venangago-go: Tuesday July1st, 2008

So, after a really crummy day, I went for a walk downtown and before I got block away from house a car full of kids pulled up and called me a "dirty spic". I was really too amazed to be offended - can it be a hate crime if your "attackers" have misunderstood your ethnicity, or perhaps the nature of the slur itself?

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The children and grandchildren of Louis E. and Beatrice B. McKlveen have created a 12,000 endowment for the Titusville Council on the Arts in honor of the couple.

When small local theatre boards and articistc directors behave badly toward one another, it's a tempest in a tepot. When it happens at the Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, the PA Supreme Court gets called in.

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