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My first journalism internship, the Mountain Xpress was the perfect oppurtunity for me to blend news reporting with feature writing. I split time doing work for the publication's arts and entertainment section and covering local news stories. By far the most exciting of those stories was what became my regular city council beat. Working with one of the publication's senior reporters, I got to cover some pretty dramatic city council meetings, and had a full week and two full pages to put them down on copy. If ever I had doubt about a career in journalism, this internship ended it.
City Council
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Council
Delays Civic Center vote
Consultant's
plan would renovate existing structure
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Follow the Bouncing Ball Council OKs NBDL deal |
Hoops
and dollars
Council
looks at minor-league basketball, budget |
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Council member Ed Hay opened Asheville City Council's July 10 formal session with a simple message, delivered through the words of legendary poet Maya Angelou. Reading Angelou's poem "Alone" for the session's invocation, Hay repeated the poem's central phrase: "Nobody, but nobody/ can make it here alone." Like many of Angelou's works, this stanza expresses a timeless truth. But after a thorny debate on a plan to renovate the Asheville Civic Center had turned the Council chambers into a verbal battleground, some Council members may have wished they could unilaterally decide |
In one quick phrase, Carl Mumpower summed up the sense of urgency that marked Asheville City Council's June 19 public hearing. Speaking on behalf of the Asheville Civic Center Commission, which he chairs, Mumpower echoed a sentiment shared by many members of the public that night about bringing the National Basketball Association's new developmental league to Asheville. "We feel this is the final hour," said Mumpower, defending the strong views expressed in the commission's report. | Bill Schaeffer labored with the overhead projector, trying to get the numbers in focus. The importance of the task was not lost on the city finance director. In a City Council meeting at which no vote was taken and no public forum was held on the controversial issue of whether Asheville should host a minor-league basketball team, those numbers spoke the loudest about the viability of the National Basketball Association's bringing its new Developmental League to town. |
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Arts and Entertainment
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Acting
Globally
New
England-based reggae band thinks big |
Burning
Bush
Melody-makers
Oleander top the charts with Unwind |
American Pie 2 |
| This planet's many, many cultures possess
distinct manners of speech, utilize unique social customs, hold vastly
disparate systems of belief, and are separated by thousands of miles.
But nearly all of them play the same basic chords. |
Whether it's post-grunge, pop-punk or rap-metal, the rock that clogs most of today's commercial radio airwaves is born directly of established trends. So one assumes that any band that's managed to conquer the rock charts did it by streamlining its sound to fit the latest rock cliché, using the same kind of meticulous calculation as radio programmers, who trust public-opinion polls more often than their ears when choosing play lists. |
When you've built a surprise summer hit out of the precarious premise of one's "first-time," an impossible question looms: What can you possibly do for a follow up? The makers of American Pie 2 don't waste their time trying to answer that question. Unlike its predecessor, the second helping of American Pie doesn't include plot anywhere in its ingredients. What is served up instead basically amounts to a curtain-call performance for the original's returning cast. |
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