Anya Phillips (?, 1953 – June 19, 1981) was part of the 1970s punk rock scene. She was a co-founder of legendary New York nightclub the Mudd Club along with Steve Maas and Diego Cortez. She managed New York-based musician James Chance (aka James White). Phillips helped create the fashion, sound and look of the New York-based no wave scene of the late 1970s. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Phillips died of cancer in June 1981 in Valhalla, New York, at the age of 26.
Mudd Club
The Mudd Club was a nightclub in the TriBeCa area of New York City, USA. It was open from 1978 to 1983. It was a place for underground music and counterculture events. It was located at 77 White Street in downtown Manhattan and was opened by Steve Maas, art curator Diego Cortez and downtown punk scene figure Anya Phillips.
The Mudd Club was named after Samuel Alexander Mudd, a doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth after Abraham Lincoln's assassination. It closed in 1983.
To space for the Mudd Club was a loft owned by artist Ross Bleckner. Steve Mass described the future venue as cabaret to get the space from Bleckner. Mass said they started the nightclub on a budget of only $15,000.
The club featured a bar, gender-neutral bathrooms and a gallery. Keith Haring ran the gallery and selected artwork to show on the fourth floor. Live performances included new wave, experimental music, literary icons Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and catwalk exhibitions for new fashion designers Anna Sui and Jasper Conran.
From the start it was an "amazing antidote to the uptown glitz of Studio 54 in the '70s". As it became more frequented by downtown celebrities, a door policy was established and it acquired a chic, often elitist reputation.
Many of Manhattan's up-and-coming cult celebrities went to the Mudd Club. Other people associated with the venue included musicians Lou Reed, Johnny Thunders, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, Nico with Jim Tisdall, Lydia Lunch, X, the Cramps, the B-52's, the Bongos and Judas Priest; artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and his then-girlfriend Madonna; performers Klaus Nomi and John Sex; designers Betsey Johnson, Maripol and Marisol; and underground filmmakers Amos Poe; Vincent Gallo, Kathy Acker, and Glenn O'Brien.
Live music at the club featured New York no wave bands like DNA, Nona Hendryx's Zero Cool, the Contortions, and Basquiat's band Gray. In 1979, Talking Heads performed songs from their new album "Fear of Music". Tim Page produced several concerts at the Mudd Club in 1981, in an attempt to meld contemporary classical music with rock and pop. On the dance floor, DJs David Azarch, Anita Sarko and Johnny Dynell played a mix of punk, funk and curiosities.
Six months after it opened, the Mudd Club was cited in "People Magazine": "New York’s fly-by-night crowd of punks, posers and the ultra-hip has discovered new turf on which to flaunt its manic chic. It is the Mudd Club... For sheer kinkiness, there has been nothing like it since the cabaret scene in 1920s Berlin".
After its first few years, Studio 54 celebrities like Andy Warhol, Grace Jones and David Bowie began to go there. In 1981, the Mudd Club's Steve Mass began going to the more informal Club 57 on St. Mark's Place. He began hiring people from the Club 57 crowd (including Haring).
Mudd Club entry tickets, white with black print, are extremely rare.
The Mudd Club closed in 1983. It had just become a regular club and was not so special anymore.
The band Talking Heads mentioned the club in their 1979 song "Life During Wartime". The Ramones included it in their 1980 song "The Return of Jackie and Judy". Nina Hagen mentioned it in her 1983 song "New York / N.Y.". Elliott Murphy sang about it in his 1983 song "Off the Shelf". Frank Zappa named a song for the club on his album "You Are What You Is".
Mass opened another Mudd Club in Berlin in 2001. It was at located at Grosse Hamburger Strasse 17. This Berlin club was small club for touring bands.
In 2007, the arts organization Creative Time placed a plaque on the NYC building to mark the club.
Sadri Skander
Sadri Skander (, born April 10, 1982) is a Tunisian television presenter and producer. He is also an editor-in-chief and an entrepreneur. He is also publisher and editor-in-chief of Tunisie Automobile magazine and co-produces and hosts the AutoPRO program on the Attessia TV channel and previously the AutoPlus and Karhabtek Labess programs on El Hiwar El Tounsi.
In 2012, he made his debut as a producer and host on Tunisna TV, with the show Drive and Fast. In 2013, he switched to Nessma, to produce 100% auto.
From 2016 to 2018, he was also the presenter of the Karhabtek Labès show dedicated to tuning, of a social nature and broadcast on El Hiwar El Tounsi during the Labès talk show.
From 2014 to 2018, he was presenter and co-producer of the auto show Auto +, broadcast every Sunday on El Hiwar El Tounsi.
From 2019 to 2020, he is presenter and co-producer of the automotive show AutoPRO, on Attessia TV.
In 2015, he launched a bimonthly automotive magazine, Tunisie Automobile, of which he is editor-in-chief.
In April 2017, he launched AutoPRO, the largest sales center for used vehicles in Tunisia.
In October 2018, he signed with a partaneriat with Italcar, representative of Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jeep and Lancia, and with Stafim, representative of Peugeot, in May 2019.
Since 2018, he has co-produced and hosted the AutoPRO show on Attessia TV .
In January 2020, he became the face of the Bridgestone brand on the Tunisian market during his contract with the commercial rubber tire company "S.C.P".
Single wicket cricket
Single wicket cricket is a form of cricket which is mainly played between two opponents, the batter and bowler.
The main feature of single wicket cricket is that the batter had to run from his ground at the striker's end to the bowling crease at the bowler's end and back to score a run. This is different from regular cricket, in which a batter only needs to run between the two batsmens' grounds, and means that one run can only be scored when the batter runs 124 feet (37.7 meters), rather than 58 feet (17.6 meters).
Last man stands cricket
Last man stands cricket (LMS) is a form of cricket in which a single batter can bat alone if all other players on his team are out. It has innings with 20 overs of 5 balls each, like in 100-ball cricket.
When a single batter bats alone (is the "last man standing"), they can only be safe when in the ground at the striker's end, which is the area they start running from.
Mouna Noureddine
Mouna Noureddine born Saadia Oueslati (born January 23, 1939 in Tunis) is a Tunisian actress.
She obtained her graduation certificate in 1952 and then entered the school for teachers in Tunis, which she eventually left for the Arab theater school in Tunis.
In 1954, she worked in the municipal troupe of the Arab Theater directed by the Egyptian Zéki Touleïmat. The following year, Mohamed Agrebi recruited her for the Tunis municipality troupe he directed, and subsequently she became a subscriber to leading roles in most of the plays. In the wake of this early success, she obtained a diploma in drama.
In 1957, she successfully passed the recruitment competition for full-time actors for the needs of the troupe in the city of Tunis. Mouna Noureddine is as comfortable on stage as in front of the cameras, interpreting texts in Tunisian as well as in literal Arabic as well as in French.