You Damn Meat Terrorists!

Forget going after the bad guys in caves; the real terrorists are walking the streets of Akron even as you read this!


Thank God animals aren't armed.

I just love people with passion; not necessarily their views but listening and watching them do their thing with such fervor sure is entertaining.

AkronNewsNow reporter Craig Simpson covered Akron's favorite non-conforming daughter Chrissie Hynde, giving PETA a nice plug in their bid to get people to swear off eating other live creatures. Chrissie is very passionate about this and veggie-mouth is.

Craig's account of the interview is itself pretty funny; she didn't want to talk with him, then gave in a little bit with one word answers, then answered some questions and in the process called us meat-eaters terrorists. Take that, you Beef bin-laden!

Crissie in all of her glory: AkronNewsNow coverage ahead of all the hand-clapping as Chrissie opens her Akron restaurant VegiTerranean this weekend, including audio.

Who IS Playing Saturday Night?

Confession: I am so not a music person.

Unlike my radio pals Sue Wilson, Chuck Collins and T.K. O'Grady I really couldn't tell you who last won a Grammy for Best Record, Best Artist, or Best Performance of a Rising Star who cut through the clutter of Ed's brain.

Of course, I really don't look to them to fill me in on the breakdown of the Plusquellic-Finley race.

So maybe it is fitting that the politics and media geek blogs about music and Akron.

Chrissie Hynde has a show this weekend; she opens her new restaurant, then has a sold-out gig at the Akron Civic Theater with some friends that we know include Jerry Lee Lewis and maybe P....uh...former B....uh, never mind, not allowed to reveal.

Here's what I do know: the real stars Saturday are here because of non-meat eaters. PETA (not to be confused with pita, the snackable chips) is a big draw for the Hollywood and music celeb set. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is the big beneficiary of Chrissie's Vegiterranean; she's sworn off meat and they're living veggie-large, too, and hoping to convert those of us who like our food moo-ving.

That raises some interesting issues for us rubes here in Akron: are the police ready for the hordes of the beautiful and the bigger crowds of Akronites vying for a glimpse of their favorite stars?

Thank the stars Chrissie's benefit show to help bailout the floundering Civic Theater didn't happen before the City primary: if it had we'd have Plusquellic saying it was his idea and Finley saying it cost too much.

Hey, I got politics in anyway!