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The Marble Bar, the Basement That Hosted Both Henry Fonda and Iggy Pop, Turns Another Page
For the better part of a decade, the boarded-up Congress Hotel has loomed over the 300 block of West Franklin street like a shabby ghost. It's the seven-story equivalent of Miss Havisham's moldy wedding cake, a heap of decorative curlicues and flourishes mired in neglect and lorded over by rats. A long-shuttered nightspot lies in the basement of this 97-year-old hostelry, eight granite steps beneath Franklin Street. Descend those steps, pass through a rusty metal door, and you're in a dim, cavernous room punctuated by 10 stout columns.
"What can I get you?" a voice calls out from the gloom. It's LesLee Anderson. Sporting a voluminous head of blond hair, she stands behind a marble bar stretching some 70 feet along the north side of the room.
Anderson, in a very real sense, has come home. She's in the basement as guest of Warren Carder, general superintendent with real-estate development juggernaut Struever Bros., Eccles and Rouse, which, at long last, has begun renovating the long-neglected Congress.
Given the room's squalor, it's clear that in 2000, the only thing this joint can serve up is memories. And nobody has more of those than Anderson. Between 1978 and 1985, she and her late husband Roger Anderson ran a rock club down here. Under their tutelage, this basement--named after its most prominent feature, that long stone bar--was Baltimore's CBGBs. It was The Scene, the bar that brought punk and new wave to a slumbering town mired in cover bands and disco.
"I mean to tell you, we had some good, rocking times down here," the 51-year-old Anderson says, dropping her bartender act to stare out into the shadows.
Squeeze, X, the Cramps, Sonic Youth, and R.E.M. were just a few of the bands that rocked the Marble Bar. (Some scene vets insist they saw a pimple-faced foursome of Dublin lads calling themselves U2 at the Marble, but this can't be verified.)
"This is very emotional, I have to say," Anderson says, then lifts to her eye a video camera with which she's documenting her return. The bar is silent as a tomb, save for the occasional burst of cacophony--rumble, rumble, rumble, crashhhh--of construction as workers upstairs hurl debris down a metal garbage chute.
Carder says they're gutting the hotel, working downward from the top floor--stripping out whatever time, the elements, and an army of scavenging vandals left behind. The old heap is being turned into 36 apartments that will rent from $730 to $1,180 a month. The $7 million-plus project--the financing of which includes federal and state tax credits for historic preservation--calls for maintaining the hotel's original hallways and preserving the plasterwork in the building's lobby and ballroom. The Marble Bar will be spruced up as well, with an eye toward leasing it to a restaurateur.
Carder has his work cut out for him. The basement's umpteen layers of paint--red, black, gold--are all peeling at once. Sodden plaster lies about in heaps. But through the grime and graffiti come glimpses of a former glory. The columns--most of them, anyway--sport ornate Ionic-Corinthian capitals. Scrape the filthy floor a bit and you'll see hexagonal terrazzo tiles, blue and green chunks of marble set in concrete. Somebody threw a lot of money at this place once.
That somebody was James Lawrence Kernan, a Confederate soldier turned top-hatted impresario who built the hotel in 1903. Opened as the Hotel Kernan but renamed the Congress in the '30s, the rococo hotel was the center jewel in what was dubbed Kernan's "triple million-dollar enterprise," which encompassed the Maryland Theatre just west of the hotel (today a parking lot) and the Auditorium Theater around the corner on Howard Street (today a doomed wreck called the Mayfair). Kernan's creations were connected by underground tunnels, part of a subterranean spa with Turkish baths, steam rooms, and what was once the city's largest swimming pool. The Marx Brothers, Will Rogers, Sophie Tucker, W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, and a host of others graced his stages. Many stayed in the hotel, and more than a few probably wet their whistle in the basement. One enduring legend has it that Fred Astaire danced across the marble bar itself.
Rumble, rumble, rumble, crashhhh.
This was all ancient history when LesLee Anderson began her career down here in 1978. Sidling out from behind the bar, her snakeskin boots crunching the debris, she recalls her Marble Bar.
"The big stage was right here," she says, sweeping an arm toward the south end of the room. "Oh, and the soundboard was over here." From the look in her eyes, you can tell she sees it all still.
"People always ask me, 'What was the best night? What was the best band you saw?' I view it collectively. It was just a magical time," Anderson says. "I was so blessed to hear some of the bands that came through here."
But as she stalks the decayed confines, her camera darting here and there, the mists of that magical time slowly part, and she offers up some specific rock 'n' roll remembrances.
"Iggy Pop played here a couple times," she says. "He loved it. I remember I was mopping the floor and Iggy was standing against the bar saying, 'This is a great rock 'n' roll bar--this is going to be a rocking night.'"
Rumble, rumble, rumble, craashhhh.
"One of the best shows was the Dead Kennedys. We had 600 people come through the doors. I looked up from packing beers behind the bar, and kids were just flying around like wild fish--this place was mass lunacy.
"Oh, and I'll never forget how [head Kennedy] Jello Biafra left his pants here," Anderson adds. "I had to mail them back to him. They were soaking wet and full of holes, but he called me up and said he had to have them the next day. I offered to wash and dry them, and he said, 'Absolutely not!'"
Carder leads Anderson on a tour of the bar's anterooms. An erstwhile barbershop where the theater stars once had their locks trimmed is rife with garbage and heaps of rusty pipes. Across the way lies the former band room.
"Oh, look, there's the Slickee Boys," Anderson bursts out, pointing to graffiti left behind by a popular Washington-based band that played here often. The walls are plastered with the tags of long-gone, largely local acts: Thee Katatonix, Here Today, the Bedlamites, Reptile House, Cracked Nipples, Negative Watt, and a cryptic scrawl reading ROT DONUT TOUR 81.
By now Anderson is in full memory-download mode. You can just toss names at her.
The Psychedelic Furs?
"The band was great, but [singer] Richard Butler was a pain in the ass."
Velvet Underground relic John Cale?
"He was a prick. I didn't like that show."
Frank Zappa?
"He didn't play here, but he came in one night and my husband was just in awe."
"You know who was good was Huey Lewis and the News," Anderson says, offering up one notable name. "About 12 people paid a $4 cover to see them on a Tuesday night. But I want to tell you, they played like they were in a stadium."
Rumble rumble rumble crashhhh.
Jello Biafra's soggy pants. A cranky John Cale trotting on stage, as legend has it, with cocaine residue under his nose. A host of Baltimore bands bounding about in frantic celebration of the new do-it-yourself musical ethic. It was quite a time.
But while her bar celebrated the manic new, Anderson's reign as punk-rock den mother was really a chaotic coda--an amped-up swan song for an address where colorful characters and high drama have been par for the course for nearly 100 years. It was quite a century at 306 W. Franklin St. And when the professionals move into their grand-a-month apartments sometime next fall, few will have any idea that their leather sofas have landed on such storied ground.
"Ladies' and Gentleman's Grill in the Basement. Meet the best people amidst best surroundings."--Hotel Kernan ad in a 1918 Maryland Theatre playbill
In 1865, 27-year-old James Kernan had a noose around his neck and a cannon pointed at his face. All because he wouldn't shut up.
Kernan, who wore Confederate gray as a member of the Baltimore Light Artillery brigade, was a Union-army captive. Word had just come down that President Lincoln had been assassinated, and Kernan couldn't stop cheering. He was an inveterate champion of the Southern cause, but that wasn't the only fuel for his fire--assassin John Wilkes Booth was a childhood chum. The pair had palled around the streets of Baltimore, and Kernan had even lodged for a time in the Booth family home. Let the Rebel yells ring out!
