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Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later

A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a…

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An asian boy reading GRAPHiC N0VEL in a Barnes & Noble bookstore in West Hartford, Connecticut

How can you recover reading when there was none?

Part One

It should surprise no one that in 21st  century United States, young children’s learning to read is a landmine within academic capitalism where sales profits trump diverse children’s basic learning and equitable, humane bases…

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Park

311 (still) a joke in this town

With a handgun strapped to his belt, the owner of what was once a Far West Side farm points a chubby finger to a nearby retention pond in a small and mostly forgotten City of Columbus park. “There was once an old stone church there. Presbyterian…

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Band playing on stage

Bus Stile Activities: Souls of Mischief “93 Till Infinity”

I entered Souls of Mischief’s 30th Anniversary of “93 Til Infinity” tour Saturday night at the A + R Bar. I took the 1 from On Tap at Bethel Center into the A+R Bar’s Downtown walking vicinity.

While pregaming off Bethel Road, I…

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