On A&E’s new dramatic series, The Cleaner, Benjamin Bratt is doing some of his finest acting since leaving Law & Order.After walking off the beat of NBC’s venerable cops and…
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Running is a solitary sport. You may train with a group or run a race in the company of one or two other people, but in the end, the concentration…
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Eric Clapton – “I’ve Got a Rock and Roll Heart” Dave: Did Clapton have to record this to pay back the writers for lending him money for blow? This record…
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The Popdose staff was sitting around the other day, doing what we do best — namely, talking about records that most people wish they didn’t remember — when a discussion…
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0KL_fgWgK40″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Mike + the Mechanics, “Silent Running” (1985) David Medsker: I love Paul Carrack as much as the next guy, but is what…
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Once chance intervention, see what it can signify The slightest misapprehension, baby And we’d have passed each other by When I heard your sweet voice callin’ Saw your light come…
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Like watching a second-year veteran going through a hitting slump, three episodes into the Burn Notice sophomore season, the show still hasn’t found the same spark it displayed last summer…
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Years ago, after packing away most of my old 45Á¢€â„¢s, I gave several to my friend Steve for prosperityÁ¢€â„¢s sake. Among them was Led ZeppelinÁ¢€â„¢s Á¢€Å“The Immigrant Song,Á¢€ one of…
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In the fall of 1991, Robbie Robertson released his second solo album, Storyville, to glowing reviews, including a four-star feature write up in Rolling Stone (Á¢€Å“a mature and masterful work…
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Elvis Mitchell is one of the preeminent film critics and interviewers of our generation. Since 1996 his NPR radio show, The Treatment, has been a stomping ground for popular culture’s…
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If you should find yourself in North Olmsted, Ohio with a few extra minutes, you can drive past the North Olmsted high school. There, if you know where to look,…
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Like many Saturday afternoons, we found ourselves straightening up the house, the children and I. It was June 2007, it was hot, and they were beginning to bicker. What can…
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I was supposed to write a column about several reality shows airing this summer, and I had good intentions of doing just that. But the only reality I know right…
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The death of Stevie Ray Vaughan struck a deep chord in me. Back when he was making his breakthrough in the early ’80s, an upstart Akron radio station, WONE, became…
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Late. I was late getting to the damn airport. If I hadnÁ¢€â„¢t stopped by the library to renew that Le Carre book, I would have been on the road already….
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TBS begins their summer of comedy this Thursday night (6/12/08) with the second season premieres of The Bill Engvall Show (9:00 PM) and My Boys(9:30 PM). The Bill Engvall Show…
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USA Network’s latest in a successful slate of summertime programs is In Plain Sight (premiering 6/1/08 and airing Sundays, 10 PM). The series stars Mary McCormack as Mary Shannon, a…
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The first full-length screenplay I wrote was a semi-autobiographical account of an out of control party I threw in the summer of 1987. My script was an attempt to capture…
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Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On from What’s Going On (1971) Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt – 1917 from Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions (1999) Bob Dylan – Two Soldiers…
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IÁ¢€™m not sure when my brother, Budd, brought home his copy of John (then) Cougar MellencampÁ¢€™s Uh Huh. The cassette showed up in the basement one summer, a year or…
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So here we are at the end of another cycle of Fox’s juggernaut, American Idol. For seven seasons, the televised talent show has been the thorn in the side of…
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Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder titled his memoir Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) in an attempt to sell more copies of the book. Co-written with journalist…
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Damn right, Á¢€Å“My Sharona.Á¢€ The KnackÁ¢€â„¢s one monster hit, co-written by lead guitarist Berton Averre and singer Doug Fieger, has kept my heart pumping and my hands pounding on steering…
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Scrubs says “goodbye” to NBC, and “hello” to a new network.
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And so, for no real reason besides pride and misunderstanding, my best friend, Steve, and I had a falling out when we were 17. It wasnÁ¢€â„¢t your typical bloodied knuckles,…
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Watching Tom Cruise appear on Oprah last week, I was surprised at how authentic he appeared. It reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend who did the…
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Slow dancing. It was something Julie and I did more frequently in the early years of our marriage. There weÁ¢€â„¢d be, alone in our apartment, holding each other and swaying…
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Around this time last year, I was in the throes of a terrible depression. It was unlike any wave of emotions I’d ever been through in my entire life. For…
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Brothers & Sisters, ABC’s latest hit family drama (Sundays at 10 pm), came back to the airwaves last night, and for some of us, it was a welcome return of…
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The first thing thing that came to mind when I heard that Danny Federici had passed was the chorus of “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” This song, more than…