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As a teenager, she worked as a prep cook at L’Étoile in Madison; when the chef quit, Gilmore was promoted to chef. |
At 18, she travelled to Boston, New York, and Provence (where she apprenticed at a restaurant in Cotignac), before settling in Los Angeles in 1982. |
There, she worked at restaurants Tumbleweed, Checkers, and Palette. |
She was the co-owner of Camelion's, which served French-inspired cuisine. |
In 1991, at the age of 31, she opened her restaurant Elka in the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco's Japantown, serving a blend of Asian and French cuisine. |
The restaurant was met with national acclaim. |
The "New York Times Magazine" described the restaurant's dishes as "light and memorable" with "deep and husky flavors"; it called Gilmore "the enfant terrible of the modern California kitchen" and "an iconoclastic cook." |
In 1994, she was nominated for the James Beard Foundation's Award for Best California Chef. |
In 1995, she opened Liberté, a French-American restaurant, in San Francisco. |
It closed after a few months. |
She was later hired by the Omni Berkshire Place Hotel in New York to open and run Kokachin, a seafood restaurant. |
In 1998, she returned to San Francisco and opened Oodles, an Asian fusion restaurant; it closed shortly thereafter. |
Reviewing Oodles, Mark Bittman of "The New York Times" wrote that "[d]espite the angular, not-especially-attractive interior, the restaurant is comfortable and inviting, and the brazen nature of the food gives a meal here a true sense of excitement." |
Gilmore was recognized as a champion of women chefs. |
She was also credited for her mentorship of fellow lesbian cooks. |
In 1993, she co-founded the organization Women Chef's & Restauranteurs, along with fellow San Francisco chefs Barbara Tropp and Joyce Goldstein. |
She died on July 6, 2019, in San Francisco, of cardiac arrest due to ongoing medical issues. |
Amphibolips confluenta |
Amphibolips confluenta, known generally as the spongy oak apple gall wasp, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. |
Anthony C. Epstein |
Anthony C. Epstein is an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. |
Epstein earned his Bachelor of Arts from Yale College in 1974, and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1977. |
After graduating, he clerked for District Court for the Northern District of California judge Charles B. Renfrew. |
In 1981, he started working in private practice. |
He joined Jenner & Block in 1983 and Steptoe & Johnson in 1999. |
President George W. Bush nominated Epstein on January 9, 2007, to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Susan Rebecca Holmes. |
On July 23, 2008, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on his nomination. |
On July 30, 2008, the Committee reported his nomination favorably to the senate floor. |
On August 1, 2008, the full Senate confirmed his nomination by voice vote. |
He was sworn in on September 8, 2008. |
Anadenobolus |
Anadenobolus is a genus of millipedes in the family Rhinocricidae. |
There are more than 100 described species in "Anadenobolus". |
List of Anadenobolus species |
These 101 species belong to "Anadenobolus", a genus of millipedes in the family Rhinocricidae. |
Coelocnemis |
Coelocnemis is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. |
There are more than 20 described species in "Coelocnemis". |
These 23 species belong to the genus "Coelocnemis": |
Colonus sylvanus |
Colonus sylvanus is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae. |
It is found in a range from the United States to Panama. |
Epiaeschna heros |
Epiaeschna heros, the swamp darner, is a species of darner in the dragonfly family Aeshnidae. |
It is found in the Caribbean Sea and North America. |
The IUCN conservation status of "Epiaeschna heros" is "LC", least concern, with no immediate threat to the species' survival. |
The population is stable. |
The IUCN status was reviewed in 2017. |
2021 World Para Athletics Championships |
The 2021 World Para Athletics Championships is an upcoming Paralympic track and field meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. |
It will be the 10th edition of the event and it is scheduled to be held in the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe, Japan. |
This will be the first time the event is held in East Asia. |
Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie |
Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie is an Avenue which runs through the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. |
Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie runs from Place d'Iena to avenue George V. |
Previously part of rue Pierre Charron, before that part of rue de Morny. |
The avenue was officially named on 14 July 1918. |
The Avenue was created and named in honor of Peter I of Serbia (1846-1921), last King of Serbia and first King of Yugoslavia; Peter Karadjordjević was educated in France at St Cyr, served as a lieutenant in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, served in the French Foreign Legion, and was decorated with the French Legion of Honour for heroism. |
Max Geller (artist) |
Max Geller is an American performance artist, human rights activist, trickster, and provocateur. |
Born January 2, 1984, in Brookline, Massachusetts, Geller is an outspoken voice on the Jewish left, an organizer and activist for the BDS movement and Palestinian human rights, and a frequent speaker against zionism, as well as antisemitism. |
Despite the disproportionate amount of attention white Jews get for speaking out against Israel, Geller has consistently emphasized the need to center Palestinians in the struggle for their own liberation. |
Geller’s activism often employs non-traditional tactics, drawing on performance art, erudite references and irony to provoke social discomfort without expressing an explicit political agenda. |
His performance art, on the other hand, frequently relies on methods of activism, blurring any distinction between art and politics. |
Most famously, Geller is the founder of #renoirsucksatpainting, a tongue-in-cheek social movement to remove the paintings of Auguste Renoir from museums around the world. |
