Monday, March 31, 2008

Numerous comings and goings for food and drink in downtown New Albany.

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Finally baseball season has arrived, and with it the necessity of surveying major league rosters to account for the winter’s trades and free...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

If he had been the batter, it would have been a called third strike.

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The ceremonial first pitch of the Washington Nationals home opener was just thrown by the worst president ever, George W. Bush. It was high ...
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Hillary Clinton and the mystery cutlet.

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It’s ironic that during the past week … (a) I was supposed to be writing the next installment about my visit to Sarajevo in 1987, but didn’t...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Small mention; potentially big deal.

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A quick blurb in the Courier-Journal earlier in the week probably didn't garner much attention. I'd like to think that's only b...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Hillary in New Albany: Steam tables for "change?"

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Hillary Clinton will be in town Saturday to campaign . She will answer questions at the South Side Inn, circa 2:00 p.m. I can't make it,...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Drop the book slowly and show me your hands.

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Local bookseller Randy Smith reports that Governor Mitch Daniels and the Indiana legislature recently passed into law H.B. 1042, a statute m...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Film: "The Way I Spent the End of the World."

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The Way I Spent the End of the World is director Catalin Mitulescu’s surprisingly quiet, nuanced view of Communist Romania’s waning months....
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Random thoughts for a random Tuesday.

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1. Why do we judge government and private action by such different standards? The private market let the Baptist Tabernacle languish for dec...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Pangea Day, May 10, New Albany.

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What Is Pangea Day? Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a be...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Heaven on their minds.

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In his preface to “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion,” the book’s editor, Al Seckel, writes: There is a marvelous anecdote from the occas...

Red Stars, Black Mountains: What’s Habsburg got to do with it? (Part 5).

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A continuing Sunday series. See also: Red Stars, Black Mountains: Raddy and what came after (Part 4) Red Stars, Black Mountains: Mellow Lju...
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

Jeff Main Street chili & beer bash rescheduled for Tuesday, April 1.

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Jeff Main Street's first try at its 3rd annual chili and beer fundraiser was postponed by bad weather in early February, but they're...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Not quite weekend update

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Mayor England delivered his State of the City address at last night's council meeting. The Tribune provides the full text: 2008 State o...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Council takes on tax abatements

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New Albany's City Council will hold a work session concerning tax abatements tonight at 6:00 p.m. prior to their regularly scheduled mee...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

“Creative types don't want bourgeois homogeneity.”

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The current edition of The Economist includes a thought-provoking essay on the rivalry between London and Paris, and surveys the reasons wh...

Obama: Practiced ignorance isn't an answer

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During the 2007 holiday season, I found myself in a discussion of presidential candidates with a good friend and mentor, a staunch Democrat ...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Fire Museum to Baptist Tabernacle downtown?

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The Green Mouse says that at today's Board of Public Works meeting, New Albany's deputy mayor announced a steering committee compose...
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A Napoleon complex?

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St. Louis real estate agent and community affairs blogger Steve Patterson used his Urban Review St. Louis blog to highlight one of his list...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

"The Ballad of Ronnie Drew."

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It's St. Patrick’s Day, and with it those tasteless annual outbursts of shamrock-mounted hokum and green-colored beer that the genuine I...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Red Stars, Black Mountains: Raddy and what came after (Part 4).

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A continuing Sunday series. See also: Red Stars, Black Mountains: Mellow Ljubljana (Part 3). Red Stars, Black Mountains: Welcome to Sloveni...
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