Blogs List
Gray matter
 Jim Bartholow |
Remembering The BeatlesMon, September 21, 2009 @ 2:46PM The recent hubbub over the release of The Beatles music and video game got me thinking back to when the Fab Four led the first wave of The British Invasion of music to the United States. I was 12 at the time and just discovering music. Transistor radios were just coming into mass marketing so we had the music wherever we wanted to take it. The Beatles were a fresh sound with lyrics about the usual topics (girls, love, breaking up). And that hair, really radical for the times and our parents were repulsed both by their music and their looks. That was a perfect combination for America's young people who were listening to the sounds of The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon and the Supremes. The Beatles made a big point of how much they enjoyed the music of America's blues artists such as Chuck Berry and the Isley Brothers. But, growing up in Cleveland, we didn't hear much of Chuck, or James Brown, or any other black performer.
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Upon Further Review
 Evan Bevins |
Halloween 'Activity'Sat, October 31, 2009 @ 9:21AM Ten years ago, “The Blair Witch Project” came out of nowhere to become a phenomenon – a low-budget, no-star indie movie that raked in massive box office dollars while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats in the theater and some sleeping with the lights on once they went home. History’s repeating itself this year with “Paranormal Activity.” More technologically sophisticated than “Blair Witch” and on a smaller scale than 2008’s brilliant “Cloverfield” (yes, I’m still going on about that), “Paranormal Activity” proves once again that to have a truly frightening movie, you don’t need buckets of blood and gore and mindless violence. Shot in director Oren Peli’s house on an $11,000 budget, the film stars newcomers Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston as a couple named, conveniently, Micah and Katie, who are being haunted by, well, somethin.
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Editor's desk
 Jennifer Houtman |
Election coverageWed, October 21, 2009 @ 1:30PM With the Nov. 3 general election right around the corner, The Marietta Times is providing comprehensive coverage of candidates and issues. Regular readers of The Times in print and online already have seen several stories on specific races for Marietta City Council, Belpre City Council, Belpre School Board, and the Marietta City School bond issue to name just some of the stories we've featured in recent weeks. We have more coverage planned in our daily edition and preparations are under way for our Voters Guide which will publish in the newspaper on Saturday, Oct. 31. Look for candidates' answers to questions as well as articles explaining local and state issues. The guide will also provide election information such as polling places locations and times. Much of this information already is available on our Web site's special election section. Click on the election bar for a complete ballot and the stories and videos on the issues and candidates you find there.
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Baby steps
 Erin O'Neill |
Spook-tacular good timesMon, October 26, 2009 @ 3:07PM The fall season is upon us and pretty soon it will be time for my second favorite holiday - Halloween. I know the holiday has different meanings for different people and folks choose to celebrate in many different ways. Some even choose to forget it altogether. But for me and my family Halloween has always been a lot of fun. Perhaps it is because I have the distinction of also being born on the 31st; perhaps it is because I come from a dramatic and creative family (my father once wrapped himself in several rolls of toilet paper to become a mummy); perhaps it is because of the goodies or the beautiful fall colors, the last hurrah before winter weather and the hustle and bustle of THE holidays. Perhaps it is all of these. The enjoyment of the season has not waned since I've gotten older (and I will not be disclosing just how old I am going to be), in fact, since I've had my daughter, I get to enjoy the holiday even more just watching her light up.
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It's your internet
 Art Smith |
Video adds new dimension to election coverageMon, November 2, 2009 @ 4:48PM Tuesday is Election Day. For people in Washington County and around the nation that means taking all the information they have about candidates and issues, going to the polls, and casting a vote for what they feel is the best choice. Some people sadly make uninformed choices, picking candidates simply because they have heard the name. Around 1,000 voters took advantage of a special election section that we put online this year; the section offered a wealth of information about the races, including links to questioners, stories and editorials. For the first time, our online section also offered videos of candidates in the Marietta School Board and the Marietta City Council. Marietta College students shot videos of the candidates while the Marietta Times Editorial Board was interviewing them. The video was then placed on YouTube and embedded onto pages on MariettaTimes.com.
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