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The Center for Peace & Justice at Prescott College used ROX #95 in their programming.

During Thanksgiving of 2005, fourteen Prescott College students went to New Orleans for a week to help with grassroots community relief. The students participated in food distribution, house-to-house cleanup and salvage operations, and emotional support for beleaguered residents. Before that, several members of the Prescott College community were among the earliest waves of relief assistance in New Orleans and the Gulf region immediately following Hurricane Katrina. Members of the college community have sponsored workshops and forums on the situation in New Orleans, organized musical events and benefit shows, and coordinated logistical support for ongoing relief efforts. The C4PJ sponsored the commemorative event "'The World Will Remember': Two Years and Counting Since Hurricane Katrina" in August 2007; presented the cutting-edge film "BIG EASY TO BIG EMPTY — The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans" in November 2006; and aired this film plus "ROX-TV: 15 Months After Katrina" on local cable access Channel 13 as part of our PJTV series. Rock on New Orleans!

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If you're seeing this, it means the migration of rox.com to our new webhost is complete. After four years with midPhase, we are now on DreamHost. There may still be a few bugs here and there, so bear with us.

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ROX #93 taught me one thing.

After Levees fail...there is always room for one more Dinty Moore Beef Stew...

— by Jeff Elbow | link

ROX #76 has quite possibly become my favorite and most influential episodes that I've ever seen.

This episode proves that ROX isn't only entertaining, but also very incredibly educational.

After watching this episode, you will successfully be able to “WOW” your loser alcoholic friends and co-workers with your EXTENSIVE knowledge of the brewing process.

If you weren't merely satisfied with drinking beer, or in the case that you had a feeling of emptiness that filled your waking life...this episode will fill that abysmal void with the knowledge that ROX has covered all of the bases to convince yourself that large amounts of alcoholic consumption isn't such a bad idea after all.

In fact, after watching this episode you could do what I did and take the next step and start brewing from home.

I personally hold Editor B and Bartender J responsible for the huge amounts of money that I've spent on homebrewing supplies, the arguments with my girlfriend after I've stunk up the house, the late nights of bottling beer, the weight I've gained for drinking my own creation, and the clouded memories of such that happened to me after watching ROX #76.

— by Jeff Elbow | link

“After The Levees Failed” is, like many episodes of ROX, amazing tv!

This time, though, it’s because we see a national catastrophe not through the media’s eyes, but through the eyes of a close friend. Because of that, it hits very hard, especially at the point where we see B’s reaction when he first enters his house. This is ‘reality tv’, not the crap like “Survivor”!

It affects us because B is our friend; even for those of us who’ve never met him, we know him from all the hours we’ve watched over the years. The B we see isn’t quite the B we’ve grown to know and love, though; we see the effect that Katrina’s devastation has wrought. Katrina has taken a heavy toll on B (and XY, et al), and it shows.

J’s presence in the episode is interesting, to say the least. In a sense, it’s almost buffoonish - with the phone duct-taped to his head, no less - but at the same time, it serves as a metaphor for the idiocy of the government’s impotent response to the catastrophe!

Vitally important episode!!!

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What do you say to an old friend who lives on the other side of the country when he reports some good news? In the old days I'd send him a bottle of J&B Scotch. But that doesn't seem like the most appropriate gift for such an event.

Yes, my partner in crime, J of J&B on the ROX, is now a father.

I can't send him a bottle of that crap.

His son, Julian, deserves better.

Julian's mom, Day, deserves better.

Definitely something single malt. Not that I can afford much.

Maybe The Dalmore?

(Originally posted on b.rox)

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