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England head coach Eddie Jones shares a joke with one of his finishers named in Sundays squad to face Italy, Ben Youngs. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

England have taken the novel approach of announcing their matchday squad to face Italy and referring to their replacements bench as the Finishers in the official RFU press release.

Jones has heaped praise on his finishers after late victories over France and Wales in the Six Nations so far that have owed much to the performances of his replacements and Ben Teo, James Haskell and Danny Care have all been rewarded with starts against Italy.

In naming Care ahead of Ben Youngs, Jones pointedly said that Ben will then come on and finish the game while Jamie George, who again settles for a place on the bench on Sunday despite outshining the captain Dylan Hartley in Cardiff, has previously said: We dont ever see ourselves as the bench. Everyone on the bench would love to be starting, but we are all of the mindset that weve got to make sure that we have an impact on the game. Eddie puts a massive amount of importance on us and a lot of pressure and weve got to make sure we react to that.

Such is Joness strength in depth that calling his bench Finishers would appear to be a method of keeping the replacements motivated but it does not seem to have been well received by the Six Nations, who switched Finishers back to Replacements in their official release of the team.

The term was brought into rugby union parlance during the World Cup in 2015 by the Australia coach Michael Cheika and borrows from the phrase Closer, used to describe pitchers in baseball who come on to see the game out.

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A new GIF, created by the people behind the website aromahq.com, features 20 years of Beyonc looks, one each year from 1997 to 2017. And its pretty remarkable, especially considering Bey has been a staple in pop culture for two full decades now.

Beyonce is 35-years-old and was only 15 when Destinys Child landed a record deal with Columbia Records in 1997.

From a social standpoint, she hasnt missed a step over the years, a rep from aromahq.com told HuffPost. She... continues to just expand her star power consistently by being a great performer and putting out good music.

Plus, its also tons of fun to see all of the phases and styles shes had over the years.We mean, shes gone from this:

Its been a pleasure to see her grow and evolve.Heres to 20 more years, B!

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Ive tried to make the switch from toxic deodorant to the natural kind quite a few times in my life. But every time I tried, Id find myself sweating more than usual, and stinking up a room. What was going on?

It makes sense that we dont want to smell, but why would we subject ourselves to ingredients that do more harm than good? The parabens found in most deodorants have been linked to breast cancer, the aluminum compounds within deodorantscan mimic estrogen, propylene glycol can cause delayed allergic reactions, along with kidney and liver damage, the triclosan is a possiblecarcinogen, and the list goes on.

Research also shows that some compounds used in deodorant are absorbed and stored in fat cells, which are prevalent in the underarm area, explainsPhilip Harvey, Ph.D., editor in chief of the Journal of Applied Toxicology. Your underarm tissue also contains hormone receptors, which could react to some of those same deodorant ingredients.

With health experts suggesting deodorant can cause or contribute to developmental or reproductive issues, as well as cancer, its concerning to say the least that hygiene products like this are so readily available for us, and thatwe rely on them so heavily to ensure we not only smell good, but avoidsmelling awful for work, for friends, and for ourselves!

The skin is the bodys largest organ and what touches our skin can easily enter our bloodstream. With skyrocketing rates of breast cancer, it would seem prudent to avoid these chemicals until further research is done.

I used to look upalternative deodorants regularly, trying out a new one every so often to see if it would keep mefresh like the mainstream stuff, but no matter the brand, no matter the reviews, they all made me sweat more and smell more. I would find myself fearful of giving hugs, of opening my arms with expression during a business meeting.

Eventually, I dug a little deeper and simply searched the Internet for: Why does natural deodorant make me smell and sweat worse?

Heres the short answer: Your body is detoxing.

The reason you smell is because bacteria live in your armpits and break down lipids and amino acids found in your sweat, turning them into substances that have a very particular odor.

The bacteria killed off by deodorants permitbacteria that produce even more pungent odors to thrive.

When you choose to stop using deodorant, your sweat glands overcompensate forall that time spent being plugged up for so long. The result is increased perspiration.

So, the reality is, it wasnt my lack of deodorant that wasmaking me smell and sweat more, it was wearing it in the first place that was!

Knowing this allowed me to get through the detox period, and come out much healthier on the other side.

