphir: Cassie Ewulu

Four Hounds

Zephia: Elizabeth Maxwell 

Griss: Jamison Boaz

Marni: Sarah Williams

Mauvier: Gavin Hammon

Emblems

Marth: Yuri Lowenthal

Celica: Erica Lindbeck

Sigurd: Grant George

Leif: Nicolas Roye

Roy: Ray Chase

Lyn: Wendee Lee

Eirika: Kira Buckland

Ike/Ephraim: Greg Chun

Micaiah: Veronica Taylor

Lucina: Alexis Tipton

Corrin: Marcella Lentz-Pope

Byleth: Zach Aguilar

[notheroic]

Just read the portion of Bodies: Life and Death in Music that dealt with Scott Hutchison and it mentions their appearance on Letterman and like fuck me I stayed up for that airing and can vividly recall it and to know now how bad he was struggling then, it’s so hard.

I know I couldn’t have done anything, as purely a fan of the band (albeit one that the guys were all familiar with, down to their crew) but it makes you wonder why you didn’t notice more at the time. This whole book has made me think these type of things but the section of Scott hits closest to home cause I saw a lot of his struggle up close after (and sometimes before) gigs.

For Grant to say in the book that he thinks he always knew Scott would go the way he did and that he’s actually surprised we got all the years we did makes me hurt even more for Grant and for the band.

This is just a stream of consciousness so sorry but five years down the line I am still coming to terms with the death of my favourite artist. I’m glad I got another tattoo recently for FR and Scott. I’m glad I can listen to his music now. I’m so glad Sam Fender (who I’m a fan of anyway) covered Modern Leper at TRSMT this weekend. Something does carry on but man it still hurts.

[princessamyrose87]

knuckles spin-off series cast

Vector the Crocodile - Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Micheal B. Jordan, Seth rogen

Espio the Chameleon - Daisuke Tsuji, l.j. benet

Charmy Bee - Colleen o'Shaughnessey, Jacob Tremblay

Mighty The Armadillo - Micheal Mando, Micheal B. Jordan, Brady noon

Ray The flying squirrel - Tara Strong, Hudson Meek

Fang The Sniper - John Patrick Lowrie, Hugh Jackman, Karl Urban,

Bean The Dynamite - Aziz Ansari, Steven Ogg

Chief Pachacamac - Danny Trejo Sofía

Tikal the Echidna - Díana Bermudez, Ana de la Reguera, Selene Luna, Sofía Espinosa, Isabela Merced, Salma Hayek, Nisa Gunduz

E-102 Gamma - Corey Burton

Wendy Witchcart - Mia Goth, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Harriet Samson Harris

Battle Kukku XV - Nolan North

Speedy XVI - Maria Bakalova

Dr. Fukurokov - Mark Ivanar

Breezie The Hedgehog - Regina King, Janelle Monáe, Jena Malone, Pollyanna McIntosh

Vanilla The Rabbit - Maggie Robertson

Amy Rose - Kimiko Glenn, Anna kendrick

Big The Cat - Dave Fennoy, Patrick Warburton, Micheal B Jordan, Kevin Chamberlin

Cream the Rabbit - Melissa Hutchison, sabrina glow

Sticks the Badger - Margot Robbie, Paola Lázaro

Gerald Kintobor - Ron Perlman

Maria Kintobor - Mkeena Grace

Commander Abraham Tower - Frank Anthony Grillo

Subject Shadow The Hedgehog (Terios Kintobor) - (Paramount stated they want an A-list celebrity to voice Shadow) Keanu Reeves, Robert Pattinson, Pedro Pascal, Oscar Isaac, Micheal B Jordan

Rouge The Bat - Chloé Hollings, Marion Cotillard, Mélanie Laurent, Camille Cottin, Jordana Lajoie, Scarlett johansson

Tom Wachowski’s father - Bob Odinkirk, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Micheal Keaton, Kurt Russell, John Goodman

Metal Sonic - Ben Schwartz(robotic filter)

E-123 Omega - Micheal B Jordan, Terry Crews, Jon Bernthal

Hazard The Bio-Lizard (Marzanna Kintobor) - Ivana Miličević

Void TrapDark - Jude Law, Dane DeHaan, Gerald Way, Scott Williams, Freddie Highmore,

Lumina Flowlight - Tabitha St. Germain

Blaze’s Mother - Janina Gavankar, Sakina Jaffrey

Blaze The Cat (Indian/British accent) - Priyanka Chopra, Devika Bhise, Varada Sethu, Simone Ashley, Ulka Simone Mohanty, Natasha Chandel

Marine the Raccoon - Sia, Katie Bergin, Bella Heathcote, Isla Lang Fisher, Rylee Alazraqui, Kendal Rae

