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Monthly Archives: November 2006
First black Met tenor had Stockton ties
Gordon Rose writes:
“In today’s national news is a story of the passing of Robert McFerrin, Sr. You may not know this, but he has some ties with Stockton.
“During WW II, he was stationed in Stockton. He had already been introduced to classical music, but was not confident of his talents. He met my grandmother, [...]
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Another crazy Stockton writer
Stockton home boy Jerry J. Davis is another crazy writer who participated in National Novel Writing Month. Only Davis did it from his home outside Dallas, Tex., where he now lives.
“I grew up in Stockton since the 70’s, living out at the northern end of El Dorado, right across the street from that farm that [...]
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Art and the Valley flyway
The poet David Humphreys writes about some frequent flyers seen overhead this time of year:
November Geese
by David Humphreys
About three weeks ago you heard them
for the first time calling in the clouds
above you and then again ever since
occasionally in different places like the
front door this morning [...]
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"This is what I should be doing."
Says Stockton boy Matt Castle in an interview about his Broadway debut.
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New Ps3 game: “Market Crash”
The scalper’s market for Sony Playstation 3—(numerous local yokels camped outside the Best Buy for three nights to buy and resell the gizmos) is going south like a goose.
Ps3s are going for as little as $900 on e-Bay. Meaning the financial wizards who lived outside for days in wet weather may make $300 profit [...]
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Vivid, visceral, Vietnamese
Here’s a clip from Stockton film student Hung P. Nguyen’s award-winning short documentary, “Going Home.”
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Debating a county worker
Kelly Wilson writes:
“I am a county employee. I am responding to your commentary in the Stockton Record on the San Joaquin County employee strike last week. You missed the point last Friday (11/10/06) regarding the county worker strike. There are so many underlying issues. I will only point out a few.
1. The county [...]
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Abomination found on minister’s porch
Someone — possibly a minion of Satan — on Tuesday left a copy of “The Joy of Gay Sex” on the front porch of the home of outspoken anti-homosexual minister Rev. Bob Hailey.
Hailey recently hit the circuit of local public forums to deliver his speech, “The Destruction of America,” which, according to him, is pretty [...]
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Wise words on prostitution
“There’s no point trying to figure out motive. The groin wants what it wants. And there’s even less point trying to smother biological imperatives. It’s bred in the bone, if steeped in hypocrisy. Righteous preachers who bible-thump about sin get caught with their pants down. Cops who arrest johns coerce hookers into giving them freebies. [...]
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Kicking Pombo When He’s Down II