Hi,
I'm looking to get far away from my job and busy life just to have a moment to reconnect with myself.
I would love your recommendations of where I should go?
A little bit about what I'm looking for: - 3 weeks - Minimal excursion. I mostly want to relax and do nothing, but maybe write a journal. - Learning to surf - Be surrounded by the sound of nature.
So far I found Playa Santa Teresa very appealing, but I'm not too sure about two things:

1. Food: I don't want to spend too much to eat in restaurants because after 3 weeks it's expensive. What are the best options if you don't have a kitchen or can't find a place offering all meals?
   
2. Surf camps are maximum 2 weeks stay? I want to learn on my own rythme (with a professional of course).
   

I'm waiting more of your recommendations.
Thank you

Because I don’t get it??? Ashley was very much so involved on the show. So was Lauren. Lauren literally was invited to the reunion just to humiliate Teresa. I don’t understand the constant hypocrisy revolving anything that has to do to Teresa. Any children of single mothers out there? You ever let a pack of hyenas or whoever else come for your mother and not defend her? If anything so far, Gia has been a voice of reason. Not chasing anyone in restaurants or outright embarrassing any of the wives. Teresa is her mother, Melissa is her aunt through marriage. She is the eldest daughter. Please explain to me why there is any backlash at all. Is it because you knew her first as a child and now she’s a 23 year old young lady?

The next scene cuts to a hospital wing with doctors and nurses overlooking patient charts, among them his Nicholas's sister sarah, after the conversation is over we see her venting her frustrations to the air after dealing with her stuck-up superiors then she hears a voice out of thin air "oh,my dear sweet little sister......still trying to satisfy everyone but still gets shit on constantly " she turns around to see her brother, in a clean army uniform (which he probably had in the sea bag but wasnt shown on camera) "Nicky?, is that you?" "Hello Sarah, it's been a long time" "too long for me" and she happily embraces him, next shot shows them outside the building, drinking water bottles and sharing a small platter of snacks "so, i heard about what happened at tan long,it was all over the news here, and I was thinking about you" "yeah,......... war like that is hard to forget about,but I was lucky to have survived that madness" "well, I'm glad you're ok, I wasn't supposed to say anything but,....today marks the 14th anniversary of mum and dad's marriage and we're going to throw a little party for them, you're gonna be there, right?" "Of course, I mean they wouldn't talk to me again if I didn't show up, hahaha. So, mark and teresa know that I'm home?" " Not yet,but I'll let them know, that reminds me, I still have your old house key " as she reaches into her pocket and pulls out a small ring of keys "and don't worry, we had to do a little cleaning of course, but everything is still the way you left it before you left for vietnam" "i appreciate that, little sis I really need to get this uniform and the rest of these clothes cleaned anyway, besides i need to head over to the dive and let Jason know im back" "alright well, I need to get back to work, see you tonight" "see you around, and let me know if that boss of yours is giving you a hard time ok?" "Ok" and they hug again and depart. Close up of a small building near the beach, the sign on top is called "the dive" with a mannequin in a scuba suit right above it, it's an ocean themed bar and restaurant, you see Nicholas get out of a taxi and start walking towards the front door to pay his childhood friend and business partner who helped bring "the dive" to life...... Jason Drover

Shore-ing Up Sides
What kind of a name is this episode? Stupid title. It does give us a clue that this episode will show the demise of friendships and that the cast takes sides. They split up! The casts of NJ are all doing interviews online and on TV. A lot of spoilers are coming out from the cast including who switches sides. I know who. It's all-over social media. I doubt anyone cares if it's spoiled, but you never know. We got a long season ahead. Please! I hope the arguing isn't as bad as last year!
Now, on with the episode...
The cast is still down at the Shore. It looks beautiful and also fun! Of course, they are still divided. Jen and Bill A is with Dolores and Paul. Teresa and Louie went home because Gabriella is leaving for college. Rachel and John are with Adult Jen Fessler and her husband Jeff along with Danielle and Nate. Melissa and Joe are with Marge and her Joe--he really loves her, he's rubbing her feet, very clingy. I would hate it! But that's just me. Most women love to be pampered. Not me.
John asks Adult Jen F about the party the night before. He secretly wants to know why she is hanging around with the enemy, Teresa. Jen states that she never had a problem with Teresa, Rachel looks at her with daggers, she is mad as hell. She states in her talking head that Adult Jen couldn't stand Teresa and that now that Adult Jen has jumped ship, Rachel is done with her. She is very hurt and called Adult Jen F stupid.
Dolores asks Jen A what is going on between Melissa and her. Jen says she is not feeling her and is not a chump. Melissa tells Marge that Jen A spread rumors, so she is not happy with her. The bad feelings is mutual between these two women...
Melissa is throwing a Birthday Party for Joe. It's going to be an Italian theme party. She and Marge discuss what to do about Jen A because she might feel like the lone enemy there without Teresa. Melissa thinks she and Bull should attend. So, with that, Joe Gorga calls Bill and extends an invitation to him and his wife. Bill tells him thank you, but his wife Jen is still not in a good place with Melissa. Jen is not having it. She is still hurt from last year and thinks Joe's invite was not sincere. She is glad that Bill finally stood up for her. She says they are a team from now on. He will stand up for her or he will feel her wrath! Bill just smiles at her no matter what she says. Why is he always smiling?!
Teresa and all her girls are packing up for Gabriella. Gia is crying, all the girls are crying. Gia tells Gabriella that she is so proud of her for getting into the University of Michigan. It's a very had college to get into. Teresa is also crying. Teresa ex, Joe Guidice calls. Teresa can't look at him or she will cry. He tells them all this is a good thing. Louie comes in and tries to cheer them up too. Joe can't afford college, so Teresa and Louie are paying. I doubt Louie is paying, but Producers put Teresa on the spot and asked her if Louie is also paying. Of course she is going to say yes. Pretty sure only Teresa is paying. I saw a preview that Louie went through all of Teresa's money. So, there's that.
Teresa and Louie go outside. She tells him she is in her love bubble with him and no matter what happened at the party or with their enemies she has his love. What does enemies have to do with their love bubble? They are holding hands, clinging to each other while they bring up John Fuda, they rip him apart. Louie called him ugly and a loser. Louie you're no prize in the looks either so no room to talk. Teresa tells him he handled it with grace with John and she is sorry he has to deal with this. He says the same to her, she doesn't deserve any of this. I feel so bad what these two have to put up with. Not! Louie handled it with grace! What the... such an odd thing to say. Louie wrote on Instagram that Teresa has so much grace. I would not describe these two with the word grace.
Joe Gorga's party starts. It looks like fun. The men were doing shots on a blow-up doll's ass that John brought. Ass shots are not my style of fun, but to each their own.
Rachel is complaining about Adult Jen F's betrayal and Marge is talking about Jen A. Marge thinks Jen A should have shown up. Why? I wouldn't if I was her. Rachel agrees with me and says she wouldn't have shown up either.
Back home Teresa throws a going away dinner party for Gabriella at a restaurant. Louie's boys are there along with her daughters. It's a nice family scene. They all reminisce and have a nice time together. Cheers Gabriella! I hope she succeeds in whatever career that she decides to do. I am sure she will.
Back at the party John and Paul joke around with the other men and make up. Oh, and Frank is there. I thought he was off the show for good. He tells Joe that he misses him and that he is Starchy to his Hutch. What?!! Oh, and Frankie Jr. Isn't in Dolores' background family tagline. It's Paul and her daughter. Maybe Frank Jr. had enough of the show.
Marge, Rachel and Adult Jen F sit down. Marge is going to get her. She asks her about Teresa and Louie. Marge is going on and on about it, she is annoyed. Jackie sits down and takes Adult F's side. Marge and Rachel are not having it. Marge tells Adult Jen that she doesn't understand what she is doing, she hated them. Adult Jen is not budging, she now loves Teresa and will be friends with whoever she wants. Rache; starts crying about all of this. Adult Jen feels bad for Rachel, but she loves Teresa now! Rachel feels very betrayed, and Marge is not having what Adult Jen A is putting down. This is messy. Jen F told Marge she is not Marge's soldier, and she will do what she wants and be friends with who she wants. There is a lot of arguing going on and I am sure it will continue. Jackie is comforting Adult Jen and Marge and Rachel are talking about Jen F to Danielle, Rachel is still crying. The betrayal is real. Danielle agrees with Rachel and Marge--she says Adult Jen F isn't loyal and should never do that to her best friends.
Adult Jen F is trying with all her might to tell everyone that she is the best friend anyone could ever have! I don't know about that. What do you all think? Is Jen F a traitor or is Marge and Rachel being unreasonable? If someone does me harm and spread rumors about me. I wouldn't be too fond if my friend befriended that person who she knew for a minute and said she disliked. It's hurtful to do that to a longtime friend who you trusted. That's my take on this.
Oh yeah, and Joe Gorga gets a nice big Italian cannoli cake! Besides the arguing, there were a lot of people there having a lot of fun. Everyone wished him a Happy Birthday and it ended on a happy scene with the delicious cake! Who doesn't love cake?
To Be Continued...

I was told that my grandmother worked at Teresa's restaurant when she immigrated from Italy. I haven't been able to find any information about it. Does anyone have information or photos? It would have been in the early 1960's.

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Hello readers and world travellers, welcome to Ecuador! If I had no other books to read, I would totally binge that book! I'm curious to hear what you all think. Feel free to answer the questions in the comments below or add your own remarks or questions.
Links:

• Schedule
• Marginalia

Summary:
Edit: I forgot to summarise the prologue, because it is not listed in the table of contents of my ebook, lol. There, Malena has found a letter in her father's belongings from her mother, addressed to her grandmother asking her to see her daughter just once.
Chapter 1

• Malena arrives in San Isidro. A taxi takes her to the address, where presumably her mother lives. She knows her mother's name starts with an A.
• She meets Rafael Dávila and his son Javier. They mistake her for a woman named Liliana Paz, when she asks for Mrs. Platas.
• Then she meets Ana Platas, her sister Amanda and Ana's daughter Claudia. Malena is confused because of the two names starting with an A and doesn't confront them.
• Lili was supposed to stay at Claudia's room and so does Malena now.
• Malena then meets Mamá Blanca, the mother of Ana and Amanda.
• At lunch time, there are also Trinidad, the maid, and Alejandra, another potential mother of Malena.

Chapter 2

• Javier takes Malena to the train station to get her luggage. She then has to admit she lied and tell that the luggage is at a hotel.
• Back in Calle Alameda, Malena comes across a photo. She learns there is a fourth sister, Abigail, who died ten years ago.

Chapter 3

• Mr. Bernardo comes to the house and informs Amanda that her brother-in-law, Enzo, is destroying the business her late husband, Nicolas, had worked so hard for.
• Amanda goes to the restaurant Il Napolitano to confront Enzo. The restaurant and the accounts are not looking good.
• Enzo replies that Amanda should do it better herself, the restaurant is all hers.

Chapter 4

• The next morning, Malena tried to interrogate Trinidad, but doesn't get far. Trinidad says she has never heard of a Hugo Sevilla (Malena's father).
• Sebastian Rivas, Claudia's fiancé comes to visit. When Malena goes to open the door, she finds a letter and takes it.

Chapter 5

• Claudia and Sebastian talk about their Pedida de Mano (i.e. asking the family for their formal permission to marry; do not misread and google Perdida de Mano, like I did, found some scary pictures of lost limbs). It will be rescheduled to this Saturday, even if the passing of Sebastian's father was not long ago.
• Sebastian heads back to his father's former workplace. Sebastian is now the owner of the newspaper El Heraldo de San Isidro.
• There he meets Cesar Villamizar, his father's right-hand man.

Chapter 6

• Malena goes to a park and reads the letter. In it, Lili tells Ana that she has decided to spend her life with the man she loves and will not come to visit.
• When she comes back to Calle Alameda, Malena is told by Rafael that she should not go out alone and that she should be on time for meals.
• Amanda announces that she is going to manage Il Napolitano and will turn it into a tango nightclub.
• Malena learns from Mamá Blanca that her nephew Fausto lived in the house as well, but that he was killed when he was 19.
• During the night, Malena overhears an argument between Rafael and Ana about a handkerchief.

Chapter 7 (Ana, 1936)

• Amanda and Ana go to a radio dance contest. Abigail, Alejandra and Fausto are too young to go, but they all have a picture taken together.
• Amanda dances with Joaquin. He has brought his friend Rafael to dance with Ana.
• Amanda and Joaquin win the contest.
• Rafael takes Ana home. He tells her he has been looking at her for a while and that he is looking to settle down. Ana says yes without being completely sure what she agreed to – a courtship, an engagement or marriage.
• On her wedding day, Ana talks to her friend María Teresa (Lili's mother) about how she is unsure about the marriage with Rafael.
• Amanda brought Nicolas and his brother Enzo to Ana's wedding. Rafael is displeased because he thinks Nicolas was flirting with Ana. In the bathroom, he touches Ana on every part of her body and kisses her aggressively. When he left, Ana cries. Someone sees her, but Ana doesn't turn around to see who it is.

Chapter 8

• In the jewellery store, Malena learns that Alejandra is the jeweller, and not Javier, like Rafael tells everyone.
• Malena help Javier to clean a storage room and finds some old notebooks with a familiar handwriting. It's unclear who wrote them though.
• Ana announces that Lili's mother is on the phone and wants to talk to her.

Update 24 May Newlist: https://www.reddit.com/singaporemusicchat/comments/1cz786e/megalist_sg_concerts_gigs_raves_schools_out_24/

10 May, Fri

• truncated, word limit

Sat, 11 May

• RADWIMPS WORLD TOUR 2024, Singapore Expo Hall 7, $168
• TesseracT (UK prog metal, djent), L5 @ GR.iD mall (selegie), $88
• Nancy Sit 薛家燕 & Friends - Mother’s Day Celebration 爱在心中母亲节演唱会, resort world sentosa, $118
• 'EK THA RAJA' BADSHAH LIVE IN SINGAPORE, Singapore Expo Hall 5, ft YUNG RAJA, $148
• Konsert Dato’ Jamal Abdillah Seniman Berjasa (G), The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $98
• Mediacorp GOLD 905’s Solid Gold Night, Simply Retro BaClub by Tin Box @ CHIJMES, $88
• 25 Years of Ska Love – Gerhana SKA Cinta - Timeless Rhythm (ska reggae rocksteady ska-punk), capitol theatre city hall, $68
• Indie HC: Destiny "To See Another Day" Release Show ft Doldrey, xdesterx, FUSE, Chaosphere, punk, old dm, hardcore gig, aliwal arts centre (kampong gelam, nicoll highway, $28
• Indie Rock Gig: BOY DINNER - Pines, Blindside, Bear the Remedy, Second Chance, Sound, Quitline, $20
• Indie Rock Gig: CTRL CHAOS, MONDA(E), INTERMISSION, Last Minute, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $15
• Music Matters Live Festival Schedule and the conference Creator Week
  • Fountain Square Afternoon: DAY 4 - Adrian Dzvuke 🇦🇺, Dhruv Visvanath 🇮🇳, Jewel Owusu 🇦🇺 , Peej 🇵🇭, Eleanor Whisper 🇮🇩, RANGGA JONES , the center area of CQ @ clarke quay fountain square, free
  • Fountain Square Night: Girls Night Out - MATILDE G, JHM (AU), JOYA (HK), Celine Wanyi (HK), Mali (IN), Nao Yoshioka (JP), Emma Dilemma (NZ), Marian Carmel
  • Senor Taco Stage: DAY 3 - COUNT VERNON, Oliver Cronin 🇦🇺, Balu Brigada 🇳🇿, Teo Glacier🇳🇿 ), Señor Taco restaurant livehouse at CQ @ Clarke Quay, free
  • HIPHOP RNB at IKI: Mic Check with Josh Makazo, Berywam 🇫🇷, ARlo Maverick 🇨🇦, Adrian Dzvuke 🇦🇺, Who Shot Scott 🇳🇿, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), pop, R&B, afrobeats and hip-hop free
  • It's a girl thing TALK: Singapore Edition - Inch Chua, Preeti Nair, Marian Carmel, Mali, JOYA, Matalie Dau et al., free with RSVP

 

• Singapore Chinese Orchestra: Mother‘s Day Concert 2024 母亲节音乐会 2024 - 慈母心 - Day 2 of 2 , Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $38
• Singapore Symphony Orchestra: SSO Symphony Ball 2024 - SSO Benefit, The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore, uh $10k
• Cool Cats: Jamie Aditya presents Funky Town (soul and funk) - day 3 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Jazz Loft: JAPANESE FUSION WONDERLAND with Eric Lee and M.I.C, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24,
• Maduro Jazz: Mellow Mixtape by Mila Vidanovic (soul jazz pop), maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Irish Music & Plays: Lasalle's Red Dot Green Dot 2024 - celebrating Ireland and Singapore culture, LASALLE college of the arts (rochor), $40
• Choral: Resonance of Singapore - Nonsensical Notes - Songs of Innocence by The ROS Singers, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory concert hall,, $17

 

Esplanade Pesta Raya Festival 11

• ES Theatre - Bawang Putih Bawang Merah by by Teater Ekamatra, Waterfront Theatre, $45 soldout
• ES Performances: Jalan Raya by Zarina Muhammad, in collaboration with local artists- Day 3 of 3, Annexe Studio, $22
• ES Music Kids: tikTOKtik – Children’s Storytelling by Kelana Purba, and folk songs, dikir barat, Indoor Concourse 230 345pm, free
• ES Music Kids: JUARA MIC JUNIOR di Pesta Raya by The Stars of JMJ, Outdoor Theater 3pm 415pme, free
• ES Dance: Mak Yong by Kumpulan Mak Yong Cahaya Matahari & PUSAKA, Waterfront Theatre Lawn 6pm, free
• ES Music: Sanggar Seni by Kelana Purba and Makyong Kedek (dikir barat), Courtyard 645pm, free
• ES Music: Nadi Singapura x Djangat - ethnic folk percussion and electronic soundscapes, Outdoor Theatre 7pm 815 930pm, free
• ES Music: Malam Balada by Zalelo & Fauzie Laily - M-pop ballads and raya hits , Indoor Concourse 730pm 830 930pm, free

 

