Yup, you may be a redneck if you deposit your money at Redneck Bank.
Nope, we aren’t joking.
Redneck Bank is the Internet banking division of Oklahoma-based Wichitas. That institution was established in 1913 and is insured by the FDIC.
The bank offering checking and money market accounts comes with the trademarked tag line “Where Bankin’s Funner.”
It promises no minimum balance “good old-fashioned service,” high interest, and no monthly maintenance fee.
One of the bank’s bright red debit cards features a picture of a smiling horse.
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A woman with one of the most recognizable faces from the 1970s will speak 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the University of Dayton’s Kennedy Union Ballroom.
Angela Y. Davis in the 1970s
Controversial political activist and history of consciousness professor Angela Davis will be the keynote speaker at the Annual Richard R. Baker Philosophy Colloquium hosted by the university’s philosophy department and The Concerned Philosophers for Peace.
Angela Davis
The speech is free and open to the public.
Davis first gained national attention when then California Gov. Ronald Reagan removed her from a teaching post at the University of California-Berkley.
The feminist activist associated with the Black Panthers black power organization gained worldwide attention after being accused in the 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California.
Her arrest sparked the international “Free Angela Davis” campaign.
She was found innocent and has since rallied against racial injustice and been an advocate of abolition of the “prison-industrial complex.”
An author, Davis ran twice in the 1980s as vice president on the Communist ticket. She is reportedly no longer a member of the Communist Party.
More than 400 University of Dayton will make Athena proud Saturday, Nov. 7, as part of the 11th annual Dance Marathon at the university’s RecPlex Center.
The 12-hour event will raise funds to purchase equipment for The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton’s newborn intensive care unit.
Spectators are welcome.
Feet start to move at noon and will surely be exhausted by midnight.
The Marathon features , live music, contests, food, stories from Children Medical Center patient families and theme dance hours.
Ellen Bryan, Miss Miami Valley, will sing during the “oldies and one-hit wonder” hour and the Dayton Parrott Heads dance with students during the “vacation” hour.
The university’s dance and Irish dance teams will perform.
This year’s theme is “Be a HERO. Saving Lives One DANCE at a Time.” Each dancer will receive a bright blue T-shirt with a superhero design.
The UD’s Dance Marathon’s have raised more than $150,000 for Dayton Children’s since 1999.
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You may recognized the wrongly convicted man on tonight’s episode of CBS’ “The Good Wife.”
He will be played by Dayton native and veteran actor Curtiss Cook.
Curtiss Cook
Cook portrays Clarence, a death row inmate wrongly convicted of murdering a police officer.
Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and her associates will attempt to prove Clarence’s innocence. The episode airs at 10 p.m. on WHIO.
He will play Trey Washington in “Shutter Island,” a Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio set to be released in February.
Cook, a 1987 graduate of Belmont High School, now lives in upstate New York with his wife.
While in Dayton, he performed with the Muse Machine and danced with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. Cook’s acting resume includes roles on “Law & Order” and “The Sopranos.”
Interestingly enough, Cook is the voice of Street Preacher in some of the “Grand Theft Auto” video games.
Although the scene was cut from the film, Cook kissed Nicole Kidman in the film “The Interpreter.”
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Mattel has begun selling Barbie Dolls inspired by the “Twilight” movie franchise.
The Barbie-dized versions of vampire Edward Cullen and mortal girl Bella Swan (Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) sell for about $25 each through Walmart, Walmart.com, Barbie Collector Dealers, Barbie Collector Catalog and www.barbiecollector.com, according to Mattel.
No word on whether or not the Edward doll shimmers in the sunlight or has a thing for human blood.
The next Twilight movie, “New Moon,” will be released Nov. 20.
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Meadowdale High School grad William Christopher Stephens will mix it up with the cast of “HOUSE” Monday, Nov. 9, according to his online site.
The show airs at 8 p.m. on Fox.
(Lisa Powell, Staff Photo)
This will not be the former Sinclair Comunity College student’s first time on the small screen. He has appeared on “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Cold Case,” “General Hospital, ” “Chocolate News” and “Young and the Restless.”
Stephens, also a graduate of the American Musical and Drama Academy and Ohio State University, was the guy in the bright red wig featured in the hilariously outrageous t Wendy’s commercials from a few years ago.
HOUSE stars actor Hugh Laurie as a grump medical genius.
Wendy’s commercial
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Kim White broke her dad’s rule about no makeup when she was a kid and in retrospect, that might have been a good thing.
“What I understand now that I didn’t know then is that the first thing she would do when she got to school was rush to the bathroom and put makeup on,” Jon Henri Ball of Huber Heights said. “The last thing she did at the end of the day was go to the bathoom to take it off.”
Kim White
Ball said the Wayne High School graduate would have been in big trouble if he would have discover her love affair with mascara, lipstick and eyeliner back then.
Now he could not be prouder.
“I get to see her work when ever I look at Rachael Ray,” Ball, who has a financial services business, said.
White, a University of Dayton grad, has been a freelance makeup artist for Ray for about three years.
With peppy celebrity’s active schedule - not only does Ray hosts a talk show but she also has cooking programs on the Food Network - White is kept hopping. She has traveled with Ray around country and world. Her favor stops have included Sydney Australia and Provence, France.
White said she constantly seeks ways to update Ray’s look.
“My basic goal with Rachael is to keep her fresh and approachable,” said White, who left the Dayton area in 2004 and had a brief pit stop in Miami before jetting off to New York. “ I try to use colors that are warm and light.”
Ray favors the color orange and White, a former model, incorporates that into the look. The color is always there be it in the form of orange blushes or peach lipsticks and shiny gloss.
“The set is perky and fun and relaxed,” White said. “I try to mirror that.”
The mother of one recently launched the upbeat blog Do I Have Lipstick on My Teeth. The site feature product reviews and a segment called “Mugshot Mondays” in which White gives makeovers to random people and explains her approach.
White, who hope to eventually launch a cosmetics line, recalled fondly the days she was the girl in too much makeup.
She says she picked up a love of fashion and flare from her grandmother, Ludia Goldsby of Huber Heights.
“I always thought she was very chic and I wanted to emulate that,” White recalled. “I was always girly-girl and I never shook that.”
Read more about White in the Dayton Daily New’s Life section on Tuesday, November 3.
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