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		<title>Nice Work If You Can Get It: The Love Cats That Dare Not Speak Its Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An occasional survey of jobs both unusual and extraordinary, and the people who make them happen. The national debate on gay marriage has challenged a number of institutions in 21st century America, from churches to municipal governments, from caterers to wedding photographers. Also affected is the business of Lonnie &#8220;Luv&#8221; Campbell, a 33-year old &#8220;Pet Matchmaker&#8221; in the Southside&#8217;s Miller Well district. &#8220;I think we all thrive on different kinds of love,&#8221; opines the blonde and blue-eyed Campbell , &#8220;Parental love, love of siblings, the love of close friends. But we all need romantic love in our lives, and our pets are no different.&#8221; Since 2003, Campbell has played cupid for fidos and fifis around the city. Her services are available by private consultation, but she doesn&#8217;t limit herself to what she calls &#8220;just Doggy Dating.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t discriminate,&#8221; adds Campbell, &#8220;I match cats, hamsters, canaries, iguanas, even spiders and snakes.&#8221; Campbell also doesn&#8217;t discriminate against a pet&#8217;s, er, preferences. &#8220;When animals are kept as pets, their environment is shaped by the people around them. They eat human food, they keep human hours, they live in human homes and sometimes they learn to love the way that humans do.&#8221; Campbell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Wondrous Helio-Copter Float, 1940</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/04/25/snapshots-wondrous-helio-copter-float-1940/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1940- Winning float in the 1940 Memorial Day parade, Manufacturer&#8217;s Division. The Samson Aeronautical Manufacturing Company&#8217;s entry, featuring a scale model of a &#8220;Personal Helio-copter.&#8221; Local aerospace magnate Lemuel Samson (he of the tiny homes of Samson Heights) would eventually let his obsession with this mode of transport ruin his company and deplete his fortune. It is thought that his experience riding in the model along the parade route that day was the beginning of the end for the Samson Aero. Mfg. Ltd. some fifteen years later. - RJ White Original Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Theodor Horydczak Collection]]></description>
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		<title>At Home With&#8230; Carla Perry</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/21/at-home-with-carla-perry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 11:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City Desk introduces a new feature which gives you a glimpse into the domestic side of our city’s movers and shakers. What happens when they leave the council chambers, newsroom, office, stadium, community center, playhouse, studio, or classroom? What do they do to unwind? What are their passions? We’ll show you how these luminaries approach a little thing we like to call “life.” At Home With … Carla Perry, Host of NewsCenter 7’s It’s Morning in the City! Most of the city wakes up with Carla Perry in their homes, but that’s not an indictment of her reputation! Perry, who’s been hosting the city’s No. 1 TV morning show for three years, brings her viewers a blend of news, lifestyle features and entertaining interviews five days a week. Perry — who’s known for her catch phrase, “I like it! Really, I do!” — lives with her husband, Barry, a partner at the law firm Goldwater, Goldwater &#38; Perry LLC, in a four-bed, five-and-a-half-bath Tudor/Greek revival manor on Rose Hill. Perry sat down with The City Desk recently to discuss gardening, her image, and how she’s changing the world one day at a time. How do you unwind? I’m a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shrouded City</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/07/the-shrouded-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 13:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television dramatist Stirling Silliphant famously wrote that “there are eight million stories in the naked city.” Local author Burton Becker is out to prove that our city has a few million stories of its own, even if they are a bit more conservatively dressed. Becker has just published his fourth novel, Same Time Last Year, a detective story that takes place in a fictional city that local residents will find somewhat familiar. Becker has set each of his four published works in the urban milieu he understands best, a working class neighborhood not unlike the industrial district on the city’s south side. But you won’t find any references to existing local businesses, streets, or colorful characters in Becker’s literary world. He is careful to avoid mention of any actual landmarks or living persons. “I want people to recognize to what I am referring,” says Becker, “but I don’t want people in other cities or towns to feel that the story doesn’t apply to their own neighborhood.” Thus Whittingers Park becomes “Whitmann Park,” Mabel Tripp Gardens is transformed to “Fern Falls Arbor,” and the town’s real estate tycoon is “Howard Marlowe” instead of local icon Hugo Chandler. “It’s a delicate balance,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Around Town</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/11/09/people-around-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This city is full of people that you see just about every day, but about whom you know nothing. :: Ms. Tina, the city’s favorite transvestite and headliner at Ed and Ellen’s Bar, on York Avenue. She is a common sight for sore eyes walking her caramel-colored Pomeranian and is never met, no matter the weather, without her pink patent leather pumps. :: Jessica “Winter” Walters, sure to be found no matter the time nor day, sketching the factories around Baxter Park and selling tourists her signature “City Spirit” paintings. A friend of ours has even seen one of Winter’s warehouse studies- complete with her trademark city skyline background and ghost of fallen factory worker with an empty word bubble- hanging on the wall of a bookstore to the east of Central Station in Amsterdam. :: Watch out for Zim, the puckish, midnight-clothed skateboarder working on going pro, as he skates inside the General Tallmer Memorial Fountain in winter, or plays his harmonica and homemade drum set of pots, pans, garbage cans, and paint buckets in summer. We have a feeling young Zim is really going to make it in the X-treme world, judging by his dedication and competitive fire. [...]]]></description>
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