Jan 17-23, 2007

Jan 17-23, 2007 / Vol. 36 / No. 18

Designers get their turn at downtown

If you could overhaul downtown, what would it look like? Think back to the last time you were in a thriving, vibrant urban environment. Maybe it was a neighborhood like Soho in New York, a waterfront area like San Antonio’s Riverwalk, or a plaza in a European capital. “What did you like about that place?”…

This week’s calls to citizenship – 01-17-07

Urban action This week’s calls to citizenship include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) • First Unitarian Church will show another in its Reality of War film series, “My Country, My Country” by Laura Poitras, at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 18, at the church, 220…

No more troops!

And so we are going to send more Americans to die in Iraq, escalating a disastrous, ill-conceived war. Ignoring the advice of generals, ignoring the advice of allies, President Bush is preparing to send 21,500 more troops into the cauldron that Iraq has become. This is not even the escalation that the neocon warriors have…

Music reviews – 1-17-07

Untitled Document Blüdwülf Cryptic Revelations Charged Like a gang of mohawk- and bullet-belt-wearing undead just arisen from a moist plot in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Blüdwülf is too busy raising hell to have time for things like production values. Of course, the ratty recording style exemplified on the band’s debut full-length is exactly what bandleader Jimmi…

Metro ink – 1-17-07

SCHOOL JOBS STILL DISPUTED The Rochester school district’s review of employee complaints, which was greeted with applause a month ago, has dissolved into anger, with some employees and clergy vowing to take their fight further. Superintendent Manuel Rivera had reviewed the cases of 27 former and current employees who said the district treated them unfairly…

Cost of war – 1-17-07

The totals: 3013 US soldiers, 252 Coalition soldiers, and approximately 53,583 to 59,189 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to January 15. 4658 Iraqi police and guardsmen have been killed since January 2005, according to an estimate compiled from news reports. American soldiers killed between January…


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