APRIL 2007
Pirate adventure fulfills a dream
April 30 - Ft. DeSoto Beach -- A pirate adventure fulfilled the wish of a little boy from Canada. The Make a Wish Foundation granted Cole Petrie, his pirate dream. The 5-year-old has compared his fight with cancer to a fight between pirates. Cole went on a treasure hunt, rode a pirate ship, and even found himself in a pirate battle at Fort DeSoto. Cole's parents are happy so many bay area residents stepped up to help make his wish come true.

Shiver me timbers ... they're here
April 29 - Pirates of all shapes and sizes bounded off the Clipper City tall ship yesterday, dressed in black hats and pirate garb, pistols at the ready, for their annual invasion of Fells Point. Greeting them was Vince Zegowitz, a 64-year-old retired oceanographer whose ruddy face attested to his 30 years at sea. He roamed the wharf with his family, dressed in loose black pants, black construction boots, a flowing white blouse, black vest and black bandana.

Pirate Web photo haunts graduate
April 27 - MILLERSVILLE, Pa. - A 27-year-old Millersville University graduate filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the college for denying her an education degree and teaching certificate after a controversial Internet photograph surfaced last year shortly before graduation. The picture shows Stacy Snyder of Strasburg wearing a pirate hat while drinking from a plastic "Mr. Goodbar" cup. The photograph taken during a 2005 Halloween party was posted on Snyder's MySpace Web page with the caption "Drunken Pirate."

A plundering success: Pirate Palooza brings $6,000 to crisis intervention programs
April 26 - A benefit put on by Independent Living Services of Northern California April 13 with a pirate theme will help fund the agency's crisis intervention programs with about $6,000.

PirateParenting.com Turns Moms and Dads into 'Parents of the Caribbean'
April 26 - Dayton, OH - PirateParenting.com is loaded to the gunnels with pirate fun, including an excerpt from the book, Guide to Pirate Parenting, as well as CapÕn BillyÕs random pirate schooner name generator and a chance to plunder CapÕn BillyÕs treasure chest.

PIRATE WRECK
April 25 - A DIVER has found what could be a pirate ship buried in the seabed off the Outer Hebrides. Niall Leveson Gower, a hotel boss on North Uist, discovered it while diving off the isle. He registered the ship with the Receiver of Wrecks after spotting its 6ft-long iron cannons. But there is no record of it. Marine archaeologists will inspect the wreck next month.

Pirate attacks worldwide drop
April 25 - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Pirates attacked 41 commercial vessels worldwide in the first three months of 2007, the lowest figure reported in the past decade, a global seafarersÔ watchdog said Wednesday.

This Summer the Pirates Jump Off the Silver Screen and Land at Wild Dunes¨ Resort
April 24 Isle of Palms, SC - April 2007 Ð In conjunction with the release of the highly anticipated ÒPirates of the Caribbean 3,Ó Wild Dunes¨ Resort (www.wilddunes.com) will launch a summer-long Pirate Treasure Hunt. With a Pirate Adventure Pass, children from all over the country can experience the new themed summer program at Charleston, S.C.Õs Island Resort.

Pirates, in town for convention, deliver booty to Katrina victims
April 22 - NEW ORLEANS - The costumed pirate wore a plumed hat and held a squat bottle labeled "rum" in his hand. Inside the bottle, dark liquid sloshed and fizzed.

Pirate the fine wine
April 20 - Does this sound familiar? You sit down to enjoy a nice slice of pizza and that little voice in your head says with a sigh: "Augh, matey, what would make this meal really great is some Depeche Mode". With a nod to that little voice in all of us, Barbanera has docked in Shanghai. Now, for all you cooler-than-thou hipsters who sneer at pirate-themed, new wave discos with fantastic pizza and a respectable wine selection, we invite you to let your pretensions walk the plank and give in to the guilty pleasure that is Barbanera.

This band of pirates is a merry bunch
April 20 - Up there with fairies and dinosaurs, pirates have a way of capturing the imaginations of children. Sunday, during the Eugene debut of Portland pirate rockers Captain Bogg & Salty, kids and their escorts will have a chance to wear their best scalawag gear for an afternoon of plank-walking, pirate-themed party music.

The City of Fort Walton Beach Prepares for the Annual Siege from Captain Billy Bowlegs and his Pirate Krewe on June 1st and 2nd
April 20 -Fort Walton Beach, FL (PRWEB) April 20, 2007 -- On June 1st and 2nd hundreds of area residents and visitors will once again enjoy the fun and antics of the annual Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival at the Landing in Fort Walton Beach. After a day of rest, the festivities continue on the evening of June 4th, with an 8:00pm Torchlight Parade. The festival, now celebrating its 52nd year, is sponsored by the Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber, The City of Fort Walton Beach, Krewe of Bowlegs and several local businesses. Additional information about the festival is available through the Chamber at 850-244-8191.

Pirate-themed restaurant touts fun times, strong ale and a lesson in healthy eating
April 19 - Get ready to party, pirate-style. The former China Clipper restaurant on Greenbrae Drive is getting a makeover and preparing to board hungry passengers with new owners, a new menu and a new name: The Pirate Ship, which is scheduled to open May 2.

TV Guide Exclusive: A First Look at CBS' Pirate Master
April 18 - Ahoy, maties! Mark Burnett - the man behind Survivor, The Apprentice and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? - has gone skull-and-crossbones for his newest show, Pirate Master, which premieres May 31 on CBS. The 13-week buccaneer series, hosted by Australian actor/musician Cameron Daddo (Big Momma's House 2), stars "16 people who all agree that had they been born 250 years ago, they would have liked to be pirates," as Burnett tells TV Guide from the Pirate Master set on the Caribbean island of Dominica. Contestants will live on a 179-foot-square rigger for 33 days while they search for buried treasure totaling $1 million.

