Go sit on a lake
No need to stay inside during the long winter months waiting for the sun to come out and dreaming about open water and summer fun. Now’s the time to be [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Locker Room
Posted January 27, 2016in Duffy
Posted January 27, 2016in Rap Sheet
Two of a kind
Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, 35, was arrested after a bar fight in Key West, Florida, according to reports. He recently starred in ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” and has openly [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Sound Notes
Everyone knows how I love a good band name, so my interest was piqued when I saw Embryonic Devourment was coming to Vaudeville Mews this week. However, according to the [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Your View
Is Burns for Cruz or against him?
Alas, I’ve recycled my old copies of Cityview. Otherwise I could look up a previous Political Mercury wherein I believe Douglas Burns backed Sen. Ted Cruz, based on Rep. Steve [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in The Sound
Battling entropy
There is a special kind of alchemy that is required in order for a band to make it as a self-sustaining entity. Band members need to be talented, smart enough [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in On the Move
Construction begins at former Younkers building
You can’t keep a good building down. Preliminary works have begun for construction and renovation activities at the site of the former downtown Younkers building. According to city documents, Blackbird [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Political Mercury
Oscars and Republicans, the $27 man and no beer for Huckabee
Jamie Lee Curtis, a Golden Globe-winning actress, said that had she been nominated for this year’s Academy Awards she’d attend rather than joining the boycott of some in the film industry protesting [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Joe's Neighborhood
The caucuses: a soldier’s view
The retired Navy captain sat across the table at Smokey Row Coffee. Totally composed. Taking my measure is my guess. I start to feel a little warm under her scrutiny. [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Civic Skinny
Polk court tells johns: stay away from backpage.com.
At least some of the 30 or so men picked up in those prostitution stings in August at the Ramada Inn on Army Post Road and the Econo Lodge Inn [...]
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