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Raver (other)
Raver or ravers may refer to: Places * Raver, Maharashtra, a city in India * Raver (Vidhan Sabha constituency) * Raver (Lok Sabha constituency) People * Kim Raver (born 1969), American actress * Lorna Raver (born 1943), American actress Comics * ''Raver'' (comic), a 1993 comic book mini-series written by Walter Koenig and published by Malibu Comics **The Raver, superhero protagonist of the comic * Ravers, fictional spirits in the 1970s–1980s fantasy novel series "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever" by Stephen R. Donaldson * The Ravers, the name of a team of DC Comics superheroes in a short-lived 1990s comic book series ''Superboy and the Ravers'' Music * Raver, someone who attends a rave * "The Raver", a music gossip column published in the 1960s and 1970s in the consumer music weekly ''Melody Maker'' and now as an online column * "Ravers", a song by Quiet Riot from their 1977 Quiet Riot (1977 album), self-titled album * The Ravers, the original name of 1970s n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raver, Maharashtra
Raver, is a city and municipal council in Jalgaon district, renowned for its agricultural significance, particularly as a major banana-producing area. Often referred to as part of the "banana belt" of Jalgaon, Raver contributes significantly to the district's economy through banana exports, reaching markets across India and abroad. The town is characterized by its beautiful old architecture and ancient temples, reflecting a rich cultural heritage. It is also known for its scenic surroundings, with the nearby Pal Hill Station offering a retreat into nature with its diverse flora and fauna. As a hub of agricultural production and cultural history, Raver plays a crucial role in the region's development. Raver is famous for an ancient Dattatreya Temple. The Shri Datta Mandir Sansthan in Raver, is a spiritually significant temple with a rich heritage rooted in the Nath and Datta Sampradaya traditions. It was established around 1820 by Shri Sadguru Satchidanand Swami Maharaj, a revered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raver (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Raver Assembly constituency is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency is located in Jalgaon district. Overview Raver is part of Raver Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha constituencies, namely Bhusawal, Chopda, Muktainagar and Jamner in Jalgaon district and Malkapur in adjoining Buldhana district. Members of the Legislative Assembly * Raver was part of Bombay State during the 1951 and 1957 elections. Election results 2024 2019 2014 See also * Raver (Lok Sabha constituency) Raver is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. Raver, Maharashtra, This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the President of ... References {{coord, 21.24, 76.03, display=title Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra Jalgaon district Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raver (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Raver is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. Raver, Maharashtra, This constituency was created on 19 February 2008 as a part of the implementation of the President of India, Presidential notification based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002. It first held elections in 2009 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Haribhau Jawale of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Vidhan Sabha segments Presently, Raver Lok Sabha constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. These segments are: Members of Parliament Election results General elections 2024 General elections 2019 General elections 2014 General elections 2009 See also * Erandol Lok Sabha constituency * Jalgaon district * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Raver
Kimberly Jayne Raver (born March 15, 1969) is an American actress. She is known for television roles such as Dr. Teddy Altman on American Broadcasting Company, ABC's medical drama ''Grey's Anatomy'', Kim Zambrano on ''Third Watch'', and Audrey Raines on ''24 (TV series), 24''. Early life Raver was born and raised in New York City by her mother. She attended Boston University, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drama. She is fluent in French language, French and German language, German, a language that she learned as a child from her German-born mother. Career Initial career (1974–2008) Raver got her start as a child star in 1975 appearing on ''Sesame Street'' at age 6. She remained on the show for three years. She initially acted in television commercial, commercials for Visa (credit card), Visa and Jeep when her adult career began. Her first prominent role was her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in 1995 in the Philip Barry play "Holiday" in which sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Raver
Lorna Raver is an American retired actress who has appeared in numerous plays, films, and television series. She is sometimes credited as Lorna Raver Johnson. Life and career Raver was born in York, Pennsylvania, and was raised in a Pennsylvania Dutch environment. She had early experience performing at the Hedgerow Theater in Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City, appearing off-Broadway in the premieres of ''Last Days at the Dixie Girl Cafe'' and ''Between Daylight and Boonville''. She then spent several years as a stage actress in the Chicago area before moving to Los Angeles, where she had many guest roles on TV and continued to work in live theater. Some of her performances included ''The Seagull'', '' Spinning into Butter'', '' The Women'', '' The American Plan'', ''Oedipus Rex'', and ''The Drama Coach'', for which she won the Drama-Logue and LA Weekly awards. She also performs in radio drama. On September 19, 2006, she began appearing as Rebecca Kaplan on CBS's ''The Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Koenig
Walter Marvin Koenig (; born September 14, 1936) is an American actor and screenwriter. He began acting professionally in the mid-1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in '' Star Trek: The Original Series'' (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast ''Star Trek'' films, and later voiced President Anton Chekov in '' Star Trek: Picard'' (2023). He has also acted in several other series and films including '' Goodbye, Raggedy Ann'' (1971), '' The Questor Tapes'' (1974), and ''Babylon 5'' (1993). In addition to his acting career, Koenig has made a career in writing as well and is known for working on '' Land of the Lost'' (1974),'' Family'' (1976), '' What Really Happened to the Class of '65?'' (1977) and ''The Powers of Matthew Star'' (1982). Early life Koenig was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman Isadore Koenig and his wife Sarah (née Strauss). They moved to the Inwood neighborhood of Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever
''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'' is a series of ten high fantasy novels written by American author Stephen R. Donaldson. The series began as a trilogy, entitled ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever''. This was followed by another trilogy, ''The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'', and finally a tetralogy, ''The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant''. The main character of the stories is Thomas Covenant, an embittered and cynical writer, afflicted with leprosy and shunned by society but fated to become the heroic savior of The Land (Stephen R. Donaldson), the Land, an alternate world. In ten novels, published between 1977 and 2013, he struggles against Lord Foul, "the Despiser", who intends to escape the bondage of the physical universe and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy, "the Creator". ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever'' # ''Lord Foul's Bane'' (1977) # ''The Illearth War'' (1978; ''Gilden-Fire''—first published 1981) # ''The Power that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superboy And The Ravers
''Superboy and the Ravers'' is an American comic book series that ran for 19 issues, from September 1996 to March 1998. The comic book chronicles the adventures of Superboy (Kon-El) and a group of superhumans called the Ravers. Plot Sparx arrives and tells Superboy of a neverending party that she has joined. One night she takes Superboy there by teleportation. Superboy also meets Hero Cruz, and Aura, after an altercation with some of the partygoers where Superboy finds that he does not understand their language. Superboy meets Kindred Marx, the proprietor of the rave called The Event Horizon. He marks Superboy with the symbol of a rising sun on his right hand, which enables him to travel to and from the Event Horizon. Superboy is confronted by Kaliber, a juvenile delinquent from the planet Qward, who accuses Superboy of mocking Superman and attacks him. When Marx warns them that there is to be no fighting in the Rave he then transports them to the arena where they begin to fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rave
A rave (from the verb: '' to rave'') is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 1990s dance music scene when DJs played at illegal events in musical styles dominated by electronic dance music from a wide range of sub-genres, including drum and bass, dubstep, trap, break, happy hardcore, trance, techno, hardcore, house, and alternative dance. Occasionally live musicians have been known to perform at raves, in addition to other types of performance artists such as go-go dancers and fire dancers. The music is amplified with a large, powerful sound reinforcement system, typically with large subwoofers to produce a deep bass sound. The music is often accompanied by laser light shows, projected coloured images, visual effects and fog machines. Fuelled by the emerging dance scene, and spearheaded by acid house music and undergro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melody Maker
''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. In January 2001, it was merged into "long-standing rival" (and IPC Media sister publication) ''New Musical Express''. 1920s–1940s It was founded in 1926 by Leicester-born composer and publisher Lawrence Wright as the house magazine for his music publishing business, often promoting his own songs. Two months later it had become a full scale magazine, more generally aimed at dance band musicians, under the title ''The Melody Maker and British Metronome''. It was published monthly from the basement of 19 Denmark Street in LondonPeter Watts. ''Denmark Street: London's Street of Sound'' (2023), pp. 30-31 (soon relocating to 93 Long Acre), and the first editor was the drummer and dance-band leader Edgar Jackson (1895-1967). Jackson instigated a jazz column, which gained in credibility once it was taken over by Spike Hughes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiet Riot (1977 Album)
''Quiet Riot'' is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. It was released exclusively in Japan on March 2, 1978. The album features guitarist Randy Rhoads, who later gained recognition for playing on Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo albums. Overview Analyzing it decades later, music critic Martin Popoff said the album is more "glam pop" than heavy metal or hard rock, like in the band's 80's output. The song "Back to the Coast" was originally written by Rhoads and his brother Kelle when they were teenagers. It was originally called "West Coast Tryouts". "Back to the Coast" was re-recorded by Kelle Rhoads for his 1985 ''Cheap Talkin' Romance'' EP, which features Kelly Garni on bass and Steve Sunnarborg, a student of Randy Rhoads and winner of the Randy Rhoads Memorial Scholarship at CSUN, on guitar. Track listing Personnel Quiet Riot * Kevin DuBrow – lead vocals * Randy Rhoads – lead & rhythm guitars *Kelly Garni Quiet Riot is an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nails
The Nails were originally a five-piece new wave band that formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1976. In Colorado, they were originally named The Ravers. The band members were Marc Campbell (lead vocals, guitar), Dave Kaufman (keyboards), Al Leis (drums), Artie Freeman (lead guitar), and Jon Cormany (bass). The band's roadie, Eric Boucher, went on to be known as Jello Biafra, lead singer of the Dead Kennedys. History In 1977, the Ravers recorded an EP in Boulder with Screwball Records. The Ravers moved to New York in June 1977 and played the showcase clubs CBGB and Max's Kansas City. Shortly after arriving in NY, The Ravers changed their name to The Nails (there was a local band named Raver). A 45 with the band's original lineup was recorded in New York City in 1978. By mid-1978, Leis (now deceased), Cormany, and Freeman (now a medical school professor) had left the band. By the late 1970s, The Nails had established themselves on the club circuit and were now composed of Campbel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