His captors were not amused--the war was over, but they weren't above adding one more casualty to the bloodletting. Graphically faced with the prospect of joining Lincoln, the young Reb fell silent. And so James Kernan lived to become one of Baltimore's most notable theatrical lights.
Perhaps his association with the thespian Booth family sparked Kernan's theatrical bent, or maybe he caught the stage bug after the war, when he managed East Baltimore Street's (now long since demolished) Monumental Theatre, which his brother owned. In any event, he proved a shrewd and tireless businessperson with a knack for driving the dramatic arts. He eventually lorded over a multitheater, multistate empire.
Kernan's father had run a feed store in the 300 block of West Franklin, and that's where the son went just after the turn of the century to launch his most ambitious plans. The Maryland Theatre was erected in 1903, debuting as a legitimate theatrical stage. After a year of bad box office, Kernan switched to vaudeville. Here paraded the sublime and the ridiculous--everything from Rhoda Royal's Elephants ("presenting a remarkable display of pachydermic intelligence") and Hathaways' Monkeys to Buster Keaton and Al Jolson. Kernan already owned the Natatorium, a sort of 19th-century health spa, around the corner at 508 N. Howard St., and in 1903 he remodeled the building on top of it into the Auditorium Theater. The Auditorium presented mostly legit theater and musicals, and over the years its footlights fell on the likes of Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, and Spencer Tracy. The hotel that rose between the two theaters captured the theatrical trade, both from Kernan's own stages and the nearby Academy of Music and Ford's Theater. The basement drinkery, known alternatively as the Rathskeller and the Bear Pit, was a nightclub in the nascent days of the Jazz Age. The joint was jumping.
Kernan enjoyed less than a decade as the kingpin of his million-dollar enterprise: In 1912, at the age of 74, he died in a private suite in his namesake hotel. (He left a chunk of his fortune to the Hospital for the Relief of Crippled and Deformed Children in West Baltimore, known today as Kernan Hospital.) But the good times kept on rolling on West Franklin. In 1920, the hotel opened the Jardin de Danse ("garden of dance") upstairs in the ballroom, with tunes provided by Ridgley's Jazz Band under the direction of one Professor P.E. McAsey, and later came the Club Ritz, featuring Moe Baer and his Club Ritz Orchestra.
Prohibition quieted things a bit at the Kernan. The Rathskeller became an ice cream parlor. (Although, given the complex's innumerable subterranean passages and good-time rep, it's hard to imagine that patrons who knew the right password or wink couldn't score some bathtub gin along with their egg custards and malted milks.)
The Depression quieted things down even more. The Maryland, which had switched to movies in the late '20s, was faltering, and in 1931 it was leased to a mobile group of youthful thespians calling themselves the University Theater. They took rooms at the Kernan and rehearsed in the basement bar. Among the players were Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan, who made the jump from stage lovers to the real thing. They married in the hotel dining room on Christmas Day of '31. Fifteen minutes after cutting the wedding cake, Fonda had to dash next-door for a matinee performance. (Life didn't imitate art: The marriage lasted less than a year.)
The Hotel Kernan was already showing its age when Fonda and Sullavan consummated their doomed marriage in one of its rooms. In 1932, the hotel fell into receivership and was taken over by an insurance company, which named it the Congress. The Auditorium soon nixed live theater altogether in favor of movies, while the Maryland limped along under a variety of owners and theatrical undertakings. One wonders what Confederate vet Kernan would have thought of the Maryland's 1949 decision to desegregate (after a group of actors protested the separate seating for blacks and whites). Heavyweight boxing hero Joe Louis came to the theater that year to show his support for the move. But it wasn't enough to save the old venue--the Maryland was unceremoniously replaced with a parking lot in 1951, the scars of its slanting balcony still visible on the Congress' west wall. One of the theater's opulent chandeliers wound up hanging in a wing of the Capitol in Washington. (One wonders what the old Confederate would have thought of that too.)
But live theater didn't totally abandon Kernan's corner. In 1950, the Vagabond Players, a community-theater troupe that now resides in Fells Point, was forced to vacate its former Read Street stage. The Vagabonds moved into the Congress' basement and created the city's first theater-in-the-round. A partition hid the marble bar, across which actors clambered to clandestinely reach the other side of the room.
John Bruce Johnson, recently retired from a 30-year stint as the Vagabonds' president, joined the company in 1960 as a bit player. "The dressing room was small, I remember that," he says of the troupe's days at the Congress. "But it was a thriving venture. We had many, many successful productions there."
The shows went on until 1964, when a disagreement with the Congress' owner sent the appropriately named theater company packing anew. And as the '60s gave way to the '70s, the Congress' steady march downward become a full-out tailspin. The brass beds and mahogany furniture of the Kernan era were history, as were the glitterati guests. The creaky hotel became home to a colorful collection of more or less permanent residents: forlorn pensioners, garrulous alcoholics, cranks of every stripe. Some only left their shabby rooms long enough to dash to the diner across the street. Kernan's pride had become a moth-eaten hunk of turn-of-the-century exuberance. A battered, baroque dinosaur on a dark and dog-eared corner of the city. A pedigreed flophouse.
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"I don't want loud rock or any group that's going to cause trouble. But if the group's original and can play quietly, then fine."--original Marble Bar proprietor Scott Cunningham, quoted in the Baltimore News American, Jan. 21, 1977
I named the place," Scott Cunningham says. "I created it. A lot of my blood, sweat, and tears are down there."
Cunningham, now a 53-year-old car dealer and leader of a blues band (he plays guitar), came to Baltimore in the mid-'70s after spending a few post-college years gigging around New York City. He played a number of rooms in town but was looking to get something going on his own. Then, Cunningham says, a friend told him about "this old hotel with a 72-foot-long bar," and he went to check it out.
"The place hadn't been used in years," he says. "The marble bar was brown, and the back of it was covered in linoleum and vinyl."
It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but the young musician saw potential. He scraped together some cash and opened the Marble around Thanksgiving of '76 with Jack Voss, who left the partnership soon afterward.
In addition to playing the room regularly himself, Cunningham frequently booked the Loose Shoes Rhythm Band, a footloose local reggae/rock/R&B outfit. (In May 1977, a photo of a Loose Shoes gig at the Marble graced the cover of the very first City Paper, then called City Squeeze.)
Bob Friedman, now a 53-year-old guitarist and keyboardist with longtime local favorites Mambo Combo and a co-owner of a recording studio in Waverly, played bass in the Shoes. "Some of my favorite gigs are from the Marble Bar era," he says. "I'll never forget opening for Muddy Waters. It was incredible." After the show, Waters hung out with the crowd, Friedman recalls. "There he was, this big blues Buddha holding court."
Friedman was also one of the first to engage in an illicit activity that became a rite of passage for Marble musicians: exploring the disused warren of subterranean passages beneath the complex. Where towel-wrapped men of prominence once received rubdowns and steam baths, young artists would sneak off to smoke dope, drink beer, or have sex--sometimes all three. One night, Friedman led a gang of merrymakers into this netherworld and suddenly heard gunshots. "We all froze in terror," he says. "Then we realized they were playing a shoot-'em-up picture in the movie theater upstairs."
Cunningham soon found that playing in and managing an aged club was too much to handle on his own. Seeking a partner, he tapped Steven "TeeVee" Feldman, Loose Shoes' singer, harmonica player, and sometimes drummer.
"I just happened to fall into it because I had the money to help Scott," says Feldman, now 48 and living in Burlington, Vt. "We rebuilt the bathrooms and cleaned it up so we could cater to a better crowd. We made it a more comfortable place. But as it went, people just trashed it. The crazier the music got, the trashier the place got."