Events & Parties 11

• DJ, [Intervention 5 feat. Gabber Modus Operandi 🇮🇩](Fetching Title#aokv, queer, Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5 ,$22
• DJ, SHiOCK x Manifest - House of Mayhem with DJ IMX & Denz Devarez 🇳🇱🇿🇦 - ft Aphad & YZ, Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar), $15
• DJ 🏖, GrooveTop: Hip Hop Pool Party ft. Secret Pals, Durio & AKA Sounds, El Chido 1 Hill Street, Pullman Singapore (city hall), $25
• DJ, Flashback Saturday 90s & 2000s Hip Hop x RnB, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $11
• Party Queer: SALUD - united by music - eurofashion, salud cocktail bar @ 19 keong saik rd (maxwell), $25
• DJ,🏖 Fuego Night: Afro Beach 5.0, Sand Bar 53 Siloso Beach Walk, $35
• DJ, Jugaad: The Revolution - Night Of Bollywood X Punjabi Bangers by Untamed, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $30
• Drag Party, The KasiCunt Ball: Yin & Yang, MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $58
• DJ, 10-11 May: Neil Conversion, Unleash pres. Unhinged - circuit party bar in sg, 43 Neil Road (maxwell), lgbt gay bar-club
• DJ, Zodiac Bar Night Party, gay bar at 50 prinsep st (bencoolen)
• DJ, Offtrack: Bongomann (deep house) and Sigmond Fn (aka fzpz), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
• DJ, Highh Club: ASSEMBLY MAYHEM @ Highh School, Highh Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade), $20,
• DJ, HighHouse Fred E & XTVA (melodic techno & trance) , High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), $38
• DJ, NoSleepClub - Excessive heat ft DJs Moss and Nez Senja (rnb hiphop), No Sleep Club @ 20 Keong Saik Rd (outram/maxwell)
• DJ, Neon Pigeon - Mothers I’d Love To Feed., Neon Pigeon @ 36 Carpenter St (clarke quay)

 

Club Guest Performers 11

• DJ, ARK 11: AMBER NA 藍星蕾 (🇲🇾 chinese style edm) , ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, IG 📸 $25
• DJ, .WAV(Y) Remixed Presents: DAVE NUNES (🇳🇱House, Afro, Baile Funk, and Amapiano) with PRAV, XG & KNRCK, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, $27
• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn Lizzy Wang (🇨🇳Tech House) , tipsy unicorn beach club, $25
• DJ, ArtBeyond X CIEL: Electric Playa! Ft. Patrice Bäumel (🇩🇪 techno) & Guy Mantzur), Rumours Beach Club 🏖 @ 40 Siloso Bch Walk, Sentosa, $48
• DJ HQ: Thugshop Presents - UFO95 [LIVE, 🇧🇪 techno], headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36

 

12 May, Sun - Mother's Day

• Concert at Botanic Gardens: SSO Mother’s Day Concert 2024 by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, singapore botanic gardens, shaw foundation symphony stage, free
• Retro Rani by Mediacorp 968, orchid country club, ballroom (yishun), $89
• Indie Hiphop Rnb: PRIVATE FUNCTION 5 - Fahmy., Lucky Levi, SUBHAS, Martin Spacely, CHRISKRIS, BCKNIP, AE$OP CA$H, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $16
• Indie Screamo, HC Grind Gig: ANGUISH IS FOR LOVER - 🇲🇾: TERDERITHA , Dasawarsa, Rugh, 🇸🇬: ANJING, Mordhau, C.A.S.S (Tibetan Punk Band) , moved to rad studio 345, $20
• Crust Punk: Subconscious (🇮🇩 Batam crust) ft Istilah, Vitriol, Topsy Turvy, lithe style (house) near rochor mrt, $20
• Jazzy Ukulele Mother's Day with Daniel Purnomo & Fabian Lee, Crane OCBC at Wisma Atria Orchard, $10 to $30
• SOTA Wind Ensemble x Dunman High Symphonic Band: Where the Sky Meets the Sea, Victoria Concert Hall, $10
• Choral: Songs From Our Childhood - an educational programme by The ROS Singers, National Library Building, Level 1, Lobby, free, dont worry if registrations are full - its open
• Strings & Melodies: A Family Musical Adventure with violinist Alexander Suptel and Alexandra Novicova, At 36/38 Armenian Street, $58 for 2
• Indie Theatre - Ancient Music Songs: An Open Work Session & Dialogue with Thomas Richards, Centre 42 at 42Waterloo Street, $20
• The Projector Cineleisure Orchard: Mother's Day w The Staircase Duo (pop, rock, acoustic), Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5
• Indie Rock Math Pop Gig: Amberhill Motion & Bloom - Album Launch ft MAXIME & ELO ELO, Esplanade Recital Studio, tix 🎟 $25

Esplanade - Pesta Raya Malay Festival Last

• ES Music: Hidup Pop Yeh Yeh! (Long Live Pop Yeh Yeh!) by Dato’ Jeffrydin, Dato’ L. Ramli, S. Mariam & Masdo 🇲🇾, Concert Hall 8pm, $40
• ES Music: Dangdut Koplo Extravaganza! by Ochi Alvira & Syahiba Saufa 🇮🇩, Annexe Studio 5pm 8pm, $40 soldout
• ES Folk Music and Kids Storytelling: tikTOKtik – Children’s Storytelling by Kelana Purba, Indoor Concourse 230 345pm, free
• ES Music Children's: JUARA MIC JUNIOR di Pesta Raya by The Stars of JMJ, Outdoor Theatre 3pm 415pm, free
• ES Dance: Mak Yong by Kumpulan Mak Yong Cahaya Matahari & PUSAKA, Waterfront Theatre Lawn 6pm, free
• ES Music: Irama Nostalgia with Angklung Empire, Indoor Concourse 630 730pm, free
• ES Music: Sanggar Seni by Kelana Purba and Makyong Kedek, Courtyard 640pm, free
• ES: The Cliffters with The Impian Batiks (60s band, malay, english songs) , Outdoor Theatre 7pm 815pm, free
• OTHERS
• Wanna Dance 2024: On Broadway - jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary, musical theatre - by Jitterbugs, Kreta Ayer People's Theatre (maxwell, chinatown), $55

 

• DJ Party and Market: Slow Sundays Vol. 6 - Bring Your Own Mom BYOM, DJs Bongomann, Tasha, Tyler Made, FatCatHeartAttack & the 5210 PM Crew - Loyboy, LTLX, Juhvunnn, Tanglin Gin Jungle at Dempsey Hill, 26B Dempsey Rd (napier), free/bar
• DJ, Afro-Cuban Domingos ft DJ Yuma & DJ Cam, at Ziggy Zaggy 51 Kampong Bugis (kallang riverside)

 

13 May, Mon

• elijah woods : ilu 24/7, 365 tour, ESPLANADE Annexe Studio, $108
• Esplanade: Ebony & Ivory with Erwin Angullia featuring Nur Umairah on vocals (80s contemporary & movies, jazz-pop) Day 1 , Indoor Concourse, free
• Sonic Explorations - a collaboration with Eunoia JC MEP and What the Forte (contemporary, classical), Eunoia Junior College (bright hill), free

 

14 May, Tue

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17 May, Fri - Start of Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA 2024)

• Arch Enemy (melodic death metal, melodeath) - Deceivers Asia Tour 2024 in Singapore, Scape Orchard, The Ground Theatre (somerset mrt), $118
• SCO: Young Children's Concert 2024 儿童音乐会 2024 - Karung Guni Boy by Singapore Chinese Orchestra - Day 1 of 2 , Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• SSO: Chamber: Smetana and Dvořák by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• Reggae Remedy : WITH SURPRISE GUEST (Ska, Rocksteady, Dancehall & Reggae), el pico at 6 Hongkong St (clarke quay), free
• Crust Punk Show: bastarddestroyer (ID), deviare, afterdeath, cass, topsy turvy, rad stuido 345, $10
• NLB: Diabetic Duo (Amanda Ong & Sope) - Open Stage Originals - singer-songwriter duo, folk soul, alt-pop, National Library Building, Level 1 Lobby, free, dont worry about registration its open
• Tribute: Some Might Say Oasis, molly malone's irish pub @ 56 circular rd (raffles place, boat quay)
• Cool Cats: Rai Maia presents Soul Sessions (neo-soul hiphop) - day 2 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Maduro Jazz: A Classical Aftertaste with The David Loke Trio ft Charmaine Teo & Hang Oh, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38++ drink credits
• Candlelight: Film Scores at RWS S.E.A. Aquarium w Vocalise String Quartet, S.E.A. Aquarium Sentosa, $73

 

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• DJ, MUGIC with Black Pomade (🇵🇹🇮🇹 PT-IT) ft Halal Sol, Projector X Golden Village Ruby Lounge @ Cineleisure Orchard L6, $37

 

Club Guest Performers

• DJ, HOSPITALITY 2024 feat. P MONEY x WHINEY & ANAЇS (UK 🇬🇧) - Kings of Bass with Hospital Records (the UK DNB label), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd, tpi building), IG 📸) $37
  
• DJ, Celestial Seasonings: 1st Anniversary with Aldonna (AU 🇦🇺) ft Miss Lil, JAS, and 3MZY., tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $37
  
• DJ, Drip: Posh Singapore edm techno pop with DJs tajima, ling, belle, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, tix 🎟, $30
  
• DJ, XclusiV Club Xtra Special Event - DJ NADD & DJ KIDD & SAN, Xclusiv (XV) asian Restaurant Club (fmr. Prism) @ marina square, S039594, $30
  
• DJ, Marquee: Marquee Utopia - trance & future rave night, marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $20
  
• DJ, Zouk Phuture: [EATS EVERYTHING (UK 🇬🇧 deep tech house)](https:/www.ticketfairy.com/event/eats-everything-17may2024), zouk phuture club @ clarke quay, IG 📸 $48
  
  • DJ, Zouk: Mambo Jambo (70s 80s disco boogie night), $35

 

18 May, Sat

• Power Station 动力火车 - 「都是因为爱」世界巡回演唱会, indoor stadium, from $138
• Jazz It Up! A Jazzy Celebration of Chinese Songs 2024 爵士也华彩 2024 - Day 1 of 2 - ft Teresa Carpio (杜丽莎), Wysom Wong (黃偉深), Serene Koong (龚芝怡), Jazz Association Singapore, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), IG 📸 $48
• CAPITAL 958 唱FUN天 (G) - Day 1 of 2, the theatre @ mediacorp (one-north), $38
• SCO: Young Children's Concert 2024 儿童音乐会 2024 - Karung Guni Boy by Singapore Chinese Orchestra - Day 2 of 2 , Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• SG Music: TRIFECTA Backyard sessions - Charlie Lim, Shye, Tengy, Regina Song (pop, rock, rnb) and DJ set by Culture, IG Set Times📸, TRIFECTA - Surf, Snow, Skate Park (at Somerset MRT skate park), free
• Indie Hiphop & Rock & DJs: G-Town Presents: That's What I Call Open House - Live Hip Hop collectives Leftmind, Sappy Chill, Reptile Skin Business Club - Grungy Alt Rock with Bellied Star - DJS HZQ, El Professionel, Sadat, Nez Senja, Intermission Bar @ the projector golden mile tower (indie cinema, nicoll hwy mrt), ft. Mediocre Haircut Crew, Mars B, Fariz Jabba, Abangsapau, Sharbil, Boonbakes, Infra.24, Fauxe, Naztykeys, Fandy Razak, Big Mat, Tengy & Leftmind's Shane 2 Sweet , Kzy , Acapslim , Opus Renegade and Zimmy E., IG 📸 $20
• Indie Emo Pop Punk Gig: Sad Boy Hours Emo Night - Pillow Head, Circle Line Kid x Last Minute, A Letter You'll Never Read, DJ TheSoundofAlvin, Tonehouse Studio at Parklane Shopping Mall (bencoolen) L3 , IG 📸 $15
• Indie Synth Electronic - Hyper Highways by Synth Commune insp. by Nam June Paik - PolyBlank, Bokeh Fields, Falling Islands, Microchip Terror, Darts Legend @ One North, 20 Ayer Rajah Crescent, IG 📸 $7
• Indie Open Mic: INDIGO SCALES Open Mic Night - Melodies under the Stars, little island brewing co @ south beach (esplanade mrt, opp suntec convention)
• Wisma Geylang Serai Senandung Rock Jiwa Retak - thje competition, Wisma Geylang Serai (the Geylang Serai CC at Paya Lebar MRT) L1, free
• Cool Cats: Rai Maia presents Soul Sessions (neo-soul hiphop) - day 3 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• NLB Talk: Music Talk: The Play-by-Ear & Sight-Reading Divide in music learning and making., National Library (bugis) Lobby, Level 1, *free, its the public area *
• NTU A Cappella: NTU Harmonix's Story of My Life, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Music Box 535 clementi rd (king albert pk), $22
• NTU Jam Bands - Rocking In The North '24: Dream On - bands of North Hill Halls, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), IG 📸 $7
• NUS Rock Bands: Amplitube by NUS Amplified, ESPLANADE Annexe Studio, IG 📸 $15

 

Esplanade

• ES: songs on my floppy disk by Krysta Joy (singer songwriter), Indoor Concourse 545 645 745pm, free
• ES Music: Across the Golden Era - A Tribute to Hong Kong Movies & TV Series by The Mashed Ups, Outdoor Theatre 630 8pm 930pm, free
• ES Theatre: Moby Dick by Plexus Polaire - mutimedia theatre, puppets & live music - Day 2 of 2, SIFA 2024, Waterfront Theatre, $38

SIFA 2024

• Theatre/Multimedia AI: Una Isla by Agrupación Señor Serrano (ES) - 1 of 2, SOTA Drama Theatre (bencoolen, dhoby), $38
• Music Performances at Stamford Arts Center @ 155 Waterloo St (bugis):
  • 1 - 145 pm: Suhaili
  • 3 -4 pm, 5-6pm: Sonic Escapade with Micheal Spicer, Deborah Tan, Lydia Ang & Zheng Jie (improv avant garde eastern & western, from new age folk to industrial post-rock)
  • 7-730pm: Tetradics with Ridwan Ramli, Khairil Shazwan, Khoiriyyatun Sabila & Hanisah Tan (malay trad drums)
  • 8-830, 930-10pm: NUS Fingerstyle Guitar Ensemble
  • 8-830, 930-10pm: The Harp Quarterly with Karen Tay & Nigel Foo
• THEATRE AT STAMFORD ARTS CENTRE @ 155 waterloo st (bugis), ALL FREE but $20 refundable deposit
  • Theatre: Work In Progress by Dramabox (SG) - 1 of 2
  • Theatre: ANAK by The Necessary Stage (SG) - 1 of 2
  • Theatre: The Radicalisation of Mrs Mary Lim-Rodrigues by Michelle Tan, Centre 42 (SG) - 1 of 2
  • Theatre: DIDO AND AENEAS - a riotous reimagination of Henry Purcell's timeless opera by T:>Works (SG) - 2 of 2
  • Theatre & Puppetry: Remember My Party by The Finger Players - 2 of 2
  • Theatre: Waiting For Audience《等待观众》by Nine Years Theatre (SG) - 2 of 2
• Dance: The Romeo by Trajal Harrell (US/CH) - 1 of 2 w special post show talk, Victoria Concert Hall, $38
• Others
• Chinese Drama Performance by Hua Yi Secondary at Jurong West Public Library, Storytelling corner (children's section), free
• Methodist Girls' School Festival of Arts – Kizuna (Drama, International and Indian Dance), NUS University Cultural Centre Theatre, $30
• Blackbird: Flash Mobsta, Rock Rosettes, DJ Maverick, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park),

 

DJ Events

truncated, word limit - Wellness and DJ Party Immersion by Wild Pearl - BIG SPLASH with Yoga Movement & Rumours Beach, Rumours Beach Club 🏖 @ 40 Siloso Bch Walk, Sentosa, IG 📸 $37 - Live Hiphop & DJ, Drip, Dreamfellas Presents: CLOUT, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, $27 - DJ, Behind the Green Door: Anthony Middleton (🇬🇧 house, Audiofly), Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $35 - DJ, Marquee: Marquee Rising ft DJ Kiara 🇸🇬, marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $20 - DJ, Bollywood Club X pres. KALA CHASHMA, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $29 - DJ, Zouk: One Dance, Total Recall, Slime Hiphop, zouk clarke quay - DJ, Ce La Vi: BIG NITE OUT! feat. NAKADIA 🇹🇭 & OSCAR L 🇪🇸 (techno & house), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club 🗼, $38 - DJ, MODAL presents MODE09 feat. Tommy Four Seven (🇬🇧 techno), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd) L2, $37
 

19 May, Sun

• VCHpresents Chamber: The Pavel Haas Quartet 🇨🇿, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• Jazz It Up! A Jazzy Celebration of Chinese Songs 2024 爵士也华彩 2024 - Day 2 of 2 - ft Teresa Carpio (杜丽莎), Wysom Wong (黃偉深), Serene Koong (龚芝怡), Jazz Association Singapore, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $48
• Vocabella Ladies Choir: Lux et Amor - featuring Dan Forrest's Lux: The Dawn From on High and local compositions., School of the Arts (bencoolen/dhoby), $32
• Mus'Art Youth Wind Orchestra: Extravadanza - Music of Dance - band classics such as El Camino Real to pop favourites like Michael Jackson, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory main concert hall L1, $15
• Victoria School Chinese Orchestra : A MUSICAL JOURNEY IV (G), Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $15
• Blackbird: New Stream Brass Band, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park)
• ESPLANADE: : Theophilus Tan - Spring: Your Curated Experience by Musicians’s Initiative (plays Tchaikovsky, Schumann) , ESPLANADE Recital Studio, $32
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20 May, Mon

• BOWKYLION 🇹🇭 (t-pop) at Club Lunar 月, Club Lunar (southeast asian club) @ Orchard Plaza L4, table
• Pianoland Noon: Grand Opening for the Week-long showcase - Michelle Poh (jazz-pop-soul), Westgate Level 2 Atrium, free
  • Pianoland Evening: Mandopop Hits & More ft Chi Sheng & Aaron, free
• ESPLANADE: Victoria Junior College Symphonic Band , Concert Hall, $15
• ESPLANADE: Gabriel & Dennis - soul pop, rock, singer-songwriter blues, Indoor Concourse 645 745pm, free
• Blu Jaz: Musical Theatre Open Mic Night @ Blu Jaz Café Level 3, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $15
• DJ, FATE by HaveFun 520 party on Monday, southeast asian style club @ orchard cineleisure L8

