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When Mosquitoes Attack!
Chatham County’s struggle to balance pest control with environmental concerns
Letters to the Editor
Patriots Anonymous Editor, I enjoyed your column “Patriot Games” so much I had to write a response. Like you, I am a recovering patriot gamer. Though I never stooped to name calling, I just don’t feel it necessary to wear my politics on my sleeve any more. I just got tired of it; the arguing…
Fishman: Celling myself short
Still others, bored with my cant, gave up altogether, leaving me to simmer in my own juices. Its your life, they would say, meaning, Your loss.
News of the Weird
Cultural Diversity The Gilgit tribe beat Chitral, 9-6, this year in the annual, bloody, take-no-prisoners, referee-less polo match on a remote, 2-mile-high field on a mountain in Pakistan, an event that, despite its viciousness, some observers credit with forestalling actual war between the tribes. According to a May dispatch in ESPN The Magazine, clubbing of…
The Blotter
An officer was dispatched to a Skidaway Road location in reference to an assault on a female. Upon arrival, the officer was approached by a cab driver who saw the incident. He told the officer a woman was walking towards his cab when a man started pushing her towards his vehicle, trying to make her…
Featured Review
A Scanner Darkly Once again employing the rotoscoping process that he used in 2001’s Waking Life (basically, filming in live-action and then tracing over the images), writer-director Richard Linklater this time unleashes the technique on Philip K. Dick’s 1977 novel — a match made in hallucinatory heaven. Seven years from now, 20 percent of the…
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST The fan frenzy surrounding Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest has reached such a fever pitch that had producer Jerry Bruckheimer merely shot two hours of Johnny Depp filling out his tax returns and released it under the Pirates moniker, it still would have scored a $75…
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Our picks for the week’s most noteworthy gigs
Music Menu
A quick look at live gigs this week
‘To play in a small room is great’
Guitar genius John Jorgenson brings ‘gypsy jazz’ to Bloomingdale
Seasick with laughter
AASU presents musical comedy Meshuggah-Nuns