Among the "crazier" acts that took the Marble stage were Talking Heads, who played the bar in '77, with Loose Shoes opening. "I thought they were fairly incompetent as musicians," Friedman recalls with a laugh. "They were basically artists with instruments. To hear David Byrne sing was embarrassing." The room also booked a perky, punky local outfit called Scratch 'N Sniff, whose drummer, Gina Shock, later legged it for Los Angeles to play skins for the Go-Gos.
But when it came to new music, Cunningham would only go so far. Hoppy Hopkins, now a singer and percussionist with Mambo Combo, played drums in Da Moronics, perhaps Baltimore's first punk band. When the group got started around 1977, Hopkins says, his fellow bandmates "were the worst musicians I ever heard." When this fledgling ensemble brought their three-chord racket to the Marble, it didn't go well.
"Cunningham threw us out," Hopkins says. "He just ejected the band."
The Marble had a booking agent who steered established jazz, blues, and rock acts its way: Muddy Waters, Eddie Money, Canned Heat, and the fusion-y Brand X (featuring Phil Collins, when he had more hair and fewer cardigans). The price for landing marquee names on the weekends, however, was showcasing no-name groups during the week, a formula that didn't spell big money. Then subway construction began near the hotel, making parking a hassle. The Marble was teetering financially. Cunningham took the summer of 1978 off and closed the bar, with plans to regroup come cooler weather. (Summers were tough in the un-air-conditioned room: "It was a hot, damp jungle down there," Cunningham remembers, "with rats running down the top of bar.") But when he returned in the fall, Cunningham says, the hotel's owners reneged on his contract to lease the bar. The Marble's keys had been handed over to a pair of rockers named Roger and LesLee Anderson.
"I hoped it could be a great club--[the jazz magazine] Down Beat used to write about what we did," a reflective Cunningham says. "But it was a good time to get out--I was spending so much time in that basement, I never saw sunlight."
"Rock and roll and the Marble Bar make a good match, because rock and roll by its nature is from the streets. It's blue-collar music for punks young and old, and the Marble Bar is as blue-collar as you can get."--News American, June 17, 1979
We were moving to California--we had our house rented and everything," LesLee Anderson says, recalling the fateful fall of 1978. "But then Roger came to me and said there was an opportunity take over the Marble Bar."
The Andersons first came to the Congress in the mid-'70s, renting out the upstairs ballroom for parties featuring Roger Anderson's '60s-ish band Clear. They'd stash a couple of kegs in the corner, sell tickets at the door, and "pack the place," LesLee Anderson says. But throwing one-off parties with your own band is one thing; booking a club is another, as the neophyte entrepreneurs soon discovered.
"You have to recall, this was disco time--'Boogie Oogie Oogie' and all that," she says. "At first we hired seven- and nine-piece disco bands on the weekends, and we were going broke trying to pay these bands."
But increasingly, the new sounds that had started creeping into the Congress basement during the Cunningham/Feldman era were catching on in Baltimore. The Andersons booked a couple of new wave-y acts, and a good crowd came down the steps. Even Da Moronics were welcomed back.
"We became regulars and drew quite a crowd most nights," says Hoppy Hopkins, who would eventually play in nine different bands that gigged at the Marble. "Roger didn't get what we were doing, but anybody playing guitar and drums was cool with him."
Not that Baltimore was setting any trends--Sid Vicious' heroin-riddled corpse had already been found curled up in a Greenwich Village hotel room by the time punk hit the Marble Bar in earnest. But when it did come, the Marble was one of the few local venues to embrace it. The Congress Hotel's basement became the semi-official rec room for an offbeat family of folks--refugees from the thud of disco, heavy metal's hackneyed roar, and the aural pabulum of top 40, an underground bar for underground sounds.
"I'm from Dundalk--I still live there--but I was able to socialize with people from Reisterstown, Towson, Annapolis, and it didn't matter," says Robin Stuprich, now a 44-year-old highway engineer, who tended bar at the Marble during its glory days. "There were no classes, no fashion or attitude. It was a centralized meeting point, a musical melting pot, and the best years of my life."
Fellow Dundalk native "Adolf Kowalski" was already "knee-deep into punk" by 1977. Today he's a 40-year-old single parent and Legg Mason employee, but for nearly a decade, beginning in '78, he was the lanky frontperson for Thee Katatonix, one of the era's busiest bands (its oeuvre included "You Grow on Me Like a Fungus" and "My Genitalia"). The group played the first of many Marble gigs in '79.
"Roger knew that the punk thing would bring people in," says Kowalski (who asked that his real name not be used). "He liked the punk crowd because he was kind of a hood himself--a west-side tough guy. He wasn't really a bad guy, but he enjoyed the tough attitude."
While punk and new wave gave the Marble its personality, all kinds of sounds wound their way downstairs. Mixed in with the likes of X and Sonic Youth were acts such as '60s stalwarts the Searchers ("Needles and Pins"). John Waters' squat, Baltimorese-voiced discovery Edith Massey fronted numerous bands in the basement. Kowalski was one of the dozen or so who came down to see the decidedly unpunk Huey Lewis and the News, who were too square for Dundalk's answer to Johnny Rotten.
"I was in the bathroom smoking dope or something and writing on the wall HUEY LEWIS SUCKS when in walks Huey Lewis," a chuckling Kowalski recalls. "I just brought my hand down and said, 'Hey, how ya doin?' and gave him a Katatonix button, which he put on his coat."
The bar, Hopkins says, soon picked up a motto: "The Marble is the first place you play on the way up, and the last place you play on the way down." An example of the latter were the elder statesmen of punk--the splintered remains of the groups that had pioneered the sound. The Professionals, which included once and future Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, was one such outfit. Guitarist Tom Cohan's band Zehn Archar had the privilege of opening for the ex-Pistols' new project.
"We had the best sound system in town, so Roger would call us to open a lot of the big shows," says Cohan, now 43 and a teacher in Howard County. His band also warmed up the room when the now-deceased punk guitar hero and ex-New York Doll Johnny Thunders brought a band to town around 1980 (with fellow, also since-deceased Doll veteran Jerry Nolan on drums). During his set a bored, besotted Thunders verbally mocked the Baltimore crowd.
"This friend of mine had a beer can in his hand and--lovingly--just kinda tossed it [at the stage], as if to say, 'Come on, Thunders,'" Cohan recalls. "But the hand of God took that beer can. It just floated across everyone's heads and smacked Thunders smack-dab in his forehead. I even have it on tape. You hear Thunders going, 'Oh, you Baltimore children are so mind-expanding,' then all of sudden you hear this 'pop.' He just looked at the crowd, said, 'Thank you, children,' put down his guitar, grabbed his Jack Daniel's off the top of his amp, unplugged, and went out the front door."
By the early '80s, things were going well enough that the Andersons expanded, booking bands into the Congress' large upstairs room, which they dubbed the Galaxy Ballroom.
"We had such a skeleton crew," LesLee Anderson says. "We did everything: booking the ballroom, booking [the Marble], mopping the floors, cleaning bathrooms, and ordering stuff."
The Marble became more than just their life, it became their home--literally. The couple moved into the basement, sleeping on Army cots in a behind-the-bar storeroom and preparing meals in a series of toaster ovens. "If that ain't love, I don't know what is," Anderson quips.
Tireless Roger Anderson also found time to play guitar in the Marble's house band, the Alcoholics, which also featured his wife on vocals. "The bar was his baby; I just helped nurture," Anderson says of her spouse, whose stocky build and flattop earned him the nickname "Sgt. Carter." Some musicians found Roger Anderson difficult to deal with, and bands occasionally found themselves banned from the basement for one perceived infraction or another. But as a guitar-slinger himself, Anderson loved to hang with groups after closing, shooting the shit over beers. And with her hard-nosed husband at the helm, Anderson says, the police rarely had to come down the granite steps. (Once, legend has it, someone tried to hold up the place. Roger cracked the assailant over the head with a ball-peen hammer; crime over.)