Blaze’s Rival: Frost The Axotol(example)- Michelle Yeoh, Fala Chen, Antony Starr

Jet’s Father - Matt Ryan, Iwan Rheon

Jet The Hawk - Tony Hawk, Aaron Paul, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dante Basco, Ken Jeong, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jimmy O. Yang

Wave The Swallow - Sarah Margaret Qualley

Storm the Albatross (pacific, Oceania) - Dave Batista, Taylor Wily

Emerl The Gizoid - Augus Imrie, Kendal Rae,

Clutch The Possum - Micheal Rooker, Benjamin Byron Davis, Robert Allen Wiethoff

Tangle The Lemur - Lauren Keke Palmer, Brenda Song

Whisper The Wolf - Stefanie Joosten, Ana de Armas

Mimic The Octopus - Richard Colin Brake

Doctor Starline - Troy Baker, Hugh Grant,

Starline’s Love interest and partner -

Rough and Tumble the Skunks - Will Ferrell and John C. Reily, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key

Surge The Tenrec - Rachel Bloom, AJ Michalka

Kitsunami The Fennec Fox - Michael Cera, Kyle McCarley

Zavok - Christopher Judge, John Cena, Jon Bernthal

Master Zik - Frank Oz, Randall Duk Kim, Dustin Hoffman

Zeena -Mindy Kaling

Zor - Jaeden Martell, Dane DeHaan, Gerald Way

Zazz - Danny Brown,

Zomom - T.J. Miller

Black Doom -

,Keith David https://youtu.be/9LmOwEfPHUo

, Jackie Earle Haley - https://youtu.be/sF8zxctevXc

, Jon Bernthal - https://youtu.be/sDp4AuNen0Y

, Sean Schemmel -

, Ray Porter - https://youtu.be/aR8p4DIpxxE

,Karl Urban - https://youtu.be/ccF3uvpJ96I

Eclipse The Darkling - Norman Reedus

Callisto The Darkling - Carrie-Anne Moss

Dark Oak - Jeremy Irons

Black Narcissus - Angelina Jolie

Pala Bayleaf - John Leguizamo

Yellow Zelkova - Terry Crews

Red Pine - Pat Casey or Josh Miller

Cosmo The Seedrian - Carol Anne Day, Liliana Mumy

Lyric The Ancient(Owl like Longclaw) - Jackie Earle Haley

Johnny Lightfoot - Taron Egerton

Tekno The Canary - Paula Burrows

Porker Lewis - John Boyega, Daniel Radcliffe

Shorty “Shortfuse” The Cybernik - Cillian Murphy, Barry Sloane

Ebony The Cat - Gratiela Brancusi

Sonia The Hedgehog - Kiernan Shipka, Evan Rachel Wood, Isabella Merced, Jena Malone

Manic The Hedgehog - Joe Keery

Sally Acorn - Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman

Antoine D’Coolette - Tomer Capone, Bradley Cooper(hes fluent in French)

Bunnie Rabbot - Alex McKenna

Rotor The “Boomer” Walrus - John Cena

Nicole The Holo-Lynx - Ashly Burch

Lupe The Wolf - Amber Midthunder

Dulcy The Dragon - America Ferrera

Chip - Tom Holland, Freddie Highmore

Professor Dillion Pickle - Ian McKellen

Imperator Ix - Gary Oldman

Shade The Echidna - Lady Gaga

Infinite The Jackal - Kit Harington, Jon Bernthal

Silver The Hedgehog - Steven Yeun

Gold The Tenrec - Simone Ashley

Professor Von Schlemmer - Matthias Schweighöfer

Dr. Negan Robotnik a.k.a Eggman Neo - J.K. Simmons, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Giancarlo Esposito, Bryan Cranston, Pedro Pascal

Dr. Grimer Wormtongue - Ian McShane, Jackie Earle Haley

Chris thorndyke - Graham Verchere

Frost the hobidon - Dakota lotus

Juliet suter - Sydney Scotia

Antia/tania - Cassie glow

Perci - Stephanie lemelin

Preteen bokkun - Brett Gray

Park ranger - Patrick Warburton

Ashe - peyton r. perrine iii

Burst wisp - cherami Leigh

Uncle Charles - David Lengel

Bernadette - Melanie Zanetti

[scotianostra]

The singer songwriter Scott Hutchison was born on November 20th 1981 in Edinburgh.

Some bios give that Scott was born in Edinburgh, some  Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders, I’ve been unable to confirm this, but the fact there is not a Hospital in Selkirk makes me think it was Edinburgh, he was brought in the Borders town.

Scott was the second of Marion and Ron Hutchison’s three sons, he was close to his brothers Neil and Grant, the latter of whom described himself as the “Tasmanian devil” to Scott’s “frightened rabbit”, the nickname his mother gave him due to his shyness. Scott moved the 80 or so miles to Glasgow to study illustration, but was more interested in music than art, he later used his skills to design artwork for Frightened Rabbit’s albums.

