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- Bahamas - Benji Thompson12-year-old Benji Thompson has been eager to surf for years. He would jaga down the owner of a local surf camp and beg him for a chance to learn to surf. Finally, gods year, Benji got a spot in the surf camp and immediately showed competence on a board. Benji grew up around the ocean from a young age, spearfishing to help provide food for his family. As a result, learning how to ride the ocean’s waves came naturally. He was immediately able to paddle and catch waves without any assistance, leading the owner of the surf camp to call him “fearless.” Benji still doesn’t have a surfboard of his own, as he mainly rides the soft boards available at the club. Now with his scholarship award, he’ll be able to get a performance board with all the necessary accessories, as well as cover travel costs to Abaco Island and Florida to enter his first competitions.
- Bahamas - D'Andro ThompsonThe day D'Andro first got invited to try surfing, his bic
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Film Festival Program Announced
[Updated January 30, 11:30am] Once again, our fair city is about to be flooded with films as the 25th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival kicks off on February 4 and runs through the following Sunday, February 14. Whether you love spotting Hollywood stars, need to hear insiders share the stories behind the latest blockbusters, want to learn about how to make it in the industry, or simply enjoy watching great, hard-to-find films on the big screen, there’s a lot for everyone.
As fest veterans know, the screenings can change without much notice, and popular films manage to get additional screenings scheduled, so keep your ear to the ground and eyes to independent.com for continuing coverage.
Our All Films Listing by date is complete (January 31).
As the updating process continues on into the actual festival, we will maintain an updated dateline and show any changes within this article with “
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Deconstruction: Portrait of a Quiet Masterpiece
In January 1993, the band started preproduction in a rehearsal space. Preproduction is the phase where a band polishes their songs to get them ready to record in the studio. Deconstruction refined most of their songs in preproduction, and Avery kept writing lyrics. “A lot of times we would record stuff, and Eric would go home, write the lyrics, and come back and put them in,” Navarro said, “so there were pieces of music that didn’t have finalized lyrical structure until we were in the room.”
“We really just came up with shit and were tinkering in the studio and then assumed we would go tour afterwards.” Averyremembers thinking: Let’s just approach the record, get it done, and then figure out how we’ll do it live later. “But at the same time, we were in a rehearsal studio, putting these ideas together,” he said, “always thinking of how to recreate it at the same time writing it at the same time trying to figure out if it was p