The Marble's unique atmosphere wasn't too all tastes. Iggy Pop might have loved the fetid, echo-y cellar, but many touring bands were less than enamored of the bar once they got a look at--and a whiff of--the place. NRBQ and Steely Dan's Donald Fagen are among the acts said to have vetoed Marble gigs. Roger Anderson dealt with this too.
Cohan recalls the night when the manager of British hair-wavers A Flock of Seagulls turned his nose up at Roger's room. With their song "I Ran" rising on the radio charts, the Flock was flying high when it came to play the Marble.
"Their manager came in and said they weren't coming off the bus--the sound system was terrible, and they thought the place was a hole," Cohan says. "Roger got in this guy's face and started screaming, 'You better hold up to your contract, or you can get your asses back to England.'" A cowed gaggle of Gulls eventually took the stage. (Postscript: Years later, a fading, feather-bedraggled Flock played the Barn on Harford Road.)
For all his scrappy spirit, one thing remained beyond Roger Anderson's control: the competition. The Marble was never the only rock roost in town. Venerable venue No Fish Today was just around the corner on Eutaw Street (until it burned down in 1982). The hippie-esque Fish catered to less-caustic rock, but the Andersons' early successes with punk and new wave didn't go unnoticed elsewhere. Girard's, a mirror-ball-and-track-lights disco at Cathedral and Eager streets (now City Café) started booking bands in '81. (The Ramones plugged in there once.) Federal Hill's cozy 8 x 10 club opened in '83. The "underground sound" was emerging into the sunlight, and its growing legion of fans found better-looking rooms in better neighborhoods to hear it. Meanwhile, many of the Marble's earliest aficionados were graduating, or growing up, or simply moving on. The joint's shabby chic was wearing thin.
"You never went [to the Marble] because of how the music sounded," Cohan says of the black-slathered basement. "You went there because of the times, and the times dictated that clubs should be like that."
"It was a dump, there's no two ways about it," Kowalski says. "Roger did what he could do, but it was a big project for one guy, this huge, old hotel. In the summer it was blistering hot, in the winter it was freezing cold. It was dark, dingy, and stunk like piss."
The Marble's heyday came to a succinct and tragic end on the afternoon of April 26, 1984, when irascible, hard-living Roger Anderson suffered a fatal heart attack in the middle of the bar's terrazzo floor. He was 37. LesLee Anderson was fixing a toaster-oven dinner when it happened.
"He was laying on stage, and then he just flipped over onto the floor and died," she says. "It was that quick."
LesLee Anderson soldiered on in the cellar alone, but her heart wasn't in it. And her husband had left awfully big shoes to fill.
"When Roger died, something went missing from Baltimore: club owners who loved rock 'n' roll," Cohan says. "We were left with people who were out to make money. Roger was the only club owner I ever met who was actually a rocker. He had a fire for it."
On a chilly night in December of that year, someone broke into the bar while LesLee Anderson dozed on her back-room cot and stole her wedding ring and Dobro guitar.
"I was just heartbroken," she says. "When the police came, they told me I should leave, that I was in danger here." Several months later, she did just that, shuttering the bar and making the long-postponed move to California--by herself.
But too many people had too much invested in the Marble to let it go quietly into that good night. Among them were bartender Robin Stuprich, her husband Ed Linton, and their friend Joe Gary, who took charge of the room and booked "hardcore" bands--punk's harder, faster, and decidedly more youthful offspring. (Gary, who did sound for a number of those bands, passed away this past summer.) All-ages, no-alcohol shows became the norm, and they staged a number of good ones: the Bad Brains, the Dead Milkmen, Henry Rollins, the Butthole Surfers. But without Sgt. Carter's authoritative presence, the chaos was sometime hard to control. (The Buttholes, for instance, were blamed for heaving a paint can through an ornate, beveled mirror behind the bar.)
"There were more clubs by that point," Kowalski says. "And the younger crowd didn't drink, so you didn't have to have shows in a bar. [The Marble] was trying hardcore on Sunday afternoons, but the business end of it wasn't there."
Stuprich's reign lasted about six months, but there were others in the post-Anderson era. One was Vermin Supreme (nee Scott Taylor), a member of a local group of merry pranksters called Zae Jockee Clubbe. In 1985, the Clubbe held a musical Halloween bash at the Congress, and with the event's monetary and artistic success, what was once Professor P.E. McAsey's Jardin de Dance became Vermin Supreme's Fabulous Galaxy Lounge. Having taken over the hotel's upstairs, Supreme soon reopened the Marble as well.
With no budget for national acts, Supreme booked local, hosting the Motor Morons, Half Japanese, Exhibit A, and other area stalwarts, while also filling the stage with poetry readings, performance art, and assorted wackiness. (There were even--gasp!--Grateful Dead nights.)
"I used to hire dog acts and stuff like that," says Supreme, now a house painter in Rockport, Mass. (and a perennial candidate for elected office). "It was very eclectic."
Supreme's postmodern vaudeville lasted until the spring of 1986 when, he says, he "tired of dealing with the hotel's incredibly sleazy manager. . . . A number of people took to controlling the rooms after me, but they didn't last long because they all had to deal with that sleazy guy." (The sleazy guy's name escapes Supreme. The only former Congress manager City Paper was able to track down declined to be interviewed.)
And so the Marble limped along--open one week, closed the next--while the ballroom spent the bulk of its time as the Baltimore Pub, booking more mainstream fare. The rooms were unplugged for good in 1987, when out-of-state interests unveiled plans to remake the moth-eaten Congress into a budget hotel. The few remaining residents were eventually booted as well. On May 9, 1987, the Marble Bar held its farewell party. Scene veterans Thee Katatonix and Da Moronics clambered onto the basement stage for a swan-song set.
"It was sad, but at the same time it was kind of a relief," Hopkins says. "The bar had been struggling for so long; it was wounded and on its knees. We played, we drank a lot of beer, there were tears and hugs, and then we just dragged our shit out the door one last time."
"We think the neighborhood is improving and there's a renaissance of interest in downtown housing. This is such a beautiful, historic building."--Struever Bros. executive Ted Rouse, quoted in The Sun, March, 25, 1999
Rumble, rumble, rumble, crashhhh. mProwling the basement she left 16 years earlier, LesLee Anderson has moved beyond making video memories and is scanning the floor for a souvenir--a tangible hunk of history.
"I've got to have something--a piece of this place," she says. "I should've taken a piece of the marble bar when I left here the first time."
Alas, it's too late now even for that. Not long after Anderson moves out from behind it, a quartet of crowbar-wielding hard hats begin dismantling the signature bar.
"We're shipping it out to be cleaned and restored," Carder says. "We plan to bring it back."
In hindsight, perhaps, it's easy to say the punk plug was pulled prematurely at the Marble. Plans to convert the Congress into a budget hotel never came to fruition; there was never enough money. In the ensuing years, a number of developers fell in love with the Franklin Street pile, but none were able to put their feelings into action. Squatters and rats were left with the run of the place. Ironically, the utter squalor brought the hotel's final touch of show-biz attention: In 1995, Bruce Willis strode the edifice's muck-covered marble floors for a scene in Terry Gilliam's post-apocalyptic film 12 Monkeys.
Rumble, rumble, rumble, crashhhh.
The ubiquitous Struever Bros., rehabilitator of Canton's once-crumbling American Can Co. building and other moldering Baltimore buildings, might be the only developer in town with the clout and wherewithal to revive this rickety white elephant in the new century. They've already negotiated with the city for a property-tax break. Despite the hotel's tatterdemalion appearance, Carder says the place is still structurally sound. James Kernan built well.
