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HOUSTON’S ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NEWSWEEKLY VOL 1, ED 30 | AUGUST 6 - 19, 2015 | FREE PUBLIC NEWS Pwww.publicnewsonline.comN THE WAY OF COFFEE DRINKING IN ART ON A SUNNY DAY by Rosanne Friedman NEWS THEATRE FILM MUSIC DINING ART HUMOR POP CULTURE FRAME BY FRAME NICK’S LOCAL EATS RELIC REVIEW M:I ROGUE NATION REVIEWED page 28 HI-SNACKS, HUNGRY?page 24 MCCARTNEY REISSUES page 22 who’s better who’s best got votes? 2015 PUBLIC NEWS READERS CHOICE FOR FOOD & DRINK NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! IF YOU ARE NOT A SUBSCRIBER, YOU ARE MISSING OUT. http://www.publicnewsonline.com/subscribe 2 AUGUST 6 - 19, 2015 PUBLIC NEWS CONTENTS AUGUST 6 - 19, 2015 LETTER RIP / NO EXIT 4 NEWS BRIEFS 5 EVENT CALENDAR 8 ASK JODY 10 LEGAL EASE 12 FIT BODY 13 TO THE REPUBLIC 14 ART TALK / COVER STORY 16 LIVE MUSIC GUIDE 20 RELIC REVIEW 22 MUSIC NEWS & NOTES 23 CRAMPTON’S MUSIC CIRCLE 23 NICK’S LOCAL EATS 24 PUBLIC NEWS DINING GUIDE 27 FRAME BY FRAME 28 NEW FILM 29 CURRENT FILMS 30 BACKPAGE CLASSIFIEDS 32 95% of PUBLIC NEWS readers REAL WORLD ONLINE dine out at least 3 times a week John Smith John Smith • Expert on autism • SEC Investigation • Loving father and husband • Angry Customers • Award winning philanthropist • Poor Ratings What do you want them to know? 832-298-5246 HOW DOES THE INTERNET SEE YOU? Public News Ads Work! CALL FOR FREE ASSESSMENT 800.767.0954 • Suppress misleading or inaccurate search results • Protect yourself or your business from online attacks • Increase your online credibility and authority PUBLIC NEWS AUGUST 6 - 19, 2015 3 LETTER RIP THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH & THE LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT COMMUNITY There is a good feeling that hits you when for the access. Big corporations do not play in The following restaurants have volunteered Kerry Stessel, Mary Jo Clements and Nora you realize that you are part of a commu- community. Big corporations will bully and to help them in one way or another get back Slaughter. nity. I’ll qualify this statement because there squash any perceivable threat to their income to business and on their feet. Lawrence Fog- The one thing that I can take away from this are those who are in a stream. I’ve seen in happen. Granted there are arty of Mainstreet America cooking school is the associations that can be forged between “community” but are not a few of the big boys that play nice and do a and restaurant will be letting them use their like members of this group. These folks come active participants. There great job at being a strong part of community. kitchen for prep for the Rustica Italian truck. from all walks of life: different religions, are communities such But it’s the biggest of those boys that give the Hasta la Pasta Italian Grill in Champions, political persuasions, business experiences, as Toastmasters where rest a bad name. PH2, and Marsalas Italian Grill have done education, race or even gender identifications. everyone is there to learn Sometimes a person does what he/she does the same. What mattered was when one of us fell, we from everyone else. It’s for the community with little or no recogni- The following restaurants and owners didn’t leave them alone. We chose instead to an active involvement tion, until they are truly needed by the com- have also volunteered their help Phil Nicosia wrap the community around them in any way for all, or why would munity. It is always better to be ready and not of Pallotta’s Italian Grill, Debbie Taggart possible in order to help them in any way pos- anyone want to join. You needed than to not be ready and needed. I am Gainor and Paul of Pizza Zone, Fermin sible. You won’t see this happen with McDa- can attend a Toastmaster so proud at the folks that I have met over the Figueroa and Lucy of Incanto Italian Cafe, vids or Paulmart (faked identities to shield the Ken Petty meeting and just sit back last few months as the Public News went from Pamela Graham of Le’ Pams House of uncommunity-minded big boys among us). passively and soak in PN #3, our first digital issue, to PN #30, the Creole, Nytassja LaGorgeous Palacios of Hi You will see this with all those folks men- speaker after speaker. The power of belonging very issue you are reading now. I’m proud of Snacks, Ken Petty of Public News, Donelly’s tioned in the note from Nick Rama, and I’m in a community, whichever one you chose, is them because when a fallen competitor needed Pizza, David Posadas of Taco Crave, Wade sure that there were more that got involved. getting involved and staying active. help, they were there to lend a hand. Elkins of Euromid, Rhonda Holst Redmon They just didn’t get the recognition or the There are communities such as church Spring Foodie Admin and Public News of GenuWine Tasting Room RC Gallegos of kudos. That’s the beauty of community. Com- groups that assume no passivity among its Food Editor, Nick Rama, became the natural RC’S NYC Pizza and Pasta in The Wood- munity will help someone because someday, members. Same ethos exists in the community spokesperson regarding the issue concerning lands, H-town StrEATs presents Luv Me somehow, that help may be needed them- of first responders. Can you imagine the out- the travesty that befell Matt Vernon and staff Tenders - Jason Hill, Nathan Chang of Oh selves. Regardless, tragedies are what bind a rage sparked if a fallen first responder is left of the Lasagna House III in Spring. Rama My Gogi! BBQ /Paradise Gogi, 5 Ate Cafe community together, stronger and in ways that with no fellow responder coming to his/her wrote, in essence: - Charlie Williams, Wendy Bryan Irizarry of no one would have predicted or known if it aid? Can you imagine the same scenario with Lasagna House’s owners Matt Vernon and Plato’s Closet in The Woodlands and Susan were not for the tragedy itself. a military troop member being left behind? Mary A. Spessato along with Chef Barbara Ocampo have offered Lasagna House’s dis- As for the Lasagna House III, they might In the business world, that ethos is aban- Coglianese, Chef Timothy Elon Ogden and placed employee’s jobs. Foodies admins have be down for a while, but not out. They will doned for the love of money, or for the want crew have been overwhelmed with the love, volunteered to help however they can; Nick be back, better and stronger than ever. It’s of money. Big corporations buy politicians support and prayers from both The Spring Rama, Jamie Alvear, Keri Ford, Erik Cofield, because they have community and we have who will ‘deliver the goods’ for those that pay and Woodlands Foodie groups on Facebook. Matt Bessey, Allison Peters, Becky Grohman, them. 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