508_052 audio 508_worcester 508 is a show about Worcester. This week's panel is Tina Zlody, <a href="http://www.wormtowntaxi.com">Jeff Barnard</a>, and <a href="http://radioball.net">Brendan Melican</a>. Tina talks about the upcoming arts festival <a href="http://www.startonthestreet.org/">stART on the Street</a>, Sunday September 21, 2008, 11am - 5pm, Park Avenue, between Highland and Pleasant Streets, Worcester, MA. We talk about agenda items for Worcester in the coming year. Jeff <a href="http://www.wtag.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=137313&article=4218360">agrees with Jordan Levy</a> that swapping out our old city councilors would be helpful. Brendan would like to see councilors focus on improving owner-occupancy rates rather than criminalizing hot dogs and marijuana. Mike would like city government to admit that it has a transparency problem, then fix the problem, perhaps beginning by making city meetings available on the web. (Related: <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/03/begging-states-to-tr.html">Begging states to try to enforce ridiculous assertion that the law is copyrighted.</a>) Yesterday's <a href="http://www.wbjournal.com/news41597.html">protest at Worcester's Bank of America</a> got complicated. Our friend Sarah Loy <a href="http://telegram.com/article/20080912/NEWS/809120338/1055/opinion_letters">clarifies the situation</a> of the local ACLU. The <a href=" http://incitytimes.org/"><em>InCity Times</em></a> is standing on the verge of getting a website. Comments from <a href="http://worcesteria.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/oh-no/">Worcesteria</a>, <a href="http://radioball.net/2008/09/11/in-city-times-online/">Brendan</a>, and <a href="http://worcesterite.com/forums/general/incity-times-online">Worcesterite</a>. (Sometime this morning Rosalie began phoning around with legal threats--see the updated Worcesteria post.) Mike recommends <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/snowghost_020">this video of a Bone Zone show</a>. In the new segment "Bruce Is Incorruptible," Mike and <a href="http://www.wccatv.com/snowghost">Bruce Russell</a> review <a href="http://burritotaylors.com/">Burrito Taylor's Major Burritos</a>. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_benedetti/2850076184/" title="Bruce & a burrito by mike.benedetti, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2850076184_2b3d0c6037_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bruce & a burrito" /></a> Theme song: "Angels Soaring Past (I Realize It Now)" by <a href="http://staleurine.com/NID/angels.html">Stale Urine</a>. 2008-09-12 2008 Worcester; 508; podcast; Worcester Magazine 2008-09-12 14:25:47 2008-09-12 14:24:33 mike.benedetti@gmail.com 2008-09-12 14:26:18 Mike Benedetti