And so the Rathskeller/Bear Pit/Ladies' and Gentleman's Grill/Marble Bar may become a restaurant. There's even been talk of bringing some form of music back down those eight granite steps.
Anderson pricks up her ears at this notion. Then she stares into the gloom.
"It can never happen again in Baltimore," she says. "Not like it was."
Then she shuffles off, looking for her piece of history.
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After supporting a Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) acquisition strategy that called for a competitive engine development of the F135 and F136 engines, the Department of Defense (DOD) stopped requesting funding for the F136 alternate engine in its fiscal year 2007 budget request, but the Congress continued to fund it through the 2010 budget. In February 2010, DOD projected that it would cost an additional $2.9 billion through 2016 to support an alternate engine program. DOD decided that an engine competition would not likely generate enough long-term savings to justify this up-front investment and subsequently terminated the alternate engine program. In 2010, at congressional request, we reviewed the basis for DOD's $2.9 billion funding projection and reported that the projection did not include the same level of fidelity and precision normally associated with a detailed, comprehensive cost estimate and that the amount of up-front investment needed could be lower if two key assumptions in DOD's analysis were changed. Moreover, since DOD's projection and our last review, several fundamental changes in the JSF aircraft and engine programs have taken place. We examined the potential implications of these changes to the $2.9 billion funding projection. We also examined the potential implications for DOD's broader cost-benefit analysis that captures the long-term costs and benefits of the competitive engine program.
In early 2010, DOD determined that it would need an additional $2.9 billion to support an alternate engine program up to the point where it believed it could begin competition in 2017. Since then, there have been major changes to the JSF aircraft and engine program costs, schedules, and procurement plans. Specifically, (1) defense officials substantially restructured the JSF program, adding cost and time to development and changing the procurement profile to buy fewer aircraft and engines over the next 5 years; (2) more engine production cost data are available; and (3) the F136 alternate engine contractor offered to fund development costs for 2011 and 2012 with its own corporate funds. These and other changes could affect portions of the department's $2.9 billion projection and would have to be addressed and quantified in order to make a more up-to-date and complete funding projection. While there have been significant changes made to the JSF aircraft and engine programs, DOD has not updated its funding projection and has no plans to do so. DOD has not done a complete analysis of the potential life-cycle costs and benefits of the competitive engine strategy in over 4 years. A cost-benefit analysis is an important tool for making investment decisions. DOD's $2.9 billion funding projection through 2016 comprises only a portion of the information that would be needed for such an analysis. DOD maintains that while there have been significant changes made to the JSF aircraft and engine programs, there is still not a compelling business case to continue supporting both engines, and DOD does not plan to update its cost-benefit analysis. Thus, whether a more current, comprehensive analysis that includes all life-cycle costs, benefits, and risks would result in a more definitive business case--one way or another--remains an unanswered question. In commenting on a draft of this report, DOD reiterated its position that the up-front costs to support the alternate engine were not affordable and that a new analysis reflecting recent changes would not likely alter its position. We continue to believe that acquisition decisions should weigh both near-term and long-term costs and benefits and that an updated analysis would provide important information for making these decisions. We are not making recommendations in this report.
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WASHINGTON - A senior prank at a local high school in Virginia is getting two teenagers into big trouble.
Police in Prince William County have charged two Woodbridge High School seniors with burglary and vandalism.
The two were seen on surveillance cameras inside the school setting off fire extinguishers, dumping liquid onto the floor and glueing coins to doors.
The prank caused more than $10,000 dollars worth of damage. Aaron Gilliam, 18, of Woodbridge, and a 17-year-old whose name has not been released both face charges.
Gilliam is due in court the same week he is scheduled to graduate.
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BEMIDJI, Minn. (April 29, 2010) Fourteen faculty members with a combined total of 377.5 years of service to Bemidji State University will be named professors emeriti during the Universitys 92nd commencement excercises, Friday, May 6, at Bemidjis Sanford Center.
Faculty who retire from the University with at least 15 years of service are eligible to receive emeriti status.
The group of 2011 emeriti are:
Dr. William Brauer, professor emeritus of technological studies; 17 years at Bemidji State.
Mr. James Brouwer, professor emeritus of professional education; 24 years at Bemidji State.
Mr. Philip Dahl, professor emeritus of TRiO/Student Support Services; 37 years at Bemidji State.
Dr. Elaine Hoffman, professor emerita of technological studies; 15 years at Bemidji State.
Dr. Stevens Johnson, professor emeritus of physics; 26 years at Bemidji State.
Dr. Steven Konecne, professor emeritus of music; 30.5 years at Bemidji State.
Dr. Robert Ley, professor emeritus of economics; 31 years at Bemidji State.
Dr. Kathleen Meyer, professor emerita of German and French; 21 years at Bemidji State.
Ms. Mary Ann Reitmeir, professor emerita of social work; 29 years at Bemidji State.
Dr. Patrick Riley, professor emeritus of music, 38 years at Bemidji State.
Mr. Stuart Rosselet, professor emeritus of library and library services; 28 years at Bemidji State.
Dr. Rochelle Scheela, professor emerita of nursing; 28 years at Bemidji State.
Mr. David Carlson, registrar emeritus; 31 years at Bemidji State.
Ms. LaMae Ritchie, director emerita of the International Program Center; 32 years at Bemidji State.
Also during commencement, which begins with the traditional walk a few minutes before 2 p.m., approximately 860 students will be eligible to receive degrees.
For more information on commencement ceremonies at Bemidji State University, visit http://www.bemidjistate.edu/commencement.
About Bemidji State University Bemidji State University, located in northern Minnesotas lake district, occupies a wooded campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. Enrolling more than 5,000 students, the University offers more than 50 undergraduate majors and nine graduate programs encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. The University is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and has a faculty and staff of more than 550. University signature themes include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and global and multi-cultural understanding. For further information about the University, visit bemidjistate.edu. Become a fan of Bemidji State University on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.


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Style and Story By Virginia Galateri
When did you decide to become a chef?
When I realized that I spent more time thinking about things I could do with sweetbreads or octopuses than I did about my painting. As a child I used to stand on a chair next to the AGA and watch mum and dad cook and would often be found flicking through my mother's extensive collection of old cook books fascinated by pictures of jelly moulds or curious game birds. I was inevitably heading towards the chopping board via a crooked path.
What and/or who inspires you and your cuisine?
Anyone whose food I enjoy be they home cook or famous chef. It could be an old Greek widow cooking lamb chops, a fried fish stall in a Mexican garage or the delicious food of Henry Harris at Racine in London. It may just be an amazing Provencal tomato with salt. I follow my nose and it normally finds good things. I do a lot of scribbling in small note books so I don't forget restaurants or inspirations from things I've eaten. My passion is cooking over charcoal. The smoke is an ingredient I will never fall out of love with.
There are too many good cooks and writers to mention here. There are many writers and cooks, farmers, knife makers, fishermen, who have influenced the way I cook. I love complicated dishes every now and then, but unfussy provincial farmhouse food is what I'm drawn too. My friend Steve Parle, a brilliant chef, describes his cooking style as 'International Grandmother'. I'd say the same.
You love to share your favorites with your fans through your website
Sharing is important. Sometimes you have to be tactical, but generally speaking I like to see everyone doing well, so the site includes a directory of things I have found and value, be they food drink, tents, knifes, fishing rods, and nice shoes made by Tod's.
Tell me about your first encounter with Tod's
As a teenager noticing lots of people in Nice harbour had the same style shoe on and subsequently learning they were Tod's.
When you think of the brand Tod's what thoughts and associations come to mind?
