Great Surprise today in the mail. Received Amherst College Spring 2014 Alumni Issue and discovered that the Mike Tapp MNN Time Warner Cable Documentary on my Career "Rocker Roller Rican" plus my Off Broadway Play "Spic Chic" and published work/broadcast history were acknowledged in one fell swoop. It is the first time that my Alma Mater Amherst College has taken notice of my accomplishments since I graduated in 1986 with Christine R Cain '86 and attended school with Edwin Camacho '79.
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Delilah Blue
https://vimeo.com/94871049
I’m
An unbroken cowboy
In love with
The open ranges
In love with
HER
Small town
One-legged
Dance hall girl
Known as
“Delilah Blue”
A sensuous comet
Streaking across
My sky mind
22 Raven
On her hip
Blackjack
In her pocketbook
A stiletto hidden
By the prosthetic
Of her Little Leg
The sun rises
Every time
Delilah’s eyes open.
She speaks
And my soul is fulfilled
Delilah can figure out
My little boy secrets
With her spirit
We meet
In a mountain desert
But are far
From being dry
On our first date
I ask Delilah
Hey Baby
How you lose
Your leg
She wryly responds
I tire of it
It weighs me down
Later
Bathed in incense
Candles
And the
Sticky
Bittersweet smell
Of love-making
I peek into
Delilah’s soul
And
Witness a lifetime
Of breaking
And resetting
A body that God
Does not quite complete
One leg shorter
Than the other
A spine
That can’t support
Her height
Which rises
Above the turmoil
The final straw
Comes at the hands
Of five drunken marines
Who rape
Burn
And
Torture her
At the hospital
The doctor says
We can save your life
But maybe not the leg
Cut it off immediately
Cut away the past
Walk into the future
I cry that first date
Hearing HER story
And lay the foundation
For a year of
Twisty Love
I understand her wildness
She consecrates my abandon
Our need to
Be bad
Be with each other
And
Be in love
Outweighing the risks
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
As I dive into the torture
Of Van Gogh’s face
Delilah robs a Belgian tourist
Of 3000 dollars
Presents it to me
Here Poppy
Here’s my dowry
Past indiscretions
Come calling
For Delilah and me
During a
Rum and cocaine-choked
Celebration
Of our first
Year anniversary
I find Delilah
Dazed
On the bedroom floor
Boozy sighs pouring
From her lips into my ears
Oh, poppy
The pain is so bad
Even my conscience hurts
It’s spring
And
We’re blind
I know I have to act
And lay a path
For Delilah to escape
And save myself
Delilah
Who can always figure out
My little boy secrets
Acts
She walks into
A local bank
Makes a .357 withdrawal
Leaves me a note
And
Flies back west
To rest
Under the Volcano
Thanks for the star-spiked rodeo
Poppy
But I’m fatigued
It weighs me down
I cry reading that note
But understand
Because Delilah shows me
By her example
By her courage
Cut away the past
Walk into the future
You see
You can’t enjoy
The light of reason
Unless you first
Experience
The Dark Night
Of the Soul.
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Special Mother's Day Presentation
Salsa Magazine 6,451 members (85 new)
“Luis Chaluisan is a born storyteller. His gift for capturing the heart and soul of each character he portrays is not only convincing, but also inspiring. His latest collection of solo portraits is titled "Spic Chic," and has been touring various venues around town. It made its latest stop at the Nuyorican Poets Café, where the performance was rousingly received, before moving on to stops at Raw Space and a possible move out West. The show is full of humor, insight, poetry, and Puerto Rican pride. Chaluisan's smooth-talking narrator introduces the various vignettes with articulate wit and wisdom. One is a heartfelt homage to the original poets of the Nuyorican venue. Chaluisan then tells about a wild day at Amherst College filled with tales of drug-dealing and terrorist acts. He later recalls a confrontation involving a television reporter and the Ku Klux Klan. His unique voice as a writer clearly displays his poetic influences”
Elias Stimac - Backstage
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 1 " by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524205-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 2" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524189-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 3" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524172-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 4" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524161-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 5" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524142-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 6" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524122-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
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One of the major problems in the Wood County Rock and Roll Music scene is the abuse of opiates (see heroin) by a small clique of thug wanna be rock stars. The list of convicted felons imposing themselves on local venues numbers approximately a half dozen. They are not only involved in alleged dealing and suspected gun running but have been allegedly involved in ripping off other groups door money and reported physical attacks. Bowling Green police and sheriff's department are had on the case on rooting out these individuals who are marring the quality of life in the city. The BG Sentinel Tribune has stepped up to the plate with a two part expose that in essence supports driving both addicts and dealers out of Town. (BG FRONT PAGE SERIES PART 1)
It’s an addiction that doesn’t discriminate among race, age or socioeconomic level. It can spread its fingers into a variety of crimes. And like the rest of the United States, Wood County is not immune. Nationwide, the country is seeing a resurgence in heroin, a drug that found an eager audience in the 1990s but had largely faded away in the years since. Now, it’s back in a big way. Across the country, heroin use has been climbing steadily since 2007 among persons 12 or older, according to a government study. The drug is processed from morphine, which itself comes from poppy plants. It can be snorted, smoked or injected, depending on the kind of heroin and its relative purity. Bowling Green police saw a dramatic spike in heroin issues last year.
