508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester At-Large City Council candidate Devin Coleman . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 ....
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with David Lebouef and Kola Akindele about the Initiative for Engaged Citizenship . Also: traffic cameras and prostitution . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 ....
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester District 3 City Council Candidate Mat Taylor . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 ....
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Gabe Rollins and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Gabe isn’t running for City Council, but he joined us before a screening of “Back to the Future” on the Common to go over the questions we’re using to frame this year’s Council race. Music: Flock of Assholes. Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 ....
508 is a show about Worcester. Here’s what we have of the 1.0 list of “what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year’s election?” (Thanks, Jay Rosen ). We’ll be fleshing out the questions in the coming weeks, and redrafting the list once a month till the election. We’re trying to keep the questions/framing to 50 words or less. What’s your position on school privitization ? City departments, particularly the police department, have information that can he...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Adrienne LaPierre and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:15] Adrienne talks about the “Making a Green Solidarity Economy” conference July 23 . [2:50] Adrienne also talks about Worcester Time Trade . Mike has posted an offer to see what happens. [9:45] Life is suffering....
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is a cordless phone, a statue of a sea captain, and Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . EPOCA kicked off new campaigns; City Council loves the City Manager ; we made a video about the women of Worcester punk ; Mike comments on the cover story of Worcester Magazine ;...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Dante Comparetto and Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . Rally for Tim DeChristopher at the Worcester federal building; revocation of nonprofit status from some Worcester groups; “Building a Green Solidarity Economy” ; Duck Yao takes bitcoins ; Worcester will be sued over t...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, civic gadfly Jo Hart, and Mike’s sexy body. The question: What do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year’s City Council election? [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 ....
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Julius Jones and Brendan Melican . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 download link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : mp4 download link , other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:57] Julius talks about a “Get Your Shine On!” dance party happening 9:30pm-1:45am Friday, June 3 at the Sahara, 143 Highland Street in Worcester. [3:33] Train. [4:17] Tornadoes in Massachusetts yesterday. [6:35] June ...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Linda Parham and Brendan Melican.[display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . Linda Parham is applying for a grant to start a “food recycling” program in Worcester, Bountiful Harvest. They’ll take donations of food that would otherwise go to waste, prepare healthy meals, and partner with local groups to distribute...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panelists are Linnea Palmer Paton, Zak Rogoff, and Drew Wilson . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Subscribe with iTunes Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:30] WPI students are planning a counterpoint commencement . Where once the administration opposed this, it’s now permitted. [11:15] There’s some sort of free garage sale at Pleasant Street Baptist Church Saturda...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Benito Vega, Gary Rosen , Brendan Melican , and a very special mute guest. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:42] Inspired by Jay Rosen , Mike asks 508 viewers: What do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year’s City Council election? If you have a suggestion, leave a comment . [14:22...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s guest is Brendan Melican . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:00] The camera emerges from a bag of Gary Rosen shirts....
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panelist is Brendan Melican . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:00] Mystery Band was this past weekend. [1:08] Worcester: Who Knew? [1:35] There was a double-murder this week. [2:05] Brendan tells us about the Ecotarium. [3:03] Mike Germain looks sloppy in the official City Council photo . We explore various sartorial and conspira...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Clifford Reiss and Brendan Melican. NOTE: There is more profanity than usual near the end of this week’s show. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:35] It’s snowing. [1:20] An attacking pit bull was stabbed to death in Worcester. [2:50] We are still not convinced that the city’s anti-pit bull laws are helpful. [3:55] The eig...
508 is a show about Worcester. Today’s panel is Brendan Melican and Tracy Novick . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [1:00] Brendan can send you an invite to the Facebook alternative Diaspora . [2:48] No word from Marty Lamb. [3:05] Worcester is still New England’s second-most-populous city. Mike reiterates Gabe’s thesis in “the best blog post ever about Worcester” that Worce...