I see Tod's as a more European than British look. I'd describe it as smart, casual, very functional and well designed but not fussy.
How would you describe your style?
It really depends on my mood and location. I like to look smart when the occasion demands it. In the country I'll probably in well used outdoor gear that smells of wood smoke. I wear jeans most of the time, have a bit of an addiction to knitwear and always seem to be wearing canvas shoes in the wrong weather. If I ever have spare cash to spend on clothes I get my shirts made for me.
What does London as a city means to you and why is it such a great place?
London is my other home when away from the fields and woods. It's the flip side of my personality. Art, music, exhibitions food and drink… it has so much to offer. It never fails to surprise. I love the fact that it feels like different towns from area to area but all scrunched up together. I prefer its random layout to, say, the grids of New York. There is always something new and surprising funny or odd to be winkled out of London.
Where is your favorite place in London and why?
I think it would undoubtedly be the Natural History Museum. I spent many happy days there as a child looking at the mammals, birds, beetles, skeletons. I was amazed and walked around with my eyes on stalks. It still has the same effect. The inside of the building amplifies the beauty of its contents. The outside is equally splendid. Although nature is more beautiful than anything the human race can design, this extraordinary bit of architecture is about as fitting a tribute as anyone could erect in honor of Mother Nature.
What is it that you cannot live without?
My children and fishing.
What's the best advice you would give to a young up and coming chef?
Understand nature. Cook with love or not at all. Keep it simple!
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This Italian-French restaurant really has everything; great service, a beautiful ambiance and tremendous tasting creative food. Luckily for me, I was fortunate enough to experience this great restaurant on two separate occasions this summer.
On the first visit, the experience of waiting at the bar for a table was really special, as a dizzying display of appetizer trays and pizza samples were brought out to the waiting bar guests, these scrumptious morsels had me wildly anticipating the great meal that laid ahead.
On my second visit, I was disappointed to find that the complimentary appetizers weren't being offered like last time. I'm assuming that it must be a Friday or weekend only thing, since my second visit was on a Tuesday evening. So for appetizers we ordered the bucket of balls, which are these amazing risotto balls with black truffle butter, these things are to die for. We also ordered the Rhode Island calamari, which are fried calamari with spicy cherry peppers, tomatoes and what looked like a humus underneath – it was outstanding.
For the main course, I opted for the chefs pasta tasting on the first visit, it was a five course dinner that left me more than satisfied and had me experiencing fantastic flavors and combinations of pastas in ways that I had not before.
On my next visit I went with the "steak and cheese", which was a choice between a ribeye steak or a filet mignon, I went for the bigger and more flavorful ribeye and then got greedy and added a rack of grilled-breaded shrimp on the side. I then found myself having trouble getting through the whole thing! But it was delicious!
Outstanding food, great service and on both of my visits, wonderful company! You all know who you are, and to each one of you I say thank you, you helped make the Federal a great food memory for me.
The Federal Restaurant & Bar
135 Cooper Street
Agawam, MA 01001
Phone: (413) 789-1267
Taste: 9.5
Experience: 9.5
Value: 9
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GOP moderates suffer consequences
This spring in Washington, D.C., we stayed with senior congressional aides and visited with their friends — all Republicans. Without exception, they were saddened by the defeat in the primaries of moderate Republicans, whose "fault" was working with moderates across the aisle. The tea party folks have put party above country!
The recent FP rant (somewhat incorrectly) condemns Sen. Lamar Alexander who, in this case, served the best interests of the people and his state -- not the Free Press editorial writers, who resort to name calling and bullying as if their readers are still in junior high.
The silly House vote against the Affordable Care Act is an example of Republicans' narrow agenda which serves the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and poor. Republicans continue to attack teachers, policemen, firemen and others, condemning their right to bargain and receive pensions (into which most have paid). How convenient for congressmen to avoid negotiations for their lucrative pay, perks and pensions.
Finally, we could lessen our national debt by shortening all campaigning, including primaries, to six months and to encourage the billions spent by PACs to pay on that debt. Additionally, this would help with everyone's anger management!
Editorial presents misrepresentation
Your July 16 editorial "Property rights trump all" grossly misrepresents the Violence Policy Center's "Concealed Carry Killers" data. You present the information contained in the database as comprehensive and as evidence, proof even, that concealed carry permit holders are not a public safety threat. The VPC's website makes it clear that the incidents contained in the database likely represent only a small percentage of actual incidents since, because there is no comprehensive collection of such data, we are forced to rely almost entirely on news reports.
Moreover, we assert that the fact that concealed carry permit holders have killed at least 13 law enforcement officers and committed at least 21 mass shootings resulting in the deaths of 94 victims (which they are allegedly supposed to prevent) since May 2007 is enough to raise very serious public safety concerns about concealed carry permits in general. We would hope that your paper would join us in calling for comprehensive data collection through the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports system of all homicides (including justifiable homicides) and crimes committed by permit holders. Then we would all know the full scale of harm inflicted by concealed carry permit holders.
JOSH SUGARMANN, Executive Director, Violence Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
Make city auditing more transparent
Chattanooga voters will have an opportunity on Aug. 2 to vote to establish an independent audit function for the City of Chattanooga. Currently, the internal auditor is hired by and reports directly to the mayor. If the change to the City Charter is approved, the auditor will be hired by and report to an independently appointed Audit Committee. The committee will be independent of the political process and consist of five members; two recommended by the Chattanooga Chapter of the Tennessee Society of CPA's, two by the Chattanooga Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors and one by the Chattanooga Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
The independent Audit Committee will have oversight of the City's internal Audit Function, the City's Fraud, Waste and Abuse hotline and the external Audit Function.
This is an exceptional opportunity to ensure transparency and government accountability for the citizens of Chattanooga. I ask everyone to please vote for this change to the City Charter on Aug. 2.
HENRY A. HOSS, Member of the City of Chattanooga's Audit Committee
Story's insinuation dismissive to teens
I rarely react very strongly to the diction and stylistic quirks of your journalists, but Pam Sohn's descriptions of teenagers in her article "Greening Kids" (July 15) really raised my blood pressure. The insinuation that teenagers would somehow be put off by working with someone who has a Ph.D. and Sohn's description of them as "busy-being-cool teens" demonstrates an attitude that's dismissive to an entire demographic. It's this kind of small-mindedness on the part of adults that leaves young people feeling, as Dr. Anna George said in the article, "frustrated because they feel like they can't do more."
I've worked with teenagers for about a dozen years now, and I can tell you that across all spectrums of economy and circumstance, they are energetic, eager to contribute, and much more willing to try new things (i.e. not be cool) than the average adult. The teenagers who signed up for this camp seem particularly driven — their words and actions have inspired me to take a look around and see what I can do. Those young people are not busy being cool, they're busy trying to fix problems we have created.
Thank goodness for people like Dr. George who understand teenagers' true capacity for visioning and problem-solving.
Vital disrespectful to SAU graduates
Greg Vital's repeated statements about graduating from Southern Adventist University are upsetting, but his response to having been caught in this fabrication is only more disturbing and revealing. He claims that "I've gotten dozens of emails and phone calls from people who have been faced with the same problem, who have suffered." Well, that's a convenient turning of the tables: after benefiting for years from a falsehood about his academic record, he now collects sympathy cards for his distress at having been caught?
Putting sarcasm (briefly) aside, Mr. Vital's solipsistic evasions and denials are seriously disrespectful to every actual graduate of Southern Adventist University, every student who did, in fact, stick it out to earn that diploma.
And finally, Mr. Vital clearly has no idea what constitutes "a Freudian slip." Perhaps the credits he lacked were in psychology.
