Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city's annual St.Patrick's Day celebration. It's considered a big event--although, truth be told, just about anything that carries with it the promise of free music and cheap beer is considered a big event in this frat-heavy college town. The members of Hootie, hometown heroes who made it big, have decided to join the festivities unannounced. The other acts are mostly smaller, local ones with monikers that evoke the names of long shots on racing forms--Cowboy Mouth, Gracie Moon, Treadmill Trackstar. So it's sure to cause a commotion when Hootie--a band that...
Meanwhile, back at the Columbia festival, the rain has finally stopped. The band takes the stage to a massive roar from the crowd, a Beatles in Liverpool, U2 in Dublin, Nirvana in Seattle hometown roar. With abandon, joy and a little bit of out-of-practice sloppiness, they tear through some old songs--Hannah Jane, Let Her Cry and Time--as well as a couple of the new numbers, Sad Caper and Be the One. Rucker screams his way through that last one, pulling and pawing at his shirt as if he's about to come...
Mistry, a Bombay-born Zoroastrian, or Parsi, who moved to Toronto in 1975, has long distinguished himself as a rigorous humanitarian who can re-create from afar every last rending detail of his clamorous hometown. His books are living rooms that open up onto whole worlds. And with characteristic deliberation, he has steadily moved from a first collection of stories (Swimming Lessons) to a prizewinning mid-length novel (Such a Long Journey) to this new epic, which is worthy of the 19th century masters of tragic realism, from Hardy to Balzac. In response, perhaps, to a world that...
Helplessness. That's what I felt when Massachussetts Governor Bill Weld gerrymandered my hometown--Northampton--out of the 1st congressional district for the sole purpose of trying to get a Republican into Massachusetts' delegation. The summer after 10th grade, I had spent a month volunteering for the campaign of my congressman, John Olver, a retired UMass chemistry professor. I had attended his frenetic victory party, filled with hope for this system I had--or so I thought--learned to work within. Liberalism had its moment in the sun and I felt a part...
...local Methodist pastor. In 1991, 81% of the townspeople voted against playing host to the boat, but the referendum was nonbinding, and local officials, thirsting for revenue, invited it to dock anyway. "I got mad," recalls Grey. Now, with this nationwide campaign, he adds, "I'm getting even." This hometown fight led to invitations to speak in Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and other states grappling with a riverboat onslaught. Grey's message: Despite the $1.4 billion in annual tax revenues it pays states and localities nationwide, casino gambling is bad economics, draining dollars from restaurants and shops, spurring crimes such...