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508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the redesign of Kelley Square, a distributional analysis of the tax systems of all fifty states, “Taxachusetts,” hating masks, the New French Extremity, and Nicolas Cage. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact … Continue reading "Kelley Square, Regressive Taxes, Mandy (508 #316)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Frank Kartheiser about how Worcester could annex Holden, the Mustard Seed, Worcester Interfaith, and community organizing. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about being a gay-friendly city, crime, the transit service cuts that never came, a new platform at Union Station, the Research Bureau’s transit report, and the 100th anniversary of the death of Cornelius Kelley. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes … Continue reading "City on the Move (508 #314)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Worcester legend Joe Finneral about theater in Worcester, growing up in Lowell, being a pedestrian, looking like Gandalf, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, Emily Dickinson, Jim Carroll, the spirit of New England, the 100th anniversary of the death of Cornelius Kelley, the birth … Continue reading "Joe Finneral (508 #313)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk to Chilean immigrant Romina Barria as she prepares to move from Worcester to Oregon. We also cover George Frisbie Hoar vandalism, stART, the ACLU’s COPD, pervasive surveillance, why are conversations limited to four people?, giving MDMA to octopuses, giving LSD to dolphins, Worcester’s most-endangered buildings, … Continue reading "Romina Barria (508 #312)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with once-and-future-Worcesterite Kevin Oliver about Worcester’s excellent drivers, the midwest, Kelley Square, how to get a square named after you, the World War I Worcester Telegram, Cornelius Kelley falling off a tiny train, does the parking part of the stadium deal make sense?, psychopathy by … Continue reading "Worcester’s Excellent Drivers (508 #311 w/Kevin Oliver)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Worcester’s bad drivers, yuppie diversion, the liking gap, and the beautiful Holy Cross campus. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about baseball sloganeering, why the pope should not resign, and our favorite moments from this week’s episode of “Worcester, Massachusetts.” Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about Holden Man, the “perfect game,” the “poorly-attended game,” and the Worcester Red Sox with Worcester baseball historian Brian Goslow. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan talk about the logic of SimCity, “Holden Man Gets 5 Years for Worcester Sandwich Shop Robberies,” the lack of master thieves, the NM couple who left behind a $100 million stolen painting, the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist, how home ownership influences political behavior [PDF], … Continue reading "Wu-Sox (508 #307)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we discuss a non-renaissance framing for city events in 2018, MassLive on Worcide, volunteer fixers, Father John Madden on panhandling, YIMBY dynamics, and the sad truth about happiness scales. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact … Continue reading "The Truth About Worcester (OFFICIAL) (508 #306)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with Geri DiNardo about helping found Worcester’s Mustard Seed Catholic Worker community and soup kitchen, Ofo bikes, the wisdom of not framing 2018 Worcester as a “Renaissance,” recycling (Worcester, Australia [PDF]), how Boston increases Worcester housing costs, and the future of handicapped transit. Audio: Download … Continue reading "National Sword (508 #305 w/Geri DiNardo)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk with documentarians Tyler Brown and Nori Needle about “Uncommonwealth: Permit To Build” and gentrification in Worcester. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS Uncommonwealth: Permit To Build from … Continue reading "Gentrification (508 #304 w/Tyler Brown and Nori Needle)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about leaving Worcester, the recently-demolished Worcide, the long-demolished Davis Tower, the continuing (!) Catholic sex abuse scandal, Peach Rockets, gypsy moths, and state-of-the-art litter surveillance with Olivia W-B. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | … Continue reading "It’s a Germ! It’s a Worm! (508 #303 w/Olivia W-B)"

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about next season’s Worcester storylines and the Klan Meeting & Riot of 1924 with Kayti Burt. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about suicide and remaking Main Street with Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell and Worcester Magazine writer Bill Shaner. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about the last 11 years in Worcester and 299 episodes of the 508 show with Kevin Ksen, the sexiest of men. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, Mike and Brendan ramble about old-timey Worcester stuff like the 1924 Klan riot and the sleigh business. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week, we talk about hiking, the city’s capital improvement budget, and opioid overdoses with Colin Novick. Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact Info | Twitter feed | RSS

508 is a show about Worcester. This week: Brendan on Gary Rosen on Star Wars 2017 Annual Report: Worcester Regional Transit Authority [PDF] Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (Mike totally gets the chronology of this franchise wrong) Audio: Download the mp3 or see more formats. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with Google Play | Contact … Continue reading "Public Transit: Day of Reckoning (508 #297)"