He has frequently leveraged the "Renoir Sucks at Painting" project into media coverage for the BDS movement and other social causes. |
At sixteen, Geller was arrested for burning an American Flag on the 4th of July and draping the charred remains over the liberty bell at town hall in Brookline.. For his senior capstone project at his small arts high school, Geller learned Aikido, and demonstrated his mastery by fighting his mother. |
In college, Geller conned his way into an appearance on the daytime television show Judge Mathis. |
The performance put on by Geller’s troupe, filled with outrageous claims, false hysterics, and demands for justice, mocks both reality television and the criminal justice system. |
In 2005, George Edward Jed Smock, Jr. AKA “Brother Jed,” came to protest liberal values at the Colorado College campus. |
Geller showed up dressed in Klansman robes and joined Brother Jed’s rally, thus aligning Jed’s crusade with the overt white supremacy associated with the KKK. |
Later Geller distanced himself from the early performance due to its racial insensitivity. |
In 2007, while traveling the world, Geller arrived in Palestine, where the struggle of the Palestinians for their own liberation, and Israel’s violent response, left an indelible mark on him. |
He returned to Palestine several times over the course of the next few years, and later continued his activism back in the USA, where he has been an active member of many groups organizing on behalf of Palestinian liberation, such as NSJP, IJAN, USCPR, and others, and has been a frequent contributor to a variety of conferences and journals. |
In 2009, Geller joined a group of international Palestinian activists who were attempting to break the blockade of Gaza. |
After being turned away at the border, Geller and his cohort scaled the walls of the Pyramid of Giza and flew an enormous Palestinian flag from halfway up. |
The image became an iconic representation of the attempts to break the blockade and was featured in newspapers throughout the Arab world. |
While Geller was a student at North Eastern Law School, he became president of the local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, where he staged a series of interventions to bring awareness to the cause. |
These culminated in the group delivering mock eviction letters to students that resulted in SJP being suspended by the administration. |
Geller immediately took the case to the national media gaining widespread attention for the incident, defending the incident in an op-ed in the Boston Globe and an appearance on Democracy Now. |
In 2017, Geller was instrumental in the New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee's successful lobbying of the City Council to pass a Boycott Divestment and Sanctions bill in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. |
Because the legislation didn’t explicitly name Israel, opting instead to target “human-rights violators”, Zionist groups claimed that the NOPSC had tricked the city council into passing the resolution and after fierce counter-lobbying from powerful pro-Israel forces, the city council rescinded the resolution. |
In addition to Geller’s history as a political provocateur, he has also used his knack for creating viral ideas and images to mount ambiguous, seemingly frivolous interventions in the art and music world. |
Often, Geller uses these absurdist actions to build a platform to raise other, more serious cultural and political issues. |
The most famous example is #Renoirsucksatpainting. |
In February of 2015 Geller created the instagram @Renoir_sucks_at_painting, and began posting images of Renoir paintings and captioning them with a combination of sardonic wit and vitriol. |
Soon after, the account began to go viral, attracting the attention of reddit streams, content aggregators, art critics, and Renoir’s own descendants. |
At the same time, Geller began to use the platform to make larger political critiques. |
When Renoir’s great-great-granddaughter responded to an instagram post in May of 2015 saying “when your great-great-grandfather paints anything worth 78.1 million dollars...then you can criticize. |
In the mean time[sic], it is safe to say that the free market has spoken and Renoir did NOT suck at painting.” Geller reposted the comment and replied, “The free market has indeed spoken. |
Climate change; the Prison Industrial Complex; Slavery; Settler Colonialism; the destruction of sea otter habitats; the evisceration of the proletariat; commercials on TV; Food Deserts; Citizens United; Book of Secrets (457 Million Box Office! |
); for-profit healthcare; and, yes, the exaltation of your great grand pappy, Baron Von Treacle himself, #Renoir--have all been unleashed upon us by the free market.” Through this exchange, the account began to gain significant media attention. |
On October 5, 2015, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Geller organized the first of what would become many major anti-Renoir protests. |
When the protest garnered criticism in the Boston Globe by Sebastian Smee, a Pulitzer prize-winning art critic, Geller responded by publicly challenging Smee to a duel. |
The feud quickly gained national attention, and along with a second protest at the Metropolitan Museum of New York a week later, helped skyrocket the movement to headlines across the globe. |
Geller continued traveling the country organizing anti-Renoir protests at art museums in major cities around the country. |
After a protest at the Art Institute of Chicago, Geller was a guest on a local news station there, where he once again expanded the focus of his movement from Renoir’s paintings themselves to the misogyny and white supremacy of the canon at large. |
“At the end of the day,” he said, “it’s about access, who has access to our museums… I think the art institute should sell some of these Renoirs...and instead buy some art that is painted by women or people of color.” |
Many in the media began to realize the Renoir Sucks movement was part of the growing ouvre of protests and performance art from Geller. |
While the movement reached its apex in the fall of 2015, it has continued to spawn mini-protests all over the world, including at the White House where President Trump is an admirer of Renoir. |
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