His first songs were influenced by the likes of Ryan Adams or other US artists, but when Grant joined him they produced a long tradition of jittery indie-guitar acts who couldn’t have been anything but Scottish.

Frightened Rabbit was born out of the duo, with Scott on vocals and guitar, Grant on drums they were joined by Billy Kennedy (guitar, bass), Andy Monaghan (guitar, keyboards) and Simon Liddell (guitar). From 2004 the band were based in Glasgow.

In an interview in 2014 Scott said that his heritage mattered to him – “I think anthemic-misery-indie is … Scotland’s greatest export,” he remarked in 2014, and he did his bit by singing in his own accent.

Frightened Rabbit’s first studio album was as a trio with Kennedy, Sing the Greys and had little success during his own lifetime, their second album, The Midnight Organ Fight, broke the US but  didn’t set the heather on fire at home. Hutchison’s mercilessly honest lyrics “Vital parts fall from his system and dissolve in Scottish rain,” were seen as some as pure poetry, such was the demand from the US that they toured there more than a dozen times. It must have been gruelling for Hutchison, who was afraid of flying.

Three more albums followed, with attendant promotional and touring obligations; Hutchison also put out under the name of Owl John, and participated, with members of the Editors and Minor Victories, in an “indie supergroup”, called Mastersystem, who released their sole albumin 2018.

“Chloroform the singer who has nothing to say, Stare in wonder as the masses sing along anyway,” Scott Hutchison sang on the Owl John track Songs About Roses….“We don’t need songs about roses, Please sing me something new.” And sing us something new he did.

Scott Hutchison was a troubled man and fought depression during his short life.

I find it difficult at times putting posts together, especially when I can relate to the state of mind Scott must have been in………

On the evening of May 8th 2018 Scott Hutchison posted on Twitter……..

“Be so good to everyone you love. It’s not a given. I’m so annoyed that it’s not. I didn’t live by that standard and it kills me. Please, hug your loved ones”,  he then tweeted “I’m away now. Thanks”

I still well up a bit reading the last of his tortured soul.

Scott was reported missing by Scottish police and the members of Frightened Rabbit on 9th May 2018, Scott’s last tweets are still there for everyone to read…..his account is @Owljohn

Later that day the Police discovered a body at 8:30 p.m. in the Firth of Forth off Port Edgar, South Queensferry, it was identified as the singer later and the band issued a statement.

There are no words to describe the overwhelming sadness and pain that comes with the death of our beloved Scott, but to know he is no longer suffering brings us some comfort. Reading messages of support and hope from those he has helped through his art has helped immensely and we encourage you all to continue doing this. He will be missed by all of us and his absence will always be felt but he leaves a legacy of hope, kindness and colour that will forever be remembered and shared.

— Frightened Rabbit,

In May 2019 the Hutchison family established Tiny Hands a mental health charity named after a lyric from the band’s song Head Rolls Off, in memory of Scott. In July 2019, Atlantic Records released Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit’s The Midnight Organ Fight, an album featuring musician friends and colleagues of the band covering their 2008 album in full. It was supposed to be released in summer 2018 to mark the tenth anniversary of The Midnight Organ Fight, and Scott Hutchison was fully involved in the process and had approved the tracks included. In the run-up to the covers album’s release, the remaining members of the band gave several interviews, stating that “the band does not exist” without Scott.

I’ve chosen  Frightened Rabbit’s  The Woodpile today, it’s a song I can relate to, Scott said of it:

 "'The Woodpile' is about that night you felt utterly out of place, alone, awkward and cornered. All any of us want in those instances is for someone we care about to come and take us away from it all. It's escapist, but also claustrophobic in places. I like the idea of contrasting a big, confident piece of music with lyrics that express uncertainty and vulnerability."

[dankusner]

Halperin Park

SOUTHERN DALLAS Deck park receives $23M, new name

Halperin Foundation boosts project designed to connect communities

The Southern Gateway Park will now be called Halperin Park.

The Dallas Park Board greenlit a $23 million contribution for naming rights from the Halperin Foundation on Thursday.

The original name was a placeholder, and park officials touted the donation as one of the biggest private investments in a southern sector park.

“When I first started working on this project, we faced many people who were skeptical that this project could succeed at all; they said it couldn’t happen in southern Dallas, not including this gift,” said April Allen, president of the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation. Allen said the foundation had raised over $165 million in public and private funds.

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The $23 million, she said, unlocked an additional $7.5 million in grants from private funders for a total impact of over $30 million.

The park is scheduled to be completed by early 2026.

Jim Halperin, president of the Halperin Foundation, also is the co-founder and co-chair of Heritage Auctions.

