Cubensis is a Grateful Dead tribute band, formed in 1987 and based in Los Angeles.
History
Cubensis was founded in 1987 by guitarist Craig Marshall. The first Cubensis rehearsal was December 30, 1987 in Redondo Beach, CA. Cubensis played a wedding reception May 1988, and the first actual paid gig was July 27, 1988 at Club Dead in the San Fernando Valley.
Critical review
According to LA Weekly "Cubensis plays with the same laid-back mastery as the real McCoy." Big Brother skateboard magazine says Cubensis is "the nation’s premiere Dead tribute" and the OC Weekly declared them "the hottest Grateful Dead tribute act going." OC Register affirmed Cubensis was "the best place to channel Jerry Garcia" and AOL Citybeat stated, “Cubensis is renown for whipping its faithful crowd into a swirling, psychedelic mass for three hours straight.” LA Times observed, “As the tribute to one of the ultimate jam bands, their set lists are as free and frollicky as the crowd.”
The band performed their 2000th show during the 2005 summer tour.
Grateful Dead members, such as keyboardists Vince Welnick and Tom Constanten, have appeared on stage and performed with Cubensis. Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir praised the band, saying, “Just love what you do...and of course, you do!”
Cubensis has performed in benefit shows with the Rex Foundation, a charitable organization; money raised at the benefit concerts provides grants to area community groups and non-profits.
Members
*Craig Marshall - lead guitar
*Nate LaPointe - rhythm guitar, vocals.
*Larry Ryan - bass
*Tom Ryan - keyboards, vocals
*Steve Harris - drums, percussion, vocals
*Ed Fletcher - drums, percussion
*Cece Sherman - vocals
History
Cubensis was founded in 1987 by guitarist Craig Marshall. The first Cubensis rehearsal was December 30, 1987 in Redondo Beach, CA. Cubensis played a wedding reception May 1988, and the first actual paid gig was July 27, 1988 at Club Dead in the San Fernando Valley.
Critical review
According to LA Weekly "Cubensis plays with the same laid-back mastery as the real McCoy." Big Brother skateboard magazine says Cubensis is "the nation’s premiere Dead tribute" and the OC Weekly declared them "the hottest Grateful Dead tribute act going." OC Register affirmed Cubensis was "the best place to channel Jerry Garcia" and AOL Citybeat stated, “Cubensis is renown for whipping its faithful crowd into a swirling, psychedelic mass for three hours straight.” LA Times observed, “As the tribute to one of the ultimate jam bands, their set lists are as free and frollicky as the crowd.”
The band performed their 2000th show during the 2005 summer tour.
Grateful Dead members, such as keyboardists Vince Welnick and Tom Constanten, have appeared on stage and performed with Cubensis. Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir praised the band, saying, “Just love what you do...and of course, you do!”
Cubensis has performed in benefit shows with the Rex Foundation, a charitable organization; money raised at the benefit concerts provides grants to area community groups and non-profits.
Members
*Craig Marshall - lead guitar
*Nate LaPointe - rhythm guitar, vocals.
*Larry Ryan - bass
*Tom Ryan - keyboards, vocals
*Steve Harris - drums, percussion, vocals
*Ed Fletcher - drums, percussion
*Cece Sherman - vocals
StoneNotes is a commercial Windows personal wiki system. StoneNote's core concept is an intuitive linking interface: simply double click any word to create a new note with that title and link to it. This requires the use of CamelCase, as is the case in many wiki packages.
Technology
StoneNotes uses SQLite as its database engine, allowing it to use a single file database to contain all content for a NoteStore. This also allows third parties to write extension software to edit the NoteStore database at a low level. Upcoming versions will have additional developer support making low level access unnecessary, but it is always available.
Features
* OLE support for embedding files and images
* Namespace organization
* Tags
* Spell checker
* Backlink-like search - called "What links here?" in StoneNotes
* Tree based visualizer to view namespaces
* Plugin system
* Ability to launch multiple copies of StoneNotes with different databases (command line switch)
* Database files have explorer association to open them by double clicking
Technology
StoneNotes uses SQLite as its database engine, allowing it to use a single file database to contain all content for a NoteStore. This also allows third parties to write extension software to edit the NoteStore database at a low level. Upcoming versions will have additional developer support making low level access unnecessary, but it is always available.
Features
* OLE support for embedding files and images
* Namespace organization
* Tags
* Spell checker
* Backlink-like search - called "What links here?" in StoneNotes
* Tree based visualizer to view namespaces
* Plugin system
* Ability to launch multiple copies of StoneNotes with different databases (command line switch)
* Database files have explorer association to open them by double clicking
Harold von Kursk (born 5 September 1960, in Berlin, Germany) is a Canadian film director and journalist.
Early life
Born into a German military family, he was raised in Canada after his family emigrated from Germany, first arriving in Edmonton, Alberta, before settling in Montreal, Quebec. He spent summers as a child living with his uncle Georg on a vineyard in Argentina. He would go on to attend McGill University, Yale University, and the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television.
Career
Following his film studies, he directed TV commercials before working as a film critic at the Montreal Daily News (1987-89). He then moved to Paris where he worked as a celebrity journalist (Entrevue) and screenwriter prior to directing his first feature In the Midnight Hour in 1994. He subsequently directed Panic (director’s cut) in 1996 in Montreal, Canada before leaving the project after the production company went bankrupt. He then settled in Munich, Germany where he founded Vertigo Films under whose imprimatur he produced and directed several TV-movies. In 2001, he directed Nuits d'amour in Paris.
In 2004, he was working on Garbo, an international co-production on the life of Greta Garbo when the German co-producer filed for bankruptcy and the financing collapsed.
