Buffalo ReUse, Brooklyn Kids Go Green, & Tom Petty's Mudcrutch Reunion After 30 Years

Just found out about a cool organization called Buffalo ReUse. I lived in Buffalo for a year in grad school and would have loved to get involved with this organization that helps reuse building materials by extracting them during demolition.

Brooklyn Kids Go Green. See the article at Green Brooklyn.

And Tom Petty has regrouped his old band Mudcrutch from his pre-Heartbreakers days. The Sunday Time's Arts & Leisure Section profiled the reunion of an old band that includes some regular musicians that will now be headlining with one of America's biggest rock icons. Tom, once again, seems like a regular guy who loves playing music and wants to bring Mudcrutch to a level of where he hoped it would be back in 1972.

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"Thirty-two years after the band broke up, Tom Petty has reassembled Mudcrutch, the group he started in his native Gainesville, Fla., and moved to Los Angeles, seeking stardom. Mudcrutch didn’t hit it big back in the 1970s, but out of the band’s ashes Mr. Petty created the Heartbreakers, who have generated a staggering stream of hits for three decades..."