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The Prescription for Tasty Beverages
Photo by Cory Jackson
Careful, Griffith and Feil Pharmacy might just slip a little something in your Shirley Temple.
July 15, 2008
There are two types of jerks in this world — former friends who capriciously pursue your ex-girlfriends and those who mix unsuspecting fruit flavors with soda syrup and carbonated water.
Griffith and Feil Pharmacy, located in Kenova, W.Va., employs the latter.
I suppose the term soda jerk may be outdated and possibly even maligned as politically incorrect in some circles, but this isn’t about arguing semantics. This is about why you should dine at an establishment that appears and sounds as though it could have been frequented by Richie Cunningham, Potsy Web
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Ins & Outs — July 16
July 15, 2008
In — Friends to hit silver screen? The infamous NBC show “Friends” may attempt to capitalize on what “Sex & the City” did and try to make the leap to the silver screen. Some insider (don’t ask me who) said they
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Top 5 ‘Top 5s’ We Came Up With This Issue
July 15, 2008
This might have been the toughest and strangest Top Five discussion topic we’ve had — Top Five Batman somethings. We’ve thrown around topic and premise, torn pages of notes with scribbled subjects and thrown our heads back with laug
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Randi Ward: A W.Va. Poet Who Truly Cares
July 15, 2008
By the look of her, there’s nothing that suggests lonesome traveler, multilingual poet or even experimental photographer. But Randi Ward, also known as Randi Ryggi to her poet friends in the Faroe Islands where she went to graduate school
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Which music festivals have you (will you) attended this summer?
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Bonnaroo
33%
Warped Tour
0%
Pitchfork
0%
Lollapalooza
33%
Appalachian Uprising
33%
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Willie's Coming to Charleston
Wed, July 23, 2008 @ 10:03AM
Here's the press release: Music Legend Willie Nelson just added as a Clay Center special event performance Single tickets for this show go on sale August 1 (Charleston, W.Va.) 7/23/08 – Joining the Clay Center’s exciting 2008-09 performance lineup is country music superstar Willie Nelson & Family. This special event performance will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. With seven Grammy Awards, including the 2008 Grammy for “Best Country Collaboration with Vocals,” more than 200 albums and countless concerts across America under his belt, Willie Nelson is a living legend. Guests will experience an incredible concert full of the “outlaw” country that Nelson is famous for, including hits like “On the Road Again,” “Georgia on My Mind” and “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.” “We are thrilled to have Willie Nelso
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Damage Control by J. A. Jance
Mon, July 21, 2008 @ 10:17AM
June is the official start of summer, so I'm kicking off the season with a new book a week that you should be sticking in a beach bag to take on vacation, or just relaxing with in the backyard along with a glass of sweet tea. This week's is a mystery/thriller offering. Be sure to check back every Monday for a new book for adults or teenagers! New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance delivers a pulse-pounding tale of suspense in "Damage Control." Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady more than has her hands full. Not only does she have a teenage daughter at home and a newborn to take care of, but now two new cases have opened up, one right on top of the other. First, an elderly couple drives their car off of a mountain. It looks like suicide, and now the sheriff's department must not only cope with the couple's bickering daughters, but also the added expense of getting a helicopter in to recover the bodies. Then, a nephew of one of Joanna's
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Into The End...
Thu, June 12, 2008 @ 10:23AM
Into The End: I was born in Oxford but grew up in Marietta, Why Douglas Adams will always speak for me (even in death), or Why I haven't slept since January 2005 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams I was born in Wheeling, West Virginia at four o’clock in the morning on September 10th, 1984. I moved to Cincinnati when I was two and then moved to Martins Ferry, Ohio at 5. At 18, I went away to college for my first year, came back home over the summer, and then moved my family to Parkersburg, West Virginia. In the fall I returned to Oxford to finish college, lived a summer in London, England, and then spent a y
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Mao and purses
Tue, July 22, 2008 @ 3:42PM
Sometime I think we need a Mao Zedong for the financial sector, someone to band together the various guerilla groups selling knock-off purses and rolexes on the streets of large cities. Fight the power and all that jazz. What benefit is there to have $1000 purses other than to demonstrate fiscal inequality? It's not like there is anything you can put in a real Gucci purse that you can't put in its very similar looking, street-sold cousin. Does a real rolex tell time any better than a fake? No. From a purely capitalist viewpoint does spending $10,000 on a watch versus, lets say, a new boat offer anything more to the economy? No. Ditto to various other sectors. The market sets the value of a commodity based on perceived value, not actual value. A Gibson guitar starts at $1,800 because that is what someone will pay to get one, not what one costs to produce, test and market. Somehow, the good folks at musoland still seem to be a vi
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