Upon looking for healthier alternatives, there were ingredients I made sure to steer clear of, like: silica, triclosan, talc, propylene glycol, steareth-n, aluminum compounds (aluminum chloralhydrate, aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly, and parabens (methyl, ethyl, propyl, benzyl, and butyl).

As for the safer ingredients to look for, they include: alcohol, aloe, arrowroot powder, baking soda, coconut and other vegetable oils, corn starch, essential oils, hops, kaolin clay, vegetable glycerin and natural waxes, vitamin E, witch hazel, and zinc oxide.

The Environmental Working Groups (EWG) Skin Deep Database is my go-to for all things health when it comes to cosmetics. Look for a score of 1 with Good data, and read up on the sites information for a given deodorant, and youll be well on your way to better options.

Putting endocrine-disrupting chemicals directly on top of lymph nodes in your armpit major parts of your immune system is a surefire way to mess with your hormones and suppress immune function. So the detox the sweating and stinking is totally worth it. Besides, its only a small period of time before youre off the rough stuff for good and smelling just fine.

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Vin Scully has hung up his microphone after 67 years as the Dodgers play-by-play man nearly half the entire history of Major League Baseball.

Still, there was plenty that came before him in the evolution of fans efforts to follow the action in real time when not sitting in the ballpark.

Here, in recognition of the first Scully-less season since 1949 and the return this weekend of the Yankees and Mets to TV and radio for spring games from Florida is a brief stroll through the timeline that led to live streaming on mobile phones, something that would have seemed like science fiction in 1876 . . . or 1976.

Commercial telegraphy is even older than the National League, and a good thing it was for early fans interested in what was going on in games they did not attend. By the late 1870s, businesses realized customers might enjoy updates on games being played around the country, and contracted with Western Union to obtain results every half inning. One early adopter was Massey's billiard hall in St. Louis, where fans presumably could play pool, drink adult beverages and follow games at the same time. (Shout-out to Peter Morris' 2006 book, "A Game of Inches.") Newspapers, which already were receiving updates via telegraph, caught onto the trend and started posting scores outside their offices.

Raw data was better than nothing, but even better was something with visual aids. Creative minds in places such as Nashville and Atlanta soon were conjuring boards illustrated with baseball diamonds and pegs that moved from base to base to represent players. The gimmick spread to New York in the late 1880s, including outside the offices of Joseph Pulitzer's "The World." In 1886, the opera house in Atlanta tried something wackier: actual, uniformed people moving around a faux diamond on the stage, based on results coming in via telegraph. (Shown: M.D. Compton's Baseball Illustrating Apparatus, U.S. patent 540, 089 issued May 28, 1895.)

By the 1890s, electricity began to add more information - and more pizzazz - to the updates fans had come to rely on, in the form of machines that recounted many aspects of game action, including lights that followed the path of players and/or the ball. Such displays got increasingly elaborate, including mechanized, miniature "players" who mimicked the actions of the actual athletes in the distant stadium. (Shown: Nokes ElectraScore from Popular Electricity Magazine, v.5, October 1912: 584.)

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The electronic bulletin boards outside newspaper offices not only kept fans informed into the early 20th century, but served as a communal experience that replicated the in-stadium vibe. World Series in the early 1910s attracted huge, raucous crowds in Manhattan and other major cities. Before, during and after Game 3 of the 1912 World Series between the Giants and Red Sox - played in Fenway Park - throngs clogged the streets in and around Times Square, often shouting complaints and/or encouragement at players who were more than 200 miles away. "There could have been no more interest shown in the game," The New York Times wrote, "had the scene been the ball grounds at Boston instead of Times Square."

Commercial radio was in its infancy when baseball first came to the new medium, on Aug. 5, 1921, when the Pirates defeated the Phillies, 8-5, in a game played at Forbes Field. Initially some radio announcers merely read scores via telegraph updates from another location, but soon they were sitting in the stadiums themselves and enhancing the drama rather than dryly reciting results. By the 1923 World Series between the Yankees and Giants, radio use was widespread, and Graham McNamee became the first true baseball broadcasting star. Radio has endured as a staple of baseball fandom, sometimes even for those in the ballpark. Dodgers fans used to bring transistor radios to listen to Scully at the massive Coliseum in the Dodgers' early L.A. years. The three New York teams were radio holdouts -- they did not allow games to be broadcast live until 1939.

