3 ways Muslims can improve their image

By Catherine Durkin Robinson
PoHo contributor
Catherine Durkin Robinson is a handful creating quite a scene over at Out in Left Field.
A local show, True Talk on WMNF 88.5, is hosted by Ahmed Bedier (one of my Facebook friends. Represent!) and Samar Jarrah. I’ve been a huge fan of WMNF since its Radical Noise show back in the early 1980s when I was little punk-wanna-be in 8th grade. Its programs, True Talk included, have a certain Wayne’s World feel to them.
Minus the laughs or dick jokes.
On last week’s show, Ahmed called in to talk to Samar remotely. Classic ‘MNF moment — she lost the connection twice. When he finally got on, Ahmed spoke for a few moments before he had to take another call. Then he tried to conference in with someone old enough to remember when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
But that vibe, that “we’re broadcasting from someone’s garage in between bong hits” feel adds to the station’s indy cred and, let’s face it, is part of WMNF’s charm.









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Last Saturday (October 24) was the
You would think that when an elected body is proposing the idea to citizens to approve taxing themselves for something they might never even use that they would want to put their best foot forward. We are in Hillsborough though so keep your expectations low. Very low.
Let us assume for one moment that water was a precious commodity, as rare as gold itself. How would we treat it? Would we bathe our infertile landscape with it? Expend perfectly clean water to dispose of our waste? Throw it away after scantly using it in the sink while doing dishes?
We all know the Tampa Bay area is notoriously inept at short or long-range planning. Most would rather work on their tans, or try to forget that nasty divorce up north, than do the heavy lifting required to intelligently plan for our region’s future.
The following is an essay on sustainable development by Anubha Momin, a Canadian student studying abroad in London who will be attending the
This Saturday, October 24, 2009, is the
This is someone, somewhere’s story.
St. Pete City Council candidate Leonard Schmiege has found an ingenious way of getting some free publicity for his campaign to oust incumbent Jeff Dannner.
Yesterday the St. Petersburg City Council reversed itself from its previous vote two weeks ago, and voted 5-3 to allow for the vacating of the north sidewalk in front of BayWalk, per the request of its owners, along with Mayor Rick Baker, mayoral candidate Bill Foster, the editorial page of the St. Petersburg Times, and other figures of the city’s establishment.
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If you’re interested in clean energy solutions, climate change, and the environment, be sure to attend the
The Tampa Bay area’s
We’ve recently seen an influx of environmental themed films that deal with what we’re putting into our bodies.
The $500 billion beauty industry is embraces a message that tells women they must correct, conceal and camouflage. Peel away the glitz and glamour, says Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the
Join the Audubon of Florida on October 23 and 24 in St. Petersburg for the 2009 Audubon Assembly and Dialogue on Coastal Conservation and Climate Change. See below for more information:
Many groups are trying to make their voices heard over the issue of climate change, trying to get world leaders to attend the
David Swanson first became known to progressives in the U.S.back in 2005 when he helped publicize the Downing Street Memos, the minutes of a meeting amongst the British Prime Minister’s senior ministers in July of ‘02 that documented discussions about going to war in Iraq well in advance of when the U.S. and Great Britain said they had any intention of doing so
Check out this hilarious clip from the
Lady Liberty, ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone – only darkness every day. Our St. Pete house just ain’t a home when she goes away. You can forget about solar panels in St. Petersburg, Florida. Mayor Rick Baker has completely robbed the city of all sunshine. And as for Lady Liberty, I wonder if she’s gone to stay. (
In May 2007, the city of
Do you want to know more about renewable energy and local sustainable products? Then the
How are academic institutions meeting the challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce their carbon footprint?
This is the first year I have really followed the county budget. While I have a lot of concerns about how politicians spend tax dollars I narrowed it down to the top ten for Thursday night’s final budget hearing. This is the message I delivered to the County Commission regarding my picks for wasting tax dollars:

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