Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
508 is a show about Worcester. This week we talk about ska and the WPS photo studio with Matt Caranci, Mike Hendrickson, and Manda Rose.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and Jen Burt. Jen opens a bee hive, Mike rants about panhandling/John Lurie/Occupy, and Brendan demonstrates patience.
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Carl Paulson, legendary stained glass artist and Catholic Worker, has died.
Carl Paulson and Worcester Bishop Robert J. McManus at the 2008 Catholic Worker National Gathering in Worcester. Carl was recognized at the event as “the oldest Catholic Worker.”
The obituary below was sent in by Ken Paulson.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and (almost) Jose Canseco.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Gabe Rollins, power player Tina Zlody, and Brendan Melican, with brief appearances from Asa Needle and a boomerang.
NOTE: stART postponed to June 10.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk macho nonsense about government transparency, unionization efforts, homeless services, friendship, wrecking bars, and Jose Canseco.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Lucas Glenn, Eric L’Esperance, and Joy Murrieta talk about The Woo, and Mike and Brendan talk friendship.
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I’ve been following newspaper circulation stats for a few years now. At this point, my big takeaway is that they rejigger the circulation formula so often that any “trend” a layperson spots is as likely to be an artifact of the rejiggering as something real.
Total print and digital circulation was 79,958 Sunday and 74,563 daily. Circulation totals measure paid or verified newspapers delivered and purchased and digital subscriptions.
Sunday circulation declined by 8.8 percent and daily circulation by 9.9 percent. Nearly 60 percent of the Sunday decline and nearly half the daily decline resulted from ABC rules changes on digital access and included the T&G’s early adoption of more stringent ABC requirements before the new rules went into effect, said Tony Simollardes, T&G director of readership and circulation.
Fueled largely by increases in digital circulation and branded editions, daily circulation for the 618 newspapers reporting comparable multiday averages rose .68 percent.
T&G daily circulation stats:
There’s an interesting case to be made that focusing on raw numbers in the information economy is only one option, and perhaps not the most fun option. It’s definitely the business the T&G is in, though.
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan Melican, Tracy Novick, and David Dae An Rynick Roshi talk about Zen and school.
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508 is a show about Worcester. This week we talk a lot about the Worcester VegFest and the local competitive beer pong scene, too much about the Tea Party and the Forts kid, and just the right amount about the police chief’s Twitter account.
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