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FRIDAY,
MARCH 25, 2005
BUCK’N TRENDS
Vol. 31 | No. 12 | 1 Section | 48 Pages
NEWS
• Motorist arrested
in DWI hit-and-run.
Story, 7A
• Hampton balances
the budget.
Story, 2A
• Brentwood selectmen
talk trees, taxes.
Story, 8A
• ‘Suffering is never a
waste’
Story, 9A
Bucky’s Burritos Hawks West Coast Healthy
With East Coast Flair in Newburyport
17 PAGES OF COVERAGE
BY JOHN DEMING
ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER
NEWBURYPORT | It’ll look like a skateboard park, only with a higher burrito count.
World-renown skateboarder Bucky Lasek,
along with friend, business partner and fellow
skater Skip Winter, is opening a Californiastyle Mexican burrito shop in Newburyport at
the end of the month.
“Bucky’s Burritos” will be an action-sports
theme restaurant complete with signed memorabilia by the biggest names in the business,
a full-size half-pipe (for decorative purposes
only) and benches made out of snowboards.
“I’ve been wanting to do a restaurant for a
while, and [Winter] had a couple of investors
interested,” Lasek said in a phone interview.
“There is a need for authentic Mexican restaurants up and down the East Coast.”
The term “action sports” applies to surfing,
BMX biking, snowboarding and skateboarding, among other activities.
Lasek, who lives in Encinitas, California, is
one of the world’s preeminent action sports
figures. His first major victory came in the
1999 Summer X-Games when he defeated
close friend Tony Hawk to earn a gold medal.
He won the gold again in 2000, 2003 and 2004,
and helped lead the U.S. team to the gold
medal at the 2003 Global X Games. Lasek also
has a stated presence in the video game world;
fans can select him as their character in each
installment of the “Tony Hawk Pro Skater”
series.
But when it came to marketing, Lasek didn’t
TRENDS Continued on 31A•
Piscopo benefit show ‘hits’ New Heights
BY JOHN DEMING
ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER
OPENING NIGHT — Dawn (left) and Natalie, rehearse for Thursday night’s
benefit performance of “New Heights Live!” They are two of ten Seacoast
area kids who have the chance to share the stage with comedian Joe
Piscopo.
— Atlantic News Photo by John Deming
PORTSMOUTH | If your first acting job is with a former “Saturday
Night Live” star, consider yourself fortunate.
Ten kids from the New Heights
Teen Center were gearing up Monday
afternoon of this week to perform at
Thursday night’s “New Heights
Live!,” where they will share the stage
with Joe Piscopo, among other performers at the Portsmouth Music Hall.
This is the second year in a row that
Piscopo has appeared on behalf of
New Heights, last year performing
“An Evening of Sinatra.”
The kids prepared to actually do
some improv with Piscopo for one of
several sketches they are performing,
produced and directed by theatre veteran Dennic C. Johnson.
Piscopo is a little before their time,
but some of the kids were very excited
at the prospect of working with him.
“I think it’s a great honor to be
working with Joe Piscopo,” said Natalie, who said she’s seen a lot of his old
“Saturday Night Live” skits.
Another performer was pleased,
though in a slightly different manner.
“I heard of Joe Piscopo before, but I
thought he was dead,” said Turin.
Johnson said he has directed children many times, and that it is always
a pleasure.
“It’s going real well,” he said. “You
can’t teach creativity — you can only
unleash it.”
PISCOPO Continued on 46A•
• News from SMS
Class of 2005.
• Mask Makers at SES.
• Phys ed with
Project Adventure.
• Cloud Stories.
• News from SES
Unified Arts Team.
Stories, 13A-30A
ENTERTAINMENT
• Evening With the Arts
goes ‘STOMP’N’
Stories, 36A
BUSINESS
• Royal Caribbean open
house at Custom Travel
Story, 33A
COMMUNITY
• NHAPA dancers win big.
Story, 37A
• Roll a strike at Bowl for
Kids’ Sake event
Story, 10A
Eye on
Evan
Look for our little supervisor
Evan in an ad inside. HINT:
Evan is such a sweetie…
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AIRBORNE — Bucky Lasek, considered by many to be the world’s greatest skateboarder, is opening a Newburyport burrito shop that bears his name.
— Atlantic News Courtesy Photo