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State of the City 2010: Stephanie Miner at the podium; Common Councilors Tom Seals, Matt Rayo and Nader Maroun take in the  pomp and circumstance after Miner’s speech. MICHAEL DAVIS PHOTOS

An attic of memories sparks fraternal conflict in Syracuse Stage’s The Price

Of America’s seven or eight greatest playwrights, the late Arthur Miller is the most user-friendly. In his most often-performed works, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, View from the Bridge and After the Fall, he delivers heartfelt speeches of deeply resonant emotion in plain English. Meaning lies reassuringly on the surface. His Blue State politics, still in line with that of most audiences for live theater, favor transparent analogies and eschew metaphysics. 

This week's winner, "One good thing about snow," was taken recently by Shelly Gayring in her West Monroe driveway.

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Curses, Foiled Again

Mitchel L. Legg, 26, was at a police station in Richmond, Ind., filling out an application to carry a gun, when officers and staff members noticed a telltale smell. “He reeked of marijuana,” Chief Kris Wolski told The Palladium-Item, “so they patted him down.” Besides marijuana, officers found a .22 semiautomatic handgun “in a little nylon holster under his shirt,” Wolski said.