| North Shore religion briefs
Our Lady of Hope Parish, Ipswich, is accepting ticket reservations for the 2008 Boston Catholic Men's Conference, to be held Saturday, April 19, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Boston College's Conte Forum, and the Boston Catholic Women's Conference, Friday, April 18, from 5 to 9:30 p.m. at Conte Forum. Contact Lou De George at 978-356-9552 or e-mail ldegeorgesr@yahoo.com for men's tickets and Joanne DiNatale 978-948-7863 or e-mail jodina@verizon.net for women's tickets. West Church Preschool, a ministry of West Congregational Church, is now enrolling for its weekday preschool program 2008-2009. The program for 4-year-olds meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon or 9 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. with Lunch Bunch. The 3-year-old program meets Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m.
Sam Smith's NBA mailbag
I've long thought the Cavaliers with LeBron James should play faster, but they don't have the point guard. In the end, I don't see the Bulls heading in that direction.
I think Larry Hughes is not going to play well for the Bulls. Wouldn't it be a good idea to trade him along with a second round pick in 2010 to Memphis for Mike Miller and Darko Milicic? All three contracts expire at the same time, but the Grizzlies would save a few million dollars and it would work with the league's salary cap guidelines. The Bulls could follow that up by taking a chance on Jermaine O'Neal, sending Andrew Nocioni (no longer would be in the first year of a new deal), Drew Gooden (an expiring contract), Tyrus Thomas, and the Knick's second round pick to the Pacers. Indiana could then begin to start over.
The House Is Looking for a Few Good Men and Women
Wounded servicemen and servicewomen could soon trade their dog tags for congressional ID cards. A new program in the House of Representatives aims to hire dozens of service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. They'll work for members of Congress, committees, leadership offices, and support services offices. .
Video: Gang members speak out
There is a big difference between a few old has-beens leaving the pub after too many light and bitters, singing Roll Out The Barrel and hugging one another before vomiting into the gutter and a large group of intimidating kids. I think you know that in your heart of hearts, mt. PS: nice to know you can still get out. .
Willy Northpole and the Phoenix hip-hop scene explode
The George S. May Company is going to join Magedson's corporate advocacy program. (Kushnir declined to say how much he's paying.) Basically, Kushnir will pay Magedson to reveal the complainants against the company, and then Kushnir can do what he would have wanted to do all along address them. Good news for Magedson. But not such good news for the people who had anonymously blasted George S. May. After all, Magedson will be giving them up. And if they're current employees, they're probably going to be in trouble with a capital T. Kushnir says he won't sue anybody he's learned his lesson but if it's a disgruntled secretary who called the founder a pedophile, it's hard to imagine things will end happily for her. Kushnir says he's happy with how things ended. But the incident does raise some ethical questions.
Pat's Beside the Point
Only three pictures hang in the office of Cavaliers coach Mike Brown at Quicken Loans Arena. Two are of his family. The other is of his players joining hands high in the air, an action and a picture that he says represents ''team.'' Brown starts an All-Star Game assessment of his team by talking about the ways he can improve as a coach. He continues by praising his players for winning despite more injuries than they would like to count. This is the same coach who works the sideline markers at his son's grade-school football games and who greets everyone by first name. This coach preaches defense, but spent part of the offseason in Europe studying ways to improve the offense. He's not afraid to let players suggest plays in key moments or to let them call a play that will take precedence over his during a game.
Who calls the tune in the new music age?
And Radiohead, as everyone knows, released the download version of In Rainbows from their own website, asking us all to pay whatever we wanted. (About £4, it's estimated; though a significant number coughed up £40 for the deluxe package.) One music business insider described that to me as 'a bomb going off in the industry'. In addition to all of this, there's an entire generation of teenagers that's grown up never paying a penny for music. It's just there, innit? You download it illegally, or you Bluetooth it from a mate's phone or rip it from their computer. All for free. Even when they're offered something more tangible, they don't want it. There was a great story in The Economist recently which said that, as recompense for some focus-group research, a major label offered a group of teenagers a selection of free CDs.
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