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THE UNIVERSITY DARY & ASADY
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is a 7
Impress your friends and family. Step up to the next level.
Your past work reflects you well. Negotiate terms. Reach a win-win agreement. Creative change is possible.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 6
Accept a challenge and seek a treasure. You can find the money you need. Find ways to add beauty for a fraction of the retail cost. Pad the budget for the unforeseen.
Germini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 7
Accept a challenge. You can find the money. Add beauty for a fraction of the retail cost. Pad the budget for the unforeseen. Relax with a creative project.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2015
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 8
Make a brilliant move for big dividends. Sell or buy. Optimism + effort = cash. You're learning quickly. Work out the entire budget. Increase your family's comfort while stashing funds for later.
Take practical and profitable action. Adapt for higher demand or unexpected company. Create a dynamic change. Draw upon hidden resources. Do it for home and family. Share in the glory. Telling the truth makes you stronger. Try different flavors.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 6
Virgo (Aug. 25-September 22)
Today is a 6
A profitable possibility tantalizes. Take leadership. Use your secret sauce. Accept a gift. Let others contribute. Get feedback from an expert. Inspire with your vision; share tasks.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Get into a creative project with fun people. Teach each other new skills. Discover surprising results. Let the conversation ebb and flow. Don't force it.
Tap into hidden assets.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
A new vision calls, and an unexpected windfall offers new options. Win a cash prize.
Get creative. Establishing an efficient routine new saves money later. You're especially attractive.
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Adventure calls. It's an excellent time to travel or just go out. Research a new idea. Discover an intriguing lead. Bring plenty of water. Talk about your passion and it expands. Count your blessings.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 8
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
Today is a 5 Try a new style. Revamp your wardrobe without spending more than you have. Friends offer good advice. Invest in your career. Put together a power outfit or two.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a F
Abandon a fantasy temporarily Plan to realize a dream after handling basics. Work closely with a partner for greater stability. Persistent, practical actions handle urgent necessities.
Pisces (Feb. 19-march 20) Today is a 6 Peaceful introspection restores your spirit. Think over recent circumstances. Choose where to focus your leadership. Ask for more and get it.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 6
Baha Men celebrate smash hit's anniversary
SKYLAR ROLSTAD
@SkyRolNews
The Baha Men will celebrate the 15-year anniversary of its biggest hit, "Who Let the Dogs Out," by releasing a remix on its new album, "Ride With Me," which is set to be released later this month.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baha Men — a Bahamian dance and reggae-pop music group — came out with its biggest hit, "Who Let the Dogs Out," in 2000. The band is celebrating the track's 15-year anniversary by releasing a "Who Let the Dogs Out" remix on its new album "Ride With Me," which will be released later in May.
Lead singer Rik Carey talked with the Kansan over Skype about his career and the group's new plans.
KANSAN: How is life in the Bahamas?
RIK CAREY: It's pretty much what you people call paradise. Generally, it's a lot about my family, life and take care of my family.
KANSAN: And you spent a while inactive in the music industry?
RC: I wouldn't say inactive because we've been in and out of the studio recording songs for the past two or three years now, and we just got a deal from Sony a few years ago. It's a six-album deal, but it was a grueling process because what happened we was started off with a plan to produce just an EP of about six songs, put it on the market and see how it does, so it ended up being a whole album. We did so many songs and all of them were so really good that the record company was pleased and based on their feedback, I guess they wanted to do a full album instead. So it's going to be dropping this month.
KANSAN: Are you excited about that?
RC: Definitely. It's been a while since we released our last album, which was in 2004. After that, that's probably when you saw Baha Men kind of die down a bit. Other than that, you might see promos and stuff, but we were doing like, festivals and shows. We are actually a group of musicians and not just some
trap act or anything. We are a good group of performance musicians. We've been doing this basically all our lives, you know. Out of the glamor and glitz part of things, you put us on the stage anywhere and we'll rock the house.
KANSAN: What is the Baha Men doing to celebrate the 15th anniversary of "Who Let the Dogs Out?"
RC: The 15th anniversary of "Who Let the Dogs Out," that's pretty awesome to me because it's the song that brought us the success internationally even though the band itself is before my time. I joined the band in 2000, which is when "Who Let the Dogs Out" came out, so since then it's been like a whirlwind. We got a very successful run of world tours from 2000 all the way to, I would say 2006, and a lot has happened, a lot of changes have happened. We met so many people, so many doors were opened up for us. There's a remix of that song that we've done, and it's kind of to celebrate that. We haven't released this yet, and I'm sure Sony will be
announcing it soon. Not only will we be celebrating the 15 years, on Friday, my home country, the Bahamas, has its first carnival. And it's going to be huge. We're going to be releasing all this info [about the new album] on Friday. We're going to be playing a concert and giving the fans a big treat.