Commercial TV still was largely experimental on Aug. 26, 1939, when Red Barber called the first televised major league game from Ebbets Field, in which the Reds and Dodgers split a doubleheader on station W2XBS (later WNBC.) There were only two cameras in use and not many people watching, but it marked the first time anyone outside a ballpark had observed major league players in action live. World War II slowed the spread of television drastically, but it grew rapidly in the post-war years, and the first World Series aired in 1947. More and more games began to be televised - locally and nationally - through the 1950s and 1960s, exposing the game at its highest level to a far vaster audience than ever before.

Cable television transformed baseball in the late 1970s and 1980s, starting with superstations that allowed fans all over the country to see teams such as the Braves, Cubs and Mets. ESPN furthered the expansion of nationally televised games, finally rendering the old notion of a national "Game of the Week" on Saturday afternoon as a quaint relic. Soon games on cable outlets far outnumbered those available on local broadcast channels. Later, the rise of regional sports networks - especially team-owned ones such as the Yankees' YES Network, which launched in 2002 - further consolidated the power and profitability of baseball's pay TV model.

The World Wide Web came along in the early 1990s, sparking the most recent evolution/revolution in live major league coverage, one that continues apace in 2017. Initially, the Internet primarily was a way to discuss the game with fellow fans and check up on news and results in real time, something that continues on 21st century social media. Then it became a vehicle, through Major League Baseball Advanced Media, to see video highlights. Now, increasingly, it is a way to watch live games streamed to PCs, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The Yankees were pioneers in the area, first offering live streaming (for a price) in 2010. SNY announced just this winter that it would begin streaming Mets games in 2017.

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Oh, one more thing: Newspapers have covered baseball pretty much from the time the game was invented, well before the major leagues came along, and with more depth than any medium mentioned above. And we still do today. Just sayin'.

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Edsa will always be best remembered for the historic, peaceful uprising that unseated a dictator.

Along the stretch of Edsa happened the People Power Revolution in 1986, during which Filipinos from all walks of life linked arms to topple the dictator, former President Ferdinand Marcos and to reclaim true democracy.

Over the past 31 years, Edsa then bore witness to a series of major transformations, as the rapid urbanization of the metropolis saw massive infrastructure and property development projects rising along this 24-kilometer stretch.

Today, Edsa remains a major thoroughfare in the metro but one that exudes a highly different character and vibe compared to more than three decades ago. Here are some of the property and infrastructure projects that have changed the landscape of this historic avenue.

Edsa Shrine

It was formally known as the Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace, and sits at the crossroads of Edsa and Ortigas Avenue in Quezon City.

Established in December 1989 with Fr. Socrates Villegas as its first rector, the shrine was a brainchild of the late Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, who convinced the families of Paquito Ortigas and John Gokongwei to donate the lot.

Arch. Francisco Maosa designed the church with preparatory work from National Artist Leandro Locsin and Architect William Coscolluela.

National Artist Napoleon Abueva meanwhile designed the 14 Stations of the Cross and the main altar table cast in bronze; sculptor Ramon Orlina created the glass and stainless steel sculpture of the Risen Christ and other artworks; and Virginia Ty-Navarro sculpted the bronze statue of the Virgin Mary.

People Power Monument

Located at the corner of White Plains and Esda, the bronze tableau is comprised of 37 figures depicting the various sectors of the Philippine society that joined the People Power Revolution in 1986, surrounding Inang Bayan as the dominant figure.

Created by award-winning sculptor Ed Castrillo, it was installed in 1993 and had cost P100 million. It has since served as among the main venues for the governments commemorative activities.

LRT-1 North Extension

Dubbed the closing the loop project to connect Light Rail Transit 1 (LRT-1) to Metro Rail Transit (MRT-3) system, it involved construction of a 5.4-km elevated line from LRT-1s Monumento Station in Caloocan to MRTs North Avenue Station in Quezon City.

It was completed in 2010 with additional two stations, Balintawak and Roosevelt, both in Quezon City. The LRT-MRT common station has yet to be constructed.

Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT-3)

Its full operation began in 2000 with a 17-km track comprising of 13 stations starting from North Avenue in Quezon City to Taft Avenue in Pasay. The rail project has a fleet of 73 Czech-made modern and air-conditioned rail cars, of which up to 60, in three-car trains, operate daily.

