Buddy Holly Hall

Buddy Holly Hall houses unique art installation

By Allison Monacelli

The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences is the newest addition to the Lubbock skyline.

Lubbock Entertainment Performing Arts Association, LEPAA, was challenged with raising the money, overseeing the construction of the site and all of its operations.

Michelle Stephens, LEPAA executive director, said Lubbock has needed a space like this for years, and a performance arts venue was high on the list for the town.

“To have something like this for our community, something you would expect to see in a huge city or in another country, to have that here is just, it’s indescribable,” Stephens said.

The creativity within the walls of the Buddy Holly Hall never stops. Comedy, ballet, off -Broadway shows, and even original works of art are displayed.

Since all of the costs were donated by individuals, companies or foundations, LEPAA wanted an interactive way to involve donors into the building, Stephens said.

“We were talking about donors, and how do we recognize donors, and one of the architects said ‘Man, it sure would be cool to do something better than a buya-brick program,’” Stephens said.

Brad Oldham, a sculptor from the Fort Worth area, engineered a 30-foot by 120foot visual comprising 9,000 guitar picks, according to the LEPAA website. This fi ne-art installation is on the south wall of Buddy Holly Hall.

The picks are in 11 sizes, six of which are available for the public to purchase and customize.

When it comes to the picks, there are nine levels that were originally available for purchase. As of right now, there are only 3 levels left to choose from, and they are the larger picks.

“We do offer payment plans on those,” Stephens said. “We sell them online but if someone is like OK, ‘I want a big pick,’ and doesn’t have the money, they can just put it on a payment plan, and just pay a little bit every month.”

Stephens said 832 picks are sold, and 872 picks are still available.

“We’re still raising money,” Stephens said. “We still need contributions from people who want to support this awesome thing that’s happening in our community.”

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Page 6 • August 2021 • Golden Gazette Simplifying the stress of streamlining

As life happens, we cycle through different necessities, wants and uses of space. No matter where you are in life, at some point you may realize you’ve ended up with too much stuff. And the idea of going through it all to decide what should stay and what should go can be frustratingly stressful. You can simplify the task of sorting through it all by taking it one step at a time with the tips below:

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Hodges Community Center 4011 University • 767-3706 Lubbock Memorial Arboretum 4111 University • 797-4520 Lubbock Adult Activity Center 2001 19th St. • 767-2710

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Wardrobe

Inventory your clothes, shoes and accessories by trying on as many pieces as possible. Don’t just guess that it fits and keep it. If you don’t fit in it anymore, can’t remember why you bought it, or haven’t felt like wearing it for the past year, it needs to go.

Appliances

A collection of appliances aren’t handy if they’re collecting dust or never leaving the box. If you can’t remember the last time you plugged something in or you know you haven’t used it in the last year, it’s taking up space for something you may find more useful.

Media

When was the last time you read that book, watched that DVD, or displayed those old photos? Just about everything can go digital, especially if you haven’t read or watched it in the past year. To keep your media from taking over your place again in the future, decide which digital streaming accounts or electronic reading services will work best with your needs. You can find almost all of your favorite books and movies digitally. Your photos can be digitized and uploaded to cloud storage to create space as well.

Furniture

time, and ask yourself two things: is this a piece I use regularly, and is this a piece that easily contributes to the room’s ambiance and style? If you can’t answer “yes” to one of these questions, the furniture is likely not useful to you and should be sold or donated.

Cars

If you or a loved one you care for is not driving anymore or otherwise find yourself with more cars than people, you’ll want to start thinking about selling. If one or more cars are just sitting in your garage or on your property taking up needed valuable space, insurance and maintenance fees may begin to stack up without much benefit. Deciding to sell or donate the cars can be a great first step to reclaiming space that will help you streamline.

Off-Site Storage

Storage units can add up monthly. Ranging on average from $75 to $250 monthly per unit, some units can cost thousands of dollars to maintain annually. Anything in off-site storage should be assessed, and in most cases, automatically sold, gifted or donated. If it doesn’t fit in your home, then there’s no reason for you to keep it. There’s a reason you took these things out of your home in the first place. The general rule here is if it wasn’t important or essential enough to keep in your home, then it’s not important or essential enough to hold on to.

Streamlining your possessions can be simple once you know what to look for. Invest the time to go through everything and always keep your desired end result in mind. If you feel overwhelmed by the labor or decision-making process, remember there is always expert help available.

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Brain Mind Games

1. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I? 2. He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he? 3. How many bricks does it take to complete a building made of bricks? 4. A barrel of water weighs 20 pounds. What must you add to make it weigh 12 pounds? A hole 4.

The misadventures of a bottle(d) blonde

It’s the 1950s. Gorgeous Barbara Eden sits in the Hollywood offi ce of a Warner Brothers casting director. “You’re a very nice girl from San Francisco,” the man explains with a grin. “But I really think you should go home and marry the boy at home. This isn’t the town for you. You’re just not pretty enough.”

Eden didn’t follow his advice, however, and when she was cast later in the TV adaptation of “How to Marry a Millionaire,” Barbara became a respected comedic actress. Eventually, she won the role that brought her superstardom as the bottledwelling beauty on NBCTV’s “I Dream of Jeannie” series. The hit show was inspired by the 1964 movie “The Brass Bottle.” Originally a 1900 novel, it later became a fi lm that featured Tony Randall, Burl Ives and - lo and behold - Barbara Eden. In “Jeannie,” Larry Hag-

Being a little older, I am very fortunate to have someone call and check on me every day. He is from India and is concerned about my car warranty. We should train all Amazon delivery drivers to give the vaccine. The whole population would be immunized by Saturday, Thursday if you’ve got Prime.

man, the son of Broadway legend Mary Martin, costarred as straight-arrow as-

tronaut Captain (later Major) Tony Nelson. But Hagman often proved disgruntled during the 139 “I Dream of Jeannie” episodes, as we’ll see later.

The opening show, set on a deserted island beach, saw Captain Nelson stumble across Jeannie’s bottle home, where she had been imprisoned for two millennia. Soon, in a puff of pink smoke, the striking beauty was set free - and that’s when the fun began.

The show’s success meant keeping network censors busy trying to maintain a morally upright offering. Even though Jeannie slept in her bottle and Tony in his bed, it could never be shown that the bottle was in the captain’s bedroom. (They weren’t married until the fi fth and fi nal year of the show.) Also, Barbara wasn’t supposed to expose her navel, although it did appear occasionally.

Along the way, some morality-oriented gatekeepers groused about her parading around in a “nightie.” Eden dismissed that, explaining, “It’s what she wore during the day. That was her dress, that was her uniform.” Finally, some feminists protested that Barbara subjugated herself to Hagman. This brought about her miff ed response: “She called him ‘master,’ but who was the real master there? She was. She wasn’t his subject; she was his equal.”

Larry’s solo star turn would arrive later when, in 1978, he became infamous as the ruthless oil baron J. R. Ewing on the CBS-TV nighttime soap-opera “Dallas.” Its success allowed him to abandon comedy.

“Jeannie” creator Sidney Sheldon (later the author of 18 hit novels) has admitted that not all went swimmingly on the “I Dream of Jeannie” set during its fi veyear run. “The problem was Larry Hagman,” Sheldon has candidly admitted. “He wanted to be the star, [but] it was Barbara who was getting all the magazine covers and interviews. Larry wanted to show the world that he could be as successful as his mother. I began to write scripts to build up Larry’s character and make him more prominent. But when an actor is in a show with a scantily clad actress as beautiful and enticing as Barbara Eden, it is very diffi cult to become the star.”

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