Hip Hops A barley-and-malt playlist: 1. "More Beer," ...more

November 14, 2008

Earlier this This month, Americans marked the anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. Some visited the site of the World Trade Center in New York; others gathered in a Pennsylvania field; and many attended ceremonies at the Pentagon. ...more

September 24, 2008

Earlier this This month, Americans marked the anniversary of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. Some visited the site of the World Trade Center in New York; others gathered in a Pennsylvania field; and many attended ceremonies at the Pentagon. ...more

September 24, 2008

"Should I stay or should I go." To quote the band "The Clash," illegal immigrants to Avon Park and its environs must be asking just that question. If they stay here, they risk arrest, deportation, exploitation or worse. If they go back to Mexico, they risk greater poverty, starvation, exploitation even murder by corrupt thugs, drug dealers and cops. Nice choice, eh? I recently witnessed a demonstration against illegal immigration at the intersection of US 27 and SR 64 in Avon Park. Truck drivers were honking their air horns presumably in support of the demonstrators who proudly waved American flags next to a pickup truck with a sign against illegal immigration and for drilling domestic oil. In attendance was the former mayor of Avon Park, a huge enemy of illegal immigration. I don't know him, never met him, but I've heard him speak. Nice to know paranoia is alive and well in America. ...more

September 8, 2008

AVON PARK — The city whose council considered and then rejected a city bill that would have made English its official language will host a state convention Saturday for an activist group known for protesting against illegal immigration, and sometimes illegal immigrants. The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps will gather at the Jacaranda Hotel for what its state director Bill Landes called a "training session." "It's not an open meeting," he said. He estimated 15 to 20 Minutemen members from throughout the state to attend the convention, including Chris Simcox, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps' cofounder. The convention begins at 1 p.m. He expected a few protesters might show up but hoped the members wouldn't be too uncomfortable. ...more

June 17, 2008

In high school, the cool crowd rules. The outcasts sit alone in the lunchroom, overlooked and certain that the world is a miserable place. ...more

January 24, 2008

There are certain things you can count on in a punk house. A killer name: Anarchtica, Scribble Squat, Firebreathing Kangaroo. Bikes and skateboards. Homemade tattoos. A tattered photocopy of "Soy, Not 'Oi!,'" the vegan anarchist's "Joy of Cooking." ...more

January 15, 2008

Matt Burto couldn't think of an easier way to score a goal. But the ease of that goal, the overtime winner for the University of Massachusetts against Colorado College in the Lightning College Hockey Classic on Sunday night, was a vast departure from all the fight it took for the Minutemen to come away with the program's first championship. ...more

December 31, 2007

The University of Massachusetts never had time to get comfortable with any of the leads it had against No. 6 Notre Dame in Saturday's opening game of the Lightning College Hockey Classic. ...more

December 30, 2007