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Show and tell
Posted by dlovell | 02/08/05
Sorry I've been neglecting my duties lately. I've been a bit busy. Plus I took a little time off to catch a show.
In my younger years, I was a long-haired heavy metal type. I listened to about everything, but my favorite album of the time was Queensryche's "Operation Mindcrime."
I saw the band about 15 years ago at the War Memorial, and it still ranks among the best shows I've seen. So when I heard they'd be performing "Operation Mindcrime" at Turning Stone Resort and Casino's Showroom, I had to go. For nostalgia's sake, mostly, but also to see a live act at that venue.
If you haven't seen a show there yet, get some tickets. It's an intimate room and there's not a bad seat in the house. You get up close and personal with the performers...
Another February...
Posted by dlovell | 02/28/05
Another February...another Black History Month...has come and gone.
The talk-show hosts have been all over Black History Month this year. They say it shouldn't be. They say we should study black history with the rest of American history. And I agree. With a few modifications.
First, American history classes have to admit one tiny little fact -- a fact that we're not even taught during Black History Month: This nation was not founded just on ideals and strength and the will to break free from mighty Britain. It was built on the backs of free labor -- on the backs of black men, women and children who had no other mission in life but to work for nothing -- not even a guarantee that they'd live to see another day...
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Rambling onDaniel Lovell, New Media Director for Eagle Newspapers, has won more than two dozen awards for his columns, editorials and investigative journalism. He is actively addicted to the Internet, soda and New York Yankees baseball.
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