21 May, Tue - PH eve

• Simply Jazz: Swing Journal - Johnny Gaerlan, Rosanna Gaerlan, Arnold Pontoh, Rafael Mahmood, simply jazz bar @ CHIJMES b1 (city hall)
• Cool Cats Jazz: Homegrown Originals feat. Maya Raisha (jazz rnb pop soul), nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20
• Pianoland Noon: Grand Opening Week - Namie and Ann Gie (of namie & the waves, jazz vocal pop), westgate level 2 atrium (jurong east mrt), free
• ESPLANADE: Grey Ying - childhood favorites from doraemon, crayon shin-chan to naruto, inyuyasha, Indoor Concourse, free
  • 15-21 May: ESPLANADE Workshop & Peformances: Day Out! @ with vocal coaches Dionne, Amanda and Deniece, and also bollywood dance crew Royalusion , Various locations around Esplanade, $27
• SIFA: URL to IRL: SIFA Digital, Victoria Theatre Atrium, free
• Workshop: Percussion Masterclass and Recital by Dr. Wannapha Yannavut 🇹🇭, Singapore Raffles Music College 456 Alexandra Road, Recital Hall @ Level 9 (labrador park, next to ARC), free
• The Blackbird: Bellingham Duo & Reverie ft DJ Maverick, Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park), free/bar
• Kids: Avocado Piano Candlelight Concert Series, Avocado Piano Studio Fort Canning @ 233 River Valley Road , free
• Flying V Metal Bar: Singer Song Rioter - YAS33 🇯🇵, flying v metal bar @ the adelphi B1, 📹vid, free
• Liveband & DJ, Level Up: Through the Decades - Pop Punk Edition with Jukuleles & DJ Kohsh, Level Up Clarke Quay – Live Music & Arcade Bar @ cq clarke quay L2 blk a S179020

 

• DJ, Hard Ascension presents Rave Odyssey ft. Kavok's Birthday (hardstyle hard dance night), black horse southeast asian club @ 138 robinson rd (cbd, oxley tower L20), tix 🎟 $27
• DJ, GLHF ORIENTAL RAVE ft. ATOMIX @ ARK 11, ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11, $20 w 2 drinks, ladies guestlist
• DJ, Club Hell: Rebirth in Hell. gay lgbt club @ 113 telok ayer st, $30
• DJ, HighHouse PLUTO PARTY PEOPLE feat. Stassh (KFC & Hookstyle), High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), free
• DJ, Marquee: Darren Styles (🇬🇧UK hardcore), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $30
• DJ, Zouk: AFRO BROS (🇳🇱Latin, house, reggaeton), zouk club clarke quay, $35

22 May, Wed - Vesak Day

• EVE 🇯🇵, Asia Tour 2024 ‘Culture’ (alt j-pop j-rock) (not the rapper), the theatre @ mediacorp (one-north), $98
• Parandhu Pogindren with Pradeep Kumar (G), The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $65
• VCHpresents Chamber: Poetry of the Harp – Xavier de Maistre 🇫🇷, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• Cool Cats: Kelvin Ng Presents Mr Blues , nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20
• ESPLANADE: Crooner's Corner: Perry Brady Koh (60s-80s), Indoor Concourse 545 645 745pm, free
• ESPLANADE: MISCOMM+ (pop, R&B, mandopop, country band), Outdoor Theatre 715 845, free
• Blackbird: Zenso & Peepshow, Blackbird Music Bar @ Gillman Barracks (labrador park),
• Pianoland Grand Opening: Mandopop Hits & Vocal Session by Lim Tay Peng, westgate level 2 atrium (jurong east), 6-7pm, free
  • Also: Students of LASALLE College of the Arts, 4-5pm, free
  • Kids: Students of Intune Music, Benjamin Loh, Rising Stars Series & Workshop: A Musical Playdate with The Music Connection by Sueli Tang, westgate level 2, from 11am, free except workshop $10
• DJ, Zouk: TGIW - Hazel's Guestlist, zouk clarke quay
• DJ, Highh Club: Highh Club presents WedneSLAY feat. K Faith , Highh Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade)
• Find the usual ladies night clubs elsewhere

Other Arts Events

• Till 9 Jun Musical: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, marina bay sands, $80
• Festival 25 Apr- 26 May: Voilah! France Singapore Festival, various
• Festival 1 - 25 May: Singapore HeritageFest 2024
• 16-26 May: Theatre: Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream by Singapore Repertory Theatre aka STC (Advisory - Some Mature Content), KC Arts Centre - Home of STC, $53
• 16-25 May: Theatre - I and You by Lauren Gunderson (G), Gateway Theatre Bukit Merah, $35
• 18-26 May Kids Chinese Theatre - 《小问号和探险家》The wee Question Mark and the Adventurer, 54 Waterloo Street (bras basah), $34
• 23-25 May: Indie Theatre: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, The Artground at Goodman Arts Centre (mountbatten mrt), $27
• 23-26 May: Kids Ballet - Peter & Blue's Treasure Hunt 2024 Presented by Singapore Ballet (G), School of The Arts (SOTA) Studio Theatre (bencoolen, dhoby ghaut), $35
• 10 May - 22 Sep Exhibition - Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey, Singapore Art Museum (SAM) at Tanjong Pagar Distripark, tix 🎟 from $12
• Ended: Comedic Theatre - God of Carnage, Drama Centre Black Box @ national library (bugis), $30
• Ended: Teochew Opera - The Pawned Wife 典妻 by Nam Hwa Opera, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), $10
• Ended: Theatre - Backstage Betrayal, A Crack the Case Mystery (Some Mature Content), KC Arts Centre @ 20 Merbau Rd, $68
• 18 May: Objectifs Photography Opening: The Yearning for Harmony by Full-time farmer in Japan, part-time photographer, Ryhan M.Y., info
• 23 May: Dance: SMU Eurhythmix - TIMELESS: NONSENSE II (hiphop), , capitol theatre city hall, $30
• Till 31 May DJ, ARK11 Club Complementary Entry for all Moms, @ Orchard Central Mall L11

 

23 May, Thu

• Pianoland Grand Opening Noon: Pop RnB Piano Jams with Owen Li (of a capella grp < the island voices>), westgate level 2 atrium
  • Evening: Classical Repertoire by local virtuoso pianist Jessie M. and Musical Stories ft Students of Pianology, free
• ESPLANADE: The Suncitysons (‘90s and ‘00s rock anthems, pop, rnb), Indoor Concourse, free
• Cool Cats: Ramy Falcon pres Havana Nights (cuban latin jazz) - day 1 of 3, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• 23-25 May: Indie Theatre: William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Conundrum Theatre, The Artground (at Goodman Arts Centre, mountbatten mrt), $27
• 23 May: Indie Theatre - The "Down There" Monologues - Charity Event by Evolve Arts, 44 pasir panjang rd (same mrt)
• SIFA Installation Performance: 23-26 May Wilful Machine by Genevieve Chua - day 1 , ArtSpace @ HeluTrans (tanjong pagar distripark next to Singapore Art Museum), $38
• SIFA Theatre (experimental visual): ANGELA (a strange loop) - day 1 of 2, Victoria Concert Hall, $38
• == Movie: Bocchi The Rock! General Opening==
• ==The Flying V Metal Bar: Special Set with Iman’s League and Joe,== dive bar at The Adelphi B1 (city hall), free
   
  
• Drag Burlesque: The Fruit Basket: Packed With Love, the projector golden mile tower, $25
  
• ==Party, Tuckshop Drag Bar Thirsty Thursday,== 51 neil rd
  
• DJ & Cocktail Guest Shift: HighHouse Coast To Toast ft DJ The Weatherman, High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude)
  
• DJ, Moonstone: Dance Fever by DJ Aldrin (a 70s 80s disco party, mambo jambo), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St, free/table
  
• DJ, Offtrack: Ryotaro (disco soul jazz), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
  
• DJ, Drip: Fuego Night's NRG Thursday (hiphop latin afrobeats amapiano), drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, tix 🎟 free to $15
  

 
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This is part 2 of my list for Virginia's post Furman execution roster. As mentioned in part 1's opening paragraph, character count limitations forced me into splitting my Virginia's execution roster into two separate posts. For the link to part 1, please click here.
59. Kevin Cardwell (1991-1998, lethal injection): Cardwell intercepted Anthony Brown, a 15 year old drug carrier, while he was at a bus stop. He lured Brown into his apartment and searched his belongings for any drugs. Brown was then dragged into the woods, shot to death, and stripped of the cocaine strapped to his legs.
60. Mark Sheppard (~1980s-1999, lethal injection): Sheppard and his accomplice Andre Graham were invited by their dealers, 40 year old Richard and 35 year old Rebecca Rosenbluth, over to their home to buy cocaine. However, an argument broke out during the transaction, and Sheppard shot the couple to death. The pair then drove away from the scene with the couple's car and a few undisclosed stolen items. Sheppard had a long history of violence that dated back to when he was 9 years old.
61. Tony Fry (1994-1999, lethal injection): Fry and his partner shot Leeland Jacobs, a 42 year old car salesman, while robbing his Ford Dealership. The pair tied Jacobs to a car they stole while he was still alive, and dragged him to death.
62. George Quesinberry Jr. (1989-1999, lethal injection): Quesinberry shot 63 year old Thomas Haynes while breaking into his office with an accomplice. When Haynes survived the initial shooting, Quesinberry hit him in the head with the gun and fractured his skull. The pair stole a total of $200 in the robbery.
63. David Fisher (~1970s(?)-1999, lethal injection): Fisher was paid $7,000 by an associate to kill 18 year old David Wilkey in retaliation for abandoning a murder scheme. Originally, Wilkey was part of a conspiracy to seduce and marry a young woman in order to kill her for an insurance policy, but backed out when he genuinely fell in love with the would be victim. He was tricked into going on a hunting trip with Fisher and shot to death by him. Fisher had 25 previous criminal convictions and was involved with organized crime. He was in the witness protection program at the time of Wilkey’s murder.
64. Carl Chichester (1991-1999, lethal injection): During a holdup of a Little Caesars, Chichester shot and killed the manager, 30 year old Timothy Rigney, for refusing to open the cash register. He and his two accomplices ran off with a total of $110.
65. Arthur Jenkins III (1991-1999, lethal injection): Jenkins and his teenage brother shot and killed their uncle, 72 year old Floyd, and their uncle's friend, 69 year old Lee Brinklow. They then stole their wallets and sacked Floyd's home for any money and valuables.
66. Eric Payne (~1980s-1999, lethal injection): Payne broke into the residences of two women, 61 year old Ruth Parham and 57 year old Sally Fazio, and raped them. Both women were beaten to death with a hammer, and he took money from their drawers and pocket books. He had a history of drug possessions and exposing himself to women.
67. Ronald Yeatts (1989-1999, lethal injection): Yeatts and an accomplice invaded 70 year old Ruby Dodson's home and stabbed her to death. The pair grabbed her purse during the burglary and divided up the money they found in it.
68. Tommy Strickler (1989-1999, lethal injection): Strickler and his partner kidnapped 19 year old Leann Whitlock from a mall and crushed her head with a 70 pound boulder. Whitlock's car and credit cards were stolen during the attack.
69. Marlon Williams (~1980s(?)-1999, lethal injection): Williams was paid $4,000 to murder 44 year old Helen Bedsole by his dealer, who was also her estranged husband. The couple were in the midst of a bitter divorce at the time, and the dealer wanted to both collect a life insurance policy and prevent Helen from dividing up their assets. He suck into the couple’s home, and shot and killed Helen in the kitchen. Williams had an extensive criminal history, which included cutting the throat of his ex girlfriend’s grandmother, 71 year old Virgina Parker, during a bungled attempt on her life.
70. Everett Mueller (1990-1999, lethal injection): 10 year old Charity Powers was dropped off at a skating ring by her mother. She was supposed to be picked up by her mother's friend, but they didn't show up due to failing asleep in their home. While Powers was waiting outside the ring in vain for her ride, she was abducted by Mueller. He raped the girl, slashed her throat, and dumped the body in a nearby forest.
71. Jason Joseph (1992-1999, lethal injection): While robbing a Subway with an accomplice, Joseph shot and killed one of the clerks, 22 year old Jeffrey Anderson.
72. Thomas Royal Jr. (~1991-1999, lethal injection): Royal and 3 other gang members fatally shot a police officer, 29 year old Kenneth Wallace, while he was sitting in his patrol car. Wallace was killed as part of the gang's campaign to target law enforcement agents. Royal and his fellow gang members were also suspected in the shooting of James Smith Jr. (age unknown), a Vietnam veteran, outside his trailer, but the charges were dropped from the lack of sufficient evidence.
73. Andre Graham (~1993-1999, lethal injection): Graham assisted the above mentioned Mark Sheppard in the Rosenbluth murders. He also shot and killed a waitress, 20 year old Sheryl Stack, and injured a 23 year old man while robbing a restaurant on his own, and is suspected in a total of 10 murders.
74. Douglas Thomas (1990-2000, lethal injection): The parents of Thomas' 14 year old girlfriend, 33 year old James and 33 year Kathy Wiseman, barred her from seeing him. In a bid to continue their relationship, Thomas and his girlfriend shot them to death in their home.
75. Steve Roach (1993-2000, lethal injection): Roach shot and killed 70 year old Mary Hughes on her doorstep and stole her credit card. He was caught on tape trying to use Hughes' stolen cards to pull money out of an ATM machine in North Carolina.
76. Lonnie Weeks Jr. (1993-2000, lethal injection): Weeks was pulled over by a state trooper, 50 year old Jose Cavazos, for speeding while driving a stolen car. In the confrontation that followed, he shot Cavazos dead after climbing out of the car, and fled the scene. He was captured hiding in a nearby motel after an hour long manhunt.
77. Michael Clagett (1994-2000, electric chair): Clagett's girlfriend was fired from her job as a hotel waitress by the management, and the couple decided to retaliate by robing the establishment. They shot and killed the owner Lam Van Son, a 41 year old Vietnamese refugee, a waitress, 31 year old Karen Rounds, two other employees, 31 year old Karen Rounds and 32 year old Wendell Parish Jr., and a customer Abdelaziz Gren, a 34 year old Moroccan immigrant, and took $400 in cash from the register. Van Son’s 3 year old son was sleeping in the backroom during the attack, but the couple left him unharmed.
78. Russel Burket (1993-2000, lethal injection): Burket snuck into the home of 30 year old Katherine Tafelski while her Navy SEALs husband was deployed overseas, and sexually assaulted her. Katherine and her 5 year old daughter Ashley were both beaten to death with a "rusty" crowbar.
79. Derek Barnabei (1993-2000, lethal injection): Barnabei seduced a fellow Old Dominion University student, 17 year old Sarah Wisnosky, into a relationship with him and kidnapped her. She was raped, partially strangled, beaten to death with a hammer, and dumped into a river near campus grounds. Due to him being of Italian ancestry, his death sentence and execution sparked outrage in Italy.
80. Bobby Ramdass (1992-2000, lethal injection): Ramdass was condemned for the shooting death of Mohammed Kayani, a 34 year old Pakistani immigrant working as a clerk, during a convenience store robbery. He also shot dead 19 year old Darrell Ferguson in an alley and wounded a cab driver in other robberies.
81. Christopher Goins (1994-2000, lethal injection): Goins broke into the home of his 14 year old girlfriend (who was 7 months pregnant with his child). He shot and killed her parents, 35 year old James and 29 year old Daphne Jones, and her siblings, 9 year old Nicole and 4 year old David. The girlfriend and her youngest sibling, 21 month old Kenya, were also shot in the attack. Both of them survived, but the unborn child was lost in the shooting.
82. Thomas Akers (1998-2001, lethal injection): Akers and his accomplice were driving with their friend, 24 year old Wesley Smith. When they pulled over on a road to urinate, they pounced on Smith. In the attack, he was strangled with a belt and beaten to death with a baseball bat. They pair then grabbed $200 from his wallet and dumped his body in a creek. While on death row, Akers demanded his execution and made threats against the judge who sentenced him if it wasn't carried out.
83. Christopher Beck (1995-2001, lethal injection): Out of anger for being fired, Beck invaded the house of his former employer, 52 year old William Miller. He waited for him and his two roommates, 54 year old Florence Marks and 34 year old David Kaplan, to return home and shot and stabbed them all to death. Marks was also raped in the attack. Although Beck claimed that he "only" staged a sexual assault on her, a medical examination confirmed that she was abused in that manner. Beck stole several guns, bicycles, and money in the robbery.
84. James Patterson (1987-2002, lethal injection): Patterson held his friend's mother, 56 year old Joyce Aldridge, in her home at knifepoint. Enraged that she only had a few coins in her purse, he raped Aldridge, stabbed her 3 times, and left her to die. When Aldridge managed to crawl to a phone to call her son for help, Patterson returned and stabbed her 14 more times. Although Aldridge's murder was left unsolved for years, Patterson was later imprisoned for raping an 18 year old girl, and DNA found at the murder was traced to his samples filed in the inmate database in 2000.
85. Daniel Zirkle (1999-2002, lethal injection): Zirkle's girlfriend broke off their relationship due to his violent behavior and filed protective orders against him. He was arrested for violating them and sentenced to a few months in jail. After his release, Zirkle went to his ex girlfriend's home without her permission to visit their daughter, 4 year old Christina. However, the ex girlfriend's other daughter, 14 year old Jessica Shifflett, blocked him from coming inside. He stabbed her to death and kidnapped Christina. He then drove Christina to the George Washington National Forest, slit her throat, and stabbed himself in a failed suicide attempt.
86. Walter Mickens Jr. (~1974-2002, lethal injection): Mickens ambushed and sodomized 17 year old Timothy Hall, and stabbed him 143 times. He stripped the boy of nearly all of his clothing, and left him to die in an abandoned apartment. A long time sexual predator and career criminal, Mickens had several robbery and sodomy convictions dating back to the 70s. One of his previous incidents involved breaking into an elementary school, and coercing a teacher of her purse by threatening the life of a 7 year old student. He also had a conviction for sexually assaulting a cellmate.
87. Aimal Kasi (1993-2002, lethal injection): In his efforts to fight against American foreign policy regarding Islamic nations, Kasi attacked the Langley CIA headquarters with a Type 56 assault rifle. He shot dead 2 CIA employees, 66 year old Lansing Bennett and 28 year old Frank Darling, and wounded 3 others. Kasi then fled to Afghanistan, but was lured into his native Pakistan to be captured in a joint FBI-CIA led operation, and extradited back to the United States to face trial.
88. Earl Bramblett (~1970s(?)-2003, electric chair): Bramblett had molested 11 year old Winter Hodges and feared that her parents, 41 year old William and 37 year old Teresa, were planning on reporting him to the police. In an attempt to prevent that from happening, he attacked the family in their home. Teresa was strangled, while William, Winter, and another daughter, 3 year old Anah, were shot dead. Bramblett then set the house on fire to destroy any evidence of the murders. He had several abuse allegations and was also suspected in the 1977 disappearances of two 14 year old girls, Tammy Akers and Angela Rader, that worked for him, but was never charged for any of them.
89. Bobby Swisher (1997-2003, lethal injection): Swisher abducted 22 year old Dawn Snyder from her flower shop at knife point and raped her. He slashed Snyder's throat and dumped her into a nearby river. Despite managing to swim back to shore, Snyder succumbed to her injuries on the river bank.
90. Brian Cherrix (1994-2004, lethal injection): Cherrix ambushed 23 year old Tessa Van Hart while she was trying to deliver a pizza. He sodomized and shot Van Hart twice in the head, and left the body in her car. The crime was left unsolved until Cherrix was arrested for shooting and wounded his brother two years later. In an attempt to secure leniency, Cherrix disclosed some details of Van Hart's murder, but tried pinning it on a deceased cousin. He only confessed when investigators learned that the cousin couldn't have possibly done it.
91. Dennis Orbe (1998-2004, lethal injection): Orbe fatally shot Richard Burnett, a 39 year old clerk, while robbing a grocery store, and seized $90 from the register.
92. Mark Bailey (1998-2004, lethal injection): Bailey shot and killed his wife, 22 year old Katherine, and their 2 year old son, Nathan, while they were laying in bed. He claimed to investigators that the murders were done out of anger for Katherine's alleged infidelity.
93. James Hudson (2002-2004, lethal injection): In a feud over a driveway, Hudson broke into the home of the Cole family (consisting of brothers, 64 year old Thomas and 56 year old Walter, and Thomas' wife, 64 year old Patsy) to confront them with a shotgun. He shot all three of the Coles dead and drove away from the scene. Hudson was captured after nearly a day long manhunt.
94. James Reid (1996-2004, lethal injection): Reid stabbed 87 year old Annie Lester 22 times with a pair of scissors, beat her with a can of milk, and strangled her with the cord of a heating pad. He left the body in her bedroom and fled her house. Although the evidence for his guilt was overwhelming (which included the blood on his clothes matched Lester's DNA, several of his fingerprints were discovered on the murder weapons, samples of his saliva were found on a cigarette butt in her house, and his handwriting was identical to the writing of a death threat sent to Lester), Reid's death sentence and execution was contested on the grounds of him allegedly having brain damage from a car accident, seizures, and alcoholism. The motivations behind Lester's murder remain unknown, but prosecutors suspected that it might have been part of a bungled robbery or rape attempt.
95. Dexter Vinson (1997-2006, lethal injection): Vinson attacked his ex girlfriend, 25 year old Angela Felton, near her home. Felton tried to escape by driving away, but he rammed her car with his, and forced her inside it. She was then dragged into a vacant house, raped, beaten, and stabbed in the face, neck, arms, buttocks, stomach, and vagina. The body was left in the house as Vinson fled the scene.
96. Brandon Hedrick (1997-2006, electric chair): Hendrick kidnapped a sex worker, 23 year old Lisa Crider, while he was cruising for prostitutes. Initially, Crider and Hendrick had engaged in paid consensual relations, but the situation turned violent when he robbed her of $50 at gunpoint. She was then raped, shot in the face, and dumped into a river.
97. Michael Lenz (~1990s-2006, lethal injection): While serving 29 years for a burglary and weapons possession conviction, Lenz stabbed a fellow inmate, 41 year old Brent Parker, to death. Both were part of a Nordic Neopaganism sect, and the killing was committed over Parker allegedly not expressing enough devotion to their deities. Parker was serving a life sentence for killing a friend during a drunken rage at the time of his own murder.
98. John Schmitt (1999-2006, lethal injection): During a holdup of a bank, Schmitt shot and killed the guard, 39 year old Shelton Dunning, and took $35,000 from the vaults.
99. Kevin Green (1998-2008, lethal injection): Green and his teenage nephew stormed a convenience store, and forced the owners, 68 year old Lawrence Vaughan and his wife, 53 year old Patricia, to hand over $9,000 in cash. They then shot the couple, killing Patricia and wounding Lawrence.
100. Robert Yarbrough (1997-2008, lethal injection): Yarbrough and his accomplice tied up 77 year old Cyril Hamby while robbing his grocery store. They subjected Hamby to beatings and nearly decapitated him with a pocket knife. The pair then stole beer, wine, cigarettes, and an undisclosed amount of money.
101. Kent Jackson (2000-2008, lethal injection): Jackson and an accomplice attacked 79 year old Beulah Kaiser in her apartment, and raped her. She was stabbed several times in the neck, beaten, and her cane was shoved down her throat after she was anally penetrated with it. A cigarette butt found at the crime scene was traced to the pair.
102. Christopher Emmett (2001-2008, lethal injection): Emmett was staying at a motel room with a coworker, 43 year old John Langley, while they were working on an out of town roofing job. The pair played cards until Langley went to bed. As he slept, Emmett bludgeoned him to death with a lamp, and stole $100 from his wallet. He used the stolen money to buy crack cocaine.
103. Edward Bell (~1990s-2008, lethal injection): While running away from officers trying to arrest him for a parole violation, Bell shot and killed one of his pursers, 32 year old Sergeant Ricky Timbrook. Bell had a long criminal record, which included several felony and misdemeanor convictions of assault, burglary, carrying conceal weapons, and was found to have stolen a car during the investigations of Timbrook's murder.
104. John Muhammad (~1999-2008, lethal injection): The so called “D.C. Sniper”, Muhammad shot and killed 17 random people between the ages of 21-76 with the help of a teenage accomplice in mostly sniper attacks. The killings took place in the national capital, hence the epithet, and across several states. Due to his affiliation with the Nation of Islam and the accomplice’s accounts of planning terrorist attacks and training camps, Muhammad’s murder spree are often considered to be acts of Islamic extremism in the media. However, experts believe that his real intentions was to kill his estranged wife using the sniper attacks as a mask. Muhammad had a long history of domestic violence, and had abducted his children from his estranged wife on numerous occasions. His accomplice had also accused him of sexual abuse a few years after his execution.
105. Larry Elliott (2001-2008, electric chair): Elliott, a former military counterintelligence agent, was in an online "sugar daddy" relationship with a much younger woman. At the woman's request, Elliott sent her over $450,000, which she used to pay for a home, credit card, car, breast enhancement surgery, and enrolling her children in a private school. The woman was also involved with a bitter custody dispute with her children's father, 30 year old Robert Finch. In an attempt to win the woman's devotion, Elliott shot and killed Finch in his home, and beat Finch's girlfriend, 25 year old Dana Thrall, to death with the butt of his gun.
106. Paul Powell (1999-2010, electric chair): Angry that his friend, 16 year old Stacie Reed, was in an interracial relationship, Powell made an attempt to rape her in her home. When she fought back, Powell stabbed her to death. He also tied up Stacie's 14 year old sister to be raped, stabbed, and strangled, and left the girl to die in the family's basement. The sister managed to survive with the timely arrival of their stepfather, who called the police and the paramedics to the scene. On the mistaken belief that the death penalty was off the table, Powell sent letters flaunting the lewd details of the murder to taunt the prosecutors, judge, and the victims’ family.
107. Darick Walker (~1996-2010, lethal injection): In 1996, Walker walked up to the door of 36 year old Stanley Beale, and angrily accused him of showing up at his home despite the fact that they were complete strangers. He then shot Beale dead in front of his children and girlfriend, and ran away from the scene. A year later, Walker forced himself into an apartment, and shot 34 year old Clarence Threat seven times while he was laying in bed with his girlfriend. Walker had a history of violence and frequently stole from his friends and family. In one reported incident, he kicked the stomach of a pregnant woman in an act of rage.
108. Teresa Lewis (2002-2010, lethal injection): Lewis conspired with two men that she had a sexual relationship with to kill her husband, 51 year old Julian, and her stepson, 25 year old Charles. Charles was about to be deployed to participate in the then upcoming invasion of Iraq, which gave him a $250,000 life insurance policy that Lewis wanted to collect from both him and his father. She let her accomplices inside their trailer, and shot Julian and Charles while they were sleeping. Charles was killed immediately, while Julian, who witnessed Lewis pay the attackers, survived long enough to notify the responders of his wife's involvement.
109. Jerry Jackson (2001-2011, lethal injection): Jackson broke into the apartment of 88 year old Ruth Phillips, and woke her up while he was rummaging through her room. Despite Phillips' pleas for her life, Jackson raped her and suffocated her to death with a pillow. He stole her car and a total of $60 in the break in, and spent the stolen money on marijuana.
110. Robert Gleason (2007+(?)-2013, electric chair): In 2007, Gleason shot and killed 54 year old Michael Jamerson, in order to prevent him from testifying about his drug trafficking activities, and was given a life sentence for the murder. While incarcerated, he tied up and strangled his cellmate, 63 year old Harvey Watson (who serving a life sentence for a mass shooting). Prison officials then transferred him to a high security prison to await trial for Watson’s murder, but he managed to strangle another inmate, 26 year old Aaron Cooper (who was serving 34 years for robbery), to death with the wire that separated their cages. Gleason demanded the death penalty, which was given to him by the courts. He also claimed that he committed several other killings before Jamerson, but his additional confessions currently remain unverifiable.
111. Alfredo Prieto (~1984-2015, lethal injection): Prieto was both a serial killer of young women and a member of the Pomona Northside street gang. His sexual crimes involved the abductions, rapes, and shooting deaths of at least 4 females, 24 year old Tina Jefferson, 22 year old Rachael Raver, 19 year old Stacey Siegrist, and 15 year old Yvette Woodruff. Raver and Siegrist’s partners, 22 year old Warren Fulton III and 21 year old Anthony Gianuzzi, were also murdered during their kidnappings. The other known victims, 27 year old Manuel Sermeno, and couple, 71 year old Lula and 65 year old Herbert Farley, were shot dead during robberies. In the home invasion that killed Woodruff, Prieto and his fellow gang members also abducted her 17 year old friend and the friend’s 33 year old mother. The mother and daughter pair were gang-raped, shot and stabbed together, but they managed to escape with their lives. Prieto was sentenced to death in both California and Virginia, but stayed in California’s San Quentin until his death warrant was signed in Virginia. He had also shot and injured 3 gang members over his suspicions of them sleeping with his wife, but was lightly sentenced due to the victims' gang affiliations.
112. Ricky Gray (~2005-2017, lethal injection): Gray and his similarly aged nephew murdered at least 9 people, which composed of a lone woman, 35 year old Treva Gray, and two entire families, the Harveys (consisting of parents, 49 year old Bryan and 39 year old Kathryn, and their daughters, 9 year old Stella and 4 year old Ruby), and the Baskerville-Tuckers (consisting of 21 year old Ashley, her 46 year old mother Mary, and Mary’s 55 year old husband Percyell) in a week long burglary spree. Almost all of the victims were tied up and gagged in their homes, and beaten to death with hammers or had their throats slit. Before she was killed by them with her parents, victim Ashley Baskerville had assisted Gray and his nephew in several of their robberies. The pair stole any items and valuables they could carry, and were reported to have taken money, computers, television sets, wedding rings, and even cookies. They were also linked to several non fatal assaults, one of which involved a 26 year old man being beaten into a coma.
113. William Morva (~2005-2017, lethal injection): Morva, a son of Hungarian immigrants, and an accomplice were arrested while trying rob a grocery store at gunpoint. While awaiting trial, he badly sprained his ankle and wrist in prison, and was transferred to the Montgomery Regional Hospital for treatment. He overpowered a deputy guarding him with a metal toilet-paper container, stole his gun, fatally shot Derrick McFarland, a 25 year old hospital security guard, and escaped. Morva then fled to Virginia Tech’s campus, and shot and killed 40 year old Eric Sutphin, one of the police officers chasing him.

