This is why New Albany’s next mayor must immediately redirect DNA willingly or otherwise back toward National Main Street’s Four Point approach, thus helping DNA to get its local mission right for once, and by doing so openly address a key element of economic vitality by stating the unvarnished truth: Independent businesses have invested $60 million or more in downtown New Albany these past ten years - and so DNA will continue to take credit for the success of these investments in spite of the plain fact that DNA has had absolutely nothing whatever to do with them.Īll a guy can do is stand there clutching his flask and thinking, “Hallucinate often?” Yes, there are many things a high school prom planning committee can legitimately achieve, occasionally stepping out of character by utilizing an idea that wasn’t brazenly stolen from someone else, but for them to persist in claiming a leading role when it’s really been someone else’s time and money is ludicrous and surreal - and it needs to stop. Let’s paraphrase DNA’s ludicrous City Hall-ghosted script. The Breakwater residents in attendance were looking around and saying, dude, who are these people? The food and music were great, the acoustics horrendous and the beer selection embarrassing, but what left me baffled like always was the preposterous litany of talking points as presented by a succession of DNA board members in a feat of non-ironic propaganda that would have curled Khrushchev’s hair. Near the end of my NABC tenure I often wistfully recalled the words of John Kennedy Tootle’s fictional Miss Trixie from his novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.īut it’s hip to be square, so last week I attended Develop New Albany’s neighborhood soiree at Breakwater. I won’t deny that a quarter-century of small business ownership left me a tad exhausted. Until then, there’s always cold beer and hot tickets.” If it was up to me, we’d have a museum about Prohibition, and force the school kids to go. They keep your libation of choice toasty and close, and did you know that flasks were popularized during Prohibition? That’s right, we needed a 13-year-long flask to maintain harmony until the bars reopened after Repeal. Actually, you can make a pretty strong argument for cocktail hour almost any time of day, except you run into those pesky wee hours when the bars are all closed, but that’s why sensible folks keep their liquor cabinets stocked at home, because your living room never closes. “Well, I’m doing fine, and as soon as I haul this kitty litter home it will be time for another coffee, and maybe that will help a bit, at least until cocktail hour. ON THE AVENUES: Prom planning’s nice and all, but New Albany still needs an autonomous independent business alliance. The essay has been lightly edited to correct mistakes I missed the first time. Their priorities are different, and involve their self-perpetuation first and foremost, not yours.Ī few details might have been altered, but I’m standing by these words from 2019. Independent business owners simply cannot passively permit their well-being to be defined by government officials and goverment-sanctioned groups even if all of them were perfectly well-intentioned (spoiler alert: they’re not), they couldn’t know what it means to operate your business, and they cannot (or will not) understand their complicity to inflict pain. There are no easy answers given that local leaders espousing the Gahan personality cult seem to have forgotten the physician’s imperative of “first, do no harm.”īut one thing is clear to me. The pandemic came to New Albany a year later, followed by endless Sherman Minton Bridge repairs and Main Street beautification upheavals, combining to burden independent downtown business owners with incredibly challenging conditions for their very survival. The 'Wild Thing' EP brings the energy, infusing rhythmic hats, glitchy synths, rumbling low-end, echoing snares, rave inspired b-lines, chopped hypnotic vocal hits and chunky drums taking you straight to the heart of the dancefloor.The following text was published at NA Confidential on 5 March 2019. Having previously been recognised as one to watch by the likes of Solardo and Mark Jenkyns, Joseph Edmund has been a firm favourite of ours for a while and with recent success on labels including Hot Creations, Nothing Else Matters, Saved, elrow, Sola, and support flooding in from AAA DJ's Jamie Jones, Patrick Topping, Latmun and Detlef we are very pleased to welcome him back to the Kaluki family with this latest release. Next up this summer on Kaluki Musik, we welcome back a label favourite in the form of Manchester based DJ and producer, Joseph Edmund, who returns to the label with his brand new three track 'Wild Thing' EP.
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