Get Off Downtown Calls It Jazz
Get Off Downtown If you've ever kicked a soda can down the street, followed its erratic direction and ended up tired yet exhilarated, then hearing Jazz quartet Get Off Downtown is the aural equivalent. Drummer Katherine Tracy and bassist Brandon Essex deliver sumptuous and muscular backbeats while the lead trade-offs between vocalist/guitarist Eric Evans…
No-Hands Computers Not That Far Away
Typing and dragging a mouse are the most inefficient aspects of computing. Our minds race along at lightening-quick speed, creating, innovating, using the knowledge and insight we have gained throughout our lives. The computer calculates and decides and spits the results onto the screen, also with mind-boggling speed. But our hands are the weak link,…
News: Approved First, Questions Asked Later
Rebecca Lomax A controversial 20-year plan for the future of western Hamilton County is facing a skeptical review by area government leaders, some of whom feel the county is force-feeding them growth and development. An April 19 meeting among western Hamilton County government officials designed to reach some consensus on the hilly, largely undeveloped…
A Rich Source of Advice
You might know her as the non-drunk, non-indicted member of America's royal family, the Kennedys. Or as the not-quite-talented-enough-to-be-a-network-journalist network journalist. Could be you first became aware of her as Mrs. Arnold "The Preposterous Austrian" Schwarzenegger. Or, if you have little ones, maybe you know her as the author of What's Heaven?, a wise and…
Governbusimess and Our Beloved City of Neglect
In our country's past, corporations were held tightly accountable to communities. A corporation that messed up had its charter revoked. That accountability has waned over a century or more as corporate power, good and bad, has increased. Because of cumbersome bureaucratic and legal processes that they can effectively influence, corporations are minimally accountable to our…