http://www.sent-trib.com/front-page/hooked-on-heroin
(BG FRONT PAGE SERIES PART 2)
While the abuse of heroin and its dark, outlying effects — crime and overdoses — are on the rise, so are efforts to fight back against the addiction with treatment efforts and legislation.
“It’s a community problem. It’s become a huge community health problem,” said Thomas Clemons, executive director of the Wood County Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Board (ADAMHS). Sandi Carsey, children’s services unit administrator with Wood County Job and Family Services, said the increasingly pervasive problem doesn’t just impact individual users, but also families. “There’s been an increase in our reports of heroin or opiate use,” she said. “We have had several parents die as a result of heroin use, leaving children without a parent. We’ve also had many overdoses. And that affects the children as well, because parents can’t take care of them and somebody else has to, then.”
http://www.sent-trib.com/front-page/heroin-widespread-in-state
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Little Otis XXI Retrovision
roughrican productions (c) 2014
https://vimeo.com/93746707
1. Blue Bayou-Little Otis XXI
2. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain Little Otis XXI
3. Bring It On Home-Little Otis XXI
4. Come On Lets Go Little Otis XXI
5. Como Rien Little Otis XXI
6. Devil With The Blue Dress-Little Otis XXI
7. El Extreme's Love Hypnotic
8. Great Balls Of Fire Little Otis XXI
9. Have You Ever Seen The Rain Little Otis XXI
10. Hello Mary Lou Little Otis XXI
11. I Fall To Pieces Little Otis XXI
12. I Walk The Line-El Extreme
13. I Wish It Would Rain Little Otis XXI
14. Imagine Little Otis XXI
15. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Little Otis XXI
16. Jenny Jenny Little Otis XXI
17. Johnny B Goode
18. Kansas City Little Otis XXI
19. Old Time Rock and Roll Little Otis XXI
20. Pony Time-Little Otis XXI
21. Seven Lonely Days Little Otis XXI
22. Stardust Little Otis XXI
23. Try A Little Tenderness-Little Otis XXI
24. Uptown Little Otis XXI
Ron Wagner and I spoke about what a musical reunion of Little Otis and the Upsetters (LOU) would be like. Here's two sets of music that is in keeping how Joanie Whittaker Billy Hanway RonWagner and I El Extreme Luis Chaluisan learned to play ROCK AND ROLL! I will be speaking with David Harper at Grumpy Dave's Pub's (Formerly Milton's where we were the house band for two years 1982-84) to to have a 31st Anniversary on Thursday July 3, 2014 to commemorate the night we launched our two year Tuesday Night Live Performance Series in 1983. 9:00 PM-1 AM. A combination of Live music, music videos, classic (LOU) TV and nightclub appearances and spoken word Performance Art Monologue "The Little Otis Story"
https://vimeo.com/77735818
Monologue 2013 "LITTLE OTIS AND THE UPSETTERS"
The story of the band that brought that West Indian Boricua Swing to Wood County with a dash of jazz and punk rock. 1982-84
http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/album/48229-little-otis-and-upsetters-1984
— with El Extreme Luis Chaluisan and 2 others at Grumpy Dave's Pub.
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Analysis by Latino Media Marketing shows Salsa Magazine Female Subscribers are among the highest intellectually gifted people on FB. https://www.facebook.com/groups/salsamagazine/ In an effort to provide better profiles for the identification of all gifted Latina women, current research suggests use of both qualitative measures and quantitative instruments, such as achievement and intelligence tests (Garcia, 1994). Early in the 1980s, a national panel of experts recommended use of several instruments when assessing Women from the Latino population, including culturally and linguistically diverse students (Richert, Alvino, & McDonnel, 1982). Some of the instruments they recommended have remained in use, including Progressive Matrices, Standard (Raven, 1960); SOI Screening Form for Gifted (Meeker & Meeker, 1975); System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (Mercer & Lewis, 1978); Culture Fair Intelligence Test, Scale 1 (Cattell & Cattell, 1950). Spanish language instruments this author has found useful for measuring academic achievement include Aprenda: La Prueba de Logros en Espanol, Intermediate 2 (Psychological Corporation, 1990); Bateria Woodcock Psico-Educativa en Espanol (Woodcock, 1982); Spanish Assessment of Basic Education, Second Edition, Level 2 (Hampton-Brown Company, 1991); and La Prueba Riverside de Realizacion en Espanol (Cote, 1984). For more information about these instruments and others, readers can refer to the on-line searchable ERIC/AE Test Locator at on the Internet. Other new instruments are being developed, including one specifically designed to identify gifted bilingual Hispanic students.
