Okee 2020: The Portal Awakens - Music Fest News

Okee 2020: The Portal Awakens - Music Fest News

Okee 2020: The Portal Awakens - Music Fest News

Posted: 14 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT

Okee 2020: The Portal Awakens

For a while there, we weren't sure where the future of Okeechobee Music Festival was going to land. The team took 2019 off but announced back in August that it would return for  2020. As well, there was an announcement and introduction of the new owners Insomniac. Insomniac is known for throwing Electric Daisy Carnival and Electric Forest.

This morning, Okeechobee announced its 2020 lineup for the March 5-8 event.. Get ready, because it's a doozy! Insomniac did not come to Florida to play around! They're bringing out Rüfüs Du Sol, Vampire Weekend, Mumford & Sons and,O-Yea-yer, Bassnectar. Early in the weekend you can get all your dancing done with Big Gigantic, Nora En Pure, Kaskade, Said The Sky, and more. Then Saturday and Sunday you can get down and sing along with bands like Clairo, Sublime with Rome, Haim, and Blood Orange. Other fest features are San Holo, Alison Wonderland, Flatbush Zombies and Machine Gun Kelly.

Tickets for Okeechobee will go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday, October 18, at okeechobeefest.com.

Chhath festival celebrations begin with religious fervour in Bihar - indiablooms

Posted: 31 Oct 2019 03:14 AM PDT

Patna/UNI: Lakhs of devotees took holy dip in various rivers, including the most sacred Ganges, ponds and reservoirs across Bihar as the festival of Chhath, known for its austerity and piousness, began today.

On the first day of the festival known as 'Nahai Khai', devotees after taking a dip in various rivers, ponds and reservoirs carried water to their houses for preparing offerings. They cleaned houses and surroundings to create a pious atmosphere for the festival.

Devotees will once again take a holy dip in various rivers, ponds and reservoirs on the second day of the four-day Chhath festival, known as 'Kharna or Lauhanda' before cooking special food (Prasad) for the worship of Sun God in the evening. 

After the worship of Sun God, offerings of kheer (rice delicacy), 'puris' and bananas will be distributed among family members and friends.

Devotees or 'vratis' will keep a day-long fast for the occasion but more strenuous 36-hour fast would begin after they would eat second day evening Prasad. 

They would spend the third day of the festival in preparing the 'prasad' including traditional offering 'Thekua' and would also offer 'Arghya' (offerings) to setting sun on the banks of various rivers and other water bodies.

On the final day of the four-day Chhath festival, known as 'Paran', devotees will offer 'Arghya' to the rising sun, making it sure that they repeat their religious chores at the same place where they performed evening 'Araghya'.

The festival concludes with breaking of the fast by devotee or "vratis".  Relatives and friends visit houses of the devotees to receive 'prasad'.

Enter the Garden Portal, and More Music News and Gossip - Flagpole Magazine

Posted: 09 Oct 2019 12:00 AM PDT

HEY, PSST: Michael Potter (The Electric Nature, Null Zone), the hardest-working man in Athens' experimental scene, has been booking shows like crazy. And even though it'll be a gol' darned miracle if you pick this paper up and get this bit of news before this first one goes down, I'd still be remiss in my duties if I didn't attempt to inform you. On Tuesday, Oct. 8, he's got Chosen Evil (a project by Michael Lauden of Scab Queen), Flesh Narc (Denton, TX), Frank Hurricane and psych/noise group Mystery!. This all happens at Flicker Theatre and Bar with doors at 9 p.m. and music at 10. Since chances are very good the above show has happened before you see this, just be sure to look into Potter's ongoing Monday night series promoting his Garden Portal label and associated artists. The next one happens Monday, Oct. 14 at Go Bar and features Thom Strickland, Andrew Mansberger, Atlanta artist Lebo Jenkins, Madeline Polites and Christopher Without His Liver. For information and sounds, see gardenportal.bandcamp.com. 

BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL: AthFest Educates, the charitable organization behind the annual AthFest music festival, has announced its awarding of $40,590 in grants for 2019. Funds were awarded to the Clarke County School District, as well as the UGA Performing Arts Center, ACC Library and UGA Music Foundation, for various programs, including music education and artist-in-residence efforts. $20,040 went to music and arts programs, $15,000 went to instrument purchases, and $5,500 was awarded to specific teachers for professional development. For more information, see athfesteducates.org. 

OVERDRIVE CITY: One of Athens' favorite prodigal sons will return, at least briefly, Wednesday, Oct. 9. This is the night that musician Garett Hatch (Mother the Car, Nate and the Nightmares) brings his project Ancient Ethel to play at the Caledonia Lounge. Also on the bill are Forbidden Waves, Tom Visions and DJ Pip (Phillip Jagger). Ancient Ethel's self-titled EP just came out late last week, and the duo (Hatch plus drummer Missy Lawrence) blasts through the five tracks like they stole them. Utterly tuneful yet still rockingly nasty, garage-punk joy is this thing's calling card. Visit facebook.com/ancientethel, and get in on the ground floor.

THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVED: Jazz and pop standards vocalist Marty Winkler just released her first single in four years. It's a cover of Irving Berlin's "What'll I'll Do?", and the emotionally bare song features, at least here, an appropriately bare arrangement. It features only Winkler on vocals and Michael C. Steele on bass. It's a gently heart-aching tune of longing and wishfulness, and Winkler says she intends to include it on a 2020 full album release. It's only available digitally, so give it a spin at store.cdbaby.com/artist/MartyWinkler. 

IF YOU'RE GONNA PLAY IN GEORGIA…: The North Georgia Folk Festival happens Saturday, Oct. 12 at Sandy Creek Park from 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Now in its 35th year, the festival never fails to bring a big day of entertainment and education in folk styles. This year's event features The Skillet Lickers, Caroline Aiken Band, Jonathan Byrd and the Pickup Cowboys, The Moonshine, Grupo C21, Rebecca Sunshine Band, Eliot Bronson, Adam Klein, Crooked Mile, Joe Leone Band, Nina Ricci and Oh Jeremiah. There are lots of artist booths and displays of traditional folk arts all day long, too. Attendees are welcome to bring blankets to sit on and instruments to participate in the open jam covered area. For tickets and information, see facebook.com/NorthGeorgiaFolkFestival and/or athensfolk.org/festival. While we're at it, let's all give a collective thanks for the Athens Folk Music and Dance Society for all the great work they've done through the years promoting the folk arts here in town.

What the Papers Say: Tallinn Transport trip to China and RT attacks - ERR News

Posted: 29 Oct 2019 09:24 AM PDT

Business jolly to China for entire Tallinn Transport board

Head of Tallinn City Transport (TLT) Denis Boroditš went on a business jolly to China with the entire TLT board in September, leaving the organization (2,000 employees) board-less for the week they were away, according to investigative weekly Eesti Ekspress.

Champagne, Cognac, pens and even a €769 chair were among the purchases made in connection with the €11,600 trip which took in the cities of Shenzen and Shengzhou.

The trip was not the first of its kind, the paper said – a previous Moscow sojourn led to several of the delegation staying a few days longer than planned, and Kazakhtsan has also been a destination, despite the fact that the city has not business interests (though a friend of Boroditš, Alexander Kovalev , who is the head of Paldiski North Harbor, does, and plans to build a transit center for the Kazakh state rail company).

TLT also outsources legal services even though it has in-house lawyers, to firms like KPMG Law and Sorainen, with hourly costs being around €150 plus VAT.

Boroditš' monthly take-home pay is €6,500, higher than that of the head of state, the paper reports.

State can barely look after itself during emergencies

Sunday's storm damage caught the attention of daily Postimees, which noted that the aftermath, which left tens of thousands of electricity customers without power, was not the first recent incident of its kind – after a similar outage in Saaremaa in January, the Competition Authority found electricity distributor Elektrilevi guilty of misconduct, something which seems to be forgotten by now, the paper said.

As well as lessons about the poor design of one electricity substation's roof, aspects of the reliance of electricity hit home hard when one rescue truck could not be refueled – since electricity was required to work the fuel pump.