Appleton Rum Jamaica's first expo
April 12 - The international appeal of Appleton Estate will be one of the over 17 rums that will be showcased at Pirate's Gold: Rums of the Caribbean which is slated to be a massive and exclusive rum expo scheduled April 20 -21 at Devon House in Kingston.
*Editor's Note: There be a full article about Appleton Estates in our premier issue, still on sale, mate.

Ahoy! Pirate films sail onto DVD
April 11 - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If movies do in fact influence pop culture, then we might well be looking at the summer of the eyepatch.

Springfest: The only thing missing from this pirate adventure was scurvy.
April 11 - In celebration of the annual Springfest festivities, the student center was transformed into a pirate's paradise, complete with real-life pirates, skeleton bones and pirate gold.

Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando Presents 'A Pirate's Guide to Orlando'
April 11 - Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, Gaylord Palms Resort has published "A Pirate's Guide to Orlando." The list features the favorite pirate-related adventures for visitors to Central Florida. Orlando is predicted to be the center of pirate frenzy this Memorial Day weekend, as Disney releases its third installment of the popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie franchise. While many of the movie's fans are expected to make the pilgrimage to Orlando to visit the namesake attraction, they will find pirate adventures throughout the entire destination.

Kirkpatrick Teaching Pirate School
April 11 -Writer-director Karey Kirkpatrick has signed a two-year, first-look production deal with Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films under his newly formed Blue Shirt Productions. Kirkpatrick, whose helming credits include DreamWorks Animation's Over the Hedge and Paramount Pictures' upcoming The Spiderwick Chronicles, will focus on providing live-action family fare for Paramount Pictures labels Nickelodeon and MTV. The pact does not cover animation as Kirkpatrick remains exclusive to DWA in that genre. First up for the Blue Shirt/Nickelodeon partnership is Captain Abdul's Pirate School, based on a book by Colin McNaughton. The family action-comedy is being penned by Kirkpatrick along with writing partners Chris Poche and Clare Sera, with Kirkpatrick attached to direct.

Swan Lake or Swashbucklers?
April 10 - A dispute over use of a historic theater in the cultural district of Liberty Station in Point Loma has taken center stage at the former Navy boot camp.

Pirate Palooza: a Feast for the Fearless
April 10 - Guests at the "Pirate Palooza: a Feast for the Fearless," Friday will step into a world of pirates and wenches. Cajun and Caribbean cuisine are featured and a pirate band will be playing sea shanties. Independent Living Services of Northern California will be presenting this event at Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave. in Chico, to benefit its crisis intervention programs.

In a Fight Between Ninjas and Pirates, Who Would Win?
April 10 Pirates' personalities, alcoholism put them on top

Arrr-esting methods earn award
April 8 -CUSD educator who wears a pirate costume to get students engaged in literature honored.

Twilight in the garden of good and evil
April 7 - In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Tinker Bell is dancing in the air above Epcot. Her flight, though, is not by virtue of Disney pixie dust -- instead, the fairy is dangling from a crane's cable, spinning a slow waltz above a wooden pirate ship piloted by an ominous-looking Captain Hook. But this Hook has a softer side. His face is so much reindeer moss, his jacket a mass planting of red alternanthera. His hat's plume is made of 60 feathery tillandsia bromeliads, cousins of those found in Florida forests. Tinker Bell, too, wears dots of tillandsia on her shoes. But at about 40 pounds and 4 feet in height, she's a long way from the diminutive creature of storybook's Peter Pan.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life to read
April 7 - Students at Rutherford Elementary School dressed up like pirates yesterday to end a weeklong celebration of the school's Reading Is Fundamental program.

Pirate farce scores a hit at Gaslight
April 6 - Quick matey, answer me this Ñ when one is a pirate Ñ where does one go to shop? Why "Tarrrrrrget" of course. And let the groans and laughter begin. In the Gaslight Theatre's production of "Buccaneers of the Caribbean! or Corn for a Buccaneer!" audience members will hear that joke, and many, many more in this Peter Van Slyke-penned production.

Delaware's tall ship ambassador happily relies on all-volunteer crews
April 6 - WHEN THE Kalmar Nyckel is ploughing through the waters of the Atlantic coast, she is 141 feet of gleaming wood topped by 7,600 awesome square feet of wind-filled sails. The rest of the time she is the sedate, well-behaved replica of a sailing ship that left Sweden in 1638 to bring the first European settlers to the colony of New Sweden, and Delaware's seagoing ambassador of good will.

Sails Unfurled, Boublil and Schonberg's Pirate Queen Opens
April 5 - The Pirate Queen, the new epic musical drawn from Irish history, from the creators of Les Miserables and Riverdance, opens on Broadway April 5 following previews from March 6. Drawing on the success of their international Irish dance revue, producers Moya Doherty and John McColgan take what was successful about their Riverdance - the precision foot-stomping, knee-bending and leg-swinging of Irish dance - and inject it into a plot-driven musical about a Shakespeare-era lady chieftain named Grace O'Malley.

Culture Vulture: Filmmakers, and punkers become pirate partners
April 2 - When Mike Sullivan, Jake Workman and two classmates formed a punk band after graduating from Cottonwood High School in 2003, they chose a name that reflected both their rebellious music and their Utah roots: Pirates of the Great Salt Lake. "We try to sound as loud and as fun as possible," says Sullivan, who has been known to wear an eye patch on stage.

April 1 - There's no news today. April friggin' fools, mate.

 

MARCH 2007