— with Maria Hernandez and Tina Chaluisan.
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Maria Hernandez sheds blessing on Rocker Roller Rican. WEPAwebTV - New Edge Theater Good day at Artwalk. 12 books sold. 21 Documentary DVD's ordered. 11 Digital sales. WEPAwebTV Roughrican Productions http://lnkd.in/dRzzZqq — with Maria Hernandez and 2 others at El Extreme Luis Chaluisan.
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"Little Otis XXI LP Bolero Rockero Luis Chaluisan" keeps El Extreme Luis Chaluisan in #1 Spot on Regional Charts All Genres. "Little Otis XXI LP Bolero Rockero Luis Chaluisan" - http://lnkd.in/dYp4dAG
The Documentary on his artistic career (Rocker Roller Rican) is scheduled to be screened at ARTWALK today April 26th at the Connection Center BG. Noon-1-2-3 PM Free of charge and WBGU TV in May 2014.
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The Connection Center
Location: 194 South Main Street
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone: 419.354.4200
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ROCKER ROLLER RICAN http://lnkd.in/dZm8Ny5
Time Warner Documentary About Luis Chaluisan Amherst 1986 BA Theater Arts: Rocker Roller Rican begins with film of Internationally recognized Nuyorican Performer El Extreme Luis Chaluisan in October 1975 at Amherst College (a mere three months after he turned professional as a dancer-singer at the age of 17 with the Alliance of Latin Artists in NYC.)
It is thoroughly produced filmed review as he travels from the Bronx in 1975 to the present day through the national American arts world as a Ballet/Jazz/Salsa/Folkloric Dancer-Curated Artist-Latin/Indie Rock musician-CBS/Telemundo/PBS News Reporter-Television Producer-Published Author-Radio Show Host-TV Station Manager-National Slam Poetry Ct. Team Champion
By: Maria Hernandez
Executive Director
WEPAwebTV-Managing Editor
Salsa Magazine 5,400 + members
ROCKER ROLLER RICAN
Directed by: Maria Hernandez WEPAwebTV - New Edge Theater
Produced by: Mike Tapp MNN Time Warner Cable
Associate Producer: Ronald Chaluisan
Featuring: L.f. Chaluisan Batlle plus
Film Directed by: John Coles Talking Wall Pictures 1975
Film Directed by: Tony Ortiz Top Productions NYC 1984
Off Broadway Scenes Directed By: Petronia Paley 2002
Set Design by: Albert Chaluisan
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New film tells Luis Chaluisan's story http://newsle.com/article/0/141121116/
Written by DAVID DUPONT Sentinel Arts & Entertainment Editor
Thursday, 17 April 2014 10:50
Luis Chaluisan has become a familiar figure in downtown Bowling Green.
Not that anyone would ever think he's from here. He was born in Puerto Rico in 1957 and raised in the North Bronx where his family moved when he was 7, and his voice has the quick, colorful clip that betrays his upbringing.
A new documentary "Rocker Roller Rican" out on DVD tells about his life and its intersection with the emerging Nuyorican culture in the 1970s and 1980s in New York.
"Rocker Roller Rican" will be screened at the Connection Center during art walk throughout the afternoon on April 26 at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. in downtown Bowling Green. It'll also be screened by WBGU-PBS, where Chaluisan worked in the 1980s, in May.
The hour-long film traces Chaluisan's ancestry back to the Basque region in Europe, through Haiti to Puerto Rico until he arrived at age 7 in the North Bronx in New York City.
It brings together clips both of his performances under the name El Extreme, as well as family snapshots and footage of some of his influences to paint a portrait both of Chaluisan and the vibrant culture of his time.
But it was not all poetry, song and dance.
"I survived the crack wars," Chaluisan said. He carried a .45 revolver. Finally he was busted, and a detective who he knew from school offered him a deal: If he disappeared, the charges would disappear. At that point he went down to Puerto Rico.
Just another stop in what Chaluisan calls his own journey of self-discovery. It involves graduating from one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country, Amherst College in Massachusetts, but not after being asked to leave on a couple occasions, eventually getting his degree a dozen years after he first enrolled.
