Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
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 Gabe Rollins.
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We talk about Gabe’s attempts to send his own survey to the City Council candidates; the “performance oval” behind City Hall; the Worcester energy barnraising; and the pros and cons of voting.
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.
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and Drew Wilson.
This week, we are snowed upon.
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Fresh injera is available at Fresh Farm Deli, 560 Lincoln St, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Big Y is carrying conspicuous amounts of locally-sourced food.
The McDonald’s vegan “feed-in” was popular; there’s a bike ride to a local farm sanctuary picnic this weekend.
We revisit the idea of local bloggers filling a small part of the gap the T&G is leaving. At some point Mike will try to define numbers for this thing.
Brendan talks about the recent City Council and School Committee debates and explains why you might want to attend one.
Mike shares how much time and money it takes to do a weekly show on WCCA TV13–not that much!
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel includes Drew Wilson and Brendan Melican.
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Brendan describes the recent city election debates. Drew talks about Worcester residents opposing cruelty to circus animals, another Buddha Hut buffet, and an upcoming event outside McDonald’s on Main Street; see also Futuristic Brunch. Annie loaned us a Worcester Bicentennial coloring book. You can reportedly get injera on Lincoln Street; we will follow up.
Update: WCCA has posted videos of the mayoral debate
Huge amounts of viewer feedback!
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Worcester Magazine News Editor Scott Zoback leaving, what it would take to beef up accountability journalism in Worcester (inspired by a Clay Shirky lecture), and legalizing medical marijuana in Massachusetts.
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In the coming weeks we will be interviewing Bill McCarthy and Rob Diaz. Feel free to suggest questions in the comments below.
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan Melican and I talk with Grace Ross, candidate for District 4 City Councilor.
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Also: Mike reads a great letter in Worcester Magazine and begins a Clay-Shirky-inspired rant he doesn’t have time to finish.
The “85%” number suggests 2 projects I didn’t have time to mention on the show.
In the coming weeks we will be interviewing Bill McCarthy and Rob Diaz. Feel free to suggest questions in the comments below.
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel includes Brendan Melican, Tina Zlody, and Worcester City Council candidate Mary Keefe.
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Gary Rosen plans to run for State Rep; Bill Coleman plans to run for U.S. Senate.
Tina talks about the upcoming stART in the Street art fest and last week’s Pecha Kucha night.
Mike recaps his analysis of City Council websites.
Mary is running for an At-Large seat on the City Council.
More conversation about this episode at Paulie’s blog.
Continue reading “508 #84: Mary Keefe”
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan Melican and Bruce Russell talk with Kate Toomey about running for mayor of Worcester.
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Also: no new info on political sign thefts; discussion of the pools issue and a curious incident with the City Manager; Dianne Williamson’s latest cry for help; absurd self-parody from Jordan Levy. We never do get around to discussing how much any of us can bench.
More conversation about this episode on Paulie’s blog.