We all know he has his favorites and the people he barely tolerates, but who would he simply not be able to place out of the context of a Bravo-based setting? I can picture a drunk or stoned AC being approached at a restaurant by Nicole Napolitano or Teresa Aprea (RHONJ, S6) and him wondering if they're fans or someone he should actually know!

Here is the list that I wrote for Georgia's post Furman execution roster for my death penalty project. Like with the previous posts, the dates aren't a precise duration of time spent on death row, but rather an approximation of their earliest known criminal activities to their executions. Many of the crimes discussed in this post are also extremely horrific, and thus please read at your own risk.
As I finished finials yesterday, the remaining states, Missouri, Virginia, Florida, and Oklahoma might be released on a quicker pace. I'm planning on doing Missouri next, but it might be split into at least two separate parts due to the currently 98 executions that have taken place.
The currently executed 77 inmates:
1. John Smith (1974-1983, electric chair): Smith and his wife decided to kill her ex husband, 38 year old Ronald Atkins, and his 29 year old wife Juanita, when they learned that the daughter she had in their former marriage were beneficiaries of the Atkins' life insurance policy. The couple and another accomplice lured the Atkins' to their home with a promise of selling them a television set, and shot them both dead.
2. Ivon Stanley (1976-1984, electric chair): Stanley and an accomplice abducted Clifford Floyd, a 46 year old insurance agent, after they lured him into the accomplice's apartment. Floyd was dragged into a forest, beaten with a hammer, and tied to a tree. He was then shot and buried alive in a shallow grave. Floyd succumbed to a combination of blood loss and suffocation and a total of $234 was stolen from him in the attack.
3. Alpha Stephens (~1961-1984, electric chair): In 1973, Stephens shot dead 57 year old Louise Mercer while robbing a grocery store her brother owned. A year later, Stephens abducted Roy Asbell, a 49 year old minister, from his home with a gun he stole from Asbell's son. Asbell tried bribing his captor with hundreds of dollars in cash for his life, but Stephens simply snatched the money away, dragged Asbell to a barn, and shot him in the head. He had a significant rap sheet that included several armed robberies, prison breakouts, auto thefts, kidnappings, and burglaries, and was first arrested at the age of 16.
4. Roosevelt Green Jr. (1976-1985, electric chair): During a robbery of a convenience store, Green kidnapped the clerk, 18 year old Teresa Allen, stole $466 from the cash register, and drove away with his loot and hostage in her car. He then raped Allen, shot her to death, and dumped her body on a dirt road.
5. Van Solomon (1979-1985, electric chair): Solomon and his accomplice Brandon Jones gunned down 29 year old Roger Tackett while robbing a Tenneco store he managed. Ironically, Solomon himself was shot by an assailant robbing his grocery store some years before the murder.
6. John Young (1974-1985, electric chair): Young attacked 6 elderly men and women with bottles, lamps, fireplace pokers, and vases in their homes, across a single neighborhood. 3 of the victims, 85 year old Coleman Brice, his 83 year old wife Gladys, and 83 year old Katie Davis, were beaten to death in the assaults. Several variables such as jewelry and watches were taken as well.
7. Jerome Bowden (1976-1986, electric chair): Bowden and an accomplice stabbed 55 year old Kathryn Stryker to death and gravely wounded her bedridden mother, 76 year old Wessie Jenkins while burglarizing their home. Several items, such a wig, a pellet gun, some jewelry, and a television set was stolen in the intrusion. The television set was sold by Bowden to one of his acquaintances. Jenkins initially survived the attack, but died from complications relating to their injuries after Bowden was indicted for her daughter's murder.
8. Joseph Mulligan (1974-1987, electric chair): As part of a scheme to collect an insurance policy, Mulligan shot his sister's estranged husband, 30 year old Patrick Doe and Doe's girlfriend, 25 year old Marion Miller, while they were driving to a party. Doe was a captain in the United States Army at the time of his death.

1. Richard Tucker Jr. (~1963-1987, electric chair): In 1963, Tucker stabbed his aunt, 61 year old Annie Armstrong, 14 times with scissors while burglarizing her home. He was released from incarceration in 1978. 6 months after being let out of prison, Tucker abducted 50 year old Edna Sandefur from a hospital parking lot while she was visiting her ill mother, and drove her to a remote warehouse. He robbed and raped Sandefur, and then beat her to death with an iron pipe. Tucker also had previous convictions of burglary and attempted rape.