It involved a career in broadcasting where he worked with budding stars Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly.
It involved a stay in the 1980s in Bowling Green, working for WBGU-PBS, and playing rock and roll with Little Otis and The Upsetters as the house band at Milton's.
And it involved a stay in a state mental institution in New York City.
The only person, he said, who visited him when he was there was Maria Hernandez, someone who studied and worked with him. Hernandez and producer Mike Tapp are responsible for the film.
All through that time, he struggled with mental illness. As a teenager he started hearing voices. Chaluisan sang. He painted."You could feel a lot of what was happening to me in the paintings." He started writing. The voices became the voices and imagery for his poems.
He danced. "Anything I could do to expend the energy," he said.
"Rocker Roller Rican" opens with a film of him dancing while a student at Amherst College in 1975.
All of it came together in the play "Spic (for Spanish People In Charge) Chic," which played in New York City and Germany.
It took him years before a psychiatrist in Puerto Rico finally prescribed the right medication to control his symptoms. And now, he said, three years after moving back to Northwest Ohio, he feels he's found a home.
His most recent visit back to New York City convinced him he could never return. The pace is too frantic for him now. "I'm no longer built for that." He considered moving back to his native Puerto Rico, but the island, he said, has become too violent.
So he's at home in downtown Bowling Green.
Chaluisan finds support at the Connection Center, so that's where he wanted to screen "Rocker Roller Rican." He's also pleased that the film will be broadcast in New York in June shown in Puerto Rico, and other places he's called home.
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Luis Chaluisan Salsa Magazine 6,000+ members A National Movement To Enlighten and Inform https://www.facebook.com/groups/salsamagazine/ THE FACE OF THE SECOND MAJORITY IN THE UNITED STATES The greatest weapons we have as Latinos are reading, writing and information. What we have discovered is that the greatest concern among "Salsa Magazine" members is managing the amount of information you receive. Our members are inundated with information, from our coalition and thousands of other sources. So the challenge for us is making sure that we are communicating just the right amount and type of information to our members. And how do we do that? With data. The promise of good data management is that we can communicate with our members in a way that is highly relevant and highly valuable to them. We do this by understanding who you are, what your interests and needs are, and how you like to consume information. This means collecting and analyzing key data about our members, such as how long you’ve been a member, what your areas of interest and speciality are, how you are consuming information from us (e.g., via the web, via email, via Twitter, ReveerbNation via print), and what content we have that may be relevant to you. Managing all of this information can be tricky. It requires good technology and also good processes. Once we started targeting our communications to members (i.e., sending you what is relevant to you), we have seen an appreciation of the value we are providing. El Extreme Luis Chaluisan
LA CARA DE LA SEGUNDA MAYORIA EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Las mejores armas que tenemos como Latinos son la lectura, la escritura y la información. Lo que hemos descubierto es que la mayor preocupación entre los miembros de " Salsa Magazine" es la gestión de la cantidad de información que reciben. Nuestros miembros están inundados con información, desde nuestra coalición y miles de otras fuentes. Así que el reto para nosotros es asegurarse de que nos estamos comunicando la cantidad exacta y el tipo de información a nuestros miembros . ¿Y cómo hacemos eso ? Con los datos .
La promesa de la buena gestión de los datos es que podemos comunicarnos con nuestros miembros de una manera que es muy relevante y de gran valor para ustedes. Hacemos esto mediante la comprensión de quiénes son, cuáles son sus intereses y necesidades, y cómo les gusta consumir información. Esto significa recoger y analizar datos acerca de nuestros miembros, como cuánto tiempo han estado miembro , cuáles son sus áreas de interés y especialidad, cómo están consumiendo información de nostros (por ejemplo , a través de la web, por correo electrónico, a través de Twitter, ReverbNation a través de impresión) , y lo que el contenido que tenemos puede ser relevante para ustedes..
La gestión de toda esta información puede ser complicado. Se requiere una buena tecnología y también buenos procesos. Una vez que empezamos la orientación de nuestras comunicaciones a los miembros (es decir , el envío de lo que es importante para usted ), hemos visto una apreciación del valor que estamos ofreciendo .
L.f. Chaluisan Batlle Federico Chaluisan Salsamagazine.com 2014 Recognition Awards Mayaguez Rocker Roller Rican WEPAwebTV Roughrican Productions WEPAwebTV - New Edge Theater
— with Maria Hernandez and 3 others at El Extreme Luis Chaluisan.