“This donation, by far the largest single gift in our foundation’s history, is profoundly meaningful to our family and, more importantly, to a part of Dallas that has been overlooked and under-resourced for far too long,” Halperin said in a statement.

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“This donation will serve many purposes. It will use green space to reconnect communities long ago separated by a highway. It will help create a destination park for all of Dallas. And, I hope, it will inspire future generations of Halperins to give back to the city that has given them so much.”

Community feedback

Though Park Board members were ecstatic about the significant donation, it appeared that a communication lapse between the Southern Gateway Public Green Foundation and city officials raised concerns about input from neighboring communities playing a role in the negotiations.

Harrison Blair, Park Board member from District 4, flagged letters he received from community members who said they were unaware of plans to rename the park.

“I think it’d be political malpractice and governance malpractice to thumb my nose at $23 million, but I do think it’s prudent to just take a moment and see: Are there any opportunities for us to actually get any concessions for people who live in the community, who drive by their park every day?” he said.

The southern Dallas representative said he wanted to delay the vote by a week to analyze the contractual terms surrounding the donation and give uncertain neighbors in Oak Cliff a chance to weigh in.

“I still have some hesitations,” Blair said.

The majority of the board approved receiving the contribution.

Blair cast the sole vote against it.

The deck park, which will sit near the Dallas Zoo, is envisioned to stitch the gash formed by Interstate 35E, which cut through the heart of Oak Cliff, bulldozed homes belonging to people of color and disconnected communities from downtown Dallas.

It was the second deck park — after Klyde Warren Park — to be added to the city’s vision of expanding its park system.

Its impact will likely be felt at the Tenth Street Historic District, one of the only remaining intact Freedmen’s Towns in the U.S.

Fundraising for the park’s first phase was completed last year.

Ongoing projects

In April, the park received $25 million from the federal government to complete the second phase of the park from Lancaster Avenue to Marsalis Avenue.

Allen said Thursday the park was intended to heal and reverse the repercussions of decisions made decades ago.

The deck park is one of four ongoing projects to reconnect neighborhoods after highway constructions in the 1950s.

Last week, the City Council voted to approve $42 million for two deck parks — one near Old City Park and the other attached to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

Born in Boston in 1952, Jim Halperin was an endlessly curious child, who grew up watching his father Ed build a successful manufacturing business from scratch.

From the time he was a toddler, Jim admired -- and wanted to someday emulate -- his dad, who often took him to his offices.

Jim loved creating projects and businesses, and would routinely draw other children into his various endeavors, including roadside lemonade stands, neighborhood circuses, astronomy shows, and similar enterprises.

Jim became a comic book dealer and fanzine publisher at ages 11-12 (his 8 comic book fanzines published in 1964 and 1965 still show up for sale on eBay occasionally) and stays in touch with several contributors to those fanzines, including several who later made careers in that field.

As a summer project, Jim formed a part-time rare stamp and coin business in 1968, the same year he received early acceptance to Harvard College.

By his third college semester Jim was enjoying the coin business more than his studies, so at the end of 1971 he took a leave of absence to found New England Rare Coin Galleries (NERCG) and pursue a full-time numismatic career.

In 1975, Jim co-designed protocols for numismatics’ first mainframe computer system, which would help catapult NERCG to the top of the industry.

He also established the first registered rare coin fund (NERCF) in 1975, which raised $375,000, and was successfully liquidated at auction for $2.15 million in 1980, providing its investors a nearly five-fold return after fees and auction commissions in under 5 years.

In 1982, Jim sold part of NERCG to an employee after merging part of that business with his friend and former archrival Steve Ivy’s company to form a 50-50 partnership, renamed Heritage, in Dallas, Texas.

In 1984, Jim designed -- and graded nearly all the submissions for -- the first privately owned collectibles grading service, Numismatic Certification Institute (NCI).

He also wrote a book later re-titled "How to Grade U.S. Coins", which outlined the uncirculated and proof grading standards upon which NGC and PCGS would later be based, and still are today.

Jim and Steve Ivy were also significant early investor-shareholders in both PCGS and NGC and affiliated companies.

Throughout the last three decades of the 20th century, Jim was widely considered the most successful coin dealer in America, far outselling every other numismatic dealer during that period. Many of the top coin dealers of that period began their careers working for -- and/or being financed by – Jim, both at NERCG and later Heritage, some for nearly half a century. Jim still counts these numismatists among his most cherished friends. It’s especially worth noting that Marc Emory started working at NERCG in 1975, founded its European gold buying operations, then became and remains a working partner at Heritage.

Jim is also a well-known futurist, collector of rare comic books, comic book artwork, early 20th-century American art and other collectibles, venture capital, real estate and technology stock investor, and philanthropist. Among numerous other charities, Jim established The Halperin Foundation, a family arts/health/education organization, that he operates with his wife of 40+ years, Gayle Ziaks Halperin.

