By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Toledo chapter has called for the firing of two local radio “shock jocks” and a boycott of advertisers on their controversial programs. “We do not need and will not tolerate the behavior of a few to destroy what […]
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By Joshua Benton and Michael D. Sallah Blade Staff Writers Page 1 Less than 24 hours after WSPD’s Scott Sloan was suspended for remarks about assassinating the Rev. Jesse Jackson, WVKS colleague Denny Schaffer was on the air offending local black leaders and making Jewish jokes. In the space of two hours yesterday, Mr. Schaffer […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Our images of the Pilgrims are straight out of second grade: happy, placid people, sitting around a big table with peaceful Indians, eating turkey with cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. It’s a caricature ready-made for 7-year-olds, and almost four centuries after the landing at Plymouth, it’s almost […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Charles “Chuck” Parmelee, a WSPD-AM radio broadcaster whose dulcet voice helped wake up Toledoans for decades, died of complications from heart disease Saturday in Imperial Point Medical Center, near his home here. He was less than two hours from his 70th birthday. For […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A12 Toledo played a role in the invention of modern broadcast radio. Marconi invented radio in 1895, but his machinery could only produce a faint, tiny signal, making it almost useless for large-scale use. In 1906, Dr. Lee DeForest invented what he called the Audion, and what is […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A1 It was the most recognized voice on local radio. Floating through the air to anxious listeners across northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan, it told the news every morning to tens of thousands. And it ended every newscast the same way: “This is Jim Uebelhart filing Gas Company […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 12 Not far from the carnival music at yesterday’s Roche de Boeuf festival in Waterville was a quieter sound – one that might have been heard 150 years ago. The Black Swamp Dulcimer Gathering brought their sweet stringed music from the 19th century to the modern day. “We […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Pearl Molnar remembers when the Birmingham Ethnic Festival was just a picnic at the St. Stephen’s schoolyard. “I would never have guessed it would have become all this,” the 82-year-old said while selling Hungarian cookbooks for the St. Stephen’s Catholic Church mothers club. Yesterday’s Birmingham festival may […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 Cliff “Zak” Zakrzewski, a former Toledo police officer who stayed active after his retirement, died Sunday in Toledo Hospital. He was 71. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, family members said. Mr. Zakrzewski was born and raised in Toledo and attended Woodward High School. Immediately after […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 37 It comes about 68 seconds into the song, a new single from Toronto-based Sloan, and it’s a moment that let’s you understand this most remarkable of bands. The song, “Money City Maniacs,” starts off with sirens and crunchy guitar riffs, then propels into a killer rock backbeat. […]
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