508 is a show about Worcester. Today’s guests are Brendan Melican, Anne Lewenberg, and Rod Witkos . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. You can watch 508 Fridays at 7pm on WCCA TV13 . [0:32] Teacher’s union has “no confidence” in School Committee or Superintendant. Update : Worcester Magazine has more . [6:02] Anne corrects last week’s germination report. [7:32] Anne explains how to make maple syrup, with action footage. [10...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:00] Brendan has a copy of the city’s new pit bull registration packet. [6:17] Mike reads from Seth Godin’s new book, Poke the Box , and we say nice things about Billy Breault and Gary Vecchio. Catherine Burgess, Editor-in-Chief, The Crusader : The deficiency of writers exists because there is a fear that if you do wri...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican, Paul Ropp, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, and Michael True. Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. [1:00] Michael, Claire, and Paul talk about Worcester’s Center for Nonviolent Solutions . [6:40] Is there anything to say about the bouncer video ? [7:30] We talk about the postponed white supremacist meeting at the library . [18:05] Mike tells about “a cultural moment.” [27:05] Recap of...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:00] Mike won some red shoes in a Fairbridge Project raffle. [3:52] We are excited about the City’s giant snowblower. [6:15] You can fill out your city census online . [8:00] We read the InCity Times on the Goddard testing scandal and the closure of the PIP shelter. We decry the sexual objectification of Gary Rosen. [18...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Joe Scully and Brendan Melican . They are joined by Ian Anderson, Drew Wilson , Jeremy Shulkin , and some Clark University students. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. [1:00] The School Committee decided , narrowly, not to do additional investigation into the Goddard test scandal. [5:52] Joe tells us about the Transition Towns movement and we talk about the concept of resi...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is TED Fellow Jessica Colaço , Brendan Melican , and Holmes Wilson of the Participatory Culture Foundation . The show was taped at the iHub in Nairobi, and in a snow cave in Worcester. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. There is snow. You can try to get free snow shoveling , and should beware of your roof caving in. Mike asks the businesspeople of Worcester to create a cowork...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Tracy Novick and Brendan Melican . [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. There’s an MCAS cheating/testing irregularities scandal in the Worcester schools. PharmaSphere’s parent company had some negative financial news . The Telegram & Gazette is outsourcing home delivery . Mike wonders if this will affect their business throwing trash in people’s yards . There is snow; pe...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Brendan Melican . We talk about The Pulse’s “Ones to Watch” list ; last year we did an in-depth analysis . We revisit the “travel spending scandals” of city employees. Today is Orthodox Christmas . The weather in Nairobi is better than the weather in Worcester. There’s a Worcester Magazine article about the PharmaSphere phiasco ; Bill Randell has some critical thoughts , as do we. (For more background than you probably want, watch our episode o...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Nicole Apostola , Kevin Ksen, and Dee Wells . We talk about the dual tax rate , the T&G blog article , the Crompton Park skating rink , the lack of bidders on the old courthouse , city employee travel expense controversies and government transparency, and good stuff in Worcester. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week: Christmas. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. Thanks to: Nicole, Sarah, Gerald, Rebecca, Jon, Jim, Bruce, and DeJongh. “Pathe News Christmas with Their Cameramen and Crews ‘Round the World (1950)” by Warner Pathe News is in the public domain. “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen” by The KrestArians is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. This pr...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan offer some predictions for 2011. [display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. [2:14] Mike, despite being contradicted by yesterday’s news , thinks Barbara Haller won’t run for re-election in 2011, but an anointed successor will take her place. [3:15] Mike prediction: The City Hall skate rink won’t be operational. [4:34] Mike prediction: Stone Soup will be rebuilt. [5:06] Mike...
This week’s show is a “highlight reel” of the late Jeff Barnard’s appearances on the show. Produced by Mike Benedetti and Nicole. Co-hosted by Brendan Melican. Featuring Jacob Berendes, Kevin Ksen, Anne Lewenberg, Nat Needle, Bruce Russell, and Scott Zoback. Like the episodes from which it was compiled, this show has a tremendous amount of complaining about the newspaper. This program will be cablecast on WCCA TV13 in Worcester at 7pm tonight, and on the homepage at wccatv.com. Audio : mp3 link ...
508 is a show about Worcester. This week’s panel is Matt Feinstein , Sergio Castillo , Stephanie Richardson , and Brendan Melican .[display_podcast] Audio : mp3 link , other formats , feed Video : Downloads and other formats Contact info. [0:42] The East Coast premiere of Matt’s documentary “Ciclovida” is tonight. [10:55] Re-elected US Rep Jim McGovern had surgery for cancer . [11;28] Re-elected state senator Hariette Chandler is suing her Republican competitor for lying in campaign ads. [14:22]...