With Steve Ivy’s buy-in, although not his delight, Jim worked only half-time at Heritage for a year in the mid-1990s while authoring two futurist fiction novels. His first, The Truth Machine, published by Random House in 1996, became an international science fiction bestseller with over a half-million copies sold in multiple languages, and optioned 15 times as a feature film by Warner Brothers, Lionsgate then finally, Revelations Entertainment. Jim's second novel, The First Immortal, published in early 1998 was optioned as a Hallmark Hall of Fame television miniseries. Both remain in print.

Heritage and the collecting field itself benefited greatly when Jim used insights gleaned from his research for -- and marketing of -- those novels to help redesign Heritage’s website, pioneering the use of third-party pricing data on item pages as well as the first free Permanent Auction Archive in the auction business. After launching its new web site in 1998 Heritage quickly became the world’s highest selling numismatic auction house and has remained so every year since. Heritage subsequently hired scores of top experts, expanding into dozens of additional categories including its renowned Comics and Comic Art department, conceived, staffed and still overseen by Jim.

Heritage Auctions (HA.com) is now the most popular auction house online destination in the world. Heritage reported total sales exceeding $1.73 billion in 2023.

Jim still works full-time at Heritage Auctions and has no plans to retire until he can no longer contribute to the company’s goals. He currently donates about one-third of his income, mostly via The Halperin Foundation. Jim plans to eventually donate most of his assets to charity including his remaining Heritage shares.

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Angels of Southern Dallas

Halperin Park will stand for generosity for generations

In business they call them angel investors, but in the world of southern Dallas philanthropy we’ll just call them angels.

This city owes a debt of gratitude to Gayle and Jim Halperin, who stepped forward with an astounding $23 million gift to ensure that what had been known as the Southern Gateway Park becomes another signature of what Dallas can do.

The park is the second major deck park to be built in Dallas.

It stretches over Interstate 35E between north Oak Cliff and the neighborhoods around the Dallas Zoo.

These two parts of our city were ripped apart by the freeway.

The newly named Halperin Park will help stitch a strategic 5 acres back together.

Jim Halperin is the co-founder of Heritage Auctions and president of The Halperin Foundation.

The donation, from the foundation, is the largest ever to a southern Dallas park and among the largest park donations in the city’s history.

Building a park like this one takes years of work.

It requires lasting partnership among government agencies and generous philanthropists like the Halperin family.

Their gift unlocked an additional $7.5 million in donations.

Meanwhile, some $77 million in government funding has flowed into the infrastructure that supports the park that can now bloom above a stretch of interstate that severed neighborhoods.

The hope is that the first phase of the park, more than half of its total 5 acres, will be open in spring or summer of 2026. The

Halperins’ gift also ensures that the entire park can be completed.

These sorts of gifts to a city must be celebrated. This

is a level of generosity that endures for generations, long after all of us are gone.

They are gifts not only for today but for all of those who come after.

This park will change this part of our city for the better.

It will literally bridge a gap that has separated people economically and socially.

And we would be remiss if we didn’t say a good word here about the work of April Allen, president and CEO of the park’s foundation, and a tireless advocate for its success.

She can and should take a bow.

Along with Klyde Warren Park, Halperin Park is set to become another symbol of the things Dallas can accomplish.

It’s a testament to the combined power of our nonprofit, government and business communities when they work together toward a common goal.

We can’t wait for the day when the ribbon is cut and all of us get to enjoy this space together.

