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While
the state in general is gaining a major following toward breweries
and pubs, not to mention localized brews, there's now a big request
and audience for hard liquor. But with most of the well-known mixes
coming from everywhere else but Utah, its hard to find anything
beyond beer.
The National Organization for Marriage -- which has a pretty Orwellian name for a group seeking to prevent a lot of people's marriages -- is hitting Maine hard this season in an attempt to revoke the marriage rights of gays and lesbians in that state -- and trying to skirt Maine's election laws in the process. NOM is most famous for producing "The Gathering Storm," a sublimely overwrought and often-parodied TV ad which, in the words of Frank Rich, portrayed "homosexuality as a national threat second only to terrorism."
KUED's Sunday night Masterpiece Contemporary at 8 p.m., A Place of Execution, is a convoluted two part detective yarn about a 1963 murder in rural England and the investigative reporter 40 years later who takes another look at the case.--- The reporter is played by Juliet Stevenson.
Next week's cover story, currently titled Insult to Injury, explores the social isolation and tragedy that often befalls those who suffer head trauma.--- While I was working on it, my aunt in the south east of England was put into Seaford Retirement Home.
The King not only doesn't have any clothes, he doesn't have any brains either.--- The saga taking place in Stockton over the Mayor's kid getting a ticket for driving without a license is becoming a tragic/comedy of Nixonian porportions.
This weekend, in between sessions writing my book, She's Just Not That Into Costumes - Deal With It, I'll be celebrating Halloween with some killer live shows. I suggest you do the same, whether you're dressed in sexy/silly/scary gear or not.---
Rounding
out the last of the album releases for the month, Muse Music plays
host to one last local tonight. --- Matt Weidauer, formerly of Season's
End and The March Illness, will be releasing his self-titled nine
track album tonight.
