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is a Japanese comedy duo "(kombi)" consisting of and. Downtown is probably the most influential "kombi" to come from Yoshimoto Kōgyō, and is arguably the most popular "kombi" in Japan today. While best known for their stand-up act and their role as host of numerous Japanese variety shows (including the long running Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ), they also occasionally perform in movies and television drama, and in the past have even released music singles. - You
You ("Yū", born August 29, 1964 as 江原由希子 "Ehara Yukiko") is a Japanese model, television personality, singer and actress. She began her career as a singer, releasing her first single "chotto dake" ("just a little") in 1985. She next formed the Japanese Pop Group Fairchild in 1988, with Seiji Toda and Hirokazu Kawaguchi, serving as vocalist and songwriter. - Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Michael Musto
Michael Musto is an American Manhattan-based writer who began his career at "The Village Voice", where he writes the weekly "La Dolce Musto" celebrity and gossip column. He is an Italian American and a graduate of Columbia University. He is the author of "Downtown" and "Manhattan on the Rocks". A selection of his columns has been published as "La Dolce Musto." - Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE (born November 15 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist to date, and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records. She also holds the distinction of having the longest span on the international pop charts of any artist - 51 years - from 1954, … - Myrtle Avenue
Myrtle Avenue in New York City is a street that runs from Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens. - Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr on August 15 1938) has served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing the 35th District of California (map). She resides in South Los Angeles, in the Vermont Square district approximately six miles south of downtown. Her husband, Sidney Williams, is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas. - John Labatt Centre
The John Labatt Centre is a sports-entertainment centre in London, Ontario, Canada -- the largest such centre in southwestern Ontario. The John Labatt Centre, usually referred to as the "JLC", opened on October 11, 2002. It is named after John Labatt, founder of the Labatt brewery in London. Labatt still has a large brewery in London to the present day, although its head office was moved to Toronto in the early 1990s. - Kyle Gann
Kyle Gann (born November 21, 1955) is an American composer and music critic born in Dallas, Texas. As a critic for "The Village Voice" (from November 1986 to December 2005) and other publications he has been a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism. As a composer his works fall generally into three categories: *microtonal works in just intonation, … - Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp (b. Cleveland, Ohio, March 1, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer who has personified the avant-garde experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He has released over sixty-five recordings spanning the musical spectrum from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and techno music. - Arthur Russell
Charles Arthur Russell Jr. (1952 - April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success as a dance music artist, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano. Relatively unknown during his life, a series of reissues and posthumous releases has raised his profile in recent years. - Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith is an award winning animator. His film "Puppet" has premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Smith directed episodes of the animated MTV series "Downtown" which received an Emmy nomination. - Ted Mann
Ted Mann (April 16, 1916 - January 15, 2001) was an American businessman, film who famously changed the name of Grauman's Chinese Theater to Mann's Chinese Theater when he purchased the National General Theatre chain that owned it in 1973. Born in Wishek, North Dakota, Mann started off in the movie business as an usher around the time he attended the University of Minnesota in the 1930s. He rented the Selby Theatre in Saint Paul, … - Mikel Rouse
Mikel Rouse (born Michael Rouse in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, January 26, 1957) is an American composer. He has been associated with a Downtown New York movement known as totalism, and is best known for his operas, including "Dennis Cleveland", about a television talk show host, which Rouse wrote and starred in. Rouse writes music that is idiomatically and stylistically indebted to popular music, … - Bud Clark
J.E. “Bud” Clark is an Oregon businessman who served as Mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1985 through 1992. A populist with little political experience before his mayoral bid, he was one of Portland's most colorful political figures. Before and after his two terms as mayor, Clark was a businessman and restaurateur. He owns the Goose Hollow Inn, a tavern in Southwest Portland which serves “the Best Reuben on the Planet”. Clark is known for his eccentricities. - Hitoshi Matsumoto