Kursk recently established offices in Rome, Italy to begin pre-production work on Lara's Home, based on his screenplay and which he is slated to begin directing in April, 2010. The film is a France-Italy co-production. Also preparing German TV-mini-series Vintage Affair.
Personal life
Kursk is the direct descendant of the founders of Kursk city in Russia. He is the father to three children, Adrian, Olivier, and Alix. He has never married. He dated Judith Godreche and Eva Herzigova in 1990s. Kursk considers Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, and Krzysztof Kieslowski his greatest influences: "They are the Gods of cinema."
Early life
Born into a German military family, he was raised in Canada after his family emigrated from Germany, first arriving in Edmonton, Alberta, before settling in Montreal, Quebec. He spent summers as a child living with his uncle Georg on a vineyard in Argentina. He would go on to attend McGill University, Yale University, and the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television.
Career
Following his film studies, he directed TV commercials before working as a film critic at the Montreal Daily News (1987-89). He then moved to Paris where he worked as a celebrity journalist (Entrevue) and screenwriter prior to directing his first feature In the Midnight Hour in 1994. He subsequently directed Panic (director’s cut) in 1996 in Montreal, Canada before leaving the project after the production company went bankrupt. He then settled in Munich, Germany where he founded Vertigo Films under whose imprimatur he produced and directed several TV-movies. In 2001, he directed Nuits d'amour in Paris.
In 2004, he was working on Garbo, an international co-production on the life of Greta Garbo when the German co-producer filed for bankruptcy and the financing collapsed.
Kursk recently established offices in Rome, Italy to begin pre-production work on Lara's Home, based on his screenplay and which he is slated to begin directing in April, 2010. The film is a France-Italy co-production. Also preparing German TV-mini-series Vintage Affair.
Personal life
Kursk is the direct descendant of the founders of Kursk city in Russia. He is the father to three children, Adrian, Olivier, and Alix. He has never married. He dated Judith Godreche and Eva Herzigova in 1990s. Kursk considers Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, and Krzysztof Kieslowski his greatest influences: "They are the Gods of cinema."
Cud Eastbound is a Canadian singer-songwriter born on November 20, 1986, originally from Quebec, but now based out of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Cud plays guitar and banjo, and plays a bland of folk, punk, and pop.
Biography
Raised in and around Montreal, Cud started playing the guitar in his teens, and along with his childhood friends in Chateauguay, QC formed the punk band When I Fall . Some time later, their tight-knit group of friends started a punk house in Point-St.-Charles, Montreal (LBH) and changed their band name to "At Worst".
Simultaneously, Cud was also writing his own, solo music under the name "Start Today". More pop and folk oriented acoustic punk, he put out his first CD entitled "Cudey and the Disaster Squad" in 2006, while still living in Chateauguay, and recorded and released his second album "Space Tribe" shortly after in 2007 (Space Tribe also includes Cudey and the Disaster Squad as a hidden track).
It was around that time (fall of 2007) that Cud moved into the city, and set it in his mind to travel to Australia and hitch-hike around the continent for the winter. During that time, Cud played for many, and distributed 50 or so copies across the continent on his adventures.
In the spring of 2008 Cud recorded his third album, entitled "I'm Happy that You're Happy that", and hitch-hiked across the country that summer with his guitar, giving out copies of his music. In fall of the same year, the album was released on tape by Montreal label "Where's That Deerhead?"
Winter of 2008 found Cud 1200kms away, living on Prince Edward Island. That March, after having added banjo to his roster of instruments, Cud recorded and released his fourth album, a self-titled album under a new name, Cud Eastbound, and left shortly thereafter (June) for a long East Coast Tour of the States and Canada.
Currently working on a new album, Cud is also planning an extensive tour of the Southern and Coastal US, as well as all of Canada, in the works for spring of 2010.
Discography
Releases:
Cud Eastbound s/t (2009)
I'm Happy that You're Happy that (CD and Tape) (2008) Space Tribe (2007)
Cudey and Disaster Squad (2006)
Biography
Raised in and around Montreal, Cud started playing the guitar in his teens, and along with his childhood friends in Chateauguay, QC formed the punk band When I Fall . Some time later, their tight-knit group of friends started a punk house in Point-St.-Charles, Montreal (LBH) and changed their band name to "At Worst".
Simultaneously, Cud was also writing his own, solo music under the name "Start Today". More pop and folk oriented acoustic punk, he put out his first CD entitled "Cudey and the Disaster Squad" in 2006, while still living in Chateauguay, and recorded and released his second album "Space Tribe" shortly after in 2007 (Space Tribe also includes Cudey and the Disaster Squad as a hidden track).
It was around that time (fall of 2007) that Cud moved into the city, and set it in his mind to travel to Australia and hitch-hike around the continent for the winter. During that time, Cud played for many, and distributed 50 or so copies across the continent on his adventures.
In the spring of 2008 Cud recorded his third album, entitled "I'm Happy that You're Happy that", and hitch-hiked across the country that summer with his guitar, giving out copies of his music. In fall of the same year, the album was released on tape by Montreal label "Where's That Deerhead?"
Winter of 2008 found Cud 1200kms away, living on Prince Edward Island. That March, after having added banjo to his roster of instruments, Cud recorded and released his fourth album, a self-titled album under a new name, Cud Eastbound, and left shortly thereafter (June) for a long East Coast Tour of the States and Canada.
Currently working on a new album, Cud is also planning an extensive tour of the Southern and Coastal US, as well as all of Canada, in the works for spring of 2010.
Discography
Releases:
Cud Eastbound s/t (2009)
I'm Happy that You're Happy that (CD and Tape) (2008) Space Tribe (2007)
Cudey and Disaster Squad (2006)