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… The Central-East Austin story is steeped in both tragedy and triumph,” said Lisa Byrd, the executive director of ProArts Collective, the Austin nonprofit that spearheaded efforts to apply for the local designation of a black cultural district. The district’s history goes back to 1928, when the City Council developed a plan that fostered segregation by designating the East Austin area as a “Negro District.”
City services, including utilities, sewers, parks and schools were made available to blacks in East Austin only. According to city records, almost the entire black population had been relocated to the East Austin area by 1932. The boundaries of the new cultural district mirror the original boundaries of the Negro District — Manor Road to Huston-Tillotson University, from north to south, and Airport Boulevard to Interstate 35, from east to west.
As the center of Austin’s African American community, the area bustled with black businesses, churches, schools and homes of the well-to-do blacks as well as the poor. Later, after desegregation opened other areas to blacks, it became a blighted area plagued by crime, prostitution and drugs.

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The piece on Altamount resulted in a longer tenure at Rolling Stone, for whom Lewis would act as associate editor as well as contributor. Though his relationship with the fledgling magazine and its publisher Jann Wenner would eventually become contentious and even litigious, it was here where Lewis flourished, particularly in regard to his writing. Just two examples of his finest work are the pieces “Soldier of the Heart,” and “Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band.” The former concerns the struggles of folk singer Judee Sill, and was published in 1972 (in 1979 she died of a heroin overdose). Almost an extended interview, the piece omits the questions and lets Sill speak the answers (the format of Letters to a Young Poet, say), thereby allowing us to fully wrap ourselves in Sill’s memoir of a hardscrabble childhood, life of substance abuse and prostitution, and, finally, her rebirth as a musician. The clear and convincing portrait Lewis makes of Sill reveals so much more about both the art and personage behind her songs than a hippie-ish music magazine – frequently referred to by readers and detractors as “Rolling Stoned” – should ever have been expected to.

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PoliceNewsLink.Com
November 15, 2009
Over the course of a year, Travis County prosecutors have secured grand jury indictments five times against a former Austin police officer whom they accused of trying to use his position to coerce prostitutes into having sex with him.
Each time, former officer Reynaldo Ramon Canizales’ lawyers have attacked the legality of the indictments through a variety of arguments, including that the charging documents did not adequately state how the officer violated the law.

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What’s the name of the person who shot the Fort Hood gunman?
Not too many people can readily name Kimberly Munley as one of the two people who shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, putting an end to the rampage that left 13 dead and 38 wounded.
We know everything there is to know about Hasan. His picture was splashed across the pages of America’s newspapers, the brightwork on his United States Army uniform shining brightly, as well as the broad smile across his face. We know he was a devout Muslim who enjoyed going to strip clubs and paid extra for lap dances. We know he is a major in the United States Army who worked as a psychiatrist and was scheduled for deployment to the Middle East, which may be in fact, what set him off.

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Sex trafficking ring broken
ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 13 (UPI) — Police in Athens say they have broken up a sex-trafficking ring that lured more than 40 Nigerian women to Greece with promises of legitimate jobs.
Instead of jobs, the women were held for ransom or forced to work as prostitutes, Kathimerini reported Friday.
Police broke up the ring with the rescue of five young Nigerian women who were being held captive until each of their families paid a ransom of $119,000.
They arrested a 20-year-old Nigerian woman believed to be part of the ring and are seeking her husband, a Nigerian with Greek citizenship in the scheme.
Police say members of the ring blackmailed some of their victims to work as prostitutes by threatening to place voodoo curses on their relatives.

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Yet here we have Nidal Hasan, who explicitly “associated with” Anwar al-Aulaqi, a figure that American intelligence suspects of operational involvement in 9/11, who yelled “Allah akbar!“ as he shot more than 50 people and killed 14 of them, and who repeatedly told his colleagues that the US had declared war on his faith and that suicide bombings could be justified.  Does the media connect the dots the way they attempted with conservatives who espoused such radical thinking as federalism?  No.  Instead, we get offered this kind of analysis from Time today:
Hasan was a walking contradiction: the counselor who himself needed counseling; the proud soldier who did not want to fight, at least not against fellow Muslims; the man who could not find a sufficiently modest and pious wife through his mosque’s matchmaking machinery but who frequented the local strip club. A man supposedly so afraid of deployment that he launched a war of his own from which he clearly did not expect to return alive. “Everyone is asking why this happened,” said Hasan’s family in a formal statement, “and the answer is that we simply do not know.” (See pictures of the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings.)

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Some in the group questioned Hassan’s sympathies as an army psychiatrist, whether he would be more aligned with Muslims fighting US troops. And there was some concern about whether he should continue to serve in the military, the official said.
Visits to Texas clubs
The US army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 colleagues at Fort Hood, repeatedly visited a lap dancing club in the days before the massacre.
Major Nidal Malek Hassan was a regular customer at a club close to the Texas military base and on one occasion spent six hours there watching women pole dancing. His behaviour in the lead-up to the shooting spree was similar to that of some of the September 11 hijackers. Mohammad Atta, the group leader, and four accomplices spent time in a strip bar in Las Vegas, while others frequented one in Florida.

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Writer’s Block: 2009 CMA Awards, or A Taylor-made Night for Swift Domination
by Paul Schultz
Published: November 12, 2009
The Country Music Association hosted the 43rd annual CMA Awards show on Veterans Day in Nashville, and there were plenty of well-deserved kudos for our men and women in uniform sprinkled throughout the night. The Trades was an attentive viewer, and we’re here to give you the rundown on country music’s big night.
The program gets off to a somewhat goofy start, with Taylor Swift being interviewed in a pre-recorded segment. It all becomes clear when she comes on stage to open the show with the interview scene being replicated. After a kind of breathless performance of “Forever and Always” she tosses the chair from its pedestal and descends the firemen’s (not just for strippers anymore!) pole to floor level.

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By Emily Christianson and Patrick Kevin Day
Her CMA opening performance of Forever & Always may have been an opportunity to show Kanye West whos boss for the 50th time, but instead Taylor Swift seemed intent on doing everything she could to distract from her shockingly thin voice. Thrown furniture! Stripper pole! Wind! Its all almost enough to distract you from how she actually sounded.
CMA Arrivals
Pop & Hiss: Live reviews
Taylor Swift’s big night
Taylor Swift: Young, fearless and in control
(Tami Chappell / Reuters)

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Taylor Swift, “Forever & Always.” Nashville is going straight to its A-list star, opening the show with pop music’s most popular living singer at the moment. She’ll have two songs tonight, and first up is “Forever & Always.” To sum it up: The 2009 CMA Awards are off and running with a train wreck. The energy and excitement of Swift’s MTV Video Music Awards performance, in which she was running through a subway, is completely lost. Beginning with a fake interview with Nancy O’Dell was cute, especially when Swift noted that “If guys don’t want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn’t do bad things.” But turning her “Forever & Always” into a chair-throwing angsty performance, complete with a stripper –  or fireman’s pole  (depending on your level of innocence) — was ill-advised. She looked strained in trying to capture the anger of the song, awkwardly rolling on the floor and yanking at her hair. This is a D. But she has another performance in which to redeem herself.

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”