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07.29/08.05.2015
Editor CHARLIE DEITCH Arts & Entertainment Editor BILL O’DRISCOLL Music Editor MARGARET WELSH Associate Editor AL HOFF Multimedia Editor ASHLEY MURRAY Listings Editor CELINE ROBERTS Assistant Listings Editor ALEX GORDON Staff Writers RYAN DETO, REBECCA NUTTALL Staff Photographer HEATHER MULL Interns SHAWN COOKE, JESSICA HARDIN, JOSEPH PEISER, MIKE SCHWARZ, AARON WARNICK
VOLUME 25 + ISSUE 30
Good Times
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should not be around schools, 06 “Itor residents, or farmland; I mean it’s
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ridiculous, it’s industrial.” — Mars School District grandparent Laurel Colonello on the dangers of fracking
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“Many people seek to restrict the rights of women to their own bodies while at the same time dictating how physicians and other health-care providers practice medicine.” — Dr. Amesh Adalja on the banning of telemedicine for abortions
Olga Watkins 4pm-7pm Al Lardo 8pm-11pm SATURDAY | AUGUST 1
Marketing Director DEANNA KRYMOWSKI Marketing Design Coordinator LINDSEY THOMPSON Advertising and Promotions Coordinator ASHLEY WALTER Radio Promotions Director VICKI CAPOCCIONI-WOLFE Radio Promotions Assistants ANDREW BILINSKY, NOAH FLEMING
eggplant-parm sandwich was 14 “The almost shockingly good, and the secret ingredient is ricotta.” — Angelique Bamberg and Jason Roth review Aviva Brick Oven
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love to stay home and build ships 18 “I’d in a bottle, but I have to perform to save
Lyndsey Smith 4pm-7pm Neon Swing 8pm-11pm
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my life.” — Dick Dale on the necessity of touring at age 78
RML 1pm-4pm John Gresh 5pm-8pm
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film has all the usual hallmarks 28 “The of a prestige British period production.”
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— Al Hoff reviews the World War I drama Testament of Youth
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getting work pushed me to try 31 “Not other things and to challenge myself
in other ways.” — Kinky Boots star Billy Porter on how he started writing
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can be a fun hobby, but there 47 “Chickens are some precautions that you need to take to protect yourself and your birds.” — Poultry educator Phillip Clauer on keeping urban chickens
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