5/17 - Gordon Grice, Janet Little, Doug Jeffrey

Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals - Gordon Grice
Gordon Grice  has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s, Discover, Granta, and other magazines. His first book, The Red Hourglass, was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the New York Public Library. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Essays. He lives with his family in Wisconsin.  How does a tiny box jellyfish, with no brain and little control over where it goes in the water, manage to kill a full-grown man? What harm have hippos been known to inflict on humans, and why? What makes our closest cousin, the chimpanzee, the most dangerous of all apes to encounter in the wild?  In this elegantly illustrated, often darkly funny compendium of animal predation, Gordon Grice, hailed by Michael Pollan as “a fresh, strange, and wonderful new voice in American nature writing,” presents findings that are by turns surprising, humorous, and horrifying. Personally obsessed by both the menace and beauty of animals since he was six years old and a deadly cougar wandered onto his family’s farm, Grice now reaps a lifetime of study in this unique survey—at once a reading book and a resource.

Janet Little - Henry's Farmers Markets

May is National Celiac Awareness Month; it is in Los Angeles this year with a national conference on May 15. Because of its symptoms, which overlap other health disorders, Celiac Disease often goes undiagnosed, although a lifetime commitment to a strict gluten-free diet usually eliminates the variety of severe, often painful symptoms.  Celiac disease is an inherited, autoimmune disease in which the lining of the small intestine is damaged from eating gluten and other proteins found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats. According to Dr. Peter Green, one of the guest speakers at the conference, “going gluten-free seems to be a current lifestyle diet craze among foodies, but for 3 million Americans (1 in 133), a Gluten-Free diet is a necessity. Shockingly, 97% of those affected don't even know it.”  Janet Little, spokesperson for Henry's Farmers Markets, for years has given lectures, led store tours, and developed gluten-free recipes. Henry's has become well- known for their Gluten-Free products, lectures and tours and distributes a comprehensive pamphlet on the disease. They are one of the participating sponsors of the May 15 conference. She can tell listeners how to make quick and easy recipes that are tasty and, of course, gluten-free.

Doug Jeffrey - Producer  Grid 41   -   Accept

MySpace isn't the only social website feeling the "Teutonic Terror" from the brand new video from the German Heavy Metal Band ACCEPT. The band premiered their first video in 10 years, crashing their MySpace site and their band's website as longtime fans of the band clambered to get a look at the video for their new song "Teutonic Terror". One Turkish fan having seen the video entered ACCEPT pwns (meaning owns, or rules in online terms) into the update box on Twitter, only to find out that someone named @pwns was now following him on Twitter. Both the Twitter story and the video spread like wildfire across the internet as the unlikely worlds of Heavy Metal Music and technology blogs including Gizmodo, Mashable, and Blabbermouth picked the story and spread it faster than a metal guitar riff. Gizmodo and Mashable detailed very simple explanations telling their readers how to exploit the security hole, Blabbermouth focused on the fire, tanks and carnage of the video, and Twitter went into panic mode and to fix the "Accept Bug" by resetting everyone's followers back to zero. That's everyone. Even Ashton Kutcher had as many friends as the rest of us... for a couple of hours.  MySpace isn't the only social website feeling the "Teutonic Terror" from the brand new video from the German Heavy Metal Band ACCEPT. The band premiered their first video in 10 years, crashing their MySpace site and their band's website as longtime fans of the band clambered to get a look at the video for their new song "Teutonic Terror". One Turkish fan having seen the video entered ACCEPT pwns (meaning owns, or rules in online terms) into the update box on Twitter, only to find out that someone named @pwns was now following him on Twitter. Both the Twitter story and the video spread like wildfire across the internet as the unlikely worlds of Heavy Metal Music and technology blogs including Gizmodo, Mashable, and Blabbermouth picked the story and spread it faster than a metal guitar riff. Gizmodo and Mashable detailed very simple explanations telling their readers how to exploit the security hole, Blabbermouth focused on the fire, tanks and carnage of the video, and Twitter went into panic mode and to fix the "Accept Bug" by resetting everyone's followers back to zero. That's everyone. Even Ashton Kutcher had as many friends as the rest of us... for a couple of hours.

"Follow the Prophet" - Video on Demand

Based on shocking current events, FOLLOW THE PROPHET is a thriller that critics have called “a must see” and “the dark underbelly of BIG LOVE.”  Robert Chimento (Milk) , Tom Noonan (House of the Devil) David Conrad (Ghost Whisperer), Diane Venora (Heat, Insider & New York film critic award for Clint Eastwood’s “Bird”), Steve Railsback (Charlie Manson in Helter Skelter R.D. Call (Babel, Into the Wild), John Diehl and ingénue Annie Burgstede. "Follow the Prophet" tells the story of 15 year old Avery Coldon who discovers that she is to be given up as a secret bride to the new Prophet of a polygamous cult. She escapes with the help of Army Colonel Jude Marks and a renegade Sheriff named Red When they find out that another younger girl will take Avery’s place they join forces to expose the truth that lies hidden in a town in Utah. From the Executive Producer Jay Wilson, who brought you DOGTOWN Z BOYS, FOLLOW THE PROPHET is a Red Road Presentation brought to life by an award winning team of film-makers including Emmy-award winning Director, Drew Ann Rosenberg, Writer Robert Chimento, Producer Joan Sweeny, Independent Spirit Award winning Cinematographer Walt Lloyd. Following its April 30th THEATRICAL premiere at the Angelika Film Center in Houston, “Follow the Prophet”, an award winning independent feature film can now be seen on Video on Demand on over 100 cable, satellite, telco operator and online outlets including: Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Charter, Verizon, Cablevision, DIRECTV VOD, and DISH IPVOD.