Realistic option for recall needed
The Chattanooga City Council members Sally Robinson, Carol Berz and Jack Benson seem determined to strengthen the wall protecting them from being "recalled" from office. Their debate against recall centered on what they considered good reason to recall themselves. It seems they think raising taxes, increasing fees and continuing spending are not legitimate reasons to recall an elected official. Have they forgotten what led to the American Revolution? July 4th is not the day we celebrated "taxation without representation."
Dear elected officials: We voters don't recall very often, but we need to maintain a realistic option to recall a clown just the same. Good grief, please don't try to make it harder to recall a politician than it already is. We put you into office. We should be able to put you out just as easily.
Cartoon about leaders is shameful
How shameful of the Lee Judge cartoon (July 16) that pokes fun at Dick Cheney (deferment as a student at Yale), George W. Bush, who was in the Air National Guard (remember, Dan Rather got fired for trying to put out a story to the contrary) and Donald Rumsfeld, who served in the Navy for three years.
What about the true liar regarding his service — Sen. Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.
Lied and still got elected.
Hoss knows law, how to apply it
Judges matter, which is why Soddy-Daisy should vote for Bryan Hoss for judge.
As a hardworking trial attorney, Bryan has as wide range experience in both civil and criminal matters. In other words, he knows the law, and he knows how to apply it. Bryan also has an innate sense of justice that will prove invaluable on the bench. Judges must be impartial and be able to see both sides of an issue. Bryan's integrity will ensure his impartiality; his thoughtfulness will assure an unbiased perspective; and his decisiveness will lead to just decisions.
Bryan's common sense, open-minded approach to the law, combined with the respect and dignity he shows to others, guarantees he will reflect the values of the Soddy-Daisy community. At the same time, Bryan will have the crucial advantage of complete independence since he is not from the area. Judges help shape the community, and Soddy-Daisy should expect a judge who is wise, patient, experienced, and, above all, fair. I know that Bryan will meet those expectations, and then surpass them.
Judges matter. Vote for Bryan Hoss on Aug. 2.
Starnes is best candidate on ballot
When choosing our elected officials, we often depend on the opinions of others and the media to help us decide on the best candidate. Rare is the opportunity to vote for someone whom we know personally. This election I feel fortunate to be able to cast my vote for someone I do know personally, General Sessions judge candidate Gary Starnes.
Gary's passion for our legal system, his desire to serve our community and his impeccable integrity make him my choice for Sessions judge. In addition to his professional stature, Gary has impressed me with his personal character through his unwavering loyalty to his wife and family.
I hope you will join me in supporting the best candidate on the ballot. Vote Gary Starnes, General Sessions Court judge.
LINDA BENTON, Signal Mountain
Wamp has hope for nation's future
I'm honored to know Weston Wamp on a personal level. I can say that he's the best candidate for Congress. Yes, he's younger than the other candidates, but that's to his advantage. He has an energy which is contagious. That's exactly what Congress needs to make positive changes. His age assures me that he has the future of our younger generations on his mind.
I believe that Weston Wamp will work diligently to preserve the constitutional rights that not only I but also my children deserve.
He's a kind Christian man with a good moral background. I've enjoyed listening to him speak on multiple occasions. Each time I walk away with a greater understanding of his passion to be a positive change in America. He's intelligent and driven to succeed in Congress.
He's the man I choose to represent me. He's the man I choose to make America the best it has ever been for my children as they mature into adults.
Don't be skeptical about his age. Embrace it. Relish the thought that he's not jaded, that he still sees goodness in American people, and he has hope for the future of America the way our forefathers intended.
ANDI SHADRICK, Hixson
Wilson is best choice for mayor
Hamilton County voters have the rare opportunity to elect a person county mayor who truly cares about the people he will serve.
The person I am speaking of is Dr. Richard Wilson. I have known Dr. Wilson since he was my political science professor at UTC back in the '70s. Dr. Wilson is very knowledgeable of the workings of government. Dr. Wilson is more than capable to carry out his duties as county mayor. Perhaps even more important, Dr. Wilson cares greatly about people and he cares about helping people.
Dr. Wilson is clearly the best choice for county mayor. I urge you to vote for him as county mayor.
SHIRLEY PLOTT, Ooltewah
JANE STARNER, the price of becoming more and more fanatic and intolerant.
NANCY EDEN, Dan Rather got fired for not checking his sources. Regardless of the subject, that would be an issue. Well, unless you're on Fox, in which case you never admit the mistake, and redouble your efforts.
But hey, good show misrepresenting the situation with Blumenthal.
ANDI SHADRICK, except Wamp is also too hateful and disdainful of the present and future. His "hope" is negative and spiteful.
Nancy Eden, a typical squak box for Faux News and Limpbaugh, "On Oct. 6, 1965, the Selective Service lifted its ban against drafting married men who had no children. Nine months and two days later, Mr. Cheney's first daughter, Elizabeth, was born." This quote comes from a Saturday NYTimes article -- It is apparent that Richard Cheney did everything humanly possible -- short of fleeing to Canada -- to avoid military conscription: He applied for and received 5 student deferments, a number described as "incredible" by professor David Curry of the University of Missouri in St. Louis. Curry has written extensively about the draft, including a 1985 book, "Sunshine Patriots: Punishment and the Vietnam Offender." The Times quotes Mr. Curry as observing: "That's a lot of times for the draft board to say O.K." In April of 1972, the young lieutenant, George W. Bush, made a unilateral decision that he was no longer going to fly. Although he had taken an oath to serve for six years in his privileged position in the Texas Air Guard, George W. Bush left for Alabama two years before his hitch was up. Taxpayers had spent close to a million dollars training him to fly a fighter jet, but he was intent on working in a U.S. senate campaign. Bush's Guard file shows that he did not request a transfer until a few months later, and it was turned down. Bush, who was due to report to his Houston air base for a physical on or before his July 6 birthday, failed to return from Alabama. He was subsequently grounded on orders from Maj. Gen. Francis Greenlief. And this is where the mystery begins. Blumenthal served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He studied administration. He was discharged honorably six years later, with the rank of sergeant
Nancy Eden...
The Vietnam War, as seen some 40 years later through the eyes of people alive today, is an excellent example of revisionist history. It seems that most people, in their fervor to jump aboard the pseudo-patriotic bandwagon, are quick to label anyone who served a hero and anyone who resisted an unpatriotic coward. But the fact is that over half the population came to be fully opposed to that war and literally hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life were protesting in the streets. And for those not actively participating in rallies and burning their draft cards, others were doing everything in their power, through legal and legitimate means or otherwise, not to get drafted.
The disgrace of Bush and Cheney is not so much that they did not enlist or even allow themselves to be drafted, but that they both have gone on record as saying that they were FOR the Vietnmam War, that they thought it was the right thing for America to do. If they had taken a stance and resisted the war, proclaiming that it was wrong and unjustified, then their actions could have been seen in keeping with their convictions. But they are the ultimate hypocrites. Whether one served or did not serve, it was your conviction that defined you. For them to claim that they were FOR the war while using the privilege and status of their families to get them out of serving, well...you can't get any more hypocritical or cowardly than that.


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Dealing with a chronic illness may not only be tough for the patient, but also the caregiver.
Martha Jefferson Hospital Chaplain Suzanne Hilton Smith works with many patients and caregivers and she says it's common for caregivers to go without the care that they need.
They're often so focused on caring for their patient or loved one that they forget to take care of themselves. That could cause problems for them in the future.
"For some of us, that means doing everything they need. The problem with that over the long haul is our own energy our own ability to care for somebody becomes debilitated," said Suzanne Hilton Smith, Chaplain, Martha Jefferson Hospital.
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She says you should do what you need to do to tend to your patient or loved one. She suggests finding someone to talk to that's been through the same situation. Smith also recommends taking time out for yourself to eat a healthy diet, exercise and sleep.
