Category: 508: A Show about Worcester

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panelist is Brendan Melican.

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There was a big rally for (now-Senator) Brown at Mechanics Hall; the City’s considering banning plastic bags, though Mike has long advocated non-governmental action on this issue.

Vegetarian Renaissance: vegan mac’n’cheese cookoff coming up; veg fest coming up; creative Dunkin Donuts event. (Non-veg: Dr. Gonzo may have a roadkill barbeque.)

There are fancifully-dressed tax services advertisers on the sidewalks. Chain bar McFadden’s has closed.

Belmont Street Community School was massively vandalized. There was a Haiti fundraiser.

Mike talks about cargo cults. “Do different dumb things, Worcester. Do different dumb things.”

We’re planning something special for episode #100. Please share your ideas.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and Drew Wilson.

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We talk about a Brazilian policeman charged with the killing of a Worcester man, Salvation Army people denigrating the Worcester schools, and Planned Parenthood ads being kept off city buses.

In veg news, there will be a Buddha Hut buffet Saturday, a vegan mac’n’cheese cookoff later in the month, and a Worcester Veg Fest in the spring.

We do an in-depth analysis of the Pulse magazine’s “Ones to Watch” lists from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Mike has obtained a physical copy of Inside Worcester magazine, which he found disappointing.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Scott Guzman, Heather Mackenzie, Drew Wilson, and Brendan Melican.

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This week is the 10th anniversary of the Cold Storage Fire (photos). Brendan explains the city maintaining its current tax structure.

There’s an “energy barnraising” weatherization event at the Woo Church, 911 Main St, Worcester, Saturday, December 5th, 11-5pm.

Drew points out that Al Gore is finally speaking out against factory farming. Mike and Drew will be doing some vegan outreach at the local colleges.

Spectrum Health has a peer recovery center at 25 Pleasant St; also a Twitter feed. Mike asks Nicole to post a virtual assignment list.

She has been looking into, among other things, relations between Holy Cross students and their neighbors. This discussion has recently escalated. We need Holy Cross students to invite us to some parties so we can report on them.

Mark Lund has revived theater at Becker; they have some free plays this weekend. There’s an art fest at Union Station Sunday; Seah will be debuting a three-decker tee shirt that sounds like this season’s smash holiday gift.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with legendary Telegram & Gazette columnist Jim Dempsey and his WPI class about the state of Worcester journalism and whether bloggers can help.

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Two possible inspirations for Worcester amateurs: the NYT’s Virtual Assignment Desk, Clay Shirky’s “Let a thousand flowers bloom”

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan discuss a skateboarding accident.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week Brendan Melican and Drew Wilson talk about a bald eagle.

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Also: Buddha Hut’s vegan meatballs a top 10, Saturday is a VegWorcester buffet, Stone Soup porch burned, Rosen’s Roundtable talks taxes, and Hermis Yanis starts a podcast after his radio show is “terminated.”

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Kevin Ksen, Brendan Melican, and Tracy Novick.

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We talk about the City Council election. We talk about the School Committee election. We talk about a new Worcester video site Mike’s playing with (and you should, too). We talk about a $10 million lawsuit against Worcester for an incident during the taping of the Fox TV show COPS in 2006.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Aria DiSalvo and Brendan Melican.

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Aria DiSalvo tells us about the “Stop Spewing Carbon” anti-biomass incinerator campaign.

Election molehills: Mayor Lukes’s husband has cars registered outside Worcester! Candidate O’Brien linked to his boss!

Brendan talks about the police department’s latest feud with the newspaper. Mike talks about the Center for Nonviolent Solutions kickoff.

As the centerpiece of the show, we come up with reasons to vote for every challenger in the upcoming election.

Mike contrasts Worcester Magazine’s search for an “edgy” writer with their past claims to be “non-dowdy.”

Worcesterites will be celebrating the October 24 International Day of Climate Action with a weatherization “barnraising” and tree planting.

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