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New Job:
Well folks, my days at Fox 11 are over. I’m heading over to greener pastures (hopefully) to Lotus Communications Corp aka Rock 104.5. I’ll be their Digital Media Strategist. So basically helping them come into the 21st Century. It’s a great challenge and I can’t wait to start Monday!
Best part…. Drumroll please….. I get my own office! I can paint it whatever color I like AND it has a window. It has a romantic view of a satellite dish. Haha, but it’s still cool!
September RTT Article:
Fresh off the presses, my article about the infamous Chris Payne!
Click HERE to find out more!
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Ghost Hotel:
I just found out that the hotel I’m staying at had the worst hotel fire in US History. I guess that’s why the ghost tour starts out front. :-/
Here is the Wikipedia Article:
Winecoff Hotel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Winecoff Hotel, today the Ellis Hotel, is located at 176 Peachtree Street NW, in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Designed by William Lee Stoddart, the 15-story building opened in 1913.[1] It is located next to the former Macy’s (at 180 Peachtree Street), which was built as the flagship Davison’s, and just south from the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel (easily identifiable by its cylindrical glass design). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 31, 2009.
Fire
Historical marker
The Winecoff is best known for a fire that occurred there on December 7, 1946, in which 119 people died. It remains the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history,[2] and prompted many changes in building codes. Guests at the hotel that night included teenagers attending a Tri-Y Youth Conference, Christmas shoppers, and people in town to see Song of the South. Arnold Hardy, a 26-year-old graduate student at Georgia Tech, became the first amateur to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography for his snapshot of a woman in mid-air after jumping from the 11th floor of the hotel during the fire.[3] The jumper, who survived, Daisy B. McCumber, was born October 9, 1905 and died in Florida on August 12, 1992 at the age of 86. From her jump she sustained a broken back, pelvis and both legs. Over a ten year period of time she underwent seven surgeries and lost a leg. Under these circumstances, she still worked until her retirement.
Reopenings
In April 1951, the hotel reopened as the Peachtree Hotel on Peachtree, and was now equipped with both fire alarms and fire escapes. In 1967, it was donated to the Georgia Baptist Convention for housing the elderly, and then repeatedly sold to a series of potential developers.
After over two decades of vacancy, a $23 million renovation project began in April 2006. The project restored the building into a boutique luxury hotel, called the Ellis Hotel after the street that runs along the north side of the building. It was reopened on October 1, 2007.
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Honey-Sesame Grilled Chicken Wings:
Photo: Leo Gong; Styling: Dan Becker
Sticky sweet replaces blazing buffalo with these tasty wings. Serve them as finger food appetizers for an outdoor party or as the main course for a family dinner when paired with seasonal sides.
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Yield: Makes 6 to 8 appetizer servings or 2 main course servings
Total: 45 Minutes
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Recipe Time
Total: 45 Minutes
Ingredients
* 1/2 cup soy sauce
* 1 tablespoon minced ginger
* 1 tablespoon minced garlic
* 1 tablespoon Asian chili paste
* 2 pounds chicken wings, tips removed, cut apart at joint
* 1/2 cup honey
* 1 1/2 teaspoons hoisin sauce
* 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
* 1 green onion, trimmed and chopped
Preparation
* 1. In a medium bowl, combine soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and chili paste. Add chicken and let marinate for 15 minutes, stirring often.
* 2. Set up a gas or charcoal grill for medium heat (350° to 400°; you can hold your hand 5 in. above the cooking grate only 5 to 7 seconds). Put chicken on grill and cover with lid. Cook, turning often, until golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes.
* 3. In a small bowl, combine honey and hoisin sauce. Using a pastry brush, generously baste chicken wings with honey glaze. Cover grill with lid and cook till honey glaze starts to caramelize, about 3 minutes. Turn chicken wings over and baste again, using the remaining honey glaze. Cook 3 minutes more, being careful not to let the glaze burn, removing pieces from the grill as they’re done.
* 4. Transfer to a platter. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onion. Serve any remaining honey glaze on the side.
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JUNE 2008
Weekend Recap:
It’s time for a nostaligic look back on my weekend… now if I could only remember what I did… oh yeah:
FRIDAY: Amazing
I had 4 events I said I would go to…. but I didn’t have that much time. So I had to make choices.
- Corey’s 30th B-Day at Famous Dave’s
- Pick up my custom art from Aric Shapiro at The Salvagery Artist Collective
- Hangout with my boss and friends for drinks at the Stonehouse
- Go to AWOLnation and hangout with radio friends
So priorities…. MUSIC and ART….check. I cancelled on Corey to go hangout with my boss. Then my boss cancelled, so 2 out of 4 events down the hole.
So I went to go visit Aric at the Salvagery to pick up my art. He was leaving the next day for the Playa to build The Temple for Burning Man. It’s amazing to me that people would donate a month of their time to build The Temple, just to watch it blow up. Just amazing.
