Petaluma Critical Mass, bicycle activists who pedal through the city’s core in an attempt to take back the streets, will ride again Friday night. Cyclists will congregate at 5 p.m. on Friday in the parking lot of Luchessi Park, which adjoins the Petaluma Community Center, 320 North McDowell Blvd. They will equip themselves with helmets, […]
How Blogs Become Journalism
Acknowledging that “citizen journalism has forced news organizations to change the way they do business,” news site OnMilwaukee.com announced last month it would invite readers to launch their own blogs on all things Milwaukeean. So how are they faring? Ironically, publisher Andy Tarnoff predicted the news site’s biggest problem in his inaugural article: There’s only […]
Double-entendre Pontiff
Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Turkey, thanks to being under tight security including shutting down major arteries, snipers and security checkpoints in Istanbul and portions of the public transit system in Istanbul went off with nary a hitch, and the main demonstrations during the duration of his stay were either far afield from his itinerary […]