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He may have his own bookshop, but if anything, that's only encouraged Marc Jacobs to carry on expanding. Monday will be the day that an incredible book goes on sale – The Men + Women of Marc Jacobs, the launch of which will entail a grand party and lots of hype. It's a coffee table book, made up of images of Marc's many employees, (as stylish as you would imagine) and snapped and complied by photographer Brian Bowen Smith.
Smith himself explained how the project took shape while he was travelling with the Jacobs crew to store openings and business trips; at each stop, he would take photographs of the staff for fun. "We never really planned anything," he explains. "[An employee] would run out with me for 15 minutes and do one of those shots. It was very spontaneous."
When Smith and Duffy eventually decided to produce the book, the formula stayed the same. "No assistants, just the kids and me and my little Leica. We'd go and bang the shots out," says Smith, adding, however, that "after people knew what I was doing, the word spread. They were ready for me if I came into town."
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Their horoscopes matched perfectly, and their community gives a lot of importance to the matching of horoscopes, so nothing else really mattered: Rajini and Unnikrishnan were to get married.
Rajini grew up in a small town called Kotakkal, in India's small south-western state of Kerala, the youngest of four brothers and sisters. Her father was a pharmacist in a company that produced herbal medicines.
Rajini led a very sheltered existence. She went to a local school and received a bachelor's degree in history through the Open University, which meant she did not have to travel to college to attend classes. Rajini never went anywhere alone, and her father took all decisions for her, however big or small. When he died in 1999 her elder brother, as the new head of the family, took charge of her life. Traditional Nair families like Rajini's take hierarchical relationships seriously. Respect and regard is due to elders: younger members of the family, especially women and girls, rarely defy their decisions.
So in 2002, when Rajini was 20 years old, it was decided she would marry Unnikrishnan, who was working as chief checker at the harbour in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Their families were not known to each other, and it was a neighbour who had proposed the match to the would-be bridegroom, then on home leave. Unnikrishnan readily agreed, even without having met Rajini and knowing that they would not be living together, because Saudi Arabia would not allow his wife to join him.
But Rajini was against it:
I knew there would be long periods of separation and I would have to live with his widowed mother. But there was really very little I could do about it. My family saw it as a good alliance because he was working abroad and felt that the financial security and well-being that would come with such a marriage were of prime importance. Moreover, our horoscopes matched perfectly, so nothing else mattered.
Rajini and Unnikrishnan met for the first time at their engagement ceremony; their wedding day was just a few weeks later because both families were keen on solemnizing the marriage before Unnikrishnan returned.
Luckily we immediately liked each other. The month and a half we spent together before he went back to Jeddah was perhaps the happiest time in my married life. He is a warm, gregarious person and the house was full of sound and laughter. His friends would come over and we would go out a lot to shop and see movies. When he left even the neighbours commented on the difference because suddenly there was no sound from the house.
In a few weeks, Rajini had become a "Gulf wife", one of more than a million married women in Kerala who are living without their husbands, who have migrated to the Gulf countries. This means solitude but at the same time can be empowering for a young woman: with her husband gone, she is the one taking decisions, handling family finances, running the home and caring for children and elderly in-laws.
Suddenly, I was no longer a carefree, pampered daughter. Before leaving, my husband told me that he would be sending me money every month and that it was up to me to manage everything. I found myself burdened with responsibilities.
Rajini had to deal with the running of a large house in constant need of repairs, care for an elderly mother-in-law and in due time for their baby daughter.
Initially I was very frightened because I had never done such things before and there was no one there to tell me what to do. I just learnt from experience, and over time I started to enjoy these responsibilities because I knew I have the full support of my husband in everything I did. So I feel positive, strong and greatly empowered compared to my pre-marital days when I had absolutely no control over my life.
But the real turning point, Rajini says now, was two years ago, when she almost single-handedly had to oversee the building of their new house. The plans had been drawn up during Unnikrishnan's home leave and a loan from the bank had been taken in Rajini's name.
The fact that I was able to oversee the construction, handle the workmen, and manage huge amounts of money, have given me the confidence that I can cope with any situation.
But this does not make up for the huge emotional vacuum in her life. Rajini speaks to her husband almost every day, but she misses him all the time, and particularly when her daughter or her mother-in-law falls ill or during festival times when everyone is rejoicing. Every so often, Rajini and her husband talk about ending this separation: he is also not happy being away from her. But they are aware that their options are limited. Having completed no more than secondary school, there is little chance of Unnikrishnan finding a job in India that would enable him to earn as much as he presently does. And the other option of starting his own business, something most migrants dream of doing, will have to wait until they pay back the loan they took to build their house.>
So Rajini is now hoping that he will be able to find a job in a country that would permit the family to be with him.
That would be best because we have got used to a certain standard of living, and not having to stint on food, clothes or medical care.
Rajini goes to the local government hospital only for routine procedures like vaccinations and booster shots for her daughter. For everything else they can afford to see more expensive private doctors. She plans to send her daughter next term to one of the best and perhaps most expensive schools in Kotakkal. The tuition fee has already been set aside
But still, Rajini feels she has to pay too high a price:
I don't think any amount of money can make up for the terrible loneliness that a Gulf wife has to deal with. People who have seen me evolve, from being just someone's daughter to a woman who is managing a home and family all by herself, are very impressed. They speak well of me and give me a lot of respect but they don't know how lonely I am, especially at night with only a mobile phone for company. Others have someone they can talk to. Who do I talk to?
Rajini's loneliness is further compounded by dreary domesticity and an endless routine of cooking, cleaning the two-bedroom house, taking care of her three-year-old daughter, shopping and going to the bank. Her day begins at 6.30 in the morning and most evenings she is in bed by 10 pm, too tired to read or even watch the soaps on television. The only break she gets is for an hour or so every evening, when she walks across to visit her family about half a kilometre away.
Would you like to see your daughter marry a Gulf worker?
Never, may God bless her so that she does not have to.
The only respite from her monotonous routine is when her husband comes home, once every two and a half years – for two months. He is not able to make it more often: the ticket is expensive, he has to bring gifts for everyone in the family, and his employer is sticky about giving leave. That is why Unnikrishnan could not be there when their daughter was born.
I went to my mother's place for my delivery as is the custom and my family did everything they could to make me comfortable. The hospital I went to is one of the best in Kotakkal but I missed my husband, especially when I was in labour. There was no one to give me moral support and strength the way he would have, and when the baby arrived I wept because he was not there to share the moment with me. He saw her for the first time when she was one and a half years old.
So, now, Rajini doesn't want to have another child. Unnikrishnan is keen that they do, but she has told him she will not unless they live together. And she is concerned with their daughter starting her school life without her father. He seems to agree; the last time he was over he talked of returning by the time she starts school, because he wants to be part of her growing up.
He also realizes how important it is for us to live together, because the realities would be quite different if he was here. What we are now doing is just "play-act a marriage". We haven't dropped our masks and it's all very unnatural. When he comes for just a few weeks we both put our best foot forward. We are loving and caring and I do everything for him, like cooking the things he likes to eat. And he does everything possible to make me happy. Even if we have differences and arguments it is soon forgotten because he's here for just a few weeks and we want to make the most of it. The sorrow of separation is also so new each time. As his departure date nears we start counting the days that remain and start to feel sad and unhappy. So he has only seen one side of me… my positive side. And I don't think I know the real him.
Rajini dreams of living with her husband, but she is afraid it will not happen anytime soon. Her horoscope told her it was her destiny to be separated from him for some time: astrologers said it could be as long as 17 years.
I feel quite desolate when I think of such a possibility but I have never mentioned it to my husband, because I am hoping through my prayers to change my destiny.