Posted October 10, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
It’s a great irony. Not cruel. Just there. I’m in the business of conversation, recording it, creating it to illuminate issues, people, the many communities we cover. But I was too young to hear the most important conservations of my own life, the ones between my biological teen mother
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Posted October 09, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Barb Palar Hyperion Books 9/4/12 $ 24.99 240 pp Mitch Albom, who brought us “Tuesdays with Morrie” and “Have a Little Faith,” has woven another tale to help us reflect and consider why we are here and how we should use the time that
Read More →What is this, 2005? Put away that Bluetooth headset, you’re not impressing anyone. What was once a status symbol of geek chic is now a cliché. Headsets are often mocked as a symbol of the corporate lifestyle and not being able to escape work or making people look like they’re
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Posted October 03, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood
Bartenders are imbedded in the American psyche, don’t you think? What isn’t there to like about a bartender? He or she is the modern-day pirate. Not ethically pure, by any means, and not overly empathic (we are just one customer among many), but pragmatic in their advice. And, most importantly,
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Posted October 03, 2012in Publisher's Note, Recent Posts
We don’t change much to the content of this newspaper. With 97 percent of our papers picked up each week, and with more readers than we have had in the newspaper’s history, we don’t want to drastically change what you have come to expect and enjoy. With that in mind,
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Posted October 03, 2012in Game Day
FIRST DOWN: You roll as your flagships roll. Why is the Big Ten down? Rich Rodriguez. Jim Tressel. Joe Paterno. Jerry Sandusky. There. Next question. The B1G’s traditional One-Percent Club, the Blue Bloods — Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State — have all spent a good chunk of the last
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Posted October 03, 2012in Center Stage, Recent Posts
The pressures of supporting a wife and a newborn baby can lead to unintended consequences. For Bob Leonard, a doctor of anthropology, it meant taking on a night-shift job as a cab driver in Albuquerque, N.M., as an interesting way to help make ends meet. Little did he realize the
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Posted October 03, 2012in Sound Check
No Doubt ‘Push and Shove’ Interscope There are two ways to judge No Doubt’s sixth studio effort: in a void, or as a greater body of work. If you choose to do the former, it’s fine — it’s an inoffensive collection of electro-infused songs, offset by the Cali-ska infused “Settle
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Posted October 03, 2012in Sound Check
Deadmau5 ‘> album title goes here <’ Ultra Attention, electronic dance music fans: Deadmau5 has just released the album of the year. Oh wait, it’s NOT 2002 anymore? Well that’s a shame for “> album title goes here <,” because that’s the only scenario in which this album is in
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