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By Molly Willow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 27--Much will have changed for the characters when Mad Men returns tonight for its second season. Yet, in keeping with the sometimes-opaque nature of the AMC series, not all will become apparent immediately. The sleek show, set at a Madison Avenue advertising agency in the early 1960s, averaged about 1 million viewers in its first season but earned Emmy nominations for best drama and for two of its actors. It has already won Golden...
By Frank Gabrenya, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 25--All comedy exaggerates human behavior to score laughs, but it always has to spring from some sort of reality. So we laugh at Felix and Oscar or the rockers in This Is Spinal Tap or the guys who crash weddings to bed women because we recognize such people. What reality, though, could have spawned the central characters in Step Brothers? Brennan (Will Ferrell) and Dale (John C. Reilly) are 40-year-old adults who each live with a...
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 25--Niki Schwartz, the Cleveland lawyer who helped negotiate a peaceful end to the 1993 Lucasville prison riot, will mediate a settlement of two sexual-harassment cases in the attorney general's office. Sessions will begin Aug. 18 to resolve complaints by Cindy Stankoski and Vanessa Stout. The women's complaints filed against Anthony Gutierrez, then head of general services for former Attorney General Marc Dann, were the first trickle in...
By Sarah Pulliam, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 25--Cheryl Hagerty helped hundreds of adults land jobs for nearly 30 years, but now she's the one job-hunting. Hagerty spent 16 years helping adults improve literacy skills during her time as coordinator of Union County's Adult Basic and Literacy Education, but county commissioners recently pulled about $50,000 from the program to give to other adult-education programs. Yesterday, commissioners met with state ABLE representatives and...
By Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 24--Niki Schwartz, the Cleveland lawyer who helped negotiate a peaceful end to the 1993 Lucasville prison riot, will mediate a settlement of two sexual-harassment cases in the attorney general's office. Sessions will begin Aug. 18 to resolve complaints by Cindy Stankoski and Vanessa Stout. The women's complaints filed against Anthony Gutierrez, then head of general services for former Attorney General Marc Dann, were the first trickle in...
By Encarnacion Pyle, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 24--Two days after Rebekah Gee was flown to Ohio State University for medical care, she returned to Philadelphia last night because her husband's condition had worsened. OSU President E. Gordon Gee canceled two appearances yesterday so he could go with her on a medical helicopter. Dr. Rebekah Gee and Dr. Allan Moore were injured July 12 when their scooter collided with a sport-utility vehicle in Philadelphia. Moore, 31, has been in...
By Encarnacion Pyle, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 24--Columbus State Community College should enroll more students, help them be more successful and reward employees based on merit, according to a new set of goals that trustees will vote on tonight. The goals are part of the school's effort to become more attractive and affordable to students, trustee Bill Dolan said. "We were the first to commit to freeze tuition. We created scholarships for students 25 (years old) and up, and we've...
By Marla Matzer Rose, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 23--The one-two punch of Skybus Airlines' demise and nationwide airline industry cuts continues to affect Port Columbus. The decline in passengers at Port Columbus accelerated in June, according to data released at the airport board meeting yesterday. That prompted the airport to revise upward its expected passenger loss for the full year. Port Columbus had 631,029 passengers last month, 13 percent fewer than in June 2007. Overall...
By Molly Willow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 23--LOS ANGELES -- After 14 days of listening to people talk about the new season of television, I can say that the fall shows I'm most looking forward to are NBC's Chuck, ABC's Pushing Daisies and Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Except that none of these shows is new. Each had a shortened first year last season because of the writers strike. That doesn't mean that the new 1970s drama Life on Mars (ABC) won't be...
By Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Jul. 23--Lime sludge from a Columbus water-treatment plant burst from a corroded pipeline and left a large, gray stain on the Olentangy River yesterday. The city uses lime to help remove dirt and aluminum sulfate from water so that it is safe to drink. Leaked sludge can irritate people's skin, choke off life on stream bottoms and make it difficult for bottom-feeding fish to find food. Yesterday's leak is the third from a city waste pipeline...
