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...anyone who approaches you. Don't make eye contact with passersby. Try not to look lost, even if you are." What kind of place needs to give its visitors such ominous advice? The surprising source is the New York Daily News, which bills itself as New York's Hometown Paper. The News has spent the past year preparing for the possibility of a multiunion strike by seeking "replacement workers" from around the U.S. To orient its out-of-town talent to life in the wilds of Manhattan, the News is preparing a guidebook that portrays a vision of the city...
...very historic place, and I feel Cambridge should advertise it a little more," said State Rep. Peter Vellucci (D-Cambridge). Defending his hometown against its detractors, Vellucci noted that Patriots Day ceremonies have always drawn large numbers of people. "Even 35 years ago, there was always a good crowd," Vellucci said...
...hometown, everyone knows that a Black in Confederate Park after dark is likely to be lynched. Klansmen still display the Stars and Bars prominently in their own parades. Hostile, Confederate-flag waving crowds abused civil rights demonstrators in 1960 and 1990. In a high school Humanities class, Joey (a boy I'd known from kindergarten) casually remarked that he planned on skipping school and "bust some nigger heads with my nigger stick"-- the wooden club he kept in the gun rack of his pickup truck. Like nearly every other pickup truck in the South, Joey's truck had Confederate flag...
Modesto, Calif., inspiration for hometown boy George Lucas' film American Graffiti, is putting the brakes on the weekend rite of cruising. Last week the city council voted to slap fines of $75 to $250 on teenage cruisers when traffic on the main drag, McHenry Avenue, goes into gridlock...
Ottuwa, Iowa, which has a population of about 27,000 and is home to a meat'packing plant and several factories, has long been fabled as the hometown of MASH's Walter "Radar" O'Reilly...