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LeCorchick 12 Q&A with Anais Mitchell John Lindvay The Population Prescription, Lili Morton By: Jay Breneman Dan Schank 14 Calendar Jess Scutella Tommy Shannon 6 Just Toyin’ Witcha Two-weeks worth of Erie Events Ryan Smith Jay Stevens No JOY in Millcreek! 23 Music Reviews Rebecca Styn 8 News of the Weird Bryan Toy 25 Geeked Out Cory Vaillancourt By: Chuck Shepherd Jim Wertz #GamerGate and the Gaming Culture Publisher’s Assistant: 26 ER Sports Jessica Courter Local sports with James R. LeCorchick 25 Tech Bits Cover Design: Leah Yungwirth Why doesn’t the Apple Watch have Photographers: wireless charging? Because it probably Ryan Smith wouldn’t work very well. Brad Triana Designer: Leah Yungwirth Design Intern Liz Venuto FROM THE EDITORS Writing Interns: Khadija Djellouli Michael Iverson Christopher Sexauer wo weeks ago, we announced that We won’t spam you; rather, we’ll send you an And you’ll get a flavor of Erie’s best food and the polls were officially open for the email confirmation to ensure you’re a real, music. first-ever Erie Reader Best Of Erie live human. Click the link in that email and For the evening’s entertainment, we’ve lined 32 W. Eighth St. #302 T Awards. Less than two weeks later, the num- you’re on your way to voting. You can vote for up DJ Salt, C. Brown, and Falling Hollywood. 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September 17, 2014 ErieReader.com | Erie Reader | 3 NEWS & OPINION Street Corner Soapbox The Violent Nature of the NFL and the Business of Football TV 54.1 • Radio 91.3FM • WQLN Education • Q-Media Schedule Highlights By: Jay Stevens ay Rice: You knew this was coming, had bought knives the day before – but the bility of adults protecting our children than didn't you? We've been bombarded blood-splattered white suit Lewis wore the the infrastructural breakdowns at that uni- Rwith stories and opinions and videos night of the murders disappeared mysteri- versity. ” That duplicity was later keenly felt of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée, Janay, ously, and he escaped with only obstruction in Erie and other satellite campuses where in a hotel elevator. We're outraged. Outraged of justice charges. Lewis was fined by the Sandusky ran summer football camps and that Rice punched his partner, outraged that NFL, but was not suspended. And this year, showered with children for years after he the NFL initially brushed it off with a two- in time for the football season, the Baltimore was caught raping a boy in the Nittany Lions game suspension despite video showing the Ravens unveiled a statue of Lewis outside locker room. former Baltimore running back dragging an M&T Bank Stadium. So...why? Why would league and college unconscious Janay Rice from the elevator. But all of the Ray Rice hooplah may have football officials tolerate domestic abuse, But you've already had your dose of outrage obscured a report released by the NFL as random acts of violence, child rape? Are about Rice from a dozen (hundred?) other part of its ongoing concussion lawsuit with these people that cruel, that indifferent to columnists. former players that those in the NFL have a human misery? Heck, your outrage may even have The answer to that question was evi- been fine-tuned by the knowledge that dent on Penn State's campus at the site Ray McDonald of the San Francisco where a statue of Joe Paterno stood 49ers was picked up by police for as- before it was taken down after the San- saulting his pregnant fiancée – three dusky revelations. More than 5,000 days after NFL commissioner Roger students gathered and chanted, “We Goodell announced a tougher domes- want Joe” and protested for reinstate- tic violence policy – and yet still hasn't ment of the Penn State Coach's forfeit- missed a game.