:Vocalo.org

It's Fashion Week, and Vocalero leespeaks takes a stand on "mandals."  He says they must be stopped.  Are you drinking the Kool-Aid on this one?

We'll get a reality check from Victor Pitre, a partner in Leaders 1354, a South Side sneaker/streetwear emporium, and with Sylvia Rocha, owner of Zapatillas, a fashion-forward shoe store in Pilsen.

Also:  30 years ago, more than 900 people died, literally, from drinking the Kool-Aid in Jonestown, a settlement in Guyana-- they had followed Jim Jones, a charismatic preacher.  It was the horrific end of a story that had started in the 1950s as an early attempt at creating an integrated church.  A theater company in Chicago is running a play based on interviews with survivors of the Jonestown massacre, and the company's director comes to Vocalo.org today.

Oh, yeah:  He lived in Juneau, Alaska through most of 2007, so he might share some impressions of a certain vice-presidential candidate.

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