I met a whole gaggle of crazy New Zealanders… shouting and drinking PBR…(I think its the official drink of Reno). Overall it was a great time.
Flashforward to home, getting ready, shower and a shave (Hey I keep it classy)
Then off to go see AWOLnation. I love living downtown because there is always something unexpected going on. I went outside and there was fireworks shooting off the Silver Legacy. I’m assuming for Hot August Nights… it was a good start to the night.
I met up with new friends at KRZQ as well as members of KDOT. In Reno radio you can’t really afford to make enemies. We are all in this crazy little city trying to survive in the broadcasting industry.
AWOLnation was good, but all their songs relatively sound the same. The thing I love the most is I am finally feeling like I’m well rooted in Reno as well as radio.
I can BS with the big boys about music, industry news, and just plain tell dirty jokes. I love it. It’s been a 5 years in Reno, but I feel like I’m really making it my home.
After the concert the afterparty was at Tonic. I watched Chris Payne spin the night away as well as some cool guy who looked and danced like Andre 3000.
(Always a highlight)
The night was filled with normal drinking/dancing debachuery.
Twas Fun.
Saturday: Awkward
I woke up in a rush to get to the station. I looked like a hot mess, I didn’t wash off the makeup from the last night, my hair was crusted in hairspray…. it was ugly.
But regardless I had a good airshift from 10am-3pm. Nothing caught on fire… so I was happy.
(Yes, that is my low standard of success)
Afterwards I was inspired to go to Tahoe. One of those random adventures…. apparently I couldn’t inspire anyone else to go with me.I really didn’t want to go to a beautiful lake and sit there by myself. (This has been a theme for me, learning how to be alone… its not working)
So I went to the pool and that was just not as satisfying. 
I met up with one of my neighbors, I thought he was going to bring all his friends, but it just ended up being me and him… which was fine… just different than I imagined.I like groups, gaggles of people, bringing people together, bbq’s and such.
So one on one is hard for me.
Then we agreed to get a bunch of people to show up together… I knew about 15 people that were going to be out and about downtown. I cancelled on another friend for a house party because I believed in a this new plan… downtown drinking and such. Sorry Drew 
So we agreed to meet at 9pm…. so at 10:30 we finally got together. I met up with my 2 friends at Imperial Bar. (It was 95 degrees in there, I was sweaty and gross) But I ran into 2 old friends back from my ballroom dancing days…. yeah!
After $2 Kamikaze shots at Imperial we decided to get some fresh airand head down to the Waterfall.
We enjoyed had some hookah, more drinks and ran into a couple of awkward situations.
For instance it was Reno High’s 10 year reunion so everyone had name tags on and we didn’t know anyone there!
We enjoyed some more hookah and this amazing drink called a Juicy! Ask West or Brandon (the bartenders) about it next time you are there.
We got tired of being in room full of people that we didn’t know, yet they all knew each other and decided to meander to Brew Bros.
That place is very hit or miss, its either the best night or your life or completely irritating.
(Turned out to be the second one).
I was surrounded by people having sex on the dancefloor… ok well just about having sex… but its always awkward being surrounded by people getting it on…
I was also hot and sticky and irritated. The band wasn’t that good and I got tired of being pushed around by the tongue jockeys. So we left and ate some food at Cafe Sedona.
{Isn’t the whole point of Reno is to be able to order chinese food at 2am?}
Apparently they only had breakfast food and I WAS PISSED. This night sucked. Good thing I was in good company with friends Corey, Shannon and David.
So I made it home…. grumpy, but grateful for good friends.
SUNDAY: Lazy
It was so nice sleeping in. Sunday is the only day that I get to sleep for ungodly amounts of time.
So after a 10 hour nap I woke up and ate some leftover chicken soup. It is my Sunday tradition to stay in bed and watch bad TV.
So I watched ‘Switched at Birth‘ on HULU. Wow that stuff is addictive… its got drama, love, a real american family… its an absolute trainwreck. LOVE IT!
I’m currently hanging out till 7pm, playing whatever the hell I feel like on Rock 104.5 .
After this… not sure.
I’ll probably go to my BFF’s house and see how that baby is a growing.
(She’s pregnant)
Maybe she’ll feed me…..
Pregnant ladies always have extra food laying around the house.
Over all the weekend was full of ups and downs, good friends, awkward situations and bad tv.
Thanks for reading 
~Layla
Who am I?
If you couldn’t tell, I’m on a music video kick. This is the one song that really makes me feel like me. It’s my quintessential Layla James song. What’s yours?
Ultragigantor:
If you haven’t listened to Red Line Chemistry’s new hit single: Ultragigantor – Here’s your chance!
Request it at your local radio station!
The Salvagery Artist Collective:
Recently I visited Aric Shapiro down at the Salvagery. Video coming soon…. Check out the pics for now!
