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...hand-scrawled signs of the parish (ST. BERNARD PARISH'S REBIRTH: RETURN, REBUILD, REMAIN). Council meetings take place in the worn-looking casino, under signs for the $1 and $5 card tables. Only a handful of people show up for meetings, but the news gets out online: where to file insurance and compensation claims, when schools might open. Employees, used to sleeping on the floor and eating packaged meals ready to eat for the past month, now live onboard and dine on hot food. Every once in a while, a celebrity chef like Paul Prudhomme sends over a dish...
...pages; $20), a hardcover book illustrated by Dean Haspiel, represents Harvey Pekar's first major work of original material since the release of the film American Splendor, based on his comix series. As anyone who watched that splendid movie knows, Pekar led a fairly unremarkable life as a Cleveland file clerk until he decided to turn that very mundaneness into comic art. Hiring others to illustrate his non-fiction vignettes of such quotidian occurrences as starting a car in the winter or talking with co-workers, Pekar's stories were driven by his intensely cranky, neurotic, highly-intelligent and, above...
...Quitter returns to one of the main themes of all Pekar's work: the redemptive power of art. During high school he discovers both a passion for jazz and a capacity for critical analysis. So, while toiling away at such unchallenging jobs as playground supervisor, beer inspector and file clerk, Pekar finds his self respect through writing about jazz for such publications as The Jazz Review and Downbeat. Later, of course, he also begins working in comix, a move he goes into briefly at the end. By the time it concludes, The Quitter will have you engrossed by its unpretentious...
...RIAA investigates both individuals and companies in its fight against illegal file-sharing. The Daily Princetonian reported on Wednesday that a Princeton student is being sued for file-sharing. Eighteen Harvard students have faced similar legal action, and 10 of them have settled out of court...
...Yagan, who studied Applied Mathematics as an undergraduate at Harvard and later received his MBA from Stanford, said that the file-sharing debate should be focused on the industry as a whole rather than the legality of individual file-sharing...