10. William Tucker (1977-1987, electric chair): Tucker abducted 19 year old Kathleen Parry, a pregnant clerk, while he was robbing a convenience store she was working at. He forced Parry at knifepoint to withdraw money from the cash register, and dragged her into his car. When they drove to a chapel, Tucker stabbed her to death.
11. William Mitchell (1974-1987, electric chair): Mitchell accosted 50 year old Willard Williams while he was walking down a street and mugged him of $4. He then forced Williams to lay down and shot him execution style. In the following day, he held 34 year old Peggy Carr and her 14 year old son Christopher at gunpoint while they were opening their family owned store. Despite Peggy giving him $160, he made rape threats against her and forced the pair into a freezer. Both mother and son were shot several times and left for dead by Mitchell. Christopher died at the scene, while his mother survived her injuries.
12. Timothy McCorquodale (1974-1987, electric chair): McCorquodale and his entourage accused Donna Dixon, a 17 year old runaway, of stealing money from him and giving it to a black pimp that he thought she was having a relationship with. He bombarded Dixon with racist insults and sexual advances as he and his accomplices kidnapped her from a club. After she was taken to McCorquodale’s apartment, Dixon was bound, and repeatedly beaten and raped. They tortured her by cutting her breasts with razor blades, burned her body with cigarette butts and candle wax, and she was violated with a bottle. The abuse ended when McCorquodale broke her arms and legs, and strangled her to death with a clothesline. On death row, McCorquodale escaped with three other inmates, including Troy Gregg of the 1976 Furman vs Gregg infamy. After the group took refuge at a biker bar, McCorquodale beat Gregg to death in a fight with the help of a Outlaws Motorcycle gang member. Days after Gregg's murder, McCorquodale and the other surviving fugitives were recaptured hiding out at an Outlaws Biker's home.
13. James Messer Jr. (1979-1988, electric chair) To get back at his estranged wife for leaving him with their children, Messer kidnapped her niece, 8 year old Rhonda Tanner, while he was picking her up from school. He raped and severely beat Tanner in a forest and stabbed her to death.
14. Henry Willis III (1976-1989, electric chair): Willis and his accomplices abducted a policeman, 29 year old James Giddens, that was dispatched to stop their robbery of a food market. They took the captive officer near a lake, where he tried to escape by jumping into it. Willis and one of his partners shot Giddens dead while he was trying to swim to safety.
15. Warren McCleskey (1978-1991, electric chair): McCleskey robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint, and fired on the responding officers. One of the officers, 30 year old Frank Schlatt was killed in the shooting.
16. Thomas Stevens (1977-1993, electric chair): Stevens and Christopher Burger abducted a fellow soldier, 20 year old Roger Honeycutt, who was also working as a cab driver, when he picked them up from the enlisted men's club on Fort Stewart. Honeycutt was tied up with a cord, robbed of $20, and sodomized repeatedly by both of his captors. The pair then locked Honeycutt in the trunk of the cab, and drove it into a pond as they jumped out. Being unable to escape, Honeycutt drowned as his car sank into the pond's depths.
17. Christopher Burger (1977-1993, electric chair): As mentioned under Thomas Stevens' section, Burger assisted in the robbery, abduction, rape, and murder of Roger Honeycutt.
18. William Hance (1977-1994, electric chair): Hance, a former Marine that transferred himself to the Army, abducted at least 3 women, 32 year old Irene Thirkield, 24 year old Karen Hickman, and 21 year old Gail Jackson. Thrikield and Jackson were black prostitutes and Hickman was a white Marine servicewoman that was stationed in the same base as Hance. They were all raped and beaten to death with jack handles and tire irons. In a misguided attempt to throw off the police and attract media attention, Hance staged a convoluted hoax involving a race war between a gang of white vigilantes and a gang of black counter vigilantes. He tried to pretend that his victims were murdered from retaliatory killings between the two groups. Hance was also suspected in the murder of another woman in Indiana, but was never charged of it.
19. Nicholas Ingram (1983-1995, electric chair): Ingram broke into the home of 55 year old J.C. Sawyer and his wife Mary. He forced them to hand over $60 and their car keys at gunpoint, tied the couple together to a tree, and shot both of them. J.C. was killed, while Mary survived their ordeal. Ingram then stole their car and fled to California. While a fugitive hiding out in California, he committed another carjacking, and ran off to Nebraska, where he was detained for a DUI and deported back to Georgia to face trial. Due to being a British national, Ingram's execution sparked outrage in the United Kingdom.
20. Darrell Devier (1979-1995, electric chair): Devier lured 12 year old Mary Stoner into his car while she was walking home from school. He raped her in a forest, made an attempt to strangle her during their struggle, and crushed Stoner's head with a rock. Months before the murder, Devier was accused of raping a 13 year old girl, but the charges against him were dismissed from the lack of sufficient evidence.
21. Larry Lonchar (1986-1996, electric chair): During a dispute over gambling debts, Lonchar confronted his bookkeeper, 54 year old Wayne Smith, at his condo while pretending to be a FBI agent. In the altercation, he bound Wayne and his 24 year old son Steven with handcuffs, and shot and stabbed them to death. Wayne's girlfriend, 45 year old Margaret Sweat, called 911, and was also shot and stabbed to death while she was on the phone with the dispatcher. Another one of Wayne's sons was attacked in the incident, but he managed to survive his injuries.
22. Ellis Felker (1977-1996, electric chair): Evelyn Ludlam, a 19 year old cocktail waitress for the Holiday Inn, was lured into Flelker's clutches when he promised her work at his leather store. For religious reasons, Ludlam was disaffected with her job, and wanted a new line of work. Felker raped and strangled Ludlam to death and sexually mutilated her body. After he murdered Ludlem, Felker dumped her remains in a creek. He was registered sex offender with a sodomy conviction at the time of Ludlam's death.
23. David Cargill (1985-1998, electric chair): Cargill and his brother stormed a gas station, and forced a couple, 41 year old Danny and 29 year old Cheryl Williams, to lie on the floor. Cheryl was a clerk for the station, and Danny stopped by to help her close down after he put their sons to bed. The brothers shot the couple execution style, and stole a total of $482.79 from the register. They were also involved with several carjackings.
24. Terry Mincey (1982-2001, lethal injection): Mincey and his accomplices robbed a convenience store at gunpoint, and forced the clerk, 38 year old Paulette Riggs to empty the cash register into their bag. They shot her dead, and took 2 teenage siblings hostage that were present in the store. Coincidentally, a firefighter pulled up to the scene to refill his truck, and Mincey shot and wounded him. The siblings took the opportunity to escape and fled into a nearby field.
25. Jose High (1976-2001, lethal injection): High and his accomplices abducted 11 year old Bonnie Bulloch and his stepfather, 27 year old Henry Philips, from a gas station they were operating, after emptying the cash register. The robbers forced the pair into their car, reportedly taunted the captives about their intentions to kill them, and drove to a remote forest. They then shot Bulloch dead and wounded Philips.
26. Fred Gilreath Jr. (1979-2001, lethal injection): Gilreath's wife, 28 year old Linda, moved out of their home to escape their disintegrating marriage. When Linda returned with her father, 57 year old Gerrit Van Leeuwen, to pack up her belongings, Gilreath shot them both dead.
27. Byron Parker (1984-2001, lethal injection): Parker enticed 11 year old Christie Griffith into his car after she missed her taxi that was supposed to take her to her older brother's high school graduation. He bound Griffith to a tree, and raped and strangled her death, while his two year old son was waiting for him in their car.
28. Ronald Spivey (~1961-2002, lethal injection): While playing pool at a bar, Spivey got into a fight with 32 year old Charles McCook over money he perceived to have won, and shot him to death. A day later, he robbed a bank and took hostages. He fatally shot Bill Watson, a 40 year old off duty police officer that tried to stop him, and injured the manager, 21 year old Welton Allen. Allen tried fleeing to a nearby restaurant, and Spivey following him into it in pursuit. He fired on the establishment in an attempt to kill him, but missed and wounded an employee caught in the crossfire. Spivey then kidnapped a waitress and forced her to drive him to Alabama. She was rescued unharmed by local authorities when they pulled over and captured Spivey. A search of the stolen car found that Spivey stole a total of $360 in his robberies. His previous convictions include several counts of forgery, armed robbery, and auto theft.
29. Tracy Housel (1984-2002, lethal injection) Housel was a sexual predator and thief that victimized men and women alike between the ages of 18-45. He worked as a interstate truck driver, and picked up victims that he befriended from stops all across the country. They were driven to isolated locations, where Housel would bind, rob, and sodomize them. His killing methods were diverse and circumstantial, but Housel mostly used strangulations, beatings, and stabbings in the attacks. Housel was convicted in the deaths of Troy Smith (age unknown) and 44 year old Jean Drew, and is suspected in and/or confessed to 15 other murders. He was also responsible for several non fatal assaults and robberies. Like Nicholas Ingram, Housel's death sentence and execution sparked outrage in the United Kingdom due to him being a British national.
30. Wallace Fugate III (1991-2002, lethal injection): Fugate forced himself inside the home of his ex wife, 39 year old Pattie. He pistol whipped Pattie dozens of times and shot her dead in front of their 15 year old son. Unrelated to the case, but that son was beaten to death in the same house by his friends a year after Fugate's conviction.
31. William Putman (1980-2002, lethal injection): Purtman shot and killed 49 year old William Hodges on the side of a highway. Hours later, he snuck up on a married couple, 28 year old Kate Back and 22 year old David Hardin, sleeping at a rest stop in their car with their children (which included a 9 year old daughter, a 7 year old son, and an 11 month old daughter) and 14 year old niece. He shot David dead and tried to abduct Kate. When she resisted and screamed for her husband, Purtman shot her as well and fled the scene.
32. Larry Moon (1984-2003, lethal injection): According to prosecutors, Moon ambushed 34 year old Ricky Callahan while the later was walking to a pharmacy to buy headache medicine for his wife. Callahan was shot in the head during the attack and had $60 taken from his wallet. Moon was also suspected in the shooting deaths of Jimmy Hutcheson (age unknown) and Thomas DeJose (age unknown), several robberies, and the abduction and sexual assault of a female impersonator. The prosecution failed to convict him for the murder of DeJose on the grounds of self defense and the murder of Butcheson on the lack of sufficient evidence. His conviction for Callahan's murder is contested, as Moon and his supporters claim that a late hitman confessed to the killing.
33. Carl Isaacs (~1960s-2003, lethal injection): Isaacs, with the help of two of his brothers and a cellmate, escaped from the Maryland State prison, and fatally shot 19 year old Richard Miller when he tried to stop them from stealing a car. The group drove by a Georgia gas pump in the hopes of refilling their getaway car. However, the pump was empty, and decided to burglarize a nearby trailer belonging to the Alday family (which consisted of brothers, 62 year old Ned and 57 year old Aubrey, Ned's sons, 35 year old Jerry and 32 year old Chester, and Jerry's 26 year old wife Mary) while they were gone. When the family returned home, Isaacs and his accomplices held the entire family at gun point, gang-raped Mary several times, and shot them all dead. Isaacs had a very troubled history, and committed several burglaries and robberies as a teenager.
34. James Brown (~1968-2003, lethal injection): Brown went on a date with Brenda Watson, a 21 year old stripper. After they were drinking and partying together at a bar, Brown tied up Watson with nylon stockings, and raped and asphyxiated her by shoving panties down her throat. He had a long history involving violence towards women. One of his previous convictions involved an incident of him breaking into a woman’s home, and (non fatally) stabbing and sexually assaulting her. Brown also had a warrant at the time of Watson’s murder for aggravated robbery, kidnapping, and sexual assault charges when he lured another woman by posing as an artist in need of a model.
35. Robert Hicks (~1970s-2004, lethal injection): Hicks laid his eyes on 28 year old Joni Rivers while she was talking to her boyfriend using a grocery store payphone. He chased down Rivers when she tried to flee from him and nearly decapitated her in a frenzied stabbing attack. Rivers' shoes, shorts, and ring were taken and found in Hicks' car. Hicks was released from prison months earlier after serving a half of a 15 year sentence for sexually abusing a 16 year old girl.
36. Eddie Crawford (1983-2004, lethal injection): Crawford tried spending the night with one of his estranged wife's sisters after a drinking binge, but she ejected him from her home. Out of anger, he abducted Leslie English, her 2 year old daughter, from the girl's bedroom, and then raped and strangled her to death.
37. Timothy Carr (1992-2005, lethal injection): Carr and his girlfriend attended a party with 17 year old Keith Young. The couple decided that they wanted to rob the boy, and they lured him into a forest with the help of two other teenagers. Carr slit Young's throat, and then proceeded to beat him to death with a baseball bat. He and his accomplices stole a $125 paycheck and Young's car in the robbery.
38. Stephen Mobley (1991-2005, lethal injection): Mobley shot and killed 25 year old John Collins while robbing a Domino's Pizza restaurant he was managing. He had also held up 6 other restaurants and dry-cleaning shops at gunpoint in his month long crime spree.
39. Robert Conklin (~1981-2005, lethal injection): Conklin stabbed his boyfriend, 28 year old George Crooks, in the ear with a screwdriver in their apartment, and dismembered his body. In an attempt to get rid of the remains, he stuffed them in a garbage disposal in their kitchen and a nearby dumpster. At the time of Crooks' murder, Conklin was on parole from a 6 year sentence for armed robbery.
40. John Hightower (1987-2007, lethal injection): While under the influence of cocaine, Hightower shot his wife, 41 year old Dorothy, and his stepdaughters, 22 year old Sandra and 19 year old Evelyn Reaves, to death in their sleep.
41. William Lynd (1988-2008, lethal injection): Lynd got into an argument with his girlfriend, 26 year old Ginger Moore, over a planned vacation and shot her to death. While on the run in Ohio, he tried to hijack a car, and shot the driver, 42 year old Leslie Sharkey, in the process. Sharkey managed to crawl to safety, and notified the authorities of the attack. She died of her injuries a few days after the shooting.
42. Curtis Osborne (1990-2008, lethal injection): Osborne, a career drug dealer, shot his girlfriend's brother, 29 year old Arthur Jones, and Jones' girlfriend, 28 year old Linda Seaborne, dead in argument over money gained from a motorcycle sale. His death sentence was controversial, as Osborne claimed that his attorney denied him a plea bargain for a racist agenda.
43. Jack Alderman (1975-2008, lethal injection): In an attempt to collect a life insurance policy, Alderman beat his wife, 20 year old Barbara, to death with a wench.
44. Robert Newland (1986-2009, lethal injection): Newland went to the apartment of his girlfriend, 27 year old Carol Beatty, after a drinking binge, and tried to kiss her. When she rejected and slapped him, Newland stabbed and disemboweled her alive. Just before she succumbed to her injuries, Beatty used her own blood to identify Newland as her attacker to the first responders.
45. William Mize (1994-2009, lethal injection): Mize was a leader of a white supremacist gang called the National Vastilian Aryan Party, in which 34 year old Eddie Tucker had filed to join. When Tucker disobeyed his orders to burn down a "crack house" as part of an initiation ritual, Mize lured him into a forest and shot him dead.
46. Mark McClain (1994-2009, lethal injection): McClain robbed a Domino pizza parlor after ordering a pizza. He shot the manger, 28 year old Kevin Brown, dead and stole $130 from the register.
47. Melbert Ford Jr. (1986-2010, lethal injection): Ford had a very specific fantasy about robbing, abducting and then murdering his ex girlfriend, 30 year old Martha Matich, after forcing her beg for mercy. He decided to make his fantasies into a reality, and stormed the grocery store she worked at with the help of an accomplice he hired. Ford shot Matich and her niece, 11 year old Lisa Chapman, dead, and stole $579 from the register.
48. Brandon Rhode (1998-2010, lethal injection): Rhode and his accomplice Daniel Lucas broke into a house, and encountered the residents, 37 year old Steven Moss, and his two children, 15 year old Kristin and 11 year old Bryan. Bryan was home alone when the intruders arrived, and tried to fight them off with a baseball bat. Lucas and Rhodes quickly subdued the boy and shot him to death. Kristen and Steven were also shot dead when they returned home. Their bodies were discovered by Gerri, Steven's wife and the children's mother. The pair were career burglars, and previously targeted the Moss home weeks before the massacre.
49. Emmanuel Hammond (~1983-2011, lethal injection): Hammond, his girlfriend, and her cousin spotted 27 year old Julia Love broken down on the side of the road. They dragged her into their car after she declined their offer for a ride. Love was tied up, forced to withdraw $140 from an ATM, and raped. The attackers partially strangled Love and shot her to death in a remote forest. In exchange for having all charges dropped, Hammond's girlfriend agreed to testify against him and her cousin. He tried to hire a fellow inmate to permanently silence her testimony, but was foiled by prison officials. Hammond had numerous previous convictions, but my sources didn't disclose details.
50. Roy Blankenship (1978-2011, lethal injection): Blankenship climbed into a home of 78 year old Sara Bowen after breaking her window. He raped and beat Bowen, and penetrated her with a bottle. She succumbed to a heart attack from the stress of the assault.
51. Andrew DeYoung (1993-2011, lethal injection): Wanting to use their life insurance policies to start his dream business, DeYoung stabbed his parents, 42 year old Gary and 41 year old Kathryn, and his sister, 14 year old Sarah, to death, and unsuccessfully ordered his accomplice to kill his 16 year old brother Nathan. Nathan escaped through a window and went to a neighbor for help.
52. Troy Davis (1988-2011, lethal injection): Davis was sentenced to death for a crime spree involving several robberies, the non fatal shooting of a teenager, and the beating of a homeless man, Troy Young (age unknown). Larry MacPhail, a 27 year old police officer and security guard, was shot and killed when he intervened in an attempt to protect Young. Davis' execution was controversial, as he managed to amass a popular following that believed in his innocence during his time on death row. He previously plead guilty for a carrying concealed weapons charge, and Davis paid a $250 fine as part of a plea agreement to avoid prison time.
53. Andrew Cook (1995-2003, lethal injection): On a random whim, Cook walked up to a couple, 22 year old Grant Hendrickson and 19 year old Michele Cartagena, parked near a lake, and shot them both to death in their car.
54. Marcus Wellons (1989-2014, lethal injection): Wellons took an obsessive sexual interest in his neighbor, 15 year old India Roberts, and began to stalk and harass the girl in an attempt to groom her into a "relationship." At one point, he even pressured his girlfriend's 14 year old son to date her. His illicit pursuit of Roberts alarmed his girlfriend and she tried evicting him from their apartment. With his relationship in shambles, Wellons' behavior escalated beyond the breaking point. After he ransacked his now ex girlfriend's apartment and poured bleach on her clothes, Wellons ambushed and abducted Roberts while she was walking to school. He raped and strangled her to death with a telephone cord.
55. Robert Holsey (~1990s-2014, lethal injection): Holsey shot and killed Will Robinson, a 26 year old Sheriff's Deputy, during a robbery of a convenience store. At the time of the shooting, he was on parole for an armed robbery conviction.
56. Andrew Brannan (~1980s-2015, lethal injection): In 1998, Branner was pulled over for speeding by Kyle Dinkheller, a 22 year old deputy. While Dinkheller was trying to file a citation, Branner became belligerent, pulled an M1 carbine out of his truck, and opened fire. Dinkheller was killed in the shootout, but he managed to wound Branner in his return fire. Branner was a Vietnam combat veteran, and he tried to use PTSD as a defense for the fatal shooting of Dinkheller and previous domestic abuse charges from his ex wife.
57. Warren Hill Jr. (~1985-2015, lethal injection): Hill was given a life sentence when he shot and killed his girlfriend, 18 year old Myra Wright. His sentence escalated to death a few years later when he fatally beat his cellmate, 34 year old Joseph Handspike, with a nailed board. At the time of his own murder, Handspike was also serving a life sentence for shooting and killing a restaurant manager during a robbery.
58. Kelly Gissendaner (1997-2015, lethal injection): Out of a desire to leave their marriage and to collect a life insurance policy, Gissendan assisted her boyfriend in abducting her husband, 30 year old Douglas, from their home. Her boyfriend stabbed Douglas to death, and she set their car on fire to destroy his body. The couple were also charged with attempting to intimidate witnesses during the murder trial.
59.Marcus Johnson (1994-2015, lethal injection): After Johnson picked up 35 year old Angela Sizemore from a bar, he sexually assaulted her with a knife. Sizemore was stabbed 41 times in the attack, and her throat was cut. Her body was found in her car by a man walking his dog hours after the murder.
60. Brian Terrell (~1992-2015, lethal injection): Terrell forged up to $8,000 in checks using 70 year old John Watson's name. Watson, who was seeking a relationship with Terrell's mother, tried to make a deal that he wouldn't pursue any charges if the money was returned to him. According to prosecutors, Terrell broke into Watson's home, and beat and fatally shot him to avoid repaying the money. His execution caused controversy, as the defense attorneys claimed that the footprints at the scene were smaller then his feet, and that he was condemned only by what they perceived to be misused testimony from his cousin (that testified against him in exchange for a plea deal) and a neighbor (who allegedly claimed that they saw "someone else walk out of the home"). Those arguments were shut down by the courts, but embraced by anti death penalty activist groups and outlets. Regardless of his guilt or lack thereof, strong evidence points to him perpetrating similar armed robberies of other homes, and was on parole at the time of Watson's murder.
61. Brandon Jones (1979-2016, lethal injection): Jones was an accomplice to the above mentioned Van Solomon, and participated in the robbery that killed Roger Tackett.
62. Travis Hittson (1993-2016, lethal injection): Hittson, who was serving on the U.S.S. Forrestal, was convinced by a crewmate to kill Conway Utterbeck, a 20 year old fellow sailor, for the thrill of killing. When they were off duty, Hittson and his accomplice walked into the home of Herbeck's parents, and found Herbeck sleeping on the couch. Before they shot him to death, the pair bludgeoned Herbeck with a baseball bat. To prevent the body's identification, they chopped off his hands, feet, and head with a hacksaw, and dumped his dismembered remains in two separate burial sites across a 300 mile radius.
63. Joshua Bishop (1994-2016, lethal injection): Bishop and another man accosted 44 year old Leverett Morrison at a bar, and demand to have the keys to his jeep. When Morrison refused, the pair beat him to death. Bishop also orchestrated the beating death of 36 year old Ricky Wills for having intercourse with his prostitute mother. The prosecution declined to charge Bishop for Willis' murder, as they wanted to use it as evidence to help secure his death sentence for Morrison's slaying.
64. Kenneth Fults (1996-2016, lethal injection): Fults forced his way inside the home of 19 year old Cathy Bonds. He bound, gagged, and blindfolded Bonds with duct tape, and made an attempt to smother her with a pillow. When that failed, Fults shot Bonds in the head, stole her keys, and drove away with her car.
65. Daniel Lucas (1998-2016, lethal injection): Lucas was the accomplice to the above mentioned Brandon Rhode, and he assisted him in murdering Steven Moss and his children in their home.
66. John Conner (1982-2016, lethal injection): In a drunken rage, Connor beat his friend, 29 year old James White, to death with a whisky bottle and a stick while visiting him in his home. The two had gotten in fight when White refused to take Connor to a liquor store.
67. Gregory Lawler (1997-2016, lethal injection): Lawler and his girlfriend were walking home intoxicated after drinking heavily at a bar, and got into a fight. A witness called the police, and officers, 28 year old John Sowa and 38 year old Patricia Cocciolone, were sent to the scene. They carried Lawler's girlfriend to their car, and drove her to the couple's apartment. Lawler was allowed to walk home unescorted. When he arrived, Lawler grabbed an AR-15, and fired on the officers. Sowa was killed, while Cocciolone survived with crippling injuries and called for backup. The other officers besieged Lawler in his apartment, and he surrendered after a 44 minute standoff.
68. Steven Spears (2001-2016, lethal injection): Spears suspected that his girlfriend, 34 year old Sherri Holland, was cheating on him. He reacted to his suspicions by wrapping Holland's head with duct tape and suffocating her with a plastic bag in her home.
69. William Sallie (1989-2016, lethal injection): Sallie's ex wife, 19 year old Robin Moore, divorced him for his physical abuse and moved back to her family (consisting of her parents, 49 year old John and Linda (age unknown), and her siblings, 17 year old April and 10 year old Justin). He was able to acquire visitation rights to their 2 year old son from the courts, and used that pretext to attack the family. Sallie charged into the Moore family home, shot and killed John, wounded Linda and bound her to Justin with handcuffs, and kidnapped Robin and April. The sisters were both kept captive and sexually assaulted together in a trailer, but they were spared and released after a few hours.
70. J. Ledford Jr. (1992-2017, lethal injection): Ledford was welcomed inside a home by the wife of his neighbor, 73 year old Harry Johnston Jr.. He tied up the couple at knifepoint, stole an undisclosed amount of money and guns, kidnapped Johnston, and drove away with him in his truck. Johnston's body was later found near an abandoned building. He was half decapitated, had a knife embedded in his back, and covered with several minor stab wounds.
71. Carlton Gary (~1964-2018, lethal injection): Gary raped and murdered at least 8 mostly elderly women between 40-89 years old. Almost all of his victims were killed in their homes, but his youngest, 40 year old Marion Fisher of New York, was abducted while walking out of a bar. They were all strangled to death with nylon stockings, which is why Gary was given the “Stocking Slayer" epithet by the media. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including positive DNA tests, testimonies from surviving victims, fingerprints found on crime scenes, and semen samples, Gary still has a vocal following trying to proclaim his innocence. He had an extensive criminal history, which started with several arson, assault, and robbery charges as a teenager.
72. Robert Butts Jr. (1996-2018, lethal injection): Butts and his accomplice Marion Wilson carjacked Donovan Parks, a 24 year old off duty correctional officer, after he agreed to give them a ride home from Walmart. They forced Parks to exit the car and the shot him in the head execution style. Both Butts and Wilson were part of a Latin Kings set, and are believed to have killed Parks to gain more prestige from their gang. Butt's previous convictions include charges of shoplifting and burglary.
73. Scotty Morrow (1999-2019, lethal injection): Angry that his ex girlfriend, 26 year old Barbara Young, broke up with him for his abusive behavior, Morrow shot her, and her friend, 21 year old Tonya Wood, dead in their home. A third woman, 18 year old Latoyna Horn, was injured in the shooting. Young's two children, a 5 year old son and an 8 month old daughter, witnessed the killings, but were unharmed.
74. Marion Wilson Jr. (1999-2019, lethal injection): Wilson assisted Robert Butts, a fellow Latin King gangster, in the carjacking and shooting murder of officer Donovan Parks. He had a lengthy and very violent criminal history, which included the non fatal shootings of a Mexican migrant worker and a drug dealer during robberies, unprovoked assaults on a classmate and a youth worker, and an arson attack on an apartment complex. His friends noted that Wilson had a penchant for animal cruelty, and they reported seeing him shooting dogs on random whims.
75. Ray Cromartie (1994-2019, lethal injection): While robbing a grocery store, Cromartie and his accomplice shot two clerks, 50 year old Richard Slysz and Daniel Wilson (age unknown). Slysz died at the scene and Wilson survived with crippling injuries.
76. Donnie Lance (~1990s-2020, lethal injection): Lance broke down the door of his ex wife's, 39 year old Sandra, and fatally shot her boyfriend, 33 year old Dwight Wood Jr.. He then used the butt of his gun to club Sandra to death. According to court documents, Lance subjected Sandra to extreme abuse during their marriage, and reportedly kidnapped and tortured her with beatings, strangulations, and electrocutions on numerous occasions.
77. Willie Pye (~1985-2024, lethal injection): Pye's ex girlfriend, 21 year old Alicia Yarbrough, had a child with another man that he believed was his. Despite his suspicions, Yarbrough and their boyfriend pushed Pye out of the child’s life. In retaliation, Pye and two accomplice’s broke into Yarbrough’s ex boyfriend’s home to rob it, but found her alone with her infant. They abducted and robbed Yarbrough of her jewelry at gunpoint, raped her for several hours in a motel room, and shot her a total of 3 times in the head. Due to reports of him allegedly being cognitively disabled, Pye’s execution sparked some controversy. He was previously convicted of burglary.

