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No Concessions: Seventies Highs — “Pineapple Express,” “Man on Wire,” and Patti Smith

Bob Cashill August 8, 2008 6

If I ever run for office, and someone asks the drug-use question, I can honestly say I didn’t inhale. While pop-music critics are a Dionysian lot, snorting coke off groupies’ breasts, film critics are

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Listening Booth: Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, “The Coral Sea”

Ken Shane June 18, 2008 3

From a place apart Morpheus, God of dreams, awakes The artist Robert Mapplethorpe died from complications of AIDS in 1989. According to his great friend, Patti Smith, “His mortal suffering was so profound that

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