Manhattan Garden City

It is a residential development project expected to consist of 20 residential towers on a 5.7-hectare property at the Araneta Center in Quezon City.

Gateway Mall

Opened in 2004, the flagship mall of Araneta Center has five levels and directly linked to Araneta Coliseum and LRT-2. It has a total floor area of 100,000 square meters. Lakbay para sa Kapayapaan sa Edsa

The street mural project was launched in 2013, adorning the walls of Camp Aguinaldo, the general headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, in Quezon City.

It spans about 3.8 km, of which 1.7 km stretches along Boni Serrano Avenue; 1.3 km along Edsa; and 1 km along White Plainsmaking it the worlds largest peace mural.

C-5 Ortigas Avenue extension interchange

More known as Ortigas Flyover, it was completed in 2004 to decongest traffic volume on Edsa. It has two flyovers: a three-level, four-lane flyover along C-5 and two-lane left-turn flyover.

Robinsons Galleria Complex

It is the countrys first mixed-use facility that combined a mall, hotels, offices and condominium residences within one development.

On its site is the Robinsons Galleria Ortigas, the flagship mall of Robinsons Land Corp. established in 1990. The five-level shopping mall houses over 500 highly recognized local and international shops, dining outlets and service centers.

Other establishments in the complex are the two high-rise office towers, Galleria Corporate Center and the Robinsons-Equitable Tower, deluxe hotels Holiday Inn Galleria Manila and Crowne Galleria Manila, and the Galleria Regency.

SM Megamall

Considered one of the countrys biggest malls, the SM Megamall is among the pioneer shopping malls established by Henry Sy Sr. in 1991 when he started the malling phenomenon in the 90s.

From its initial total floor area of 311,898 sqm, SM Megamall has undergone several renovations since then to reach its current floor area of 474,225 sqm when the Mega Fashion Hallwhich houses some flagship international retail brandswas unveiled in 2014.

To celebrate its 25th year, the construction of a 50-story, curvy S-shape office tower has begun last year and is expected to open in 2019.

Edsa Shangri-La

Opened in August 1992 at Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong, it is the first of the five Shangri-La hotels and resorts in the country. It has a total of 632 rooms which consist of 607 guestrooms and 25 suites.

It also has four international restaurants, two lounges, cafe and bakeshop, two ballrooms and 19 meeting rooms, among other amenities and features.

Starmall Edsa-Shaw

Situated at the corner of Metro Manilas busiest avenues, it is directly linked to the MRT Shaw Station and hosts a busy transit terminal, drawing a huge cross-section of daily commuters and shoppers.

SMDC Light Residences

A three-tower project, it is strategically located at Madison Street corner Edsa in Mandaluyong and conveniently linked to MRT Boni Station. It boasts of five-star amenities, its own mall and is deemed perfect for people on the go.

Avida Towers Centera

The four-tower development in Mandaluyong provides a unique in-city living experience divided into five different zones.

(Sources: edsashrine.org, quezoncity.gov.ph, robinsonsproperties.com, robinsonsmalls.com, sminvestments.com, shangri-la.com, dotcmrt3.gov.ph, jica.go.jp, starmalls.com.ph, megaworldcorp.com, gatewaymall.com.ph, avidaland.com, smdc.com and Inquirer Archives)

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Only One In A Thousand PokStops Are Giving Out Pokmon GO's Gen 2 Evolution Items Forbes While your local area might be flooded with new Gen 2 Pokmon in the wake of Pokmon GO's latest update, you might be finding that you're missing a few key ingredients in pursuit of some specific evolutions. That would be a set of evolution items ...

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A hidden reference to the TV show allows you choose the way Eevee evolves, Gen 2 included!

By Matthew Reynolds Published 24/02/2017

How to evolve Eevee has proven to be one of the bigger talking points in Pokmon Go so far.

In the classic Pokmon games, Eevee can evolve into different typing varieties based on the use of special items, its happiness level, moves it has available and even the time of day.

With the addition of Candy in Pokmon Go, the way you evolve Pokmon is much simpler, and as such, you cannot use the tried-and-tested method of using one of three elemental stones to turn Eevee into Flareon, Jolteon and Vaporeon. (Some are better than others depending on the situation - find out which you should get first with our Best Pokmon in Pokmon Go page, and our Pokmon Go Type Chart for their relative strengths and weaknesses.)

