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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[0:49] PSA from Brendan.

[1:14] We talk about The Woo church and being a “Jesus-centered community.”

[11:55] Canseco.

[13:36] All of the Sunshine Week petitions have made it out of committee, and the City Council will vote on them soon.

[16:44] Brad Wyatt, sinister puppetmaster and genial friend of the show, engineered a coup among local delegates to the Republican National Convention.

[20:25] Extreme Restaurant.

[26:50] Meeting people.

508 calendar:

• May 21: Tornadoes home opener with Jose Canseco
• June 3: stART on the Street
• June 8 etc: Carmen
• June 11: Book launch party for “This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons”
• July 1: LMFAO
• August 6: Main Idea art day camp

Worcester Telegram & Gazette:

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.

Audit Bureau of Circulations:

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:

• Oct 2006-March 2007: 84,754
• Oct 2007-March 2008: 81,437
• Oct 2008-March 2009: 78,479
• Oct 2009-March 2010: 71,034
• Oct 2010-March 2011: 79,168*
• Oct 2011-March 2012: 74,563*

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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[0:00] David Rynick talks about being a Zen priest in Worcester and about his forthcoming book, This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons.

[15:30] We talk about the possibility of an exam school in Worcester, International Baccalaureate, and schools for addicted kids.

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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[0:33] The Forts kid.

[2:24] Sweater Polyathlon.

[3:18] Pro beer pong.

[5:08] 300 people at Tea Party event. 3,000(?) at Worcester VegFest.

[11:22] Stand Against Racism, 3pm, Common, April 27.

[11:55] How to get Mike to loan you money.

[12:20] Paris Cinema facade is gone.

[13:30] Chief Gemme’s Twitter acct is gone. Brendan mounts a passionate defense of the Chief’s tweeting. GoLoco coverage, T&G coverage, Jim Kersten.

Pleasant & Russell, Worcester.

When His tears ran down like blood
I was sleeping in my clothes

When they struck Him with a reed
I cracked a very clever joke

When they gave Him a shirt of blood
I praised the colour of her dress

All the way up the hill
We were laughing fit to kill

When they were driving in the nails
I listened to the steel guitar

When they gave Him gall to drink
We were sipping the same glass

When He cried aloud in pain
We were playing Judases

When the ground began to shake
We pulled up the coverlet

Clean confessed and comforted
To the midnight mass I come

You who died in pain alone
Break my heart break my heart
Deus sine termino.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Paula Harrison, Coqui Negron, and Doug Slinn.

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[0:23] Beloved musician Scott Ricciuti has died.

[1:06] Occupy Worcester is planning a 24-hr presence at City Hall between Tax Day and Earth Day, and a big Earth Day.

[6:00] Worcester’s ban on outdoor tobacco ads was found unconstitutional in US District Court.

[6:45] Worcester Magazine’s fascinating “Power List” includes stART honcho and sometime-508er Tina Zlody.

[9:23] WRTA Hub groundbreaking.

[9:40] Stone Soup is rebuilding! For real!

[17:57] Four Loko Worcester dropped the ball in their coverage of the Cahill corruption indictment.

[18:37] Bishop intervenes, Anna Maria changes commencement speaker.

[19:27] Chief Gemme’s favorite character on The Wire? Gus Haynes.

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Here’s the schedule for St. Peter’s & St. Andrew’s in Worcester, which I am posting as much for my own reference as anything else.

Holy Thursday: 7pm mass at St. Peter’s. The big multi-lingual mass. Afterwards, eucharistic adoration at both St. Peter’s and St. Andrew’s, then visiting 7 other churches as a parish.

Good Friday: Separate from the parish, the SS. Francis & Therese Catholic worker will have their annual “contemporary” stations of the cross, gathering at 52 Mason St at 11:30am. “Join us in a walk to reflect on contemporary examples of Christ’s suffering. Soup and bread to follow.”

On the parish level, stations of the cross inside St. Peter’s at noon, followed by outdoor stations beginning at St. Peter’s School at 2pm.

7pm liturgy at St. Andrew’s.

Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil mass 7.30pm at St. Peter’s.

Easter Sunday: Regular mass schedule, including 11:30am African mass at St. Andrew’s.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and the man the T&G called “Worcester’s most-traveled, most-jailed, and most notorious political radical since Abbie Hoffman,” Scott Schaeffer-Duffy.

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[0:00] Scott talks about the Foley 5K and the Worcester Marathon.

[10:35] Worcester Sunshine Week update.

[12:00] Worcester wants lifeguards.

[12:08] Tracy Novick & Nicole Apostola had striking photos in the T&G this week.

[14:00] Worcester Parent Expo March 31.

[14:15] Bookmobile.

[14:25] City Councilor George Russell is pushing some transparency issues of his own.

[15:26] Distant Castle anniversary.

[15:35] VegFest is April 15.

[16:20] Worcester Police tweeted surveillance camera photos.

[17:00] We are frustrated that the Juggalo tattoo fiasco happened in Spencer. Mike: “I don’t condone this behavior, but if it has to happen I want it to happen in the city of Worcester.”

[19:10] Via Facebook: Does Scott like the Swamp Thing?

[20:48] Question: why is there suddenly so much public opposition to Worcester Police Chief Gary Gemme? Also: Not Chief Gemme and BIZARRO LUKES.