An interview with Fr. John Madden, pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church in Worcester. Fr. John talks about being a priest, organizing a soup line, Dorothy Day, and the Catholic Worker movement.

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Cha-Cha Connor and Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell interview an all-star panel about Worcester’s punk scene. Featuring: Cathy Cah, Lauren Cain, Kae Collins, Yukiko Fujii, Joanne Hart, Lysie Nagorski, Toni Ostrow, Annie Paquette, Mariah Pariah, Kelley Parsons, and Erin Riley.

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A few related videos:

Cathy Cah with Musclecah

Choice clips from the 2009 Worcester Mystery Band concert.

Here’s how Jacob Berendes described Mystery Band in 2007:

mystery band is a worcester activity in which everyone who is interested in being in a band submits their name and contact information (and any previous musical experience) to a central organizer, who then organizes the list of people into however many five or six person bands. these bands are given a certain amount of time (usually 2 months) to have a few practices and write between 5 and 20 minutes of original material that is not a waste of everybody’s time. improvisation is prohibited. participants need not have any prior musical experience, just the desire to be in a band and the ability to step up. mystery band culminates in a series of shows for all the bands that pulled it off.

See also: Mystery Band 2008

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Here’s the first episode of a new collaboration between Bruce “Snow Ghost” Russell and Mike Benedetti: The Silver Mountain.

In this installment, social anarchist Anne Lewenberg and Catholic anarchist Brenna Cussen talk about their controversial political philosophies.

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From the 2010 “holiday shoutouts” at WCCA TV13.

This masterpiece courtesy Nick Nassar.

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The Snow Ghost Community Show is proud to present video and audio from Worcester Mystery Band 2008.

Here’s how Jacob Berendes described Mystery Band in 2007:

mystery band is a worcester activity in which everyone who is interested in being in a band submits their name and contact information (and any previous musical experience) to a central organizer, who then organizes the list of people into however many five or six person bands. these bands are given a certain amount of time (usually 2 months) to have a few practices and write between 5 and 20 minutes of original material that is not a waste of everybody’s time. improvisation is prohibited. participants need not have any prior musical experience, just the desire to be in a band and the ability to step up. mystery band culminates in a series of shows for all the bands that pulled it off.

Clips:

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Bone Zone live in Worcester, Sept. 6, 2008. You can download a free mp3 of their album Perching on the Beam. For more videos, see Cop Heaven.

Audio downloads from this show. (This audio is cleaner but less-fun than the audio used on the video.)

The cablecast version of this program is followed by Stephen Fry’s Happy Birthday to GNU and I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.

A documentary about the interactive public sculture installation “Hang Out Your Creative Laundry,” held at Worcester’s Elm Park August 15, 2008.

Includes interviews with Susan Champeny, Mihoko Wakabayashi, Casey Burns, Dan Burke, Dante Comparetto, Jacob Berendes, Asa, and Pogo.

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