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El Extreme "Honking and Shouting" Little Otis / Blog
Featured in Amherst College Spring 2014 Issue
Great Surprise today in the mail. Received Amherst College Spring 2014 Alumni Issue and discovered that the Mike Tapp MNN Time Warner Cable Documentary on my Career "Rocker Roller Rican" plus my Off Broadway Play "Spic Chic" and published work/broadcast history were acknowledged in one fell swoop. It is the first time that my Alma Mater Amherst College has taken notice of my accomplishments since I graduated in 1986 with Christine R Cain '86 and attended school with Edwin Camacho '79.
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Delilah Blue
Delilah Blue https://vimeo.com/94871049 I’m An unbroken cowboy In love with The open ranges In love with HER Small town One-legged Dance hall girl Known as “Delilah Blue” A sensuous comet Streaking across My sky mind 22 Raven On her hip Blackjack In her pocketbook A stiletto hidden By the prosthetic Of her Little Leg The sun rises Every time Delilah’s eyes open. She speaks And my soul is fulfilled Delilah can figure out My little boy secrets With her spirit We meet In a mountain desert But are far From being dry On our first date I ask Delilah Hey Baby How you lose Your leg She wryly responds I tire of it It weighs me down Later Bathed in incense Candles And the Sticky Bittersweet smell Of love-making I peek into Delilah’s soul And Witness a lifetime Of breaking And resetting A body that God Does not quite complete One leg shorter Than the other A spine That can’t support Her height Which rises Above the turmoil The final straw Comes at the hands Of five drunken marines Who rape Burn And Torture her At the hospital The doctor says We can save your life But maybe not the leg Cut it off immediately Cut away the past Walk into the future I cry that first date Hearing HER story And lay the foundation For a year of Twisty Love I understand her wildness She consecrates my abandon Our need to Be bad Be with each other And Be in love Outweighing the risks At the Metropolitan Museum of Art As I dive into the torture Of Van Gogh’s face Delilah robs a Belgian tourist Of 3000 dollars Presents it to me Here Poppy Here’s my dowry Past indiscretions Come calling For Delilah and me During a Rum and cocaine-choked Celebration Of our first Year anniversary I find Delilah Dazed On the bedroom floor Boozy sighs pouring From her lips into my ears Oh, poppy The pain is so bad Even my conscience hurts It’s spring And We’re blind I know I have to act And lay a path For Delilah to escape And save myself Delilah Who can always figure out My little boy secrets Acts She walks into A local bank Makes a .357 withdrawal Leaves me a note And Flies back west To rest Under the Volcano Thanks for the star-spiked rodeo Poppy But I’m fatigued It weighs me down I cry reading that note But understand Because Delilah shows me By her example By her courage Cut away the past Walk into the future You see You can’t enjoy The light of reason Unless you first Experience The Dark Night Of the Soul.
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SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1
Special Mother's Day Presentation Salsa Magazine 6,451 members (85 new) “Luis Chaluisan is a born storyteller. His gift for capturing the heart and soul of each character he portrays is not only convincing, but also inspiring. His latest collection of solo portraits is titled "Spic Chic," and has been touring various venues around town. It made its latest stop at the Nuyorican Poets Café, where the performance was rousingly received, before moving on to stops at Raw Space and a possible move out West. The show is full of humor, insight, poetry, and Puerto Rican pride. Chaluisan's smooth-talking narrator introduces the various vignettes with articulate wit and wisdom. One is a heartfelt homage to the original poets of the Nuyorican venue. Chaluisan then tells about a wild day at Amherst College filled with tales of drug-dealing and terrorist acts. He later recalls a confrontation involving a television reporter and the Ku Klux Klan. His unique voice as a writer clearly displays his poetic influences” Elias Stimac - Backstage
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 1 " by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524205-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 2" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524189-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 3" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524172-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 4" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524161-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 5" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524142-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
Check out "SPIC CHIC RADIO BROADCAST WBGU FM 88.1 Part 6" by El Extreme LUIS CHALUISAN - http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/song/17524122-spic-chic-radio-broadcast-wbgu
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Heroin and Wood County Rock Scene