While the national security plan puts an emphasis on maintaining critical services in a national emergency, this means that private citizens would need to look out for themselves, as has been proven with the recent storm, particularly in rural areas – matches, candles, stoves, canned food and the like are something which everyone needs to learn to be able to live with for a few days at a stretch, as the state has proven it struggles to look after itself.

Potatoes rise most in price on year, apples least, and some vegetables see big price changes in one week

Agricultural weekly Maaleht did a food price comparison on Oct. 26 across six of Estonia's principal towns, finding that potatoes had seen the largest year-on-year (y-o-y) increase, of 11 percent, while the price of apples had fallen nearly 20 percent over the same period.

Some big changes could be found in just a week, as well, with imported cucumbers seeing over a 27 percent rise on the previous week, and Estonian tomatoes increasing in price by nearly as much.

While meat products (apart from lamb) did not see a wide regional variation, the same could not be said of butter, a pack of which can cost as much as €11.00 per kilogram in Tallinn central market, compared with €8.75 per kilogram just down the road in Nõmme market and as little as €7.20 in Narva.

Eggs, too, varied in price from a little over a Euro per kilogram in some places to nearly twice that in others, though overall prices had fallen by 4.3 percent on the previous week.

Honey could vary widely in price, from around €7.00 per kilogram in Pärnu to €10.00 per kilogram in Narva and Tartu, and a wide range was found in the cost of Jerusalem artichokes (Maapirnid), no less, which at €6.00 a kilogram were three times the price in Tallinn that they were in Tartu.

Want to rent a garage, to live in?

An interesting if rather unusual "apartment" has been spotted for sale in Tallinn, news portal Geenius reports.

The ad in question, on real estate portal Kinnisvara24, shows a semi-furnished space which on closer inspection is revealed to be an underground garage space.

While it has electricity, water and heating, even the seller concedes it might be more suitable for a storage space or winter storage for a vehicle, rather than a dwelling.

Tenants actually have the right to deposit earned interest

Speaking of real estate, another Geenius article explains what tenants can do in cases where landlords misuse deposits.

The Law of Obligations Act (LOA) provides that the landlord must deposit the tenant's deposit in a separate account with at least the local average interest rate, with this interest increasing the deposit and being due to the tenant.

Very few landlords actually follow this rule, however, Geenius said, and most have not even heard of it, with very few tenants ever laying claim to the interest.

However, if the lease on a property does not state that the deposit is so held, this does not invalidate the lease, though it does not preclude the tenant from the right to claim the interest under the LOA.

If a tenant wishes to renegotiate the lease to take advantage of the law which grants their right to the interest, they can propose this, with the understanding that it runs the risk of some bad feeling and possible termination of the lease

RT in German calls Estonians fascists, nazis etc.

Finally, volunteer Defence League (Kaitseliit)-staffed anti-misinformation blog Propastop has found its own people's initiative, a gathering of signatures via the (Citizen Initiative Portal) aimed at petitioning Parliament to regulate the activities of hostile propaganda channels in Estonia, being attacked by the German-language edition of Kremlin-controlled media channel RT, formerly Russia Today (links in English).

The article says the initiative is one of many right-wing or nationalistic attempts at rabble rousing, replete with exhortations to violence, promotion of fascism and Nazism, Russophobia etc., which it rams home with a photo of the Lihula statue (commemorating Estonians who fought against Soviet forces in World War Two).

The story is further spiced up with accusations of Estonia making violence and Russophobia heroic acts, and promoting fascism and Nazism.

The piece is in fact a German updated version of a Baltnews article from mid-September which focused on what it called failed attempts to block Russian media by collecting signatures (ie. the Propastop People's initiative).

Investigative journalist group Re:Baltica reported in 2017 that Baltnews online portals operating in the Baltic states are run by the Russian state via a corporate scheme.

Propastop notes that both pieces however do not address or refute its claim that Sputnik Eesti and Baltnews are part of the RT network and distribute anti-Estonian messages.

It is noteworthy that both the RT story and the Baltnews article report but do not refute Propastop's view that Sputnik Eesti and Baltnews belong to the Russia Today network and distribute anti-Estonian messages.

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