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Month: March 2011

Today’s Shared Items – March 18, 2011

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Scene report: Wanda Jackson at Jo’s/South By San Jose March 18, 2011 First: Mysterious Justice March 18, 2011 Price Check: What you get for $700,000 in … March 18, 2011 – This was fun. Surprised not to see anything from California here. City cracks down on venues as promised March 17, 2011 – Well, there goes the band lineup in my driveway.

Today’s Shared Items – March 18, 2011

Posted in General Store

Scene report: Wanda Jackson at Jo’s/South By San Jose March 18, 2011 First: Mysterious Justice March 18, 2011 Price Check: What you get for $700,000 in … March 18, 2011 – This was fun. Surprised not to see anything from California here. City cracks down on venues as promised March 17, 2011 – Well, there goes the band lineup in my driveway.

Today’s Shared Items – March 17, 2011

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Kids whine about the SATs' reality show question March 17, 2011 – This author seems a mite defensive. I take the point about the open-ended nature of the question. But not having bathed in reality TV, I imagine that I would feel myself on shaky ground were I trying to write cogently about its cultural impact, especially if the quality of said writing were going to determine my college prospects. Mental exercise: change the subject…

Today’s Shared Items – March 14, 2011

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Special Adviser to UT Regents Sparks Concern March 14, 2011 Highland Mall Macy's closes for good March 14, 2011 – The following is probably more of an emotional observation than an economic one: there is something sadly inefficient about a mall dying in one part of the city, and new, shiny development taking over another part. Similarly, there are strip malls that have been around 20 years, but which are no sad and half-empty. Are…