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...Culture on the Skids. Faulkner learned to drink in Mississippi, and Southern Culture "learned to dance" (albeit somewhat woozily) in the same place, as one of the songs of their newly released album, Liquored Up and Laquered Down, proudly proclaims. The same region of the United States that gave birth to Jim Beam and Jack Daniels produced Rick Miller, North Carolina native and founder of the band, who warned the crowd at the Middle East of the dangers of getting "Drunk and Lonesome (Again),": "Whenever I get liquored up, I always seem to end up in a cheap motel...
...updates often report on the number and health of the gaggle--as well as on other members of Friends of the White Geese. One day last April, La Tremouille reported the birth of two goslings and Wellons' reaction to the news...
Homer Bennett's birth family was far from perfect. His mom and dad paid the bills by peddling heroin and cocaine from the living room couch of their three-bedroom home on Chicago's South Side. The parents had a sense of decorum. In front of Homer and his brother Frankie, they would refer to the two drugs as "boy" and "girl." Homer and Frankie never learned which was which, though they knew it was dope. Once, when the police came by, the brothers hid underneath a bed, emerging to beg the cops not to take their...
...years he was in foster care, his family disintegrated. He very rarely sees his birth mother or his brother Frankie. His father is dead. Homer, at 20, is a father himself, of an infant girl, and he says he's worried about keeping his own family together. He hopes to get his GED and maybe even graduate from a community college. But technically, he was a ward of the state until he turned 21 last week, when he was released. With so many bad things behind him, Homer says, there is only one good thing about his long trip through...
WORKING MOMS According to the Census Bureau, more mothers than ever before are returning to work within a year of giving birth. And when they do go back, they are more likely to be working full time than part time. A record 53% of mothers with infants at home in 1998 had gone back to work--36% were working full time, and 17% were working part time. In 1976 only 31% of new moms worked outside the home...