Friday, December 12, 2008

Jon Stewart and Mike Huckabee’s "hocus pocus logic."

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Winks and nods to LEO’s Fat Lip blog for pointing the way to this illuminating piece at The Huffington Post , which includes video. Jon Ste...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Open thread: What are your (local) predictions for 2009?

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Earlier in the week, we considered 2008: Open thread: What are the local stories of the year? Today, as reader Daniel Short helpfully sugges...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

A musical interlude with The Who.

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My old pal Mark phoned from Maine earlier tonight to let me know that December 11, 2008, is the 40th anniversary of the Rolling Stones Rock ...
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Meg Ryan plays the part of the chiropractor's trade association ...

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... and Larry McAllister just diddles about. I suppose we should be happy it's Meg Ryan, and not Professor Erika. References: Proposed i...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Will the proposed Grant Line Road detour be more or less safe than Baghdad?

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Granted, I’m biased. While supportive of the plan to improve Grant Line Road and hurdle the railroad with an overpass, I know that the work ...
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Open thread: What are the local stories of the year?

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The following is a non-comprehensive, off-the-cuff listing of big stories in New Albany during the past year. I intentionally avoided combin...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

New Tribune guest columnist in January.

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Last Friday afternoon I met with Steve Kozarovich, publisher of the New Albany Tribune , and agreed to write a 900-word column on a weekly b...
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The world turned upside down, but life goes on within the confines of the Open Air Museum.

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Just in time for Christmas, Erika’s come tumbling out of the closet, and has at long last become non-pseudonymous. DENHART: Vote ‘No’ on LOI...
Sunday, December 07, 2008

Upcoming events at Connor's Place.

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Straight from Dave Himmel's command center, here are a few of the upcoming events at Connor’s Place in downtown New Albany, where two o...
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The eternal Trabant.

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Trabants are back in the news, at least in these three articles in the New York Times . Where Have the Trabis Gone? A People’s Car as Flawed...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Monon: New Albany Heritage Poster to be unveiled today at Destinations Booksellers.

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The 2nd Annual 8664 Forum is on Wednesday, December 10.

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The 2nd Annual 8664 Forum , a free event, takes place next week. I spoke with Tyler Allen yesterday, and with luck, the New Albanian Brewing...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Open thread: Can you name one?

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Yesterday's posting, " By request: Further non-boring discussion about strippers. ", generated only a few responses, but two w...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

By request: Further non-boring discussion about strippers.

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Yesterday, almost two weeks after NAC broke the II Horseshoes strip club story and examined the contents of the seven-year-old ordinance th...
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More on the C-J's layoffs from LEO's Stephen George.

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LEO’s Stephen George considers the week’s layoffs at the Courier-Journal, and provides much needed context in the newspaper’s continual dec...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

No Scrooge Zone: Food and clothing drive at NABC, Saturday, December 6.

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NABC's inaugural holiday food and clothing drive takes place this Saturday (December 6) from 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Prost specia...
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Dare WE loiter on LOIT? (Part 2).

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Previously, and including a lengthy discussion: Dare WE loiter on LOIT? (Part 1). To continue the discussion concerning the Local Option Inc...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Kaukas leaving the C-J

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The 'Ville Voice is reporting that the C-J's Dick Kaukas is one of several of the paper's employees to accept a buyout offer as...
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"Pole Dancing at the Homeless Shelter", and other songs of unintended mirth from the Same Song Singer.

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I strolled into last evening’s council meeting just in time for the commencement of the public hearing on A-08-19, an ordinance to set salar...
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A multitude of local beer events for the month of December.

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There are so many first-rate beer events taking place in the first half of December that I'm unable to keep track. Consider the followin...