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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we interview Amanda Kidd Schall of the Worcester Arts Council, master picture framer at Framed in Tatnuck, sometime Clark University art professor, visual artist, and long-time Worcesterite. Topics include the Worcester arts scene, local funding, great art in Worcester, recent news from the Catholic clergy abuse crisis, money laundering in contemporary art, John Wick, and Hamlet.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Conan O’Brien, policy choices in a post-woo society, and clear-bag recycling. The audio version of the show also includes a previously-unreleased radio episode from late 2018 on municipal finances.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Megan Myers, professional hockey player, captain of the Worcester Blades, and assistant coach of the Becker College women’s hockey team, about hockey, the Worcester Ice Center, newly-opened weed stores, Doctor Who, Marvel + Netflix shows, and Liam Neeson.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we navigate technical difficulties and talk about snow removal, how Worcester can best regulate marijuana, weed as a 2019 campaign issue, Smokey and the Bandit , Taken vs. The Grey, Massachusetts tourism, regulating Christmas tree sales, and the local response to the Catholic clergy abuse scandal.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Nikki Erskine about this year’s stART at the Station, the lack of large indoor festival space in Worcester, Worcester 2019 election campaign issues, 2018 election results for Worcester County District Attorney and 17th Worcester District State Representative, David LeBoeuf’s Xxxtreme Agenda, and ewoks.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the redesign of Kelley Square, a distributional analysis of the tax systems of all fifty states, “Taxachusetts,” hating masks, the New French Extremity, and Nicolas Cage.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Frank Kartheiser about how Worcester could annex Holden, the Mustard Seed, Worcester Interfaith, and community organizing.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about being a gay-friendly city, crime, the transit service cuts that never came, a new platform at Union Station, the Research Bureau’s transit report, and the 100th anniversary of the death of Cornelius Kelley.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester legend Joe Finneral about theater in Worcester, growing up in Lowell, being a pedestrian, looking like Gandalf, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, Emily Dickinson, Jim Carroll, the spirit of New England, the 100th anniversary of the death of Cornelius Kelley, the birth and growth of Kelley Square, and why Kelley Square isn’t like a werewolf.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk to Chilean immigrant Romina Barria as she prepares to move from Worcester to Oregon. We also cover George Frisbie Hoar vandalism, stART, the ACLU’s COPD, pervasive surveillance, why are conversations limited to four people?, giving MDMA to octopuses, giving LSD to dolphins, Worcester’s most-endangered buildings, and the Mt Carmel deed restriction.

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