508: A Show About Worcester

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and Jen Burt. Jen opens a bee hive, Mike rants about panhandling/John Lurie/Occupy, and Brendan demonstrates patience.

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[0:00] Bees.

[25:20] John Lurie anecdote.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and (almost) Jose Canseco.

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[0:27] A PSA from Brendan.

[1:30] Brendan reads an e-mail.

[2:33] Will the Worcester Courthouse be demolished to discourage a “bad element” from congregating downtown? Probably not.

[3:12] Will the Palladium be demolished because the owner’s taxes are going up? We hope not. Note the existence of multiple online petitions. (See also: American Juggalo (NSFW))

[7:36] “What’s worse: the Juggalos losing their temple, or a gigolo not being able to succeed at Pizzeria Uno?”

[7:55] 508 awards Jose Canseco the Key to the City.

[9:45] How about we tear out the library parking lot for a hockey stadium?

[20:56] Mike reads the Worcester Business Development Corporation’s “about” page.

[21:36] stART on the Street was a triumph.

[22:16] Matt Cain pitched the 22nd “perfect game” in major league baseball history this week.

[22:51] This week is the anniversary of the day in 1880 when the first-ever perfect game was pitched, right here in Worcester.

[23:42] This week is also the anniversary of the day in 1970 when Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while doing LSD.

[25:03] Brendan predicts a tire fire.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Gabe Rollins, power player Tina Zlody, and Brendan Melican, with brief appearances from Asa Needle and a boomerang.

NOTE: stART postponed to June 10.

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[0:27] Canseco.

[1:00] CitySquare/Front Street breakthrough.

[1:45] stART on the Street is JUNE 10 on Green Street.

[9:09] WCUW show: Wormtown Ska.

[9:50] Nicole runs some local crime stats.

[18:32] In Baltimore, trees prevent crime.

[21:55] Worcester Film Works will be screening blockbusters on the Common this summer.

[23:42] Boomerang.

[27:04] First-ever Worcester Marathon is also Sunday.

[29:25] ?

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk macho nonsense about government transparency, unionization efforts, homeless services, friendship, wrecking bars, and Jose Canseco.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Lucas Glenn, Eric L’Esperance, and Joy Murrieta talk about The Woo, and Mike and Brendan talk friendship.

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[0:49] PSA from Brendan.

[1:14] We talk about The Woo church and being a “Jesus-centered community.”

[11:55] Canseco.

[13:36] All of the Sunshine Week petitions have made it out of committee, and the City Council will vote on them soon.

[16:44] Brad Wyatt, sinister puppetmaster and genial friend of the show, engineered a coup among local delegates to the Republican National Convention.

[20:25] Extreme Restaurant.

[26:50] Meeting people.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Brendan Melican, Tracy Novick, and David Dae An Rynick Roshi talk about Zen and school.

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[0:00] David Rynick talks about being a Zen priest in Worcester and about his forthcoming book, This Truth Never Fails: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons.

[15:30] We talk about the possibility of an exam school in Worcester, International Baccalaureate, and schools for addicted kids.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week we talk a lot about the Worcester VegFest and the local competitive beer pong scene, too much about the Tea Party and the Forts kid, and just the right amount about the police chief’s Twitter account.

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[0:33] The Forts kid.

[2:24] Sweater Polyathlon.

[3:18] Pro beer pong.

[5:08] 300 people at Tea Party event. 3,000(?) at Worcester VegFest.

[11:22] Stand Against Racism, 3pm, Common, April 27.

[11:55] How to get Mike to loan you money.

[12:20] Paris Cinema facade is gone.

[13:30] Chief Gemme’s Twitter acct is gone. Brendan mounts a passionate defense of the Chief’s tweeting. GoLoco coverage, T&G coverage, Jim Kersten.

508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Paula Harrison, Coqui Negron, and Doug Slinn.

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[0:23] Beloved musician Scott Ricciuti has died.

[1:06] Occupy Worcester is planning a 24-hr presence at City Hall between Tax Day and Earth Day, and a big Earth Day.

[6:00] Worcester’s ban on outdoor tobacco ads was found unconstitutional in US District Court.

[6:45] Worcester Magazine’s fascinating “Power List” includes stART honcho and sometime-508er Tina Zlody.

[9:23] WRTA Hub groundbreaking.

[9:40] Stone Soup is rebuilding! For real!

[17:57] Four Loko Worcester dropped the ball in their coverage of the Cahill corruption indictment.

[18:37] Bishop intervenes, Anna Maria changes commencement speaker.

[19:27] Chief Gemme’s favorite character on The Wire? Gus Haynes.

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508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican and the man the T&G called “Worcesterâ€s most-traveled, most-jailed, and most notorious political radical since Abbie Hoffman,” Scott Schaeffer-Duffy.

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[0:00] Scott talks about the Foley 5K and the Worcester Marathon.

[10:35] Worcester Sunshine Week update.

[12:00] Worcester wants lifeguards.

[12:08] Tracy Novick & Nicole Apostola had striking photos in the T&G this week.

[14:00] Worcester Parent Expo March 31.

[14:15] Bookmobile.

[14:25] City Councilor George Russell is pushing some transparency issues of his own.

[15:26] Distant Castle anniversary.

[15:35] VegFest is April 15.

[16:20] Worcester Police tweeted surveillance camera photos.

[17:00] We are frustrated that the Juggalo tattoo fiasco happened in Spencer. Mike: “I don’t condone this behavior, but if it has to happen I want it to happen in the city of Worcester.”

[19:10] Via Facebook: Does Scott like the Swamp Thing?

[20:48] Question: why is there suddenly so much public opposition to Worcester Police Chief Gary Gemme? Also: Not Chief Gemme and BIZARRO LUKES.

This week’s 508 is a panel discussion about Sunshine Week and government transparency.

The panelists are Mike Benedetti, Thomas Caywood, Jeremy Shulkin, Kevin Ksen, and Mauro DePasquale.

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Mentioned: Sunshine Week petitions to the City Council, Bootleg 2008 Worcester City Council video archives

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