Jesse Lewis always looked forward to the holidays, his dad says, no matter the occasion.
“Easter or Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, he just loved the holidays, one as much as the other” says Neil Heslin of his son. “But what makes this holiday season, Christmas, Thanksgiving to the New Year, harder is that’s when the tragedy occurred.”
It has been five years since Jesse, 6, was slaughtered with 25 others — including 19 other children — in a gunman’s rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
The time since the massacre has been an odd thing for Heslin, with at once...
“Easter or Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, he just loved the holidays, one as much as the other” says Neil Heslin of his son. “But what makes this holiday season, Christmas, Thanksgiving to the New Year, harder is that’s when the tragedy occurred.”
It has been five years since Jesse, 6, was slaughtered with 25 others — including 19 other children — in a gunman’s rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
The time since the massacre has been an odd thing for Heslin, with at once...
- 12/15/2017
- by KC Baker and Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
It has been four years since a gunman walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and opened fire, killing 20 first-graders and six educators before turning the gun on himself.
The Sandy Hook school massacre — its violence and wrenching loss, its heartbreak — still looms large for the survivors, whose lives were irreparably changed.
But their lives did not stop. In the years since the shooting, the survivors have continued on: raising children, giving back and thinking, sometimes, of the future.
On the yearly anniversary of the shooting, on Wednesday, People spoke with three parents whose children were killed at Sandy Hook.
The Sandy Hook school massacre — its violence and wrenching loss, its heartbreak — still looms large for the survivors, whose lives were irreparably changed.
But their lives did not stop. In the years since the shooting, the survivors have continued on: raising children, giving back and thinking, sometimes, of the future.
On the yearly anniversary of the shooting, on Wednesday, People spoke with three parents whose children were killed at Sandy Hook.
- 12/14/2016
- by kcbakerpeoplemag
- PEOPLE.com
Lou Reed: The RCA & Arista Album Collection (Sony Legacy)
In a nutshell: If you are a Lou Reed fan, you should get this seventeen-cd box set regardless of how much of its contents you already own. Everything has been remastered; I compared the sound on six albums I have earlier CDs of (I did not compare the new CDs to my old vinyl, as that's apples and oranges), and on five the sound is greatly improved, more focused and with greater clarity; The Bells in particular has its murky sound fixed but retains its darkness. The exception is Take No Prisoners; it may be, given the circumstances under which this concert was recorded, that there wasn't much to work with there, but the sound is just as good as before. Throw in a very nice book -- not booklet; this thing's hardbound and roughly 11"x12" -- with co-producer Hal Willner's reminiscences,...
In a nutshell: If you are a Lou Reed fan, you should get this seventeen-cd box set regardless of how much of its contents you already own. Everything has been remastered; I compared the sound on six albums I have earlier CDs of (I did not compare the new CDs to my old vinyl, as that's apples and oranges), and on five the sound is greatly improved, more focused and with greater clarity; The Bells in particular has its murky sound fixed but retains its darkness. The exception is Take No Prisoners; it may be, given the circumstances under which this concert was recorded, that there wasn't much to work with there, but the sound is just as good as before. Throw in a very nice book -- not booklet; this thing's hardbound and roughly 11"x12" -- with co-producer Hal Willner's reminiscences,...
- 10/26/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
On the chilly Friday morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Neil Heslin walked his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. Heslin watched as the first grader ambled down the hallway, carrying his trusty Disney Cars backpack - and hoping his class would make gingerbread houses that afternoon. "That was the last time I saw him," Heslin, 55, told People on Friday, looking back almost four years on the day his son died. Just after 9:30 a.m. local time, in what would become one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, authorities say 19-year-old gunman Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook,...
- 7/30/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
On the chilly Friday morning of Dec. 14, 2012, Neil Heslin walked his 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. Heslin watched as the first grader ambled down the hallway, carrying his trusty Disney Cars backpack - and hoping his class would make gingerbread houses that afternoon. "That was the last time I saw him," Heslin, 55, told People on Friday, looking back almost four years on the day his son died. Just after 9:30 a.m. local time, in what would become one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, authorities say 19-year-old gunman Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook,...
- 7/30/2016
- by K.C. Baker, @kcbaker77777
- PEOPLE.com
1. William Parker: For Those Who Are, Still (Aum Fidelity/Centering)
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
- 1/3/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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