In 1976, two former Improv-Inc members, Michael Bossier and John Elk, formed Spaghetti Jam, performing Short-Form improv and Harolds in San Francisco ’ s famous Old Spaghetti Factory through 1983.

In 1976, two former I-Inc performers, Michael Bossier and John Elk, formed " Spaghetti Jam ", performing in San Francisco's famous Old Spaghetti Factory through 1983.

Spaghetti Jam performed Harolds while also turning Spolin games and Harold techniques into stand-alone performance pieces ... i. e. Short-Form Improv.

He was also active in business as a partner and vice president of Papa Luigi Spaghetti Dens, a San Francisco based franchise company formed by Joe Kearns and James Braly.

The 2011 Proms also featured the first ever ' Comedy Prom ' hosted by comedian and pianist Tim Minchin, as well as the debut of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra.

From 1956 to 1990, Koffman booked performers for George's Spaghetti House in Toronto, where he performed weekly.

Other successful projects backed in this period included Blake Edwards's Pink Panther series, which began in 1964, and Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, which made a star of Clint Eastwood.

Prior to a game, the Peaches ' utility player, Betty " Spaghetti " Horn, is informed that her husband has been killed in action in the Pacific Theatre ; the same evening, Bob returns, having been honorably discharged after being wounded in Italy.

* Weisser, Thomas, Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad and the Violent — 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961 – 1977.

Most succeeding Spaghetti Westerns tried to get a ragged, laconic hero with superhuman weapon skill, preferable one that looked like Clint Eastwood – Franco Nero, John Garko and Terence Hill started out that way ; Anthony Steffen and others stayed that way all their Spaghetti Western career.

The film drew heavily from the conventions of Western films, especially Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, such as Once Upon a Time in the West, and John Sturges ' film The Magnificent Seven, itself being a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, Seven Samurai.

Although not one of the original, warehouse type stores from the 70's and 80's, it is in a historical building in a historical area, unlike other newer locations such as Plano, Texas, Arlington, Texas, or Elk Grove Village, Illinois, which are all in buildings that were built specifically to be Spaghetti Warehouses.

Writer Simon Moore finished his spec script for The Quick and the Dead in late 1992, writing it as a homage to the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone, particularly the Dollars Trilogy starring Clint Eastwood.

Their posse, Spaghetti Funk, includes other popular performers like Space One and pop rappers Gemelli DiVersi.

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

After the latter's success, Wallach appeared in several other " Spaghetti Westerns ", including Ace High with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to French comic book adaptations.

On the heels of the Sword and Sandal craze, a related genre, the Spaghetti Western arose and was popular both in Italy and elsewhere.

The most popular Spaghetti Westerns were those of Sergio Leone, whose Dollars Trilogy ( A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ), featuring Clint Eastwood and scores by Ennio Morricone, came to define the genre along with Once Upon a Time in the West.

Also considered Spaghetti Westerns is a film genre which combined traditional western ambiance with a Commedia all ' italiana-type comedy ; films including They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is STILL My Name !, which featured Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the stage names of Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti.

The shoot-out that ends Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western " Dollars " trilogy is a notable example of how these elements work together to produce an effect: The shot selection goes from very wide to very close and tense ; the length of shots decreases as the sequence progresses towards its end ; the music builds.

With his roles in Leone's films, Van Cleef became a major star of Spaghetti Westerns, playing central roles in films such as Death Rides a Horse, Day of Anger, The Big Gundown and The Sabata Trilogy.

Boy with Spaghetti by Julius Moser, c. 1808.

2 ), a highly stylized " revenge flick " in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia ( Chinese martial arts ), Jidaigeki ( Japanese period cinema ), Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror.

Spaghetti code is a pejorative term for source code that has a complex and tangled control structure, especially one using many GOTOs, exceptions, threads, or other " unstructured " branching constructs.

Spaghetti code can be caused by several factors, including inexperienced programmers and a complex program which has been continuously modified over a long life cycle.

Spaghetti Western is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.

The term Eurowesterns may be used to also include Western movies that were produced in Europe but not called Spaghetti Westerns, like the West German Winnetou films or Ostern Westerns.

The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.

Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars and the following films in his Dollars trilogy created the Spaghetti Western as a novel kind of Western.

In the last phase of the Spaghetti Western, with the Trinity films, the Leone legacy had been transformed almost beyond recognition, as ( low ) comedy reigned and terror and deadly violence gave way to harmless brawling.

Leone's films and other " core " Spaghetti Westerns are often described as having eschewed, critizised or even " demythologized " many of the conventions of traditional US Westerns.

Most Spaghetti Westerns were made on low budgets, using inexpensive locales.

Since there is no real consensus about where to draw the exact line between Spaghetti Westerns and other Eurowesterns ( or other Westerns in general ) one cannot say which one of the films mentioned so far really was the first Spaghetti Western.

The debut album and Wow / Grape Jam were first released on CD during the late 1980s by the San Francisco Sound label, a company owned by their former manager, Matthew Katz.

Eddie Vedder, who had flown from San Diego, California to Seattle, Washington to audition to be the singer of Mookie Blaylock ( which eventually became Pearl Jam ), ended up providing backing vocals.

San Antonio has a thriving Hip Hop community as well, including the R & B-tinged duo Mojoe, of Classic. Ghetto. Soul fame, the rapper Question, collaborator with Talib Kweli and Bun B on the track " I'm So Tall ", the producer / rapper Richie Branson, born Marcus Brown, whose clientele include Def Jam Recordings and Sony Music Entertainment, and the Vultures crew, whose album Desert Eagles, Vol.