Hitoshi Matsumoto, or Matchan (松ちゃん) as he is commonly known, is a Japanese comedian best known as the "boke" half of the extremely popular owarai duo Downtown alongside Masatoshi Hamada. Matsumoto is from Hyōgo Prefecture and thus usually speaks in the Kansai dialect. He often appears on television wearing a suit and tie, with the tie tucked in his pants. Once a heavy smoker, he quit smoking in 2003. - Annette Strauss
Annette Strauss was a philanthropist and a former mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas is named in honor of her. Born in Houston, Texas, Annette Strauss graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1944. She moved to New York City where she received master's degrees in sociology and psychology from Columbia University. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. - Jeff Plate
Jeff Plate (born March 26 1962, in Montour Falls, NY) is a professional drummer and percussionist. He currently plays with the progressive rock group Trans-Siberian Orchestra as well as the band Metal Church, although he is remembered for his drumming for the band, Savatage on their albums since "Japan Live '94". Plate grew up near Elmira, New York with dreams of becoming a pitcher for the New York Yankees, … - Julia Wolfe
Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer. She was born in Philadelphia and works in New York. Wolfe's music is rhythmically vigorous, assertive, and often clangorously dissonant. As a composer associated with the downtown style of new music she is not averse to drawing on rock and minimalism as primary influences. Her music, however, shows a good deal more rhythmic complexity than is generally found in these genres, … - Larry Morrissey
Lawrence J. "Larry" Morrissey (Born in 1969 in Rockford, IL) is the Mayor of Rockford, IL. As an independent, Morrissey defeated Democrat incumbent Doug Scott in the 2005 mayoral elections after trying in his first run in 2001 with a populist campaign promising road improvements, education reforms, lower property taxes and a revitalized downtown. In an attempt to reduce the city's reliance on property taxes to fund road projects, … - Peter Zummo
Peter Zummo (b. 1948) is an American composer and musician. He plays the trombone, valve trombone, euphonium, synthesizer, other electronic instruments, and also sings. His music is associated with the postminimalist and Downtown aesthetics. He holds a B.A. degree (with honors) (1970) and an M.A. degree in music (1975), both from Wesleyan University. He has studied with Carmine Caruso, Roswell Rudd, Stuart Dempster, James Fulkerson, Dick Griffin, Makanda Ken McIntyre, … - George Kessler
George E. Kessler (1862 - 1923) was a German American pioneer city planner and landscape architect. George Kessler was born in Frankenhausen, Germany in 1862. In 1865, his widowed mother, who taught French and art to support the two, took her son to Dallas, Texas in the United States. Later, George worked as a cashboy at Sanger Harris Dry Goods. Kessler moved to Europe and studied civic design in Germany, France, and Russia. - James W. Rouse
James Wilson Rouse (April 26, 1914 - April 9, 1996) was a pioneering American real estate developer, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist. He was born in Easton, Maryland. He attended college and law school during the Great Depression; after graduating in 1937 he worked for the Federal Housing Administration and in 1939 he was a partner at a mortgage banking firm called the "Moss-Rouse Company", which would eventually become the Rouse Company. - Mars Williams
Mars Williams is a versatile American jazz and rock saxophonist. Mars started out as an arranger and orchestrator, studying under the mentorship of Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell. He is a veteran musician who has played with various bands and recording artists including the Psychedelic Furs, Massacre, Ministry, Billy Idol, Power Station, Die Warzau, The Waitresses, Pete Cosey, Billy Squier, and a lot of leading figures in the NYC downtown scene. - Gary Burbank
Gary Burbank (born Billy Purser, July 1941, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American radio personality. He currently appears on WLW-AM in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has hosted the station's afternoon drive time programming for more than two decades. - Masatoshi Hamada
is a Japanese comedian best known as the "tsukkomi" half of the extremely popular owarai duo Downtown alongside Hitoshi Matsumoto. His nickname is Hama-chan (浜ちゃん), and is married to Natsumi Ogawa (小川菜摘). He is a father of two children and his named is derived from the 17th century poet Masahiro Toshida. Although he has starred in television ads for Suntory beer and brandy, he does not like alcohol. His favorite hobby is golf. - Mrs. Elva Miller
Elva Ruby Connes (October 5, 1907 - July 5, 1997), who recorded under the name Mrs. Elva Miller (and usually simply called "Mrs. Miller"), was an American singer who gained some notoriety in the 1960s for her versions of popular songs like "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto", and "Downtown" rendered in an untrained, Mermanesque, vibrato-laden voice, often out of tune and off the beat. - Norihiro Yagi
