Monday, June 11, 2007

Evanjekylls

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Paris: About to be born again? For those unbrainwashed readers who might not know who Scott Rawlings is, he is the envangelical (or “evanj...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Midsummer Madness

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Look Deeper or Deep End?           It is only the end of May, but it feels like mid-summer madness. The Chamber of Commerce has...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Rich White Trash Talk

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Cat's-paw Catnapping? As I approach my twentieth year of living in Portsmouth, I thought I had outlived the capacity to be shocked by wh...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

SOGP: IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE!

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The birth of the SOGP, 1991 The SOGP has been in the news lately. An article appeared in the Portsmouth Daily Times (21 April 2007), in w...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Imus, Anus, and Janus

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Anus in the Morning In New York , at WFAN , they had Imus in the Morning. In Portsmouth , at WNXT, we’ve got Anus in the Morning. Imus, t...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The Castrati

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City Solicitor sitting on his ass, as usual H. L. Mencken was an acerbic newspaper reporter (he wrote for the Baltimore Sun ); a lexico...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

The Goon and the Good Samaritan

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The Goon Last night’s City Council meeting was one for the books. A resident of the Sixth Ward reportedly told councilman Marty Moh...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Monday Night Fights

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Painting by George Bellows “It may have been Monday,” Jeff Barron wrote in the Daily Times ( 3-13-07 ), “but Portsmouth City Council staged...