He also performed " Rockin ' in The Free World " with grunge band Pearl Jam on the July 7, 2006 in San Diego.

* CIRF: Contact Improvisation Research Forum organization based in San Francisco, CA, USA, curates year-round CI training, mentorship services and annual exchange ( WeCITE ) for teachers, performance and Jam programs, and, since 1987, annual WCCIF festival / symposium each July.

Band ), were stranded in Atlanta by a blizzard and failed to make it to a Time concert in San Antonio, for which Jerome had to mime playing bass guitar on stage while Prince played Lewis ' part off stage, and Lisa stood in for Jimmy Jam.

On July 1 – 3 of 2011, the band Phish hosted Superball IX, a three-day music festival on the same grounds of the Summer Jam of ' 73.

On November 5, 1993 the rock band, Pearl Jam, performed before almost 25, 000 fans on the lawns of Indio's Empire Polo Club, which had previously never hosted a music festival.

* On 22 November 2009, the stadium hosted the only Sydney concert by Pearl Jam, as listed on their page for the Backspacer Tour.

Adelaide Oval has hosted major concerts during its time, with some of the most famous acts including Fleetwood Mac ( 1977 & 2004 ), David Bowie ( 1978 & 1983 ), KISS ( 1980 ), Madonna & Paul McCartney ( 1993 ), Michael Jackson ( 1996 ), Billy Joel & Elton John ( 1998 ), P! nk ( 2002 ), Pearl Jam ( 2009 ), AC / DC and Wolfmother ( 2010 ) and Foo Fighters ( 2011 ).

Tokyo Dome has hosted the two-day X-Trail Jam snowboarding competition seven times since February 2001.

In recent times, the arena has also hosted several concerts of international rock and pop bands, among which Pink Floyd, Simple Minds, Duran Duran, Deep Purple, The Who, Dire Straits, Mike Oldfield, Rod Stewart, Sting, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Muse.

PNC Park has also hosted various concerts, including The Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam in 2005, Jimmy Buffett and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes in 2006 and Dave Matthews Band with opening act, Zac Brown Band, on July 10, 2010.

On April 3, 2011 Sugarland hosted and performed at the first annual ACM Fan Jam during the ACM awards show.

The Silverdome hosted Monster Jam on January 7, 2006 and was used as a practice facility for the AFC Champions Pittsburgh Steelers for Super Bowl XL, with the NFL adding FieldTurf, which was later donated to a local high school.

In 2002, Atomic Jam hosted an arena as part of the Godskitchen Global Gathering, offering techno from 4 pm until 7 am.

It has hosted various sports, including rugby union, cricket, association football, athletics, trotting ( until, in 1899, this club moved to Addington Racecourse ), rugby league, and non-sporting events such as concerts by Pearl Jam in 2009, Bon Jovi in 2008, Roger Waters in 2006, Meat Loaf in 2004, U2 in 1989 & 1993, Tina Turner in 1993 and 1997, Dire Straits in 1986 and 1991, and Billy Joel in 1987, but is primarily a rugby and cricket ground and is the home of the Crusaders rugby union team, who compete in Super Rugby.

On March 9, 1994, the Pensacola Civic Center hosted the largest Rock for Choice concert in history, which was organized by the band L7 and headlined by Pearl Jam.

They hosted the " NBA Jams Music Video ," a VHS promotional release for the video game NBA Jam that contained music videos intercut with professional basketball highlight footage.

With series creator and former host Dave Maynard as a consultant ( until his death in February 2012 ), the new Community Auditions is hosted by Jam ' n 94. 5's Ramiro, with former WBZ entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik, Magic 106. 7's Candy O ' Terry and WODS-FM's J. J. Wright as judges.

From rock shows to family shows to USHL hockey to community events, the arena has hosted top names such as Foo Fighters, Sheryl Crow, Martina McBride, Cher, John Mellencamp, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty Black Eyed Peas, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kenny Chesney, Tool, B. B.

Two years later she performed on HBO's Sinbad's Summer Soul Jam 4 ( 1998 ), hosted by comedian Sinbad.

Over the years the venue has hosted notable Grammy Award or Juno Award winning performers such as: The Tragically Hip, James Brown, U2, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, The Police, Pearl Jam, KISS, Tina Turner, The Beastie Boys, Nirvana, Kid Rock, Hedley, Dr. Dre, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Metric among others.

Shaggy 2 Dope hosted " Shaggy's Old School Super Jam ," featuring DJing by 2 Dope and performances by Tone Lōc and Rob Base.

Several late night parties also occur, including Ladies Night hosted by Sugar Slam, Mike E. Clark's Murder Mix Party, DJ Clay's Bubble Houseparty, Shaggy's Old School Super Jam, and Violent J's Michael Jackson Moonwalk BBQ Blowout Pajama Jam.

That same year, Block hosted what was billed as a "$ 20, 000 Jam Session " on the show, featuring artists including both Dorsey brothers, Count Basie, Harry James, and Gene Krupa.

The stadium has hosted concerts by many famous artists, including The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Journey & Rage Against the Machine, among others.

On August 1, 2009, the stadium hosted Monster Jam Summer Heat, with Maximum Destruction defeating Captain's Curse in the racing finals and Grave Digger winning the freestyle event.

In the weeks before the concert approached they launched a web radio I've Talk Jam, hosted by SHIHO with Kazuya Takase and Tomoyuki Nakazawa as regulars, and had a different I've vocalist appear as guest for each show.