Norihiro Yagi is a shōnen mangaka. Yagi was born 1968 in Okinawa, Japan. He started making manga in 1990. Norihiro Yagi is a successful mangaka, having won the "32nd Akatsuka Award" for his very first work, "Undeadman". Undeadman appeared in Monthly Shonen Jump and has produced two sequels. Yagi's first serialized manga was his comedy-genre "Angel Densetsu", which appeared in Monthly Shonen Jump from 1992 to 2000. - Christine Leadman
Christine Leadman (born 18 February 1952) is a city councillor in Ottawa, Canada. She won the position for Kitchissippi Ward councillor in the 2006 Ottawa municipal election on 13 November 2006 after incumbent Shawn Little dropped out of the race. Previously, she was active in the business community for Ottawa's Westboro neighbourhood, and one of the founders of the Westfest summer festival in the area. - Downtown Julie Brown
Julie Dorne Brown, also known as Downtown Julie Brown (born August 27, 1963), is an actress and former MTV VJ. Her father was Jamaican and her mother was English. Her father was in the Royal Air Force and she grew up on Air Force bases all around the world including Singapore, India, Cyprus and Wales. Brown hosted the Club MTV show in the late 1980s. The show had a similar format to American Bandstand, but featured an exclusive lineup of dance music. - Margaret Holloway
Margaret Holloway, nicknamed "The Shakespeare Lady", is a street performer in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Her life was the subject of a 2001 15-minute documentary film, "God Didn't Give Me A Week's Notice". She was also featured in the "Local Characters" trading card set of New Haven personalities. - William Nathaniel Bell
William Nathaniel Bell (March 6 1817 - Sept 6 1887), originally from Edwardsville Illinois and later a resident of Portland, Oregon, was a member of the Denny Party, the first group of white settlers in what is now Seattle. He lived in Seattle from 1851 to 1856 and then again from 1870 till his death. First wife: Sarah Ann Peter (daughter of Keziah Peter) died of tuberculosis in June 1856. - Ilkka Lipsanen
Ilkka Johannes Lipsanen (born 24 September 1942, Pori), also known as Danny, is a Finnish singer and guitarist He started his career with the band Islanders who released a couple of singles, among them Danny's first recording which was in English: "East Virginia" by Joan Baez in 1964. During his national service Danny switched to his native Finnish and recorded two hits, … - Gregory Gilmore
Gregory Gilmore is a voice actor who played Alex on MTV's Downtown. - George Montgomery Scott
George Montgomery Scott (July 27, 1835 - November 19, 1915) was a U.S. politician and entrepreneur, notable for being the first non-Mormon mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as mayor of Salt Lake City from 1890 to 1892. Scott was not a native of Utah, but was born in Chazy, New York to a merchant father. He followed his father's footsteps, and eventually found his way to California during the gold rush, … - Juan Sánchez-Navarro Y Peón
Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón was a Mexican businessman, lawyer, philosopher, journalist and professor. He founded several employers' organizations in Mexico as well as co-founder of the National Action Party. He was known as the "ideologist of the Mexican business community". Juan Sánchez-Navarro was born in downtown Mexico City, descendant of the influential Sánchez-Navarro family. - James J. Kenney
James J. Kenney was the first fire chief in the city of Berkeley, California. Kenney was born in 1869 in San Francisco, California, one of 3 children. His father, James Kenney Sr., an Irish Australian immigrant, served for a year (1871) on the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and was also a fire commissioner there from 1871-75. Kenney's mother Nellie was born in Massachusetts of native-born parents. It's unknown what became of her, but by 1880, … - Alfred M. Monfalcone
Alfred M. Monfalcone was the mayor of Newport News, Virginia from January 16, 1956 to September 1, 1956. His is the shortest term of any mayor of the city. It is not clear why he was appointed to such a short term, but the fact that his predecessor, R. Cowles Taylor, has a term expiring December 20, 1955, it is not unreasonable to assume that he took over the mayorship upon the death of Taylor. - José Frajtag
José Frajtag is a Brazilian architect and writer. Son of Jewish immigrants from Poland (from the city of Opole), and third of four brothers, was born in Rio's Downtown, where his father worked as a bulk seller of clothes and fabrics. Among many other activities, his father also worked in the construction business and was an important influence over his sons, making them work with engineering or architecture. - J. Don Boney
Dr. J. Don Boney (March 28, 1928 - 1979) was a Texas educator who served as an administrator in the Houston Independent School District. He assisted in the planning and establishment of two colleges in Houston, Texas, and was chancellor of the University of Houston Downtown.
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