Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Bank Street Brewhouse is the Holiday Store Window Contest winner.

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Okay, not really. But we should be. Check the tricked-out exterior, photographed earlier this morning. And the lavish interior. By ...

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 63: Just imagine the lovely dining ambience in nice weather.

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You never see city officials dining outdoors there, do you? Does diesel exhaust enhance the al fresco experience? It's really too ...

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 62: 45 Seconds on Spring Street on December 23 -- strangling walkability, one monster truck at a time.

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Roger's Year in Music 2014, No. 8: Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar, by Robert Plant.

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Led Zeppelin never was a go-to band for me, even in its prime. Give me the Who or Deep Purple from that era, in that "heavy" of ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Peanut butter, an adjacent "spa" and 211 Pearl Street, then and now.

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Seriously -- peanut butter ground WHILE YOU WAIT? Come to think of it, they might still be doing that at the "health" spa across ...

New Albany's new slogan: "Truck Through City" ... Part 61: Our catatonic Board of Works naps as the trucks thunder past -- morning, noon and night.

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Roger's Year in Music 2014, No. 9: Present Tense, by Wild Beasts.

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"Don't confuse me for someone who gives a fuck" ranks with "hope I die before I get old." There comes a time when ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

News and Tribune to sell its building and relocate NA HQ to a handy laptop at Quills.

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The Green Mouse reports what may be old news: The News and Tribune's  local crew will relocate very soon to offices within Matt Chalf...

City Hall snorts: "But if we have two-way streets, we'll have to replace all these crappy old faded street signs."

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Viewed from the southwest. Viewed from the northeast. So ... which city entity is responsible for restoring luster to faded signag...

Roger's Year in Music 2014, No. 10: Somewhere Under Wonderland, by Counting Crows.

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It's easy to be disdainful of Counting Crows, and even easier to aim barbs at frontman/songwriter/lyricist Adam Duritz. I've ofte...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Big box dry humping in Sellersburg: In TIF poker, does a major unnamed retailer trump a minor named retailer?

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Geez, this one's so breathless I could have sworn it was a banner at Insider Louisville . It appears these professional, rotating d...

Bleak houses, outhouses and soused Green Mouses.

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Look -- it's the annual love note from the troglodyte who isn't a man, but plays one on her blog. In the spirit of the season: Ri...

Roger's Year in Music 2014, No. 11: Safety in Numbers, by Scars on 45.

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I'm told this band's big break came when its songs were used on popular television dramas like Grey's Anatomy . Thankfully, I...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

I believe drinking more Radeberger is not a potential key to resolving Russia's economic difficulties.

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It's worth noting that Mikhail Gorbachev's response to the 1980s-era problems cited below was not to dismantle the Soviet Union, but...

Roger's Year in Music 2014, No. 12: La Petite Mort, by James.

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Apart from a few very vague and fleeting memories of James during the late 1980s (or perhaps early 1990s; I drank a lot back then), there...

A trail of leaf crumbs to find its way home, but kudos for the effort.

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Last year, the city never really got around to removing leaves, and it may have been the fault of the weather in the form of early sno...
Friday, December 19, 2014

"Don’t be intimidated by haters. Keep doing what you can to build a strong town."

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Jeff G. shared this on my Fb timeline two days ago. It was my intention to read it aloud to the city council last evening, but doing so woul...

UEA asked to foot the bill for $18,000 "luxury apartments" study. Somewhere, Maalox belches.

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Two items of interest from the November Urban Enterprise Association meeting minutes. First, the economic impact study reported earlier by...

Roger's Year in Music 2014, No. 13: Hypnotic Eye, by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.

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Here's the big truth: I'm not much of a Tom Petty follower, at least not since Damn the Torpedoes back in 1979, and even then, w...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

You'd think that in three weeks, SOMEONE would notice a pile of garbage.

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Yesterday at Facebook , I posted this photo: "One wonders if Develop New Albany might remove its Jingle Walk trash, three weeks late...