One of the major problems in the Wood County Rock and Roll Music scene is the abuse of opiates (see heroin) by a small clique of thug wanna be rock stars. The list of convicted felons imposing themselves on local venues numbers approximately a half dozen. They are not only involved in alleged dealing and suspected gun running but have been allegedly involved in ripping off other groups door money and reported physical attacks. Bowling Green police and sheriff's department are had on the case on rooting out these individuals who are marring the quality of life in the city. The BG Sentinel Tribune has stepped up to the plate with a two part expose that in essence supports driving both addicts and dealers out of Town. (BG FRONT PAGE SERIES PART 1) It’s an addiction that doesn’t discriminate among race, age or socioeconomic level. It can spread its fingers into a variety of crimes. And like the rest of the United States, Wood County is not immune. Nationwide, the country is seeing a resurgence in heroin, a drug that found an eager audience in the 1990s but had largely faded away in the years since. Now, it’s back in a big way. Across the country, heroin use has been climbing steadily since 2007 among persons 12 or older, according to a government study. The drug is processed from morphine, which itself comes from poppy plants. It can be snorted, smoked or injected, depending on the kind of heroin and its relative purity. Bowling Green police saw a dramatic spike in heroin issues last year. http://www.sent-trib.com/front-page/hooked-on-heroin
(BG FRONT PAGE SERIES PART 2) While the abuse of heroin and its dark, outlying effects — crime and overdoses — are on the rise, so are efforts to fight back against the addiction with treatment efforts and legislation. “It’s a community problem. It’s become a huge community health problem,” said Thomas Clemons, executive director of the Wood County Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Board (ADAMHS). Sandi Carsey, children’s services unit administrator with Wood County Job and Family Services, said the increasingly pervasive problem doesn’t just impact individual users, but also families. “There’s been an increase in our reports of heroin or opiate use,” she said. “We have had several parents die as a result of heroin use, leaving children without a parent. We’ve also had many overdoses. And that affects the children as well, because parents can’t take care of them and somebody else has to, then.” http://www.sent-trib.com/front-page/heroin-widespread-in-state
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Little Otis XXI Retrovision roughrican productions (c) 2014
Little Otis XXI Retrovision roughrican productions (c) 2014 https://vimeo.com/93746707 1. Blue Bayou-Little Otis XXI 2. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain Little Otis XXI 3. Bring It On Home-Little Otis XXI 4. Come On Lets Go Little Otis XXI 5. Como Rien Little Otis XXI 6. Devil With The Blue Dress-Little Otis XXI 7. El Extreme's Love Hypnotic 8. Great Balls Of Fire Little Otis XXI 9. Have You Ever Seen The Rain Little Otis XXI 10. Hello Mary Lou Little Otis XXI 11. I Fall To Pieces Little Otis XXI 12. I Walk The Line-El Extreme 13. I Wish It Would Rain Little Otis XXI 14. Imagine Little Otis XXI 15. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Little Otis XXI 16. Jenny Jenny Little Otis XXI 17. Johnny B Goode 18. Kansas City Little Otis XXI 19. Old Time Rock and Roll Little Otis XXI 20. Pony Time-Little Otis XXI 21. Seven Lonely Days Little Otis XXI 22. Stardust Little Otis XXI 23. Try A Little Tenderness-Little Otis XXI 24. Uptown Little Otis XXI
Ron Wagner and I spoke about what a musical reunion of Little Otis and the Upsetters (LOU) would be like. Here's two sets of music that is in keeping how Joanie Whittaker Billy Hanway RonWagner and I El Extreme Luis Chaluisan learned to play ROCK AND ROLL! I will be speaking with David Harper at Grumpy Dave's Pub's (Formerly Milton's where we were the house band for two years 1982-84) to to have a 31st Anniversary on Thursday July 3, 2014 to commemorate the night we launched our two year Tuesday Night Live Performance Series in 1983. 9:00 PM-1 AM. A combination of Live music, music videos, classic (LOU) TV and nightclub appearances and spoken word Performance Art Monologue "The Little Otis Story" https://vimeo.com/77735818 Monologue 2013 "LITTLE OTIS AND THE UPSETTERS" The story of the band that brought that West Indian Boricua Swing to Wood County with a dash of jazz and punk rock. 1982-84 http://www.reverbnation.com/luischaluisan/album/48229-little-otis-and-upsetters-1984 — with El Extreme Luis Chaluisan and 2 others at Grumpy Dave's Pub.
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Salsa Magazine Female Subscribers are among the highest intellectually
Analysis by Latino Media Marketing shows Salsa Magazine Female Subscribers are among the highest intellectually gifted people on FB. https://www.facebook.com/groups/salsamagazine/ In an effort to provide better profiles for the identification of all gifted Latina women, current research suggests use of both qualitative measures and quantitative instruments, such as achievement and intelligence tests (Garcia, 1994). Early in the 1980s, a national panel of experts recommended use of several instruments when assessing Women from the Latino population, including culturally and linguistically diverse students (Richert, Alvino, & McDonnel, 1982). Some of the instruments they recommended have remained in use, including Progressive Matrices, Standard (Raven, 1960); SOI Screening Form for Gifted (Meeker & Meeker, 1975); System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (Mercer & Lewis, 1978); Culture Fair Intelligence Test, Scale 1 (Cattell & Cattell, 1950). Spanish language instruments this author has found useful for measuring academic achievement include Aprenda: La Prueba de Logros en Espanol, Intermediate 2 (Psychological Corporation, 1990); Bateria Woodcock Psico-Educativa en Espanol (Woodcock, 1982); Spanish Assessment of Basic Education, Second Edition, Level 2 (Hampton-Brown Company, 1991); and La Prueba Riverside de Realizacion en Espanol (Cote, 1984). For more information about these instruments and others, readers can refer to the on-line searchable ERIC/AE Test Locator at on the Internet. Other new instruments are being developed, including one specifically designed to identify gifted bilingual Hispanic students. — with Maria Hernandez and Tina Chaluisan.