So a few years back at a Chinese buffet we were eating at, a song was playing and intermittently in the song, there were clear fart noises. Some time later I talked to the guy who owned the restaurant, and I don’t know if he wasn’t sure what I was asking, but he kept telling me it was by Teresa Teng. That’s the only name I could get. But I could never find a song with fart noises in it.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/dc-best-restaurants.html

1. 2Fifty Barbecue
2. Albi
3. Almeda
4. Baan Siam
5. Bostan
6. Bresca
7. Casa Teresa
8. Crisfield
9. Ellie Bird
10. Ethiopic
11. Kuya Ja's Lechon Belly
12. Lapis
13. Maketto
14. Mama Chang
15. Mita
16. Oyster, Oyster
17. Pineapple and Pearls
18. Pupuseria Mama Emilia
19. Rasika
20. Reveler's Hour
21. St. James
22. The Dabney
23. The Duck & the Peach
24. Thip Khao
25. Z&Z Manoushe Bakery

Thoughts? Concerns? Prayers?

Looking forward to our first trip to Costa Rica in July. We finish up our trip with 4 days on what I hope is a relaxing Santa Teresa beach with the right balance of restaurants and comforts but not too “touristy”.
I’ve seen there are dogs roaming around the beaches and towns in Costa Rica. How prevalent are random dogs on the beaches of Santa Teresa? This is a concern of my 15 year old.
I’ve been told the surf is strong but also that there’s plenty of safe swimming there as well. We’re re used to waves and current of Atlantic Ocean in northeast US. How does it compare to Santa Teresa and is it safe to play in the waves ?
I’ve seen 4-wheeler rentals in Santa Teresa. What’s the recommendation for renting and driving on roads outside of town? Is it realistic to drive 4 wheeler to nature preserve ?
Finally, has anyone gone on a nighttime trip to gulf side to see bioluminescent algae ? I’m intrigued but also skeptical of this excision.
Thank you!!!!!!!

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26 Apr, Fri

• BOYS LIKE GIRLS Live - 2nd Show@Scape, SCAPE Ground Theatre (orchard somerset), $91

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• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn: King Promise (🇬🇭 Afrobeat LIVE) pres by Fuego Night, Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa), $71
• DJ, XPULSE pres. HARDTECHNO "BOILER ROOM", Por Vida Skateboarding @ GR.ID mall (bencoolen, dhoby), IG 📸 , $27
• DJ, FAILSAFE!: dcln (of sarco) x Inflake - live electronic music, 42 Waterloo St (bras basah), IG 📸$12
• DJ, Offtrack: Retromigration 🇳🇱, music gastro bar @ 34 North Canal Rd (next to hong lim park, clarke quay)
• DJ, .WAV(Y) Remixed Presents: FRANCHISE (🇦🇹 riddim baile funk hiphop) with PRAV, XG & KNRCK - hiphop vibe, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, , $19
• DJ, iki: Uncaged with Muttiah Ashnim (deep progressive house, tehcno, indie dance), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), , $22
• DJ, High House: Groovetop pres. Wantigga (🇳🇱), supported by YA5TH , High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), $38
• DJ Sivilian Affairs x MUGIC presents Chucheewa & Logisticman (🇹🇭), Joe Delon (🇬🇧), and Miss Lil., tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $32
• DJ, Thugshop Presents - All Night Long with .VRIL (🇩🇪Ambient, IDM, Peak time Techno, Electro), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36,
• DJ, Marquee: GARETH EMERY (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿trance), nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $30

 

27 Apr, Sat

• CNBLUE live in singapore 2024 , Indoor Stadium, $168
• TBA (aka Coboy Junior / CJR, 🇮🇩 pop) live, Capitol Theatre (city hall), $108
• 白鲨JAWS Band - Live in Singapore (🇨🇳 rock), Wire Entertainment @ Atrix building, 82 Lorong 23 Geylang (aljunied mrt), S388409, $55
• M-pop: FNM Mini Hari Raya Show - HADY MIRZA, Bo Jenggo, Dayak Konspirazy, Ezam Ernandy, The Coral Ballroom at 18 Kaki Bukit Rd 3 (kaki bukit mrt), S415978, $78
• Indie Rock: The Jansen (🇮🇩 power pop punk) ft Intermission, Camping, Krunkle, Cave Sex, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $35 doors
• SakuraFest: Singapore K-On Club, Taiko Drums, J-JAZZ Maestros, ANIME TRIBUTE by Rina-Hime, YOASOBI tribute by Lihannah, X Side Man (canto and japanese hits), WHEELERS Estate Seletar @ 2 Park Ln S798386,free
  • DOUJINFES @ Heartlands: Day 1 - Reiko, Halim, DJ Rogue (anime culture, ani-song), Beyblade Compeition, hometeamNS @ bedok reservoir, 11am-7pm, free
• Indie Pop Singer-songwriter: Sunroom Sessions #5 - Trevor Wong, kai.zen, Nino, Elaine, Vananko (bedroom pop, jazzy pop, soul), Sunroom Studios @ 63 Hillview Avenue, L10 (hillview mrt), $20
• Indie Rock Acoustic: Rabak Records: Reflections - ft acoustic sets with Nosedive, Days of Television, Late Culture (normally indie, dream/gaze), Crane @ Claymore Connect 442 Orchard Rd, L1 (orchard mrt), $18
• Indie Pop Gig: Late 4 SCH! by OVERDRIVE!! - ft ICEBOX, REGINA SONG, LAST MUNUTE, DJ KIKS, Everrich Industrial Building L5 @ 1 Tannery Lane, Singapore 347719 (tai seng/potong pasir mrt), $25
• Experimental Contemporary Music: WA #8! - Weird Aftertaste (vaporwave, metal, synthpop, youtube covers, hiphop, sensitive number for ladies), The Music Parlour @ Peninsula Shopping Ctr L4 (city hall), $26
• Noise Electronic, Doom Stoner Rock Metal: MATARAMBANG - Rumang, Kushna, Terminal Liner, ORQAN 🇮🇹, IBLISS and Tripping Haze Ceremony 🇲🇾, rad studio 345, $25 doors
• Jazz Loft: Mei Lin Hii - Tango Appassionata (tribute to Astor Piazolla, a night of south american classics),Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Maduro Jazz: Through the Years - A Disney Night with pianist Gabriel Hoe, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38+ drink credits
• SCO: Journeying Together - Shao En and Singapore Chinese Orchestra 一起走过 - 邵恩与新加坡华乐团 (G), Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20
• Esplanade: Tracing Origins – The Life and Times of Cantonese Opera’s Laosheng《溯源》粤剧老生 – 戏剧人生 with Tung On Opera Orchestra - Day 2 of 2, Esplanade Theatre Studio, $38

 

• Esplanade x SSO: Ravel's Spain by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, ESPLANADE concert hall, $15
• Esplanade contemporary classical: The Vast One by Tze Toh and TO ensemble - human x A.I, music x visual projections, Electronic Sound Design, Indian, Chinese, Japanese music, modern jazz and classical orchestra, recital studio $25

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• LIVE & DJ Tropika presents Gabriele Poso (🇮🇹🇨🇺 Afro-Latin, Disco, Conga, band), El Chido at Pullman Singapore Hotel @ 1 Hill Street (city hall), $45
• DJ, Wallich Manor Wallich's House Party with Seng Wei & Widenski (🇪🇪), Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar)
• DJ, ARK 11: ARENSKY (🇫🇷), ARK 11 Club @ Orchard Central Mall L11
• DJ, Tipsy Unicorn: BASSJACKERS (🇳🇱 dutch electro house, hardstyle, techno), Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa), $20
• DJ CÉ LA VI: Pres. FABIO NEURAL (🇮🇹 tech house), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club 🗼, IG 📸 $38
• DJ, 1880: TEMRY (🇩🇪 neo-soul and afro-house), 1880 Members Club @ 1 Nanson Rd (Robertson Quay), $60
• DJ, BTGD: FRANCA (🇩🇪🇳🇱 house , techno - electro disco, deep, melodic) ft EJ MISSY supported by Morabito x Soul Collective, Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $36
• DJ, Tuff: Thugshop x Unmute pres. SEDEF ADASI (🇩🇪 acid, progressive, electro, tech house), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $36,

 

28 Apr, Sun

• Debbie Gibson: Electric Youth 35th Anniversary Live in Singapore, Gateway Theatre Bukit Merah, $128
• Teresa Cheung (張德蘭) in Concert ft Johnny Yip (葉振棠), ESPLANADE concert hall, $78
• One Night With George Lam 林子祥新加坡演唱会 ft Sandy, Marina Bay Sands Grand Ballroom, $68
• Jazz Day at Botanic Gardens: Jazz Au Jardin - VOilah! France Singapore Festival x Jazz Association (Singapore) - Celebrating International Jazz Day , Singapore Botanic Gardens Shaw Foundation Stage, 530pm, free

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29 Apr, Mon - Golden Week, International Dance Day

• INCUBUS Live in Singapore, The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $118
• BLOOD RED THRONE (🇳🇴 Death metal) - Live in Singapore ft End of All, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $52
• Acoustic: Tony & Will - the Mini Show (acoustic love songs), Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $32
• Asia Pacific Band Festival at School of The Arts - Day 1, School of the Arts (bencoolen/dhoby), the full schedule, $15 per show

30 Apr, Tue - International Jazz Day, International Workers' Day Eve

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• The Projector Orchard Market & DJ Party AFTER HOURS SOCIAL CLUB - Streetwear Night Market & EATMEPOPTART Party, Projector X Golden Village No Spoilers Box Office Area Bar @ Cineleisure Orchard L5, free to $15
  • DJ, EATMEPOPTART PRESENTS: LABOUR OF LOVE ft Secret Pals, with KidG, Weelikeme, Fantastic Dinosaur, 300 free tickets
• DJ, Bollywood Club DJ AQEEL LIVE - DISCO 82 , hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $37
• DJ, Tuff: Thugshop Presents - SAM ALFRED (🇦🇺 house, deep, tech house) ft Tashasan, Dexter Colt, tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, $35
• DJ, MDLR: ØGravity x ArtBeyond Presents – STEPHAN JOLK (🇩🇪melodic techno) - ft David Carollo & Raja Rani, MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), $47
• DJ, Marquee: presents Da Tweekaz (🇳🇴 hardstyle), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $30
• DJ, JST BCZ Presents 30 Years of V Recordings (🇬🇧 Drum n Bass Label) - Bryan Gee, Paul T & Ed Oberon, Saxxon and Felon MC, club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), $32

01 May, Wed - Labour Day, End of SIFAS Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society Festival

• DEEP PURPLE Live in Singapore (G), Fort Canning Park The Star Vista Theatre (buona vista), $188
• MIRROR FEEL THE PASSION CONCERT 2024 SINGAPORE (G), Singapore Indoor Stadium, $168
• MAYDAY! Festival 2024 - WE THE KINGS, STAND ATLANTIC, TINY MOVING PARTS, BLUSH, Rocket Rockers, Dads in the Park, Defying Decay, Battle of Bands Winner - update Aarcade , SCAPE Ground Theatre (somerset orchard), IG Lineup 📸, $129
• 金刚慧音 Imee Ooi & JSJG 演唱会 Mantras and Sutras - Day 2 of 2 , capitol theatre (city hall), $50
• Lawrence 陈俊宏 个人音乐会 Concert Serenading Under the Moon (月下倾诉) with MacPherson Philharmonic Orchestra (MPPO), Victoria Concert Hall, $78
• Piano Recital by Piotr Anderszewski, Victoria Concert Hall, IG 📸$25

 

• >> Esplanade
• E: Lim Yu-Beng: Notes To Self (the actor's music debut - folky rock singer-songwriter), ESPLANADE Recital Studio, $35

02 May, Thu

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• YNGWIE MALMSTEEN (the neoclassical shredder) w/ Special Guest MARTY FRIEDMAN (the megadeth axeman who went to japan) (G), Capitol Theatre (city hall), $158
• SSO x Esplanade: Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev - Hans Graf and Benjamin Schmid by Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall, $15
• Esplanade: Ryan Hunt - percussive fingerstyle guitar & covers, indoor concourse, free
• Anderson Serangoon Junior College Symphonic Band - Vivezza 2024, Victoria Concert Hall (city hall), $11
• ==Cool Cats: What the Jazz: Bram and Lucy Wijnands - Day 1 of 3 Swing and the American Songbook, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $20 schedule

