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Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire)

HARD is GOOD

About Me

Dawn E. Scire is a freelance entertainment and broadcasting correspondent / columnist.

Her major client is The Sarasota Herald-Tribune , a New York Times affiliate, where her work runs weekly in its "Ticket" entertainment publication.

Ms. Scire currently authors the serial column, "Local Beats," featuring all manner of original music makers (from DJs, dance bands and death metal-heads to country and classical composers) who reside and perform largely in the "941" areas (Sarasota, Manatee, Hardee, DeSoto and parts of north Lee, and southern Pinellas and Hillsborough counties).

She has 18 years of vast and varied experiences in the media industry, having written as both an entertainment and a radio/broadcasting industry correspondent and authored feature works for the Herald-Tribune for the past 11 years.

Dawn had produced its six-year, weekly entertainment beat ("The Noise Ordinance") along with the recently discontinued (July, 2008) "Making Noise" (six years), and the eight-year-running "Radio Talk"--where her persona "Radio Babe" was a popular fixture. All columns ran concurrently at various times.

In addition, she pens separate features articles, and for other publications, as needed.

Previously, Dawn was a music columnist and photographer for the free Hip Magazine publication in New Haven, Conn., until its demise in the mid-1990s.

She also was media liaison and co-manager at Last Rites Productions (a Port Charlotte, Fla., entity representing the bands Last Rites and Carnival of Soul), manager for Norwalk death metal outfit Cyberchrist, and had performed various promotional duties for industrial band Quest of the Moon Breed and photographed early nu-metalers Blind Justice (both of New Haven, Conn.).

In a previous existence in corporate America, Ms. Scire was a word processing specialist at Gartner Group, also temping at various advertising firms where she worked on marketing campaigns for high profile clients such as Cadillac and the NFL.

She also was associated with companies such as World Wrestling Entertainment (when it was the WWF), Vestron Pictures and the Wall Street Journal.


Your Beauty lies in Contradiction. Controversial, unpredictable, and never what anyone expects.
Your appearance and your personality are two opposite things. Even your appearance sends different signals to different people. To some you may look innocent and sweet, to others you look mysterious and intimidating at the same time.
No one ever knows what to expect with you. You are a little bit of everything all mixed together.
You can be watching the football game with the guys one minute and the next out shopping at the mall.
You seem to be almost a different person every time you meet someone, but at the same time you know exactly who you are and there is always that one thing that makes you you.
You enjoy keeping people guessing and people love how completely unpredictable you are.

Some Things That Represent You:

Element: Fire, Water Animal: Chameleon Color:
Dark Tones, Light Tones Song: Everything by Alanis Morrissette NOT!
Expression: Half-smile

Gemstone: Opal Mythological Creature: Gryphon,
Half-breeds Sign: Cancer Planet: Mars Hair Color: Red (ish)
Eye Color: Brown

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.. I Will Die of Natural Causes.
Your choice of life style has enabled you to live a nice long life.. To eventually die of a stroke, or was it a heart attack.. Either way you out lived just about anyone that gave a shit about you anyway.. Congrats
Find out how you will die, Take the Death Quiz now!

My Interests

ebay! if you can think it - it's prolly for sale on ebay. Go ahead, see if I'm right. Anyway, if you don't wanna lose that treasure to someone else, try Auction Sniper - it's the BOMB!!! - and tell 'em I sent ya....
Reliable eBay bidding software.

And Auctiva sets up free, killer-looking sales templates.

I'd like to meet:

Bands, musicians, performers, DJs, emcees, artistes, promoters, clubowners, distributers, record labels, writers, movers, shakers, etc., for inclusion in Ms. Scire's weekly columns and/or profiles.

Ms. Scire doesn't accept requests from single men (unless it's someone she knows), street teams, or singlular events--she will Favorite these, however, to mark on the calendar.

Bands from outside the areas noted in the above About Me section are accepted solely on preference rather than necessity. Sorry! ;-}

Others I'd Like to Meet:
jesus christ, ghandi, buddha, muhammed, nosferatu, vlad the impaler, nero, cleopatra, zeus, hercules, hera, medea, pandora, pocahantas, the 'virgin' mary, nostradamus, davinci, tesla, einstein, thomas edison, alexander graham bell, benjamin franklin, the canonized 'saints,' bill wilson, et. al, for a rousing game of "Truth or Dare."

