Mabel Wambach is not exactly screaming for her MTV. At 83 years of age, Wambach really doesn’t scream anymore, and her closest experience to music videos is watching the bubbles every Saturday night on Lawrence Welk. Aside from Welk, she laments, “the local stations have become disgusting. There’s nothing good…
Laura Slade still doesn’t have an in-house bathroom, but she finally has electricity. And running water. The inconvenience of having to use her neighbor’s “facilities” is a small nuisance to the 38-year-old woman who will tell you how proud she is of her mobile home and her five-acre homestead out…
Suntans, once the gift of Mother Nature and now a commodity purveyed under tanning lamps all over town, are about to be placed on a par with some kinds of drugs. Just as prescriptions for Valium are recorded by the corner pharmacist, the number of suntans a person can purchase…
Max Lehman is packing. Boxes and bags filled with clay, paint and scraps of paper surround him on the wood floor, the remains of six months’ work. Lehman, 28, is one of five artists whose home is likely to be leveled for the further downtown development expected to be spurred…
