Yams Aren’t Yams
The yams at the Farmers Market are tasting fantastic right now. Although, really, there are no yams.
Year: 2006
Bricks’ Fried Cheese Sticks
When you need some greasy food and you don’t want to lose your buzz, there’s only a few places in town to go. This place on lower State Street is now one of them.
Tom Petty
When you’ve been pumping out crowd-pleasing music for 30 years, you start to get the hang of it. Petty’s latest effort, sans Heartbreakers, is surefire proof.
Carrie Rodriguez
When Carrie Rodriguez recently indulged the Sings Like Hell audience in a handful of compositions from her then pending Seven Angels on a Bicycle, she more than held her own against the towering musical presence of Chip Taylor. That was certainly no small achievement.
The Latest N-P News
BusinessWeek gets in on the News-Press mess; Editor & Publisher produces another report; Travis takes aim at Indy columnists; Barry Capello gets hired to scare away the Teamsters lawyer; and we wait for an NLRB hearing.
Quote of the Week
‘Immigration, healthcare, Iraq-these are issues that are not going to go away in two years. None of them are going to have black-and-white answers.’
-Representative Lois Capps, on the new political landscape in Washington, D.C.
On the Beat
If They Weren’t There: Imagine a day without: cops, deputies, the CHP, firefighters, nurses, doctors, paramedics, FAA control tower operators, service station attendants, supermarket clerks, airline pilots and flight attendants, 411 operators, 911 dispatchers, Harbor Patrol, Coast Guard, and everyone else who does essential work on the day we stuff ourselves at the Thanksgiving table. And let’s not forget the people who deliver the papers in the wee hours before we’re up. Also on the good side: Be thankful that Congress is taking the day off. No harm, no foul.
Adventures in Caring
Best known for its local all-volunteer Raggedy Ann and Andy Patient Care Program, the Adventures in Caring Foundation is celebrating the release of its latest video production, Compassion in Action, with a premiere screening on Thursday, November 30 at 4 p.m. at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum.
DO-GOOD DIGEST
Riding high on the wave of recent election success, PUEBLO supporters and volunteers celebrated the opening of their new Santa
Short-Term Memories
B. Dale Davis, avuncular Grand Gouda over at the News-Press, contacted for his reaction to our recent happy wedding, surprised