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Decorator hangs up brushes | Scottish Construction Now - Information Important Internet - BLOGGER https://www.merchant-business.com/decorator-hangs-up-brushes-scottish-construction-now/?feed_id=136635&_unique_id=669a7bf3b74bd Davie Birrell (centre) with Ewan and Bill BannermanPerth tradesman Davie Birrell has bowed out after clocking up 50 years with family firm Bannerman Decorators.Bill Bannerman, who took him on as an apprentice in 1974, interrupted his 94th birthday celebrations to join son and third generation partner Ewan at the firm’s Dunkeld Road Colour Studio for the send-off.When Davie started out, the obligatory paint-splattered workplace radio was pounding out hits like Abba’s Eurovision classic “Waterloo,” the Bay City Rollers’ “Shang-a-Lang” and the year’s best seller, Mud’s “Tiger Feet.”“It was great to see Bill again. It brought back a lot of great memories,” said Davie (66).“But I reminded him I didn’t start out with Bannerman’s.“One of my pals was a painter and when I was leaving Perth High School, he said it was a good trade to get into.“I decided to give it a go and initially landed an apprenticeship with D. Smith in Princes Street.“How did that go? It was terrible, a nightmare.“Back in those days there were railings stretching from the North Inch and the full length of Tay Street.“I must have painted every one of those railings, and the two bridges. Then it was on to railings for the council in Glenearn Road.“Enough was enough six months in. I was seeing railings in my sleep.“I told Bill what was happening. He said I’d never learn anything just painting railings.“I told Smiths I was leaving to join the navy and got a good reference. A few months later the old boss spotted me in a Bannerman’s van and realised I hadn’t joined up to see the world.“It was a four-year apprenticeship, and it was some team I was working with.“A lot of the tradesmen had come through the war. I was just a daft laddie. If you showed willing you were fine, but they didn’t take any prisoners.“It was a different world. When you were working off scaffolding, health and safety didn’t come into it. You were up three-part ladders using an extension pole and roller.“We were doing up loads of flats in the centre of Perth, pretty much every hotel in Pitlochry, painting shooting lodges and battling midgies up the Perthshire glens. Whitewashing the exterior of Blair Castle was another memorable job.“The craziest one was working in a big house in the Isla Road.“I had a feeling something wasn’t right when I spotted some blood on the staircase wall.“It turned out a Canadian grey goose had flown in and was stuck in an upstairs lounge.“I beat a hasty retreat when the thing came at me. It was angry, and huge. It tried to stick the heid on me.“No mobile phones in those days so I shipped out and used a neighbour’s landline to tell the boss there was a goose loose aboot the hoose.“Jack Hutchison the foreman came to the rescue, flinging a dustsheet over its head and getting it out.“The 50 years have flown by. Bannerman’s have been a grand firm to work for and I was lucky to work with characters I’ll never forget.”Keen Celtic fan Davie earmarked a holiday with wife Kate to mark his retirement.“I’m a member at King James VI so I hope to get in a bit more golf,” he said.“I’ve been a trustee with the Perth City Boys Club Trust for 12 years.“The old Dunkeld Road clubrooms were sold for £90,000 years ago and now we give out grants to help local sports clubs and individuals.“When times are hard the first thing that folk stop are club memberships for their kids so we try to give a helping hand.“The boys’ club was fantastic for supporting youngsters and I remember a squad of us from Bannerman’s going in to do up the clubrooms one winter and they didn’t take a penny. That was some gesture.”Davie is just the second tradesman to mark a half century with Bannerman’s, which celebrated its centenary three years ago and also has a Colour Studio in Dundee.“Davie genuinely is a legend in the local building trade.

Everyone knows him and he’s a fine tradesman,” said Ewan.“Dad set the alarm on his birthday to make sure he joined the team gathering to wish Davie well in his retirement.”Decorator hangs up brushes | Scottish Construction Now #Decorator #hangs #brushes #Scottish #ConstructionSource Link: https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/decorator-hangs-up-brushes http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Decorator-hangs-up-brushes-Scottish-Construction-Now.jpg BLOGGER - #GLOBAL Davie Birrell (centre) with Ewan and Bill Bannerman Perth tradesman Davie Birrell has bowed out after clocking up 50 years with family firm Bannerman Decorators. Bill Bannerman, who took him on as an apprentice in 1974, interrupted his 94th birthday celebrations to join son and third generation partner Ewan at the firm’s Dunkeld Road Colour … Read More

