By StephanieLee Elliott
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Lisa Anne Loeb (/loʊb/ ⓘ; born March 11, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress. She started her career with “Stay (I Missed You)” from the film Reality Bites, the first Billboard number one single for an artist without a recording contract. She achieved two additional top 20 singles with “Do You Sleep?” in 1996 and “I Do” in 1998. Her studio albums include two back-to-back albums that were certified gold: Tails and Firecracker.
Loeb’s film, television and voice-over work includes guest starring roles in the season finale of Gossip Girl, and two episodes, including the series finale, of Netflix‘s Fuller House. She also starred in two other television series, Dweezil & Lisa, a weekly culinary adventure for the Food Network that featured her alongside Dweezil Zappa, and Number 1 Single on E! Entertainment Television. She has also acted in such films as House on Haunted Hill, Fright Night, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, and Helicopter Mom.
Loeb has released children’s CDs and books; her 2016 children’s CD Feel What U Feel won the Grammy Award for Best Children’s Music Album. Loeb’s latest album, A Simple Trick to Happiness, was released in February 2020.
Lisa Loeb was born to a Jewish family in Bethesda, Maryland, and was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her parents still reside. Her mother, Gail, was the president of the Dallas County Medical Society Alliance and Foundation, and her father, Peter Loeb, was a gastroenterologist. She has a younger sister, songwriter Debbie Loeb. As a child, Lisa studied piano, but later switched to guitar. She attended The Hockaday School, an all-girls private school. For two years, she had her own radio show on 88.5 KRSM-FM, a 10-watt station licensed to the nearby all-boys St. Marks School of Texas. After graduating from high school in 1986, she attended Brown University, where she graduated in 1990 with a degree in comparative literature.
According to People: “Though Lisa Loeb rose to fame as a singer, she’s probably just as well known for her eyeglasses.” In November 2010, Loeb launched the Lisa Loeb Eyewear Collection. Each type of frame is named after one of her song titles, and while most models are for women, there are models for young girls and men.
Loeb also sells a brand of coffee called her “Wake Up! Brew”, a reference to her “Everybody Wake Up” song from her Camp Lisa album. The brand is organic and fair trade, with all profits going to Camp Lisa, and it is only available through the Coffee Fool website.
She constructed a crossword puzzle with Doug Peterson for The New York Times, which was published on June 6, 2017.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
I understand that black walnut trees have a compound that inhibits growth in certain plants. I intend to garden several yards away from one. What precautions should I take to ensure the safety of my veggies? Also, can black walnut leaves be composted?
It’s the roots of the black walnut that can cause the most damage to your veggies. They excrete a toxic substance that can harm some plants, including tomatoes and alfalfa. The toxic zone from a mature black walnut tree can extend up to 80 feet around the base of the tree, so if possible, plant your garden at least that far away.
You can compost black walnut leaves, but it’s recommended that you do so separately from your main compost pile. And since there’s no easy way to separate them from other leaves in your yard, we recommend just burning all the debris from the area around a black walnut.
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Robert Treat Paine (public official) –
- Urbain Le Verrier (astronomer) –
- Thomas Hastings (co-architect of N.Y. Public Library) –
- Vannevar Bush (electrical engineer) –
- Henry Dixon Cowell (composer) –
- Dorothy Gish (actress) –
- Lawrence Welk (bandleader) –
- Mercer Ellington (musician) –
- Ralph Abernathy (civil rights leader) –
- Sam Donaldson (broadcast journalist) –
- Antonin Scalia (Supreme Court justice) –
- Douglas Noel Adams (author) –
- Lisa Loeb (musician) –
- Terrence Howard (actor) –
- Joel & Benji Madden (musicians) –
- Thora Birch (actress) –
Died
- Oscar Mayer (manufacturer) –
- Philo T. Farnsworth (inventor) –
- James Tobin (Yale economist and Nobel Prize winner) –
- Frank Neuhauser (in 1925 won the first U.S. national spelling bee with the word gladiolus”“) –
Events
- A deadly Mt. Etna eruption began in Italy –
- The Bureau of Indian Affairs was created in the U.S. War Department –
- Jennie Kidd Trout became the first Canadian woman to become licensed to practice medicine, earning her degree on this day from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Later in 1875, she passed the exams of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ontario, thereby becoming the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada. –
- First public game of basketball played, Springfield, Massachusetts –
- The Bank of Canada opened as a privately owned and government-controlled corporation –
- Congress maintained U.S. neutrality in the war in Europe but passed the Lend-Lease Act, which enabled England to borrow aircraft, weapons, and merchant ships –
- Naval Unit Commendation awarded to light cruiser U.S.S. Helena –
- Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, opened in New York. It was the first play by an African American woman to appear on Broadway –
- Space probe Pioneer 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida –
- Florida panther was added to the endangered species list –
- Levi Strauss began selling bell-bottom jeans –
- U.S. Senator Harrison Williams resigned his Senate seat as a result of being charged with misconduct –
- Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen to succeed Chernenko as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party –
- Former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress during Iran-Contra affair –
- Andrew Rotz made 11,123 consecutive Texas skips in 3 hours, 10 minutes in Las Vegas, Nevada –
- A magnitude-9.0 earthquake devastated Japan and spawned a 23-foot tsunami. The quake moved Honshu, Japan, 8 feet to the east. –
- Great white shark circled fisherman’s kayak for over one hour near Maui, Hawaii –
- After a stray cow in Pembroke Pines, Florida, could not be caught by police or assisting cow herders for weeks, police put up a notice on Twitter asking the public for help in locating the animal. The cow was described as Faster than it looks; talented fence jumper; enjoys pools. (The animal was eventually found.) –
Weather
- Great Blizzard of ‘88 started, East Coast — 400 died, 200 ships sank or were heavily damaged, and up to 40 inches of snow fell –
- Record U.S. snowdepth at Tamarack, California, 451 inches –
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