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It's Hammer Time!

Hammer Time!, located at 1000 West Laurel Street, offers a tool co-op, a community garden, free classes and much more. Help them do more for the community by attending Hammer Bash! 2011 – a concert […]

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The Campaign Trail: P.J. McFlinger's, 2012

By Devin Morse Man, when I become president, things are going to be different. We’re talking change. Not the B.S. “change” we’re always hearing about, where everything ends up staying the same, but real change. […]

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Gary Bragg – High Plains Storm

By Charlie Englar For professional musician Gary Bragg, power in numbers must be the way to go, noting all the superb bluegrass and country musicians he commissioned to play on his new album, High Plains […]

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Meow Musique: French Pop at GNU Gallery

Your favorite French pop/electronica/glam DJ is back. And, like always, he’s dressed like a cat. Who is it? Whitecatpink, of course! This one-man show brings a fresh, eccentric and wholly danceable energy to the Fort […]

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Byllynsgate Ball: The Party that Vomited a Rainbow

By Lincoln Greenhaw Even though he had to show the Conan O’Brian documentary at his movie theater earlier in the summer, Ben Mozer doesn’t think Conan O’Brian is funny. In fact, he doesn’t think that […]

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Book Review: Shine

By Dusty Ray Black Creek, North Carolina is the backdrop for Lauren Myracle’s latest young adult novel, Shine. Black Creek is a sparsely populated town filled with secrets: drug abuse, shattered friendships and lies congeal […]

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Skateboarding for the Community

Andy Weiss, the former owner of MRKT Skateshop, wants to give back to the community. He founded a non-profit organization designed to do just that, called Launch: Community Through Skateboarding. Launch uses skateboarding to promote […]

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Shaley – A Little of Me For Now

By Dusty Ray Imagine that Sarah McLachlan was a little more cheery, edgy and had dropped her commercial sappiness, and you would get Shaley. Blending rock, jazz, blues and pop conventions comes naturally to Shaley, […]