03 May, Fri

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• Gregg Arthur (jazz), Victoria Concert Hall, $52
• Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys 🇦🇺 ft Cuban Young Guns - 1 of 2 - plays iconic music of Buena Vista Social Club (afro-cuban jazz), Mandala Club at 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd (outram), sold out last week at tix 🎟) $33
• Jazz Loft: AARTSENS-VARELA - Israel Varela (🇲🇽 jazz flamenco) & Nita Aartsen band family (🇮🇩) - Day 1 of 2, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Maduro Jazz: Jazz of a New Generation by EJ Trio, maduro @ sofitel sentosa, $38+ drink credits
• Cool Cats: What the Jazz: Bram and Lucy Wijnands - Day 2 of 3 (Swing and the American Songbook), nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), tix 🎟 $20, schedule
• Indie: Strangefest - 7 Bands 1 Drummer lol - Tariot, Rockanine, Bigdaddyrai & Chero, Wrathbourn, Floral Sky, Shuffle Squad, Tenga Band ft DJ TheSoundofAlvin afterparty, from thrash metal to indie pop to japanese rock, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $23
• Indie: SMU Soundfoundry: The Red Gala - ft. Daniel Sid and Bellied Star + SMU's the backdoor boys, best regards, velvet, beef cheeks, the matyrs, indie / college / uni gig, from pop rock rnb soul punk etc, scape ground theatre (orchard somerset), $22
  • Candlelight: Tribute to Imagine Dragons w VOX String Quartet, arts house chamber, $42

 

• SSO x Esplanade: Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev - Hans Graf and Benjamin Schmid by Singapore Symphony Orchestra - Day 2 of 2, Concert Hall, $15
• Esplanade Opera & Mini Intro: OPERA 101: An Introduction to Opera by Lirica Arts wtih musicologist and speaker Shridar Mani , Recital Studio, $42
• Esplanade FREE Music: Danesh Leonadi - I'm Just Being Human (singer-songwriter), indoor concourse 645 745pm, free
• Singapore Poetry Writing Month SingPoWriMo Closing Party ft Vivien Yap, sing lit station @ 22 dickson rd (jalan besar), free RSVP

 

• DJ, EMONIGHTSG: The B-Sides (emo pop punk, nu-metal, post hardcore), hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $20
• DJ, TASTY vol. 15.0 - hiphop afrobeat reggaeton - DJ Sweezy, DJ Shai, DJ Axeo & Emcee T.Williams, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis), $22
• DJ, Highh Party: K Pop Night SEOUL SEARCHING with DJ Raw, Highh Party @ Pan Pacific Hotel, 7 raffles blvd (esplanade, promenade), $35
• DJ, Freebird Craft Beer Bistro: Three Years Deep Anniversary Day 1 of 3 - Martyn (Deep House), Katong Shopping Centre B1, free
• DJ, Temple Cellars Bottle Shop: Bring Your Own Vinyl Night, 31 Binjai Park (king albert park), free
• DJ Cherry : pres. Chambers: graduation ft Keagan, Tajima , Joon (hiphop top 40s pop) , 133 cecil st (cbd), $20 or free in grad gown
• DJ, Offtrack: Dexter Colt (leftfield house), bs hong lim park, music gastro bar
• DJ, Behind the Green Door: Candice B, Stephen Day, Kunda (afro, house, disco, funk), Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $25

 

• DJ, Quintino (🇳🇱big room house) & Nora En Pure (🇨🇭🇿🇦 deep progressive house & techno) for Sports Illustrated The 19th Hole presented by LIVGOLF, Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa), $60
• DJ, Midnight Shift pres. ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (🇯🇵post-indsutrial deconstructed club edm, from trance to gabber to hardcore to house to rnb), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, tix 🎟 $35
• DJ, Zouk: pres ARGY (🇬🇷 melodic techno), zouk club clarke quay, tix 🎟 $45
• DJ, HQ: Thugshop Presents - KANGDING RAY (🇩🇪 techno, glitch idm) & NVST (🇨🇭 breakbeat industrial acid techno), headquarters techno-house club @ 66A boat quay, $36

 

04 May, Sat - Star Wars Day

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• LAUV pres by Liv Golf, Palawan Green at Sentosa, $138
• A-LIN 黄丽玲 - A-LINK WITH PASSENGERS 2024 金曲 ONE MORE TIME (G), Resorts World Ballroom, Sentosa $98
• HAVOC BROTHERS Mayileh Night (18+), sector 26 indian club at Cuppage Plaza B1 (somerset), $48
• Carnival & Pop Raya at Sports Hub Day 1 of 2 - shazza , kallang wave mall, outdoor covered area, shazza at 6pm free
• HC Punk: GWU pres. Restraining Order (US 🇺🇸) ft Check Your Head (MY 🇲🇾), Psylock, Spirits, Pseudo Reality, city area, $27
• Indie Chinese: FULL POWER CHINESE ROCK NIGHT - feat college rock bands), Wire Entertainment @ Atrix building, 82 Lorong 23 Geylang (aljunied mrt), (S388409), $30
• Timbre+ One North: Singapore Originals - IZZAN ADLAN (mpop), music food court/beer garden @ 73A Ayer Rajah Crescent (one-north), free
• J Music: OreDan オレダン - Live J-Music Afterparty - Singapore K-ON Club ft AIJOU, KIRAMEKI Future, L5 @ Gr.iD mall (bencoolen/dhoby), $20 includes dance event below
• Gardens by the Bay: Borealis Preview Show - NORTHERN LIGHTS Light and Sound Installation with atmospheric soundtrack by French composer Guillaume Desbois, gardens by the bay supertree groove, free
• Tampines Hub: GEMA RAYA 2024 - Hyrul Anuar, Fuad Rahman, Sanisah Huri, Zalelo, Rudy Djoe, Najip Ali and Orkestra Melayu SG, our tampines hub stadium-library-library, free with reg
• > Jazz
• Adam Hall & The Velvet Playboys 🇦🇺 ft Cuban Young Guns - 1 of 2 - plays iconic music of Buena Vista Social Club (afro-cuban jazz), Mandala Club at 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd (outram), $33
• What the Jazz Mini Fest:
  • Cool Cats Performance: Bram and Lucy Wijnands - Day 3 of 3 Swing and the American Songbook, nco club @ 32 beach rd (esplanade), $28
• Jazz Loft: AARTSENS-VARELA - Israel Varela (🇲🇽 jazz flamenco) meets Nita Aartsen band family (🇮🇩) - Day 2 of 2, Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Thomson Jazz Club; 30 Years of Music Making! big band music & swing ft alemay fernandez, mario serio, regan wickman, stephen rufus, tama goh, Singapore Conference Hall @ 7 Shenton Way, $20 or student dc

 

• Esplanade : Chinese Dance Fiesta 2024: Talk & Demonstration , 5pm 6pm Indoor Concourse, free
• Esplanade: Chinese Dance Fiesta 2024: Performance , 7 830pm, Outdoor Theatre, free
• > Others
• Methodist Girl's School: MGS Festival of Arts (Visual and Performing Arts ) – Kizuna I (G), Victoria Concert Hall, $30
• Candlelight: Film Scores and Hollywood Epic w Vocalise String Quartet, arts house chamber, $42
• Candlelight: A Tribute to Ed Sheeran on Strings w Vocalise String Quartet, the arts house, $53
• Movie & DJ, The Projector THE MAN WHO SAVES THE WORLD (Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam aka Turkish bootleg Star Wars) and post-screening party with Reptile Skin Business Club, the projector golden mile tower
• DJ & Art Exhibition Opening: Michael Cu Fua's ‘Traces of Introspection’ feat. DJ set by ARMS1, Late Studio at 2 Jalan Rajah (along Balestier Rd)

 

• Mini Festival DJ, Sound Renegades - 3 Stages: 90s rave, progressive, house - feat. Gaspray & Sivanesh, Pure Love & Yuju & Kayh, Pengsoo, Jared Kong, Cosmo Carbon & Koppa, Dr Foo, Vivra Verra, Secret Site near National Stadium & Kallang Riverside Park, $25
• Alt Rave, Bussy Temple Rave Anniversary - rEmPiT g0dDe$$ B2B LnHD (DJ set), Mervin Wong x Anise (LIVE), howrøng (DJ set), Metamoksha (DJ set), Josh Tirados (performance), alternative culture rave, sold out no doors $30~
• DJ, Drip Chinese Hiphop Battle: Salt Basement pres. EastOut 第七集, drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel, $27
• DJ, Moonstone: EATMEPOPTART The Kids are Alright - an unapologetic pop night - with weelikeme & YA5TH, Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St
• DJ, Behind the Green Door : May the Beats Be With You - James Selva, Nicolette, HBN, Leland (underground vibes - uk garage, disco, house, techno, asian funk, baile), Behind the Green Door @ 97 Duxton Road (maxwell), $25
• DJ, Bollywood Club - GULABO, hard rock cafe cuscaden (orchard), $27
• DJ, Luxuria, Afrobeat & Amopiano - Move and Groove with DJ fidixx, Luxuria rooftop lounge @ Tekka Place Mall (rochor), (S218227), $30
• DJ, Party Social 5th Anniversary : ALL PINK - CINCO DE MAYO EDITION, Wallich Manor Lounge @ Sofitel City Centre Hotel L6 (tg pagar), $20
• DJ, WILDIN' v8.0 - hiphop reggaeton afrobeats - DJs Sweezy, Kelibre & Snickaz, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), $22
• DJ, Feel Africa: THE FORCE - DJs Gillou, BADGALDIDI, SWTLKR & Saint Ben - afrobeats, amapiano, kizomba, zouk kompa, reggaeton etc, Mortar & Pestle rooftop bar @ 269 South Bridge Rd, $16
• DJ, Cherry: Starwars - May the Fourth be with you , 133 cecil st (cbd)
• DJ, Cinco De Mayo by Element - Stephen Day, Chichi, Kris Haagensen, Mr Gray, Kinki Restaurant + Bar Rooftop at Customs House Collyer Quay (downtown, cbd, just off merlion), free
• DJ Debut Event: Tanglish Urban Music - Curry : "The First Serving" - Tamil & English Dance Event, Blu Jaz @ bali ln (bugis) L2, $25
• DJ, BYOT - Bring Your Own Trunks, gay event. Pullman Singapore Hotel at 1 Hill Street (city hall), $40
• DJ, Fate by HaveFun: Future SG Presents : Interstellar (Star Wars themed) with DJs Limm, Kavok, Sharkboy, Skabush, southeast asian style club @ orchard cineleisure L8, (S239695), tix 🎟 $30
• Drag,: Salud: Labour Day with Femme Fartale & Earth na khaa , salud bar @ 19 Keong Saik Rd (maxwell, outram), free/bar
• > Hangout or Restaurant Gigs
• DJ, Vatos City House: Cuatro De Mayo by Vatos Urban Tacos - DJ Shai and hiphop reggaeton trap, City House 36 Robinson Road, $20
• DJ, Freebird Craft Beer Bistro: Three Years Deep Anniversary Day 2 of 3 - Sadat & Fernyfren (World Electronica), Katong Shopping Centre B1, free
• Wellness & DJ: Wild Pearl Immersion - breathwork, cold plunge, sauna etc, at SOMA HAUS, 108 Joo Chiat Rd, well it might be less DJ focused on this one, $50
• Hangout DJ, Fat Kid Records Rooftop Party - some drinks and dancing, it is a hiphop funk rnb electronic leaning record store @ 57 Joo Chiat Pl (paya lebaeunos)

 

• DJ Brunch to Night: Manifest and Mandala Club - Papi’s Fabulous Fiesta & Taco Libre ft DJ stephen day, raaj, Taco Libre with Gregor Salto (🇳🇱 house), mandala members club @ 31 bukit pasoh, $68-$88
• DJ, TRANCE4M International ft Suncatcher & Exolight (🇷🇴 UPLIFTING & CLASSIC TRANCE), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay), $37
• DJ, High House: Gioli & Assia 🇮🇹 melodic trance house n techno, indie techno pop, High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place, $55
• DJ, FOMOHOMO pres. Bianca Oblivion (🇺🇸 house club uk bass & miami hiphop bass, baile funk, mixed-genre), tuff club @ 138 robinson rd cbd, queer gig,35
• DJ, MDLR: Thugshop pres. ADIEL (🇮🇹 hypnotic techno), MDLR club @ 62 cecil street (cbd), IG 📸 $47
• DJ, CÉ LA VI [pres. SPENCER BROWN (🇺🇸 progressive house, melodic techno)](ttps://celavispencerbrown2024.peatix.com/), marina bay sands hotel rooftop bar-club 🗼, $38
• DJ, Marquee: Showtek (🇳🇱 hardstyle, edm house), marquee nightclub @ marina bay sands shoppes, $45 or student dc

 

05 May, Sun - Cinco de Mayo (Fifth of May)

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• ALL TIME LOW ft Iman's League (G), Fort Canning Park, $158
• Choral: Voices of Singapore - Concert of the People 2024: In One Voice!, family friendly, Capitol Theatre outdoor Plaza (city hall), $23
• Carnival & Pop Raya at Sports Hub Day 2 of 2 - Sezairi , kallang wave mall, free
• Kinda Jazzy Raya Sama-sama Shiok Raya! with Rudy Djoe, Rachma (Keys), Niq (Percussion) and Rudy & Namie (The Jazz Djogets), EXP at 340a Joo Chiat road (paya lebar, eunos, katong), $22
• NYJC & Nanyang Chorale: in.harmoNY 2024, kid friendly, Victoria Concert Hall, $20
• What the Jazz Festival: Workshop and Party - Jazz Inc and Amanda Lee Swingtet present a dance workshop, a Lindy Hop taster, and a dance party, jazz loft at Blu Jaz L3 @ bali ln (bugis), $24
• Gardens by the Bay: Borealis - NORTHERN LIGHTS Light and Sound Installation with atmospheric soundtrack by French composer Guillaume Desbois, gardens by the bay supertree groove, Straits Times IG preview vid 📸 free

 

• > Esplanade
• ESPLANADE: Mother's Day Special by Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall, free with Reg full
• ES Free Perf: Crooner’s Corner: Hillary Francis , Indoor Concourse 645 745, free
• ES Free Perf: Chinese Dance Fiesta 2024: Performance , Outdoor Theatre 7pm 830pm , free
• ES Art Talk & Demo: Sounding : .:. : . :. ..::.: Sand as score by Suhui Hee & Marjet Zwaans 🇳🇱🇸🇬 , Esplanade Annexe Studio, free with Reg

 

• Bike DJ Rave, Wild Pearl's Cargo Bike community ride, Cinco de Mayo special with Chimi's, Chimi's Marina Bay (downtown/raffles place/near merlion), free
• Party: CINCO DE MAYO at Lucha Loco - Tropical Garden Party ft DJ Black Tropik, At Lucha Loco - Mexican Cocina Y Mezcaleria 15 Duxton Hill
• DJ, Freebird Craft Beer Bistro: Three Years Deep Anniversary Day 3 of 3 - DJ Candiceb, Katong Shopping Centre B1, free
• DJ, High House: DJ SWTLKR for cinco de mayo by casa agave (afro beats & baile funk), High House Rooftop Lounge 🗼@ 1 Raffles Place (old 1-altitude), $38
• 🏖 DJ, Tipsy Unicorn : DAZED OUT (trance progressive) takes over Jonic, Victoria Leembruggen, Arif Rajab, Yukun and Jong, Tipsy Unicorn Beach Club 🏖 @ 36 Siloso Bch Walk (Sentosa)

06 May, Mon

• As I Lay Dying (melodic metalcore), FooChow Hall @ 21 Tyrwhitt Rd (next to Jalan Besar Stadium), $92,
• Diana Krall (vocal jazz), ESPLANADE, $58
• Esplanade: Coffee Morning & Afternoon Tea Release Me, The Hits of Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck by Peter Chua, Recital Studio 1030am 3pm, $18 with drink
• DJ, Offtrack: Restrospective with KiDG (80s notalgia), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar

07 May, Tue

• ES: Forward to the Past by Joy Alexis (singer-songwriter), indoor Concourse, free
• ES: Peirce Wind Symphony of Peirce Secondary School, Esplanade Concert Hall, $15
• Open Mic and Performances with Spoke & Bird presents: readings with Kirsten Han, electronic with Bani Haykal & singer-songwriter Malaika Mfalme, THE COUP BAR on 7 ANN SIANG HIL (maxwell) , tix 🎟 *$11 soldout
• YST Conservatory: Masters Recital : Clarinet, NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory main concert hall L1, other recitals free

 

08 May , Wed - Music Matters Live & Creator Week

• Music Matters Live Festival Schedule and the conference Creator Week
  • Swee Lee: NME Live Music Series: Girls To The Front - ft Shye, shazza, rhyu and noui at Swee Lee Clarke Quay, Swee Lee Music Store at CQ @ Clarke Quay, IG free with reg was full awhile back
  • CLARKE QUAY Fountain Square Stage: DAY 1 - ADRIEL 🇲🇾, Dhruv Visvanath 🇮🇳, Fi-Ne 粉内🇨🇳, Ben Swissa 🇦🇺, Isserman 🇬🇧🇫🇷, Balu Brigade 🇳🇿, Berywam 🇫🇷, William Singe 🇦🇺, ONE CLICK STRAIGHT 🇵🇭, the center area of clarke quay, fountain square, free
  • ZOUK Phuture Club: Set the Tone - hiphop, pop r&b - William Singe 🇦🇺, WHO SHOT SCOTT 🇳🇿, Arlo Maverick🇨🇦, Kyleaux🇵🇭 & VIVAOLA 🇯🇵, Zouk Phuture Club at Clarke Quay, tix 🎟 18+ free
  • Conference: see Creator Week link above
• Esplanade: Papaya Duck (vocalist Grey and violinist Audrina, sings Mandopop with classical fusion), Esplanade Concourse 645 745, free
• Choir: St. Andrew's Junior College's Saints Chorale - Viva Vox VII, The Salvation Army at 20 Bishan Street 22, $10,
• 8 (Wed) -12 May: Comedic Theatre - God of Carnage (Advisory - Some Mature Content and Coarse Language), Drama Centre Black Box @ national library (bugis), $30 - $60
• DJ, Club Rich: DJ Nicole Birthday, southeast asian club @ 114 middle rd (bugis), (S188971)
• DJ, Flow @ club Iki (rnb hiphop reggaeton afro night), iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay)
• ==DJ, Moonstone: BOOGIE BALL w KidG (throwback pop), Moonstone BAR @ 103 Amoy St
• Ladies night at clubs, cant list them all.