Music:

Just keep adding the names here! SOME of my faves: System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Acid Trip, Ozomatli, AFI, The White Stripes, Hatebreed, Slipknot, Soulfly, Meshugga, Brujeria, Radiohead, Dog Fashion Disco, Hopesfall, Dove, Gorillaz, Sevendust, Disturbed, Opeth, Muphin Chuckrs, Primus, Nonpoint, Sir Millard Mulch, Eminem, Missy Elliot, Kanye West, Lil John, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Alien Ant Farm, Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, Portishead, Spontaneous Habit, Q-Bert, Cut Chemist, Groove Armada, Fatboy Slim, the Prodigy, Cypress Hill, Incubus, 311, Public Enemy, Fu Manchu, Weezer, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World, Counting Crows, Southern Culture on the Skids, Reverend Horton Heat, Tori Amos, Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Jane's Addiction, Helmet, Korn, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, Corrosion of Conformity, Eleven, Pantera, White Zombie, Prong, Trouble, Suicidal Tendencies, old Anthrax, Mucky Pup, Leeway, Bad Brains, my buds Pro-Pain, old Megadeth, old Metallica, Death Angel, Cathedral, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Slayer, Black Sabbath.... & lots more.

Movies:

Snatch, Fight Club, SFW, Kill Bill I & II (anything Tarrantino!), Natural Born Killers, Jackie Brown, Memento, Terminator 1 n 2 (wasn't thrilled with the others...), Amelie, Traffic, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Angels in America, Heathers, Mean Girls, Bruce Almighty, Scratch, Shawn of the Dead; CLASSIC FAVS: Beetlejuice, Big, Blade Runner, It's a Wonderful Life.

Television:

Survivor, Mind of Mencia, LOST!, Six Feet Under, Law and Order(s), CSI (the original), 24, Dave Chappell Show, South Park, stand-up comedians on comedy central & BET... Used to love 'em: Jericho, Sopranos, Boston Public, Kingpin, Roseanne, Seinfeld, old Friends, original 90210, Melrose Place, My So-Called Life

Books:

WAY too many to list!

Heroes:

The survivors of Hurricanes Katrina/Rita/Ike & those volunteers helping them; and LONG-term friends of Bill W., et al.

My Blog

Where Will You Be?

Hey ya'll! Guess who? Just checkin' in to see what's up with everyone and find out where you'll be this last weekend of September. Wanna hear something frightening? You now have LESS THAN 3 MONTHS u...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:19:00 PST

OMG-ONR Made the FINAL FOUR!!!

Holy smoke! Sarasota/Bradenton band One Night Rodeo, the sole band left among five solo singers, on the the country music TV show "The Next Great American Country Star," (kinda like America...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:26:00 PST

They WON!!!!!!!

OMG, Sarasota/Bradenton band One Night Rodeo  WON!They are country music TV network "Great American Country's "The Next GAC Star/s"!!!! One Night Rodeo - A Next GAC Star FinalistCountry / Sout...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:57:00 PST

They NEED You...

Hey ya'll~ Y'know how, when a band or musician's in contest, we try to help each other out by sending around emails, messages, bulletins, etc., to get all our friends 'n acquaintances to vote? ...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:42:00 PST

My New Column

Here's the link to the new column that ran last Thursday:Local Beats  It'll run the first week of every month and focuses on the "what's up" in the Greater Sara/Mana area music scene--so I'm defi...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:53:00 PST

Metal Maniacs CompCD Has OPENINGS!!

Hey ya'll - just got this bulletin from Metal Maniacs (big time!), saying they have two slots open on an upcoming compilation disc that'll run in Metal Edge mag (even bigger!). But you'll have to...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:34:00 PST

MIDWEEK MUSIC...

Hey ya'll, 'Sup? Didja realize we're in the dead of summer? Let the midweek 'Summer Fest' be the wake-up call and kick to the 'ole hind quarters reminding one that time will always be tick-ticking so ...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:44:00 PST

BRING IT! Band/Musician/DJ/MC Announcement

Aiight all you Sarasota, Bradenton, Palmetto, Venice, Port Charlotte, North Port, Punta Gorda, Arcadia 'n vicinity performing artists, what's your scoop? Put another way, is anything newsworthy going ...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:22:00 PST

What up THIS weekend?

Yeah, yeah, we all know that 4th of July's comin' up 'n all, but what's going on THIS weekend in SRQ/ Bradentucky (er, Sarasota and Bradenton, for the uninitiated), you say? Take a l'il looksee: ...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:18:00 PST

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Here's an interesting event coming next weekend, a 20-band 'battle' in Venice. I'm of mixed feelings. See why following the flier~May 31, June 1 Venice Now, ya'll know that I (especial...
Posted by Dawnzig (aka Dawn E. Scire) on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:35:00 PST