KANSAN: During those 15 years after the song was released, did that fame ever get hard or maybe even a burden?
RC: I think in every aspect of popularity, in the celebrity lifestyle or whatever, it's a double-edged sword. You're so much in demand, sometimes it takes away from things you really love. You know, you can't eat with your loved ones. I was constantly on the road, so being away from my family was probably the hardest thing because sometimes you don't have these layovers where you can actually bring them over to hang with you. The schedule is grueling, and it's always changing. That was probably one of the hardest things for me to deal with.
KANSAN: Now that you have gone through that, are you prepared for those things with your new album coming out?
RC: Right now, it's all about continuing the legacy of the Baha Men, and I'm very excited to get back on the road and very excited to meet all these people here, for them to hear this new music and this new sound. I'm very proud of the work that has been put in by this group and with our producer, he had a lot of hands-on on each song, every detail. From the writing to the music, to every single instrument played, I really put my heart and soul into it.
KANSAN: You said weren't involved in the writing of "Who Let the Dogs Out," right?
RC: The original writer was Anselm Douglas. He wrote it in 1996. It was a big tune in the Caribbean. Our label heard this song and brought it to us. And we were like "Are you serious?" Our sound was different than that, so we had to be convinced. We had heard of it because it was a big tune in the Caribbean.
KANSAN: When you joined the band, did they tell you who actually let the dogs out?
RC: I'd say I'd leave that up to the people. The people let the dogs out. I'll have to plead the fifth on that one.
KANSAN: What direction does the group want to go with its new album?
RC: The direction of the new album is still dance and hip-hop fused all in one. What I've noticed with music nowadays, even though the stuff is more geared toward the EDM, what I notice is that music is like a cycle. There are so many things that have already been done before. This dance music (EDM) is just a spin-off of what happened in the '90s. It's revamped and more modernized. That's just how music is, with trends and fashions and everything. Now is the time, especially, when people hear this album they're going to be like, 'It's current, it's cool, it's fun,' but at the same time, it's still keeping the Bahamas and our heritage and our sound.
Edited by Victoria Kirk
TRENDING GOOGLE
NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 5TH, 1887
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
The doodle above appeared on Google's homepage for the birthday of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known as Nellie Bly. Cochran pioneered the field of investigative journalism
Google doodle honors journalist Nellie Bly
Mackenzie Clark @mclark59
Tuesday would have been the 151st birthday of Elizabeth Jane
Cochran, better known as Nellie Bly.
Bly (1864-1922) was a trailblazing journalist who pioneered the field of investigative journalism.
She got her start when she wrote a scathing response to an editorial in The PittsSburgh Dispatch in 1885. This editorial, titled "What Girls are Good For," criticized women who sought education or work outside the home.
Bly's response, which she signed "Lonely Orphan Girl," caught the eye of editor George Madden. Impressed with her work, Madden offered her a job — complete with the pseudonym, as was customary for female writers at the time.
Rather than touch on topics contemporary women wrote about, such as gardening and fashion, Bly chose to
take on bigger problems: the plight of the poor and oppressed. She took on women's issues, including one close to her heart after watching her mother struggle: the difficulties women faced in trying to divorce their husbands.
Tuesday's Google doodle featured an illustration of Bly with a song by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
"We gotta speak up for the ones who've been told to shut up," she sings. "Oh, Nellie, take us all around the world and break those rules' cause
Later in her career, Bly traveled to Mexico and exposed corruption in the government. She also convinced several doctors she was mentally insane to go undercover and expose unthinkable conditions in a New York City asylum.
Although today the standards of journalism have changed and many of Bly's actions would be considered unethical, she breathed new
you're our girl... We wanna make something of ourselves, too."
life into the industry and redefined women's roles within it.
On Tuesday, Bly received praise from The Poynter Institute, as well. The Institute noted in a tweet that Bly attempted to travel around the world in 80 days, but made it in 72.
Bly forever changed the world of journalism and the world's expectations of women in her field. Happy 151st, Nellie.
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- Edited by Victoria Kirk
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