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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The moldering schoolhouse tradition of spelling bees has inspired a cultural deluge of late, from Myla Goldberg's 2001 novel Bee...
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Sucka Free has a long tradition of standing up for smokers' rights. It's not that we're addicted to nicotine; we're addicted to America. Say what you will about the evils of...
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"We're talking about a very classic Tennessee Williams play here Southern money and alcoholism. Just a tragedy." So begins director Gandulf Hennig's newly released...
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The palm trees were waving above us as we sang "Happy Birthday" to the punk with the mohawk, the green vinyl shoes, and the poetry that proclaimed, "We will carry the weight...
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Alejandro Escovedo hasn't had it easy his first wife committed suicide; his excellent, critically praised discs haven't set any charts afire; and he battled a recent...
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Future Tension
A former NIMBY speaks out: As one who has been active in neighborhood politics for 20 years, I must sadly agree with Matt Smith's assessment of those who...
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There have been many writings and recordings concerning jazz innovator Sun Ra. But even the most respected scholars on the topic can't really hold a candle to Millbrae's John...
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On his second CD, Mississippi native Cory Branan has knifed his name into the alt-country canon. The closest analogue here in sound and quality is Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker,...
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Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell have been down the reinvention road before. Back when they were the core of British shoegazers Slowdive, the pair concluded that the noisy,...
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Kill Rock Stars is owned by Slim Moon, a man who has better taste in music than you do. His ears are irrefutably sharp: The KRS roster is a dense handbook on indie-underground...
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"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players," said one wise sage. I believe it was one of those "Will" guys who first uttered it, like Will Rogers or...
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By Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Mike Rowell Published:
June 7, 2006
You can't really call this season we're in "summer" until the city's major radio stations host an outdoor audio orgy to kick things off in style. So here's Live 105 stepping...
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The War of 1812 obviously settled nothing, judging by the intrusion of the Brits upon America's hallowed grounds of hip hop. The thing is, something special is simmering in...