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508 #125: Video games at Becker
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is David Druin, Melissa Smith, Kyle Moda, Bill Sontag, Tim Lowe, Paul Cotnoir, and Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:00] Worcester’s Becker College has the #4 undergrad video game design program in the country, according to Princeton Review. (And [...]
508 #124: Worcester World Cup
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Tom Khoury, Billy, Laura Suroviak, and Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:00] The “Worcester World Cup” soccer tournament is coming up this weekend. The Liberian team will win. [6:30] The City Council is still considering a pit bull crackdown. [...]
508 #123: CORI reformed
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is EPOCA. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:34] After years of struggle, CORI reform passed in Massachusetts; the governor signed the bill into law today. The ex-prisoners of EPOCA talk about this. (I haven’t found a really good article on this [...]
508 #122: Dan Dick
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:31] Dan Dick died this week; his funeral today. Among other things, Dan was a long-time activist who worked on civil rights, ending the Vietnam War, Catholic church reform, and environmentalism. (There’s a video [...]
508 #121: SWIP
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:56] The George Street Challenge is coming up. [2:15] They’re doing The Taming of the Shrew in Green Hill Park the next few weeks. [3:00] Billy Blue is coming back to Worcester Saturday. [3:30] Gary Rosen thinks [...]
508 #120: Under a Tree
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Chris Warren, Bruce Russell, Jesse Pack, and Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:25] We speculate about Saturday’s Worcester Peace Festival. [1:30] The Transgender Emergency Fund is raising money with a calendar. [5:55] Brian Goslow walks by. [6:00] Disclosure: Brendan’s working on Steve [...]
508 #119: Moss animals
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Stephanie Katz, Jen Burt, Colin Novick, and Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats [0:00] We investigate the “moss animals” living in a Worcester pond. These invertebrates are also known as Bryozoa or Ectoprocta. This species is Pectinatella magnifica. [8:28] According to [...]
508 #118: Confronting the Bad Economy
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Ian Anderson and Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats This week we begin a series about how people in Worcester are confronting the Bad Economy. If you know someone with a story to share, contact us at pieandcoffee@gmail.com. [0:10] We take a [...]
508 #117: Half-marathon
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info [0:00] Mike was out of town this week. [0:48] We attempt to say something interesting and informed about public sector pension liabilities, using the ongoing Mark Rojas fiasco as the hook. [10:58] Mike, Rick Rushton, [...]
508 #116: I’m going to have a great summer
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, Gabe Rollins, and Cha-Cha Connor. Audio: mp3 link, other formats, feed Video: Downloads and other formats 508 contact info [1:08] Worcester police officer Mark Rojas’s personnel records and poetry were finally released to the T&G. [3:03] Gabe has looked at the population densities of various cities and [...]