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“If you checked all the cars at the high school, you would find a lot more guns.”
— Brandon Holley, freshman at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana; The Town Talk, May 11, 2007. Jena High School in LaSalle Parish has been receiving a significant amount of press lately. First, in September, there was the story of three white students hanging nooses in a tree in front of the high school, which, as KALB reported, ignited already flammable racial tensions in the community. Two months later, arsonists set the main building of the school afire, causing severe damage. And then, in December, there was the infamous incident of the Jena Six in which six African-American high school…
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Green Lemon Live in Alexandria
Who: From Colorado (by way of Oklahoma), Green Lemon, brought to you by Gotta Groove Productions. Check out their website by clicking here. What: Read for yourself: Green Lemon has been named 2004 New Home Grown Band Of The Year by the Home Grown Music Network, listed as one of the Top Bands To See Live in 2005 by Jambase.com, featured in Relix Magazines On The Verge column, where they were labeled A Band You Should Know About, and more recently, Relix named Green Lemon One of the 10 Summer Star Bands to Watch. They have also been awarded Independent…
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Questions in Dialect LIVE Tonight in Alexandria
Questions in Dialect, a Jackson, Mississippi-based progressive electronic and rock n’ roll band, will be playing a FREE show TONIGHT in Downtown Alexandria at Alex 1805 at 9PM. Alexandria is Question in Dialect’s first stop on a two-month tour, which will take them throughout Texas and California. You can download two of their albums on iTunes. This is how they describe themselves: QiD. They build their own instruments, play with soundwaves from the sun, jupiter, and the galaxies, and hack old tvs to make home-made oscilloscopes (you can see the soundwaves while you hear them). Soon after tuning your ears…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
