Pitchfork: New Pornographers and Okkervil River Team for Tour

I try to avoid lifting entire posts from elsewhere, but this one’s awesome enough that I don’t care. Thanks to the tip from Kyle, I’m going to rock ‘n roll from now straight through April. Just to be clear, these are two of my top five favorite bands right here …

Pitchfork: New Pornographers and Okkervil River Team for Tour

Time for 2008’s first big indie rock mega-tour! In this corner: Carl Newman and his New Pornographers. In that corner: Will Sheff and his Okkervil River.

Who will charm us more with their witty lyrics and soaring melodies? Who will inspire the biggest sing-along? Who will induce the most swoons?

Find out this April, when they go head to head in North America’s rock’n'roll venues!

New Pornographers and Okkervil River:

04-09 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre
04-10 Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom
04-11 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
04-12 Munhall, PA – Carnegie Music Hall in Homestead
04-13 Ithaca, NY – The State Theater of Ithaca
04-14 Washington, DC – 930 Club
04-16 Richmond, VA – Toad’s Place
04-17 Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre
04-18 Nashville, TN – The Cannery
04-19 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
04-20 Chicago, IL – Riviera
04-21 Madison, WI – Orpheum
04-22 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom

Two accused of attacking, robbing homeless man – Cleveland Metro News – The Plain Dealer

Douchebags R’ Us.

Not to be outdone by the senseless killing of teenagers in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Akronites are now mugging the homeless. We’ve come a long way from Robin Hood, baby …

On a side note, props to Mr. Collins for apparently gettin’ him some fine, almost age-appropriate ass …

Two accused of attacking, robbing homeless man – Cleveland Metro News – The Latest Breaking News, Photos and Stories from The Plain Dealer

AKRON — Anna M. King, 19, and Mitchell L. Collins, 29, are charged with kidnapping, aggravated robbery and felonious assault committed on Jan. 18 at a West Exchange Street apartment.They and two accomplices are accused of tying a 36-year-old homeless man to a chair, burning him with a stage lamp and kicking and punching him in the head and back.

City targets surge in deadly gang violence

It’s like the senseless violence that marred 2007 in Cleveland has followed me to Pittsburgh in 2008. That, and instead of the PD, which I still read, expect more from the P-G, which I also now read.

City targets surge in deadly gang violence

As police arrested one suspect and sought another in the shooting death Monday of a 12-year-old Perry South girl, authorities announced an intensified effort to combat a sharp upswing in gang violence.