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Decorator hangs up brushes | Scottish Construction Now - Information Important Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/decorator-hangs-up-brushes-scottish-construction-now/?feed_id=136634&_unique_id=669a7adcda5e1 Davie Birrell (cen... BLOGGER - #GLOBAL Davie Birrell (centre) with Ewan and Bill BannermanPerth tradesman Davie Birrell has bowed out after clocking up 50 years with family firm Bannerman Decorators.Bill Bannerman, who took him on as an apprentice in 1974, interrupted his 94th birthday celebrations to join son and third generation partner Ewan at the firm’s Dunkeld Road Colour Studio for the send-off.When Davie started out, the obligatory paint-splattered workplace radio was pounding out hits like Abba’s Eurovision classic “Waterloo,” the Bay City Rollers’ “Shang-a-Lang” and the year’s best seller, Mud’s “Tiger Feet.”“It was great to see Bill again. It brought back a lot of great memories,” said Davie (66).“But I reminded him I didn’t start out with Bannerman’s.“One of my pals was a painter and when I was leaving Perth High School, he said it was a good trade to get into.“I decided to give it a go and initially landed an apprenticeship with D. Smith in Princes Street.“How did that go? It was terrible, a nightmare.“Back in those days there were railings stretching from the North Inch and the full length of Tay Street.“I must have painted every one of those railings, and the two bridges. Then it was on to railings for the council in Glenearn Road.“Enough was enough six months in. I was seeing railings in my sleep.“I told Bill what was happening. He said I’d never learn anything just painting railings.“I told Smiths I was leaving to join the navy and got a good reference. A few months later the old boss spotted me in a Bannerman’s van and realised I hadn’t joined up to see the world.“It was a four-year apprenticeship, and it was some team I was working with.“A lot of the tradesmen had come through the war. I was just a daft laddie. If you showed willing you were fine, but they didn’t take any prisoners.“It was a different world. When you were working off scaffolding, health and safety didn’t come into it. You were up three-part ladders using an extension pole and roller.“We were doing up loads of flats in the centre of Perth, pretty much every hotel in Pitlochry, painting shooting lodges and battling midgies up the Perthshire glens. Whitewashing the exterior of Blair Castle was another memorable job.“The craziest one was working in a big house in the Isla Road.“I had a feeling something wasn’t right when I spotted some blood on the staircase wall.“It turned out a Canadian grey goose had flown in and was stuck in an upstairs lounge.“I beat a hasty retreat when the thing came at me. It was angry, and huge. It tried to stick the heid on me.“No mobile phones in those days so I shipped out and used a neighbour’s landline to tell the boss there was a goose loose aboot the hoose.“Jack Hutchison the foreman came to the rescue, flinging a dustsheet over its head and getting it out.“The 50 years have flown by. Bannerman’s have been a grand firm to work for and I was lucky to work with characters I’ll never forget.”Keen Celtic fan Davie earmarked a holiday with wife Kate to mark his retirement.“I’m a member at King James VI so I hope to get in a bit more golf,” he said.“I’ve been a trustee with the Perth City Boys Club Trust for 12 years.“The old Dunkeld Road clubrooms were sold for £90,000 years ago and now we give out grants to help local sports clubs and individuals.“When times are hard the first thing that folk stop are club memberships for their kids so we try to give a helping hand.“The boys’ club was fantastic for supporting youngsters and I remember a squad of us from Bannerman’s going in to do up the clubrooms one winter and they didn’t take a penny. That was some gesture.”Davie is just the second tradesman to mark a half century with Bannerman’s, which celebrated its centenary three years ago and also has a Colour Studio in Dundee.

“Davie genuinely is a legend in the local building trade. Everyone knows him and he’s a fine tradesman,” said Ewan.“Dad set the alarm on his birthday to make sure he joined the team gathering to wish Davie well in his retirement.”Decorator hangs up brushes | Scottish Construction Now #Decorator #hangs #brushes #Scottish #ConstructionSource Link: https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/decorator-hangs-up-brushes http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Decorator-hangs-up-brushes-Scottish-Construction-Now.jpg #GLOBAL - BLOGGER Davie Birrell (centre) with Ewan and Bill Bannerman Perth tradesman Davie Birrell has bowed out after clocking up 50 years with family firm Bannerman Decorators. Bill Bannerman, who took him on as an apprentice in 1974, interrupted his 94th birthday celebrations to join son and third generation partner Ewan at the firm’s Dunkeld Road Colour … Read More

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Decorator hangs up brushes | Scottish Construction Now - Information Important Internet https://www.merchant-business.com/decorator-hangs-up-brushes-scottish-construction-now/?feed_id=136632&_unique_id=669a7ada6571d #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Davie Birrell (centre) with Ewan and Bill BannermanPerth tradesman Davie Birrell has bowed out after clocking up 50 years with family firm Bannerman Decorators.Bill Bannerman, who took him on as an apprentice in 1974, interrupted his 94th birthday celebrations to join son and third generation partner Ewan at the firm’s Dunkeld Road Colour Studio for the send-off.When Davie started out, the obligatory paint-splattered workplace radio was pounding out hits like Abba’s Eurovision classic “Waterloo,” the Bay City Rollers’ “Shang-a-Lang” and the year’s best seller, Mud’s “Tiger Feet.”“It was great to see Bill again. It brought back a lot of great memories,” said Davie (66).“But I reminded him I didn’t start out with Bannerman’s.“One of my pals was a painter and when I was leaving Perth High School, he said it was a good trade to get into.“I decided to give it a go and initially landed an apprenticeship with D. Smith in Princes Street.“How did that go? It was terrible, a nightmare.“Back in those days there were railings stretching from the North Inch and the full length of Tay Street.“I must have painted every one of those railings, and the two bridges. Then it was on to railings for the council in Glenearn Road.“Enough was enough six months in. I was seeing railings in my sleep.“I told Bill what was happening. He said I’d never learn anything just painting railings.“I told Smiths I was leaving to join the navy and got a good reference. A few months later the old boss spotted me in a Bannerman’s van and realised I hadn’t joined up to see the world.“It was a four-year apprenticeship, and it was some team I was working with.“A lot of the tradesmen had come through the war. I was just a daft laddie. If you showed willing you were fine, but they didn’t take any prisoners.“It was a different world. When you were working off scaffolding, health and safety didn’t come into it. You were up three-part ladders using an extension pole and roller.“We were doing up loads of flats in the centre of Perth, pretty much every hotel in Pitlochry, painting shooting lodges and battling midgies up the Perthshire glens. Whitewashing the exterior of Blair Castle was another memorable job.“The craziest one was working in a big house in the Isla Road.“I had a feeling something wasn’t right when I spotted some blood on the staircase wall.“It turned out a Canadian grey goose had flown in and was stuck in an upstairs lounge.“I beat a hasty retreat when the thing came at me. It was angry, and huge. It tried to stick the heid on me.“No mobile phones in those days so I shipped out and used a neighbour’s landline to tell the boss there was a goose loose aboot the hoose.“Jack Hutchison the foreman came to the rescue, flinging a dustsheet over its head and getting it out.“The 50 years have flown by. Bannerman’s have been a grand firm to work for and I was lucky to work with characters I’ll never forget.”Keen Celtic fan Davie earmarked a holiday with wife Kate to mark his retirement.“I’m a member at King James VI so I hope to get in a bit more golf,” he said.“I’ve been a trustee with the Perth City Boys Club Trust for 12 years.“The old Dunkeld Road clubrooms were sold for £90,000 years ago and now we give out grants to help local sports clubs and individuals.“When times are hard the first thing that folk stop are club memberships for their kids so we try to give a helping hand.“The boys’ club was fantastic for supporting youngsters and I remember a squad of us from Bannerman’s going in to do up the clubrooms one winter and they didn’t take a penny. That was some gesture.”Davie is just the second tradesman to mark a half century with Bannerman’s, which celebrated its centenary three years ago and also has a Colour Studio in Dundee.

