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Every day I’ve been driving by the slowly demolishing Aud, and keep seeing the old, cigarette smoke-yellowed sound baffling cans hanging from the ceiling and envisioning this shot: Luckily, Sara Etten snapped it, along with a series of other great shots, available here.
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Revertionism
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BuffaloPundit has been writing an excellent series of posts on the misnomer movement down in Bass Pro land. Frankly, I’m getting sick of the Tim Tielmans that are tarnishing the respectable “preservationist” moniker that many of us enjoy. Every time someone embarks on a personal battle to protest the latest development and they tack on…
High stakes
ByDerek
I just caught this article in the Snooze a couple days ago: David, a high school senior from Amherst, stood before the judge and boldly told him of the high-stakes Texas Hold ‘Em game he and his teenage friends had played. “The biggest pot was $1,500, maybe $2,000,” David said of the poker he and…
Duomo di Milano – the beginning
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Now we’re at the highlight of any trip to Milan, Italy – the Duomo. The Duomo, according to Wikipedia, is the 4th largest church in the world. It is massive. And awesome. And I have lots of photos. This is the back. I like how they even try to hide the elements under construction with…
Didn’t they know it’s for the children?
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I thought it was quite interesting to read this story about how the Holland School Board actually cut $1 million from their budget. Their reason? Simple. Welk said the goal to cut 5 percent from the budget stemmed from a shrinking school population that had shrunk from 1,450 to 1,050 over recent years — with…