Once you have caught enough Eevees to evolve one - our pages on finding Pokemon by location, finding which Pokemon hatch from which eggs and locating Pokmon nests near you can help - a neat trick discovered by fans of the game on Reddit will get you the evolution you need.

Worth checking, too, is our page on the best Pokmon in Pokmon Go, seeing as Umbreon and Espeon in particular are pretty strong new additions with Gen 2!

If you choose to evolve Eevee without any meddling - by feeding it 25 Eevee candy - then it'll turn to one of the above five types at random. However, users have discovered a trick that allows you to target any of Espeon, Umbreon, Flareon, Jolteon or Vaporeon, by renaming it in one of the following ways:

Newcomers Umbreon and Espeon are also believed to have a second evolution method, and that's through the Buddy System, according to Reddit. By walking either one 10km, and then evolving it during night or day respectively, it'll turn into the desired evolution.

Since the naming trick only works once per evolution type, this appears to be a useful way to get a second Espeon or Umbreon with some reliability.

Why Sakura, Tamao, Sparky, Rainer and Pyro? The original three are the names of the Eevee brothers from the Pokmon television show, who meet with Ash and the gang in episode 40 to show off their respective Eevee evolutions, with Sakura and Tamao appearing later on in the series.

Once you have called your Eevee into one of the above names, you should quit and reload the app to double check the name change has taken place, which is important considering the servers can lean to be on the unreliable side.

Once you've double checked the new name is indeed in place, then evolve the Eevee as you would any other Pokmon by feeding it Candy, and it should take the form of your chosen type.

You can see the trick in action below - and once you're done, you might be interested in reading about other secrets and Easter eggs in Pokemon Go too:

Note that while plenty of users have had success with this method - and that it's been confirmed by developer Niantic itself at this year's San Diego Comic Con - there are a handful of cases where it hasn't worked every time. Some say the trick will only work on the first time you evolve the creature, while others might have caught fowl of server issues not renaming their successfully first time, so be sure to check before you try.

Want more help with Pokmon Go's Gen 2 update? Our list of new Gen 2 Johto Pokmon can teach you where to find each one, what you need to know about new Pokmon Go Berries, Special Items to evolve Pokmon such as King's Rock, Sun Stone, Up-Grade, Dragon Scale and Metal Coat, and how to get Eevee evolutions Umbreon, Espeon, and updated Egg distances and best Pokmon charts, as well as other Pokmon Go tips, tricks, cheats and guides.

If you want to get your hands on one of Eevee's many other evolution in Pokmon Go, you can't just yet.

Unfortunately you can't get all of these evolutions in Pokmon Go right now.

Pokmon Go has added 80 new Johto Pokmon, but that's still only Gen 1 and Gen 2 - in other words, the original creatures from Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal - which means Eevee can only evolve into Umbreon, Espeon, Flareon, Jolteon and Vaporeon for now.

It'll be interesting to see how game expands to cover more creatures in time, and if so, if there are any tricks required to access these other types.

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Creationism and Evolution in 1001 Quotations National Center for Science Education (blog) 1001 Quotations cover A while ago, I wrote a blog post about a chunky volume entitled 1001 Ideas that Changed the Way We Think (2013), edited by Robert Arp. Although I contributed thirty-one brief articles on various scientific, philosophical, and ...

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News from the University of Zurich is notable both for how underwhelming it is and for a "rare" admission. Researchers documented that as winter came earlier, snow voles got smaller. That seemed counterintuitive since, as the title of the publication in PLOS Biology asks rhetorically, "Bigger Is Fitter?"

Well, isn't it? Not so in this case, apparently. Why?

In principle, larger snow voles are fitter: They have better capabilities to survive and reproduce. Despite this positive correlation at the phenotypic level, however, a converse causal relationship was evident on the genotypic level. "The voles whose genetic make-up led to a lower body weight were the fittest, especially in years when the first winter snow fell earlier than usual," explains the biologist. This may be because lighter young are more likely to reach their final size before the weather deteriorates and winter comes.

