By Randall Roberts
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a
remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and
researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics,
technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans.
Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and
gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy
has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency,
and i
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Yesterday, ASD reported that Oakland's venerable Art & Soul festival, which offers two days of musical performances from gospel, Latin, R&B, blues and jazz artists--many of them local--had somehow neglected to book any live hip-hop acts. Apparently, that's not the only oversight. A&S also has a "World Class Rock" stage presented by KFOG, which features folk-rocker Shawn Colvin and roots-rockers the BoDeans. No disrespect to either th