“Davie genuinely is a legend in the local building trade. Everyone knows him and he’s a fine tradesman,” said Ewan.“Dad set the alarm on his birthday to make sure he joined the team gathering to wish Davie well in his retirement.”Decorator hangs up brushes | Scottish Construction Now #Decorator #hangs #brushes #Scottish #ConstructionSource Link: https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/decorator-hangs-up-brushes http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Decorator-hangs-up-brushes-Scottish-Construction-Now.jpg Davie Birrell (centre) with Ewan and Bill Bannerman Perth tradesman Davie Birrell has bowed out after clocking up 50 years with family firm Bannerman Decorators. Bill Bannerman, who took him on as an apprentice in 1974, interrupted his 94th birthday celebrations to join son and third generation partner Ewan at the firm’s Dunkeld Road Colour … Read More

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DALLAS CITY COUNCIL Highway deck parks on agenda

Vote coming today on funds to rejoin areas separated by I-30

The Dallas City Council will vote Wednesday to authorize funding for the next phase of deck parks over Interstate 30.

City officials, as per a memo, have identified locations on Lamar Street and near Old City Park from East Ervay Street to Harwood Street to build deck parks like Klyde Warren Park to bridge the gap between downtown Dallas and southern Dallas.

The vote on Wednesday could authorize payments of nearly $42 million from the convention center construction fund to enter a funding agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation for the deck park on Lamar Street and for the city’s portion of building the deck park near Old City Park.

Grants to the tune of $31 million for the Old City Park deck cap will also come from the federal government.

The money will be used to place caps and abutments over segments of the highway to build deck parks.

“The deck cap is intended to reconnect communities that were separated years ago by the construction of the original freeway, including the Dallas Downtown Historic District, the Dallas Farmers Market, the Cedars Area, Dallas Heritage Park, and several other residential and commercial areas in South and Southern Dallas,” according to the memo related to the deck cap over Lamar Street.

The memo was published on Friday ahead of this week’s council vote.

Around the city, more than $3 billion has been earmarked for similar projects through programs backed by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

Earlier this year, reunification projects received $80 million in federal grants that would flow into the proposed deck parks as well as plans to extend Klyde Warren Park and Southern Gateway Park in Oak Cliff.

The two parks are part of a bigger growth story.

For years, city officials and planners have been vying to revitalize the area around City Hall and the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

The lots behind City Hall will give way to a residential and commercial district that will spur economic growth in what has been a rather sleepy part of the city center, according to the city’s vision. Council members recently approved the sale of the old Family Gateway Building on 711 S. St. Paul St.

Council member Jesse Moreno, who represents the area, said the property is in an area immersed in plans for a high-rise building with office and retail space.

On Wednesday, council members will also weigh in on funding a $141.5 million contract with Perkins&Will, a design firm, to jump-start architectural designs for the first component of the convention center’s master plan that will extend the center’s footprint west of Lamar Street.

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Harold Hutchison Daily Caller News Foundation Special counsel Jack Smith argued against former President Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity in his federal election interference case in a brief filed Saturday with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Dec. 22, the...

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“Bo-Kaap,” by Grant Hutchison

Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Get Out by Frightened Rabbit from the album Painting of a Panic Attack - Director: Greg Davenport