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Maria Hernandez sheds blessing on Rocker Roller Rican
Maria Hernandez sheds blessing on Rocker Roller Rican. WEPAwebTV - New Edge Theater Good day at Artwalk. 12 books sold. 21 Documentary DVD's ordered. 11 Digital sales. WEPAwebTV Roughrican Productions http://lnkd.in/dRzzZqq — with Maria Hernandez and 2 others at El Extreme Luis Chaluisan.
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"Little Otis XXI LP Bolero Rockero" in #1 Spot on Regional Charts All Genres.
"Little Otis XXI LP Bolero Rockero Luis Chaluisan" keeps El Extreme Luis Chaluisan in #1 Spot on Regional Charts All Genres. "Little Otis XXI LP Bolero Rockero Luis Chaluisan" - http://lnkd.in/dYp4dAG The Documentary on his artistic career (Rocker Roller Rican) is scheduled to be screened at ARTWALK today April 26th at the Connection Center BG. Noon-1-2-3 PM Free of charge and WBGU TV in May 2014. Behavioral Connections The Connection Center Location: 194 South Main Street Bowling Green, Ohio 43402 Phone: 419.354.4200 Free preview and dropbbox download of ROCKER ROLLER RICAN http://lnkd.in/dZm8Ny5 Time Warner Documentary About Luis Chaluisan Amherst 1986 BA Theater Arts: Rocker Roller Rican begins with film of Internationally recognized Nuyorican Performer El Extreme Luis Chaluisan in October 1975 at Amherst College (a mere three months after he turned professional as a dancer-singer at the age of 17 with the Alliance of Latin Artists in NYC.) It is thoroughly produced filmed review as he travels from the Bronx in 1975 to the present day through the national American arts world as a Ballet/Jazz/Salsa/Folkloric Dancer-Curated Artist-Latin/Indie Rock musician-CBS/Telemundo/PBS News Reporter-Television Producer-Published Author-Radio Show Host-TV Station Manager-National Slam Poetry Ct. Team Champion By: Maria Hernandez Executive Director WEPAwebTV-Managing Editor Salsa Magazine 5,400 + members
ROCKER ROLLER RICAN Directed by: Maria Hernandez WEPAwebTV - New Edge Theater Produced by: Mike Tapp MNN Time Warner Cable Associate Producer: Ronald Chaluisan Featuring: L.f. Chaluisan Batlle plus Film Directed by: John Coles Talking Wall Pictures 1975 Film Directed by: Tony Ortiz Top Productions NYC 1984 Off Broadway Scenes Directed By: Petronia Paley 2002 Set Design by: Albert Chaluisan
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Rocker Roller Rican Documentary Written Up in Sentinel-Tribune
New film tells Luis Chaluisan's story http://newsle.com/article/0/141121116/ Written by DAVID DUPONT Sentinel Arts & Entertainment Editor Thursday, 17 April 2014 10:50 Luis Chaluisan has become a familiar figure in downtown Bowling Green. Not that anyone would ever think he's from here. He was born in Puerto Rico in 1957 and raised in the North Bronx where his family moved when he was 7, and his voice has the quick, colorful clip that betrays his upbringing. A new documentary "Rocker Roller Rican" out on DVD tells about his life and its intersection with the emerging Nuyorican culture in the 1970s and 1980s in New York. "Rocker Roller Rican" will be screened at the Connection Center during art walk throughout the afternoon on April 26 at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. in downtown Bowling Green. It'll also be screened by WBGU-PBS, where Chaluisan worked in the 1980s, in May. The hour-long film traces Chaluisan's ancestry back to the Basque region in Europe, through Haiti to Puerto Rico until he arrived at age 7 in the North Bronx in New York City. It brings together clips both of his performances under the name El Extreme, as well as family snapshots and footage of some of his influences to paint a portrait both of Chaluisan and the vibrant culture of his time. But it was not all poetry, song and dance. "I survived the crack wars," Chaluisan said. He carried a .45 revolver. Finally he was busted, and a detective who he knew from school offered him a deal: If he disappeared, the charges would disappear. At that point he went down to Puerto Rico. Just another stop in what Chaluisan calls his own journey of self-discovery. It involves graduating from one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country, Amherst College in Massachusetts, but not after being asked to leave on a couple occasions, eventually getting his degree a dozen years after he first enrolled. It involved a career in broadcasting where he worked with budding stars Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly. It involved a stay in the 1980s in Bowling Green, working for WBGU-PBS, and playing rock and roll with Little Otis and The Upsetters as the house band at Milton's. And it involved a stay in a state mental institution in New York City. The only person, he said, who visited him when he was there was Maria Hernandez, someone who studied and worked with him. Hernandez