Wednesday, February 28, 2007
New Nine Inch Nails Concert DVD
Posted by Pete Kotz on Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 2:49 PM
Nine Inch Nails, Cleveland's biggest rock export in recent memory, has a new live DVD, and a new studio album will be here before you know it.
In stores today, the Beside You In Time DVD captures a full show from 2006's With Teeth tour, plus bonus clips and promo videos from the album. Concert DVDs generally suck, but the strobing live footage will give you a sunburn.
NIN's new studio disc is due April 17. Entitled Year Zero, it's just one part of an elabroate, future-shock multimedia project from NIN mastermind Trent Reznor -- kind of like The Lost Experience meets The Handmaid's Tale . Check out a creepy trailer for it here. Early songs suggest it's way less poppy than 2005's With Teeth, and more of a disturbing mood piece like 2000's underrated The Fragile. -- D.X. Ferris
Behold the 'Wickedness and Corruption'
Posted by Pete Kotz on Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 2:44 PM
I am a Cleveland resident and a college student. I enjoyed your story on "Black On Black Crime" [February 21]. Your powerful article has empowered me to write to my congresswoman, the national NACCP, and the Urban League to inform them of this crime against people who want to work.
I am outraged at the black leaders who walk all over their own people for money. As a student who attends one of the universities, I have seen the wickedness and corruption of no diversity on major construction projects. I plan to write more national leaders about this crime. Thank you again for this eye opening article.
--received anonymously by email
Good Eating: A Peasant's Luxury
Posted by Pete Kotz on Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 2:41 PM
You know that feeling you get, when you cruise the designer department at Sak's as if you could actually afford something? That's how I was feeling this morning, paging through the current issue of Gourmet, past the ads for Jags, Viking ranges, and West Coast spas. As a Midwestern wage slave, there's no way I'm among Gourmet's affluent demographic.
Which then lead me to ponder the actual connection between wealth and good eating. My conclusion? Eating well may be the most affordable luxury around.
Consider: Even if your budget prohibits foie gras, caviar, and other stereotypical splurges, what could possibly be more indulgent than fresh, wholesome, simply prepared food? A juicy orange, a buttery bowl of fresh fettuccini, a crisp Ohio apple... all luxurious, sensual interludes available at bargain-basement prices.
You don't have to be Martha Stewart to bake a batch of brownies; or Bill Gates to tuck into freshly baked bread. Grow fresh tomatoes on your doorstep. Bring home broccoli from a farm stand. Or simply skip the junk food for a month, and use the savings to dine at a great restaurant.
My guess is that's why food --- growing it, buying it, cooking it, eating it, or simply reading about it — has become a national passion, right up there with music, film, and sex. Visceral, pleasurable, and always luxurious, eating well is the great equalizer, a true indulgence that nearly any of us can afford. -- Elaine T. Cicora
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Beans and Mice?
Posted by Pete Kotz on Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 4:45 PM
Scott Taylor: Crushing small restaurants for fun and fame.
This Just In... Concert Announcements
Posted by Pete Kotz on Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 4:35 PM
The Police are coming to the Q
Black on Black Criminals
Posted by Pete Kotz on Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Received via voicemail:
Hi. I was calling concerning the article...that you wrote on Black on Black Crime. I was just calling to tell you what a great job that you did on this article, and I'm happy that you were able to expose a lot of our black leaders -- who we are looking up to and looking... forward to them helping a lot of us black, poor people to find these construction jobs... And look what they've done to us.
A lot of black people blame white people for a lot of things that are going on in the construction business, about us not being able to find these jobs.
I'm 46 years old and I was never able to actually get me a construction job, except through a temporary agency. And now I come to find out that my own black leaders, who I was supposed to put my trust into to help me find a job, are the very ones that stopped from even finding a job to help feed my kids.
So anyway, I just wanted to thank you... Just wanted you to know that there's some black people out here who know this is definitely the truth, and it really hurts me to read this. It really did.
Fear at the Orchestra
Posted by Pete Kotz on Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 4:07 PM
I read your piece on Preucil ["Sour Notes," February 14]. I do understand why the orch members couldn't go on record as to who they are. There is that air over there as of late that if somebody talks to the press, it's thought of as betrayal. I do know that people do fear for their jobs over there. As a matter of fact my unemployment was being contested by them. I asked several of my former co-workers to testify at my hearing on my behalf and they couldn't because they feared for their jobs. Sign of the times.
In any case, this story has been brewing for a very long time. I knew that this was going on and I also knew that CIM paid for that incident to go away for Preucil. They told him that they were going to keep him on so he could attempt to pay them back.
--Anonymous
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