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The Three Strike Rule: And Now, a Word from Our Sponsor

Scott Malchus March 2, 2009 7

Last week I read an article in the L.A. Times’ business section that detailed how Americans are watching television at an all-time high these days. To quote Alana Semuels’ piece, “The Nielsen Co.’s ‘Three

Popdose Concert Flashback: George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars, 4/22/95

Mojo Flucke February 25, 2009 8

“Incongruous” is the only way to describe this night. First of all, UNH is perhaps the whitest venue in the whitest state in the union. Furthermore, the Godfather of Funk shared a bill with…The

John Maynard Keynes, Back in Fashion

Ann Logue February 24, 2009 8

Because I’m geeky that way, I’ve been working through Robert Skidelsky’s biography of John Maynard Keynes. In some circles, Keynes is just as bad as Darwin, a godless heathen taking away the divinely ordained

Lost MP3 of the Week: John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement”

Taylor Long February 23, 2009 4

The first time I heard A Love Supreme, I was on a train coming back from MacArthur Airport in Islip, Long Island. I was in my senior year of college and had just watched

Don Dixon and Marti Jones LIVE!: The Official Bootleg

Jon Cummings February 23, 2009 11

For a few precious years in the late 1980s and early ’90s, the most communal experience on the pop touring circuit was a family affair. Recording artist-producer Don Dixon and his wife, the singer-songwriter

Popdose Flashback: “Lyle Lovett and His Large Band”

Jack Feerick February 23, 2009 3

By 1989, Lyle Lovett had already been kicking around for a couple of years. He cut a unique figure from the start, a Texan Eraserhead with a knife-slash mouth, and there was a buzz

Political Culture: Whose Mandate Is It Anyway?

Jon Cummings February 12, 2009 6

The last couple weeks have served as a brilliant, if butt-ugly, reminder that governance should be judged not on the back and forth of day-to-day events, but on outcomes. When the history of President

Way Out Wednesday: The Best of Big Daddy

Tony Redman February 11, 2009 5

Big Daddy is a musical group with a rather unusual back story. I’ll let the liner notes explain: While on a USO tour of Southeast Asia in 1959, Big Daddy was captured by Communist

Pop Politico: “Obama’s Neo Pragmatism”

Ted Asregadoo February 10, 2009 18

“Wow, these grapes are sour!”Â A fitting epitaph for Republicans as they try to grab the spotlight to bitch and moan about Obama, the Democrats, and spending while really only offering one policy prescription