Other Arts / Musicals

• Festival 25 Apr- 26 May: Voilah! France Singapore Festival, various
• Festival 1 - 25 May: Singapore HeritageFest 2024
• Till 11 May: Theatre - Backstage Betrayal, A Crack the Case Mystery (Some Mature Content), KC Arts Centre @ 20 Merbau Rd (robertson quay, fort canning mrt), $68
• Till 4 May Theatre And the Cats Dance by the Light by Intercultural Theatre Institute, Drama Centre at National Library (bugis), $27
• Till 9 Jun Musical: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, marina bay sands, $80
• 4-5 May: The Everyday Museum: Roving Theatre inspired by Hilmi Johandi's Stagecraft: Landscaped Grounds, Start at SAM Tg Pagar Distripark
  • ℹ: more info
• 27 Apr - 12 May: Hendrick's Sunset Cinema Tanjong Beach, Sentosa Tanjong Beach (harbourfront), $48
• 24 Apr- 25 May: European Film Festival 2024
• 4-5 May: Chinese Kids Theatre: 神笔马良 The Magic Paintbrush (G), Gateway Theatre at Bukit Merah L8, $24
• 8 May: Standup Comedy: KAMPUNG UNDERGROUND: Comedy Night with LADYBO$$, Mad & Midas cocktails @ 39 ann siang hill (maxwell), IG 📸 $19
• 8 -12 May: Comedic Theatre - God of Carnage (Advisory - Some Mature Content and Coarse Language), Drama Centre Black Box @ national library (bugis), $30 - $60
• 9-12 May: Teochew Opera The Pawned Wife 典妻 by Nam Hwa Opera, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), IG 📸, $10

09 May Thu - Esplanade's Pesta Raya (Malay Festival of Arts)

• Niall Horan, indoor stadium, $108
• PREP (UK Synth-Pop), SCAPE The Ground Theatre, $84
• Cancelled: Converge (metalcore mathcore pioneers)
• Felix Martin Guitar Clinic (prog guitarist), Tonehouse Studios at Parklane Shopping Mall (bencoolen), IG 📸 $28
• 9-12 May: Teochew Opera The Pawned Wife 典妻 by Nam Hwa Opera, SCCC Auditorium @ 1 Straits Blvd (shenton way), IG 📸, $10

 

• ESPLANADE: Pesta Raya Festival
  • ES: Sanggar Seni by Kelana Purba and Makyong Kedek, Esplanade Courtyard, free
  • ES: DINAMIKA! by DIAN Dancers, Outdoor Theatre , free
  • ES: Kembang Mara: A Gathering of Flowers by Singa Nglaras Gamelan Ensemble, Esplanade Concourse, free
  • ES: Jalan Raya by Zarina Muhammad, in collaboration with local artists, Esplanade Annexe Studio, $17 - $22
• Music Matters Live Festival Schedule and the conference Creator Week
  
  • Fountain Square Stage: DAY 2 - Peej 🇵🇭, VIVAOLA 🇯🇵, Jewel Owusu 🇦🇺, Arlo Maverick🇨🇦, Kyleaux 🇵🇭, GAC 🇮🇩, BINI 🇵🇭, Nadhif Basalamah 🇮🇩, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE 🇮🇩, the center area of CQ @ clarke quay fountain square, free
  • Senor Taco Stage: DAY 1 - JHM 🇦🇺, Mali 🇮🇩, MATILDE G 🇸🇬, TBA, Señor Taco restaurant livehouse at CQ @ Clarke Quay
  • PHIL STUDIO: Full Volume - ONE CLICK STRAIGHT 🇵🇭, Lemony 🇹🇭, Isserman 🇬🇧🇫🇷, Balu Brigade 🇳🇿, Emma Dilemma 🇳🇿, Adriel 🇲🇾, COUNT VERNON 🇸🇬, Phil's Studio @ High Street Centre L3 (clarke quay/city hall), free
• DJ, Offtrack: Kaleidoscope: Bongomann (jazzy not jazz), 34 North Canal Rd (bs hong lim park, clarke quay), music gastro bar
  
• DJ, iki: ROYAL BEATZ (Afrobeats, Hip Hop, R&B), club iki @ ikigai izakaya riverwalk (clarke quay)
  
• DJ, Drip: NRG Thursdays @ Salt Room ft Skilla & Zax (hiphop rnb afrobeats amapiano latin), drip club @ 100 Orchard Rd Concorde Hotel
  

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Links to this week's episode discussion posts:

• VPR S11E13🍸
• The Valley S1E6 🏘️

I'm a solo traveler going to Costa Rica for about 12 days in early May. Want to do about 5 days in the Osa Peninsula and Corcovado and combine that with a good week at a cool beach town and am considering seriously Santa Teresa or Manuel Antonio or perhaps going further down the coast to somewhere closer to Drake Bay. I'd like to find the best, most beautiful beach but also a town where I will meet cool people while chilling out. Some nightlife, but moreso a chill place with good restaurants and friendly vibe. For Santa Teresa, I would fly there to save time but for the other options would rent a car in San Jose before going to Osa.
Advice? Recommendations? Thanks

Beth:
I slept briefly after my roll in the hay with Michael. When I awoke, my mind was racing. There was the weird phone call with Charlie and then Tex with what sounded like a gun going off.
I called Tex back but Julia (Lady Stern) answered.
“ I shot him. He’s dead.” Was all she said rather coldly and with out emotion.
“You shot him?” I was stunned. Poor Charlie, I felt awful.
“Julia? Wasn’t there anything else you could have done?” But as I spoke I realized I was probably implicating myself so I quickly shut up.
“Beth, he was a brute. He had to go.” She said before hanging up.
A brute? Charlie? I mean, he was a creepo, a submissive, sissy slave I guess, but a brute?
Charlie:
As the police were taking Lady Stern away in handcuffs, she turned to me and said,
“Beth called. I told her what happened.”
Then she was gone. Soon after, Monica and I were in her small red Ford headed back to New York. My future, once again, completely up in the air while my mind was focused on Beth.
What was she feeling? I could only assume relief for me, happiness for me in that I had escaped with my life? I imagined once I returned to New York I would see her again. I so missed her.
As we drove, Monica’s drug fueled mind was all over the place.
“We‘ll need money. I think we can get you work. I know a few producers who pay slaves for things. My friends on Long Island. They always have work. Whippings and shit. Not as bad as what Tex produced but juicy enough.”
The thought of ever being whipped again made me sick to my stomach.
“Monica, I don’t think I can do it anymore.”
Monica laughed.
“Charlie, you do realize you’re a mini celebrity in the business. The last few films Tex produced were named for you. There was “Goofy’s final nail in the balls.” And “Goofy’s torture Extravaganza.” You’re a big shot and we need the money, so let’s not retire just yet.”
Beth:
I called Antonio who was busy as usual at the restaurant (when not screwing, Lori, his bartender.) I filled him in on everything from Charlie’s original call to the gunfire to my call back with Julia.
“So where is Tex?” He asked sounding quite concerned.
“I didn’t ask.” I said.
Antonio decided it was a bad idea to say anything more on the phone and that he was on his way home.
I spruced up the house and even changed the sheets. I didn’t want Antonio to suspect that a man had been over though part of me did feel he deserved it. Then, looking at my watch, I realized it was late. I needed to pick up Little Tony from daycare. Things were getting quite hectic.
Charlie:
We arrived back in New York but it was a different city than the one I knew. It was the Bronx, and it was the projects. The people were poor and it was dangerous too.
As we made our way through the complex, people seem to know who Monica was, especially some of the seedy dealers.
Her apartment was dirty and dingy. I decided I would immediately clean it. As I did, Monica took a seat on her couch, her filthy feet were soon resting on the coffee table.
Without saying a word I knelt in front of her feet and without being asked too, worshipped them with my tongue. I cleaned her gross feet spotless as Monica studied her phone. It was the least I could do.
“That’s enough, get back to cleaning the apartment.”She said as she dried her feet with my hair.
Soon after, Monica pulled out some white powder and snorted it off the coffee table. She then handed me the straw.
“I’ve never done drugs.” I said.
“Well, you do now.”
I took a whiff, I quickly understood euphoria.
Beth:
I scoured the Internet for any information coming out of Virginia. I found nothing. Antonio arrived home in an agitated state. He too found nothing regarding a shooting.
It was getting late so we had a drink, toasted Charlie’s memory and went to sleep. There was no sex.
That night I had a dream that I was holding a gun at Charlie’s head, just like the time Tex and I had pulled that mean April fools joke but this time when I pulled the trigger, I killed him.
The dream woke me up. Was it telling me that somehow I responsible for Charlie’s demise? Would he still be alive if he had never met me? I didn’t know what to think.
To get my mind off of things, I gently gave Antonio a handjob until he was awake. Then I climbed aboard. It was the best sex he and I had together in quite some time.
Charlie:
As the two of us continued to snort the cocaine, I was telling Monica about my life, including the restaurant cleaning business that I had.
“So, these white ass crackers, they stole the business and sold you to Tex?” She asked.
I basically agreed.
Monica said that she wanted my business back and would get it. She then pulled down her panties and told me To get to work. It was awfully rancid down there but she was all I had so I did what I was told.
Beth: I woke up feeling better. I knew I had an excuse if the police came calling asking about why there was a phone call with Tex right around the time they murdered Charlie.
I would simply say that Tex was my ex-husband who was calling me, but I had no interest in talking to him so I hung up but soon I felt guilty and called him back only to hang up again when a woman answered. I would make it clear I knew nothing about a gun or Charlie’s death.
Antonio agreed, saying it was an excellent alibi. So, with that, Antonio returned to the restaurant and his bimbo bartender and I of course returned to the gym where Michael awaited me. So much for the great night of sex saving the marriage.
Charlie:
A few days went by and it was drugs and more drugs. Then Monica received the call back that she had been awaiting.
Her name was Teresa and her sub husband and her ran a successful Femdom film business in Long Island. Monica showed me the clips. They were certainly brutal, but not nearly as brutal as the clips I had participated in over the years. I was told the husband retired due to injury but Teresa still wanted to make content so hearing that the “famous Goofy” was available excited her.
Despite me begging Monica not to make me do it, we took the road trip to Long Island. it was a huge mansion, an absolutely beautiful place near the beach. Teresa herself, was an absolute beautiful Latina woman.
And boy did she know how to use a whip.

As I was commenting under another post, I have a hard time selecting what to suggest. My first instinct is to keep listing stuff. So, hoping this info-dumping tendency can be useful to someone, I thought I'd make a post with little constraint; unfortunately, since I was driving myself crazy, I decided to stop at the area within the Aurelian walls + some of the most notable adjacent bits.
Best enjoyed while looking at a map.
So, what's there to see in Rome? Let's start outside of Italy, since the Vatican area can be treated as its own separate visit: - in Vatican City itself, you can visit the stunning St. Peter's square and Basilica, as well as the famous Museums (which are a must); - also notable and nearby is Castel Sant'Angelo, once emperor Hadrian's mausoleum turned fortress turned papal residence turned prison turned museum; - the late 1800s neighborhood adjacent to these, Prati, has the peculiarity of having been created in an era of hatred between the then Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican: its urban design hides the view of St. Peter's massive dome. Here you can pass by the elegant Piazza Cavour as well as the adjacent and quite impressive Palazzo di Giustizia - "colloquially nicknamed il Palazzaccio ('the Awful Palace'), [it] is the seat of the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Judicial Public Library of Italy".
A lot of famous landmarks are in & around the Campo Marzio area, basically between the Capitol Hill (Campidoglio) to the south and Piazza del Popolo to the north. Here you can find: - Piazza del Popolo itself, along with its three churches (one featuring famous Caravaggio paintings) the Pincio terrace (and the adjacent and very beautiful Villa Borghese park, within and around which you'll find two great museums: Galleria Borghese for classical arts and Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna for modern and contemporary art); - Piazza di Spagna & Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti (aka the "Spanish Steps") along with the eponymous church atop the stairway; - the Mausoleum of Augustus & the Ara Pacis Museum; - the Trevi Fountain; - the Italian Parliament buildings; - the Pantheon; - Piazza Navona (& Sant'Agnese in Agone); - a few "talking statues" - most notably "Pasquino"; - Campo de' Fiori (famous for Giordano Bruno's burning at the stake, for its daytime market and for nightlife); - more and more really cool churches - really, people never stopped and thought "I think that's enough churches". Most of them are really beautiful and filled with masterpieces of Italian art (especially from the Baroque era). Visit as many as you can of those you find on your way. I'll just name some I especially like: Chiesa del Gesù, Sant'Ignazio di Loyola, Sant'Andrea della Valle, San Luigi dei Francesi (also featuring Caravaggios), Sant'Agostino, San Lorenzo in Lucina; - in between Sant'Andrea della Valle and Campo de' Fiori, you'll find the residual shape of what once was the Theatre of Pompey, and a little "secret" passage connecting the two areas (Passetto del Biscione); - nearby, the archeological area of Largo di Torre Argentina, related to the Curia of Pompey of Caesar-stabbing fame; - there's also numerous palaces formerly owned by noble families, but not many are visitable - a lot are govt or diplomatic buildings, for example; - the Jewish Ghetto (where I'd especially suggest trying traditional pastries); - Piazza Venezia (stroll through the inner garden of Palazzo Venezia, meet the "talking statue" Madama Lucrezia, and then move to the impressive Vittoriano monument to enjoy the architectural beauty, the interesting iconography celebrating the Italian unification process and, finally, a great view over Rome - the elevator to the upper terrace is just 4€ for people under 26); - behind the Vittoriano, the Ara Coeli church and the iconic Campidoglio square designed by Michelangelo and the Musei Capitolini or Capitoline Museums (showcasing parts of the most important temples of ancient Rome as well as a lot of classical sculptures).
From this central area, you can head in a number of directions.
You can head towards the Circus Maximus, for example, in a couple ways: one is passing by the Theatre of Marcellus and going through the Foro Boario and Foro Olitorio, reaching Piazza di Bocca della Verità (where the Romanic, medieval looking church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin hosts the touristically famous "mouth of truth") before moving on to the aforementioned Circus - though another option would be to forget the Circus Maximus and instead head to the Isola Tiberina, cross the river the way the earliest local settlers once would've, and enjoy the neighborhood of Trastevere (but that deserves its own paragraph).
Another, more evident way takes you by the Colonna Traiana and through the Roman & Imperial Fora, reaching the Colosseum where you could pivot to the Circus Maximus - and perhaps, on the way there, you might stop for a visit to the newly opened Forma Urbis museum. However, from the Colosseum you might also go visit the church of San Pietro in Vincoli (with its famous statue of Moses made by Michelangelo), Colle Oppio park and the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea underneath it, or go up to the Pope's Cathedral of St. John (and nearby "Scala Santa" chapel, where many of the most important relics of Catholic Christianity were preserved), not failing to notice all those obelisks that keep popping up in almost all the relevant places... What might their story ever be?
Yet another direction of exploration could take you up some beautiful streets (such as Via Nazionale or Via del Tritone, respectively leading to Piazza della Repubblica - here you'll also find the archeological area of the Baths of Diocletian, as well as the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri - and Piazza Barberini - where the macabre Capuchin Crypt is a well known curiosity, though Palazzo Barberini's museum is probably more relevant). In the same generally eastward direction, you could go up other hills, such as the Quirinale hill where the homonymous Palace of our President of the Republic stands, along with the Palace of the Constitutional Court and the Scuderie del Quirinale museum. And, on the way towards the historically significant Porta Pia, you'll find the church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, and later on you'll be at the Quattro Fontane crossroad with the church of San Carlino. At this crossroad, if you don't wanna keep going towards Porta Pia and you're OK with missing out on Bernini's "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" (inside Santa Maria della Vittoria), you can instead turn towards another major church - Saint Mary Major. You'll then find yourself in the Esquilino neighborhood (named after the hill it's on), where you can also find Piazza Vittorio and Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (where supposed relics of Jesus's cross are kept, among others), as well as a good section of a nowadays underrated element of the city's history: the Aurelian walls.
Having reached the eastern end of that set of walls, it only seems fair to pay some attention to its western side: Trastevere. Here, you can enjoy the exciting nighlife, the small town vibes that tiny streets and houses give off, but also see cool government buildings (the Ministry of Education) and, of course, churches, most notably Santa Maria in Trastevere, but also Santa Cecilia, San Crisogono, San Cosimato, San Callisto... You'll also find that the neighborhood pays homage to two famous poets of Romanhood: Trilussa and Belli. This relates to a tradition that views Trastevere as a neighborhood where some part of the "Rome that once was" was preserved. Just north of its main bulk, you'll find an interesting assortment of buildings and villas along Via della Lungara: the Botanical gardens of Rome, over the western slope of the Gianicolo Hill; Villa Farnesina; the Accademia dei Lincei; the Gallerie Corsini. All of them related to one peculiar Queen of Sweden who picked a bad time to be Catholic and had to self-exile to Rome, where she became the center of intellectual life for a few decades in the 1600s. Also, since we mentioned it, you can go up and down the Gianicolo hill on a nice stroll that connects the Vatican to Trastevere stricto sensu. Apart from a great view on the city, what you'll find here are a lot of monuments and statues related to Garibaldi, a national hero during the time of Italian unification, to the Repubblica Romana (a short-lived attempt at taking over Rome from the Pope and give it an independent republican constitution) and generally to the struggle for unification.
One important hill we're missing is the Aventine hill, and it's definitely worth visiting. It's adjacent to the Circus Maximus we've mentioned before. There's a famous attraction - the keyhole of a door to the Villa di Santa Maria del Priorato - from which you can see the dome of St. Peter nicely framed. That is cool but not worth the long line that is typically there. Instead, enjoy the view from Giardino degli Aranci and check out the nearby churches, before heading down towards Testaccio. The Testaccio neighborhood is also quite cool and has nice nightlife and restaurants (note: Porta Portese and its famous flea market are close to Testaccio as well as part of Trastevere). From there you can visit the Cimitero Acattolico, a non-denominational cemetery where a good few famous people were buried and where the cultural variety of burial places is quite interesting. It also features the best view on the most visible burial in the area: a pyramid pertaining to a Roman nobleman and dating back to the Augustan era, mimicking the Ancient Egyptian ones. It wasn't always the only such extravagant burial in Rome, but it's the only one that survived due to becoming part of the Aurelian walls.
And finally, near the Circus Maximus, midway between St. John and the Pyramid, you'll find the monumental ruins of the Baths of emperor Caracalla. Oh, and just north of it is Villa Celimontana, another nice park, with another nice church (Santa Maria in Domnica alla Navicella).
Note: St Peter, St John, St Mary Major are 3/4 of the "major basilicas" recognized by the Roman Catholic Church "to which a visit is always prescribed as one of the conditions for gaining the Roman Jubilee". The fourth one is a bit further, outside the walls - it is, in fact, called St. Paul outside the Walls.

Heyy I want to take my boyfriend out for his Birthday for a nice food experience and would like to try an omakaze restaurant. II see many recommend hoze and koizen. So I have a hard time deciding between these two, which one do you recommend for best food, ambience, drinks etc :)
UPDATE! okay so we ultimately went to Koizen last night and if was an AMAZING experience. Every bite was delightful and it just got better and better over the course. The chef John and his wife Teresa and their waiter were all lovely and so engaging. Thank u all for your input and i can gladly also say that this was the best food we've had😍