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...valuable lying around. The number of robberies, burglaries and thefts has shot up 48% in Tazewell in only five years, from 483 crimes in 1998 to 716 in 2003, even as the national property-crime rate fell 25%. "People are stealing anything that's not nailed down," says county commonwealth's attorney Dennis Lee. Testimony in a recent trial in Tazewell revealed that one man was so desperate for OxyContin, he traded his mule for four tablets...
...prayer leader is Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the organizers who invited her claim that she is the first woman to have presided over a mixed-gender prayer service in public since Islam's earliest days. The event was held in a cavernous hall on the grounds of New York City's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine because no major mosque would play host to it. "There are still men who believe women are not allowed to be leaders. They're bullies," says organizer Asra Nomani, author of the new book Standing Alone...
Friday, March 18. Percy Hill. 9 p.m. 18+. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave. $15. Tickets available from Ticketmaster...
Sunday, March 20. The Samples. 8 p.m. 18+. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave. $15. Tickets available from Ticketmaster...
Friday, March 11. Marianne Faithfull. 18+. 9 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave. $30.50. Tickets available through Ticketmaster...