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For lifelong music fan Matt Smith, of Marshfield, his latest job made perfect sense.  On February 2, Smith, who is already the managing director of the fabled Club Passim in Harvard Square, hosted his first edition of WMVY radio’s "The Local Music Café." The show airs at 9 p.m. Tuesdays on the Martha’s Vineyard based station (88.7 FM, also carried on 96.5 FM in Newport) and is re-broadcast at 8 p.m. Sundays. The shows are also available on MVYRadio.org, where all previous shows are also archived. “I didn’t do anything specific for my debut, figuring I’d just ease into it,” sa...

again dept Mon, Jan 10th 2011 10:07pm — Mike Masnick This is a few weeks old, but Michael Scott points us to the story of how Backpages is asking a court to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by a teen who was sold as a prostitute on the site. We covered the lawsuit when it was first filed, and had a rather frustrating discussion in the comments with people who simply couldn't understand the difference between blaming those actually responsible and blaming the tools those people used. We've discussed how the attempts to blame tool providers often helps those who are involved in child tr...

The age of wisdom: why our elders were the best of us in 2020 Left to right: Angela Y Davis, Julian Barnes, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Biden, Margaret Atwood, Helen Mirren Composite: Getty Images, Shutterstock Left to right: Angela Y Davis, Julian Barnes, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Biden, Margaret Atwood, Helen Mirren Composite: Getty Images, Shutterstock Biden, Jagger, Mirren… as celebrity septuagenarians (and their seniors) steal the spotlight, we salute the resilience of those who have lived long enough to know good times always return Sun 20 Dec 2020 03.45 EST Among the many effects of the pand...

>> have you ever given any thought? do you think those girls that you're looking at are making career choices? >> why do you think they're doing it? would you sell yourself for $100 for a half an hour? >> no. >> what does that tell you about somebody if they are selling themselves on-line to complete and utter strangers? >> it's not good. >> you wake up every morning and you have choices to make. the deeper message is if you engage in this conduct, you're engaging in human trafficking. and that's not acceptable. >> so polk county has no sympathy for the johns who come here? >> zero. zero sympa...

Walk on the wild side. >> target in the front door. >> he makes his way up to the date. blissfully unaware that his hand-picked, mouse-clicked woman for hire is a sworn officer of the law, and that his private adventure is about to become a matter of public record. >> he was very nervous, and he first initially wouldn't come up with what he wanted, however, he finally gave her $60, and i think he said he wanted sex. >> all right, go. >> like the other young men who stumbled into the dragnet before him, 23-year-old jose arsolo had no criminal record before tonight. but unlike most, jose does no...