508 is a show about Worcester. Today’s guests are Brendan Melican, Anne Lewenberg, and Rod Witkos.
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You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13.
[0:32] Teacher’s union has “no confidence” in School Committee or Superintendant.
Update: Worcester Magazine has more.
[6:02] Anne corrects last week’s germination report.
[7:32] Anne explains how to make maple syrup, with action footage.
[10:30] Mike is blown away by the new local paper, Fuck Yeah Gazette, a project of the Fuck Yeah Center at 420 Pleasant Street.
[11:30] William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin are name-checked.
[12:30] Mike went to a gospel choir. We talk about St. Peter’s Church and the head priest, Msgr. Scollen.
[14:50] We go more into the “don’t diss gadflies” bit from Seth Godin’s new book, Poke the Box
[16:07] Brendan talks about New England fish-and-chips shops and Lent.
The TV has the interview with paramedic Rod Witkos about heroin addiction, taped for Worcester Magazine. You can watch it here:
[20:26] Mike reviews the Worcester Chamber Music Society’s concert of Gandolfi’s “Pinocchio’s Adventures in Funland”.
[21:58] Brendan says he is not calling for a teacher’s strike in Worcester.
I, too, went to the WCMS concert on Sunday — it was quite good, though my six-year-old complained that it should’ve been longer. (Though afterwards when we were in the bathroom, we heard others complaining that it was too long.)
The best part was definitely the instrument petting zoo that occured after the show. It’s one thing to be told that the piano is technically a percussion instrument, it’s another to see it in action.
Mike, the Gospel for Ash Wednesday, and you’ve got it right, is from Matthew 6. Verse 17 is “But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face…” which always struck me as possibly ironic as well.
Congratulations on being a news breaker two weeks in a row!
theres a fun fish fry each Friday during lent at 5 pm, sponsored by the Alhambra Council, Knights of Columbus on Circuit Ave in Worcester
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Alhambra+Council,+Knights+of+Columbus+on+Circuit+Ave+in+Worcester&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Alhambra+Council,+Knights+of+Columbus+on+Circuit+Ave&hnear=Worcester,+MA&cid=5911737714497838898
Good story about ashes for Ash Wednesday: http://outdoorchurch.livejournal.com/15510.html