and producer Mike Tapp are responsible for the film. All through that time, he struggled with mental illness. As a teenager he started hearing voices. Chaluisan sang. He painted."You could feel a lot of what was happening to me in the paintings." He started writing. The voices became the voices and imagery for his poems. He danced. "Anything I could do to expend the energy," he said. "Rocker Roller Rican" opens with a film of him dancing while a student at Amherst College in 1975. All of it came together in the play "Spic (for Spanish People In Charge) Chic," which played in New York City and Germany. It took him years before a psychiatrist in Puerto Rico finally prescribed the right medication to control his symptoms. And now, he said, three years after moving back to Northwest Ohio, he feels he's found a home. His most recent visit back to New York City convinced him he could never return. The pace is too frantic for him now. "I'm no longer built for that." He considered moving back to his native Puerto Rico, but the island, he said, has become too violent. So he's at home in downtown Bowling Green. Chaluisan finds support at the Connection Center, so that's where he wanted to screen "Rocker Roller Rican." He's also pleased that the film will be broadcast in New York in June shown in Puerto Rico, and other places he's called home.
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Luis Chaluisan Salsa Magazine 6,000+ members
Luis Chaluisan Salsa Magazine 6,000+ members A National Movement To Enlighten and Inform https://www.facebook.com/groups/salsamagazine/ THE FACE OF THE SECOND MAJORITY IN THE UNITED STATES The greatest weapons we have as Latinos are reading, writing and information. What we have discovered is that the greatest concern among "Salsa Magazine" members is managing the amount of information you receive. Our members are inundated with information, from our coalition and thousands of other sources. So the challenge for us is making sure that we are communicating just the right amount and type of information to our members. And how do we do that? With data. The promise of good data management is that we can communicate with our members in a way that is highly relevant and highly valuable to them. We do this by understanding who you are, what your interests and needs are, and how you like to consume information. This means collecting and analyzing key data about our members, such as how long you’ve been a member, what your areas of interest and speciality are, how you are consuming information from us (e.g., via the web, via email, via Twitter, ReveerbNation via print), and what content we have that may be relevant to you. Managing all of this information can be tricky. It requires good technology and also good processes. Once we started targeting our communications to members (i.e., sending you what is relevant to you), we have seen an appreciation of the value we are providing. El Extreme Luis Chaluisan
LA CARA DE LA SEGUNDA MAYORIA EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Las mejores armas que tenemos como Latinos son la lectura, la escritura y la información. Lo que hemos descubierto es que la mayor preocupación entre los miembros de " Salsa Magazine" es la gestión de la cantidad de información que reciben. Nuestros miembros están inundados con información, desde nuestra coalición y miles de otras fuentes. Así que el reto para nosotros es asegurarse de que nos estamos comunicando la cantidad exacta y el tipo de información a nuestros miembros . ¿Y cómo hacemos eso ? Con los datos . La promesa de la buena gestión de los datos es que podemos comunicarnos con nuestros miembros de una manera que es muy relevante y de gran valor para ustedes. Hacemos esto mediante la comprensión de quiénes son, cuáles son sus intereses y necesidades, y cómo les gusta consumir información. Esto significa recoger y analizar datos acerca de nuestros miembros, como cuánto tiempo han estado miembro , cuáles son sus áreas de interés y especialidad, cómo están consumiendo información de nostros (por ejemplo , a través de la web, por correo electrónico, a través de Twitter, ReverbNation a través de impresión) , y lo que el contenido que tenemos puede ser relevante para ustedes.. La gestión de toda esta información puede ser complicado. Se requiere una buena tecnología y también buenos procesos. Una vez que empezamos la orientación de nuestras comunicaciones a los miembros (es decir , el envío de lo que es importante para usted ), hemos visto una apreciación del valor que estamos ofreciendo . L.f. Chaluisan Batlle Federico Chaluisan Salsamagazine.com 2014 Recognition Awards Mayaguez Rocker Roller Rican WEPAwebTV Roughrican Productions WEPAwebTV - New Edge Theater — with Maria Hernandez and 3 others at El Extreme Luis Chaluisan.
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