Guitarless guitarists put on airs

New documentary goes inside "Air Guitar Nation."
By Chris Lee, Times Staff Writer
March 25, 2007

IN the opening moments of the documentary film "Air Guitar Nation," a performer who calls himself Bj-rn T-roque delivers a surprisingly straight-faced explanation for his virtuosity with the ( Read more... )

The president of Sudan says there are no politically motivated rapes in Darfur and the U.S. is just trying to gain control of the country. If only that were the case. The U.S. should be in Darfur right now and not Iraq, helping people who need help and would welcome it.

From the International Herald Tribune:

Despite United Nation's estimates that ( Read more... )

For all the talk in Mahoning County about regionalization, nothing ever really happens because everybody gets territorial. But over in Sharon, there is talk about merging the school district with Farrell, uniting them under one superintendent. The Shenango Valley tried the old consolidation thing a few years back, and it fell pretty flat, but it ( Read more... )

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Back in 1991, when i was wee lad of about 10 years, Kenneth Biros met a girl two blocks from my house in Sharon. Then he attacked her, chasing her through my neighborhood before killing her and dismembering her. He said he was drunk. So now this dude is on Ohio's death row, about to be executed.

Now I'm not totally anti-death penalty. I see its ( Read more... )

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This is from a Columbia Journalism Review article on the first Iraq war, written by a guy named Christopher Hanson (but not the Chris Hanson of To Catch A Predator fame ( Read more... )

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