Fine. Maybe so. But notice the welcome candor in announcing this result. Observing this cute mouse-like rodent getting a bit smaller seems to be pulled straight from the voluminous files of unimpressive evidence for Darwinian evolution's grand claims. Evolution is supposed to explain how fantastic novelties arise, not merely why a little animal gets a bit smaller (or bigger). Even such an instance, though, they say repeatedly, is "extremely rare."

Researchers from the University of Zurich have succeeded in documenting an extremely rare case of evolutionary adaptation "in action" among wild snow voles near Chur.

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Although this process is well understood in breeding conditions and in the lab, it is still largely unclear how often and how rapidly it takes place under natural conditions. Examples of contemporary adaptive evolution remain extremely rare.

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If the scientists had restricted their observations solely to phenotypic traits, such as body size and weight, this rare example of "evolution in action" in the wild would have remained hidden. [Emphasis added.]

And again, from the Abstract:

In natural populations, quantitative trait dynamics often do not appear to follow evolutionary predictions. Despite abundant examples of natural selection acting on heritable traits, conclusive evidence for contemporary adaptive evolution remains rare for wild vertebrate populations, and phenotypic stasis seems to be the norm.

So stasis is the "norm," and seeing "evolution in action" in the wild is "extremely rare." And where found, as it was here, one might add that it is pretty trivial. Perhaps they thought we weren't listening.

Photo: Snow vole, by Timothe Bonnet via University of Zurich.

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Donavon Frankenreiter returns to Corpus Christi with his performance at the Executive Surf Club on Thursday, Mar. 2 at 7 p.m.(Photo: Contributed photo)

After a string of acoustic performances over the past several months, Donavon Frankenreiter, a singer, songwriter, and professional surfer, returns with his full band Thursday, March 2 to the Executive Surf Club reinvigorated and ready to start the next chapter in his musical endeavors.

Beginning his career as a protg of another famed surf-singer, Jack Johnson, Frankenreiter has since carved out a niche all his own.

Its just crazy, its been fifteen years, Frankenreiter said. Ive changed, I think, a little bit. At least, you sort of start to grow up after making one record to another, and you start to see what feels comfortable to you, and what you want to say.

Frankenreiter found more of what he wanted to say while in the midst of writing his last record, 2015's "The Heart", when he continued a longtime collaboration with folk-singer Grant-Lee Phillips.

When I went to make that record, I sent him a song I kind of had half-done, and he sent it back the next day, and it was just incredible it was finished, Frankenreiter said. The collaboration on 'The Heart' was just great; it didnt take much time or effort. We just went back and forth, and basically wrote the whole record in a couple weeks.

Donavon Frankenreiter returns to Corpus Christi with his performance at the Executive Surf Club on Thursday, Mar. 2 at 7 p.m.(Photo: Contributed photo)

After the album's release, Frankenreiter continued his musical evolution, finding magic in the most unexpected of places: barbecues.

For years, Frankenreiter and fellow songwriter and friendG. Lovehad talked about collaborating on an acoustic album they would call their BBQ record, intending it to be a collection full of new collaborations, re-imaginings of cover songs and some of their respective classic tunes. Instead, when the pair entered the studio, they found that the formation of a new group was imminent.

We started writing these songs and recording them. As the days went by, we realized we were really loving the sound, Frankenreiter said. I looked at these guys and said we should start a band. We all kind of laughed, then the more songs we played literally, by the end of the making of this record we all agreed.

And with that, the band Jamtownwas born, with their debut album to be released soon, and a string of dates already booked this summer with Jack Johnson.

Its been amazing, Frankenreiter said. Its one of the most exciting things, musically, that Ive had happen to me in a long time. Its really revitalized and re-energized my whole musical side.

Donavon Frankenreiter returns to Corpus Christi with his performance at the Executive Surf Club on Thursday, Mar. 2 at 7 p.m.(Photo: Contributed photo)

All things considered, Frankenreiter hasnt taken his journey for granted in fact, he uses it to keep him becoming the person hes supposed to become, as he described it.

With me being married and having two kids, living in Hawaii, and just traveling around the world surfing and playing music, Frankenreiter said, its been a wild ride.

What: Donavon Frankenreiter with Grant-Lee Phillips When: 7 p.m.Thursday, March2 Where: Executive Surf Club, 302 N. Water St. Cost: $20, advance sales; $25, day of show Info:donavonatsurfclub.brownpapertickets.com

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