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If I’ve ever existed in a singer’s demographic, I’m in Clairo’s. I’ve played Clairo’s songs from the Atlanta singer’s newest album CHARMED from ANONROCKNROLL.

I’m Charmed by Clairo. I took the 2 from Campus and jumped off near the North Market.

Clairo walked out into the sold-out Kemba Pavilion in almost a prom dress. The original of Wu’s, “Tears” boomed into the evening. I stood around as high school, middle school, and college kids were enamored at a brunette from Atlanta, Georgia’s entrance. Clairo sat on the stage and drank booze with Clairo’s band while the Wu-Tang original seemed like pure essence.

Boeing workers in the Pacific Northwest are staying on strike, having voted to reject an offer from management. They are holding out for a real pension plan and better pay and benefits. In so doing, they are supporting themselves, but also helping other workers and the economy, which can only benefit when a major corporation improves its standards. Click here to tell them you support them!

The striking workers at Boeing know that the company’s top executives and wealthy shareholders have received billions in stock buybacks and dividends, while executives keep lining their own pockets (with the CEO expected to receive $20 million in compensation next year).

[Duluth, Georgia]. It was a fashion show with a bullet. Derek Molenhour was showing off one of his T-shirts that sported a scary looking dude pointing a pimped-out assault rifle at you.  

The Palast Investigative Team had worked its way into Wednesday’s Trump rally in Duluth, Georgia. One theme is crystal clear: if Harris wins, the MAGA troops are ready for what LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, calls “Civil War Part 2.”

I asked Molenhour, who is selling piles of his assault rifle Tees, what would happen if Harris wins?

The red-capped salesman didn’t hesitate. “The Three Percenters, who are protectors of our nation, as far as militia, not necessarily military, We the People”—pointing to the sea of red MAGA hats, “are going to come together and there’s going to be a revolution.”

If you don’t know the Three-Percenters, take a look at the photos by our photographer Zach D. Roberts who has tracked them across the country for years. They don’t display AR-15s on T-shirts; they carry them on their with extra ammo cartridges on their chest.

Oddly, it was Israeli historian Benny Morris who got it right, when he offered a candid prediction of the future of his country and its war with the Palestinians. 

 "The Palestinians look at everything from a broad, long-term perspective," he said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2019. "They see that, at the moment, there are five-six-seven million Jews here, surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs. They have no reason to give in, because the Jewish state can't last. They are bound to win. In another 30 to 50 years they will overcome us, come what may." 

Sunday, October 27, 12noon, Studio 35 Cinema & Draft House, 3055 Indianola Ave.

This Sunday [10-27-2024], the Simply Living Film Series returns with the first Columbus screening of the sequel to “Kiss the Ground,” “Common Ground.”

“Common Ground” is the highly anticipated sequel to the juggernaut success documentary, “Kiss the Ground,” which touched over 1 billion people globally and inspired the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put $20 billion toward soil health. By fusing journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, “Common Ground” unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system.