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Mojo Flucke
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Each Thanksgiving at the Flucke household, we have a special tradition where we open up the mojo bag and drop in some new gris-gris, playing Dr. John and Professor Longhair…
Jeff Vrabel
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JACKYL Title: “The Lumberjack Song” Album: Jackyl Release Date: 1992 Why You Remember Them: You cannot imagine how often, in the research of this column, one comes across the phrase…
Dw. Dunphy
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The outburst heard ’round the nation, at least until Kanye West co-opted the mike: South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s interjection during President Obama’s health care pitch to Congress. A million…
J.A. Bartlett
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September 16, 1987, is a Wednesday. A front-page story in the New York Times details the growing plagiarism scandal surrounding Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, who is chairman of the Senate…
J.A. Bartlett
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April 15, 1990, is Easter Sunday. The nuclear-armed nations of India and Pakistan remain nose-to-nose over the disputed province of Kashmir. At Cape Canaveral, preparations continue for the April 24…
Ann Logue
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Different countries are…well, different. They have different laws and languages, funny stamps, and candy that you canÁ¢€â„¢t get at home. We usually think that part of being a distinct country…
Michael Burke
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Musical genres can be helpful for fans: They allow music to be categorized; grouped with other artists that sound similar. If you like Metallica, you will probably like Slayer. If…
Taylor Long
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“Everyone is guilty,” Akron/Family sang at their second gig at Union Pool, but if their performance was any indication, that fact isn’t getting to them. The bi-city band, based in…
Ann Logue
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Do you deserve a raise? Of course you do. Everyone thinks that he or she is underpaid. ThatÁ¢€â„¢s just the nature of the working world. Teachers think that they are…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE You know that sinking feeling you get when you hear your boss say: Á¢€Å“Hey, can I see you in my office?Á¢€ Yeah, you know what…
Jon Cummings
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He may have called for Á¢€Å“a kinder, gentler nation,Á¢€ but the first year of George H.W. BushÁ¢€â„¢s presidency, 1989, turned out to be Ground Zero for the Culture Wars. It…
Tony Redman
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This album from 1978 features the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra playing that most maligned of instruments, the kazoo. The kazoo was invented by an African-American named Alabama Vest in Macon,…
Ken Shane
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It’s no secret that tribute albums and charity compilations can be hit-or-miss affairs at best. In the case of the latter, all you can really do is be happy that…
Ann Logue
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I have a lot of thoughts about the quasi-nationalization of Citigroup, because I am a Citibank shareholder. Some of those shares were acquired in the traditional capitalist manner; my husband…
Scott Malchus
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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 SemuelsÁ¢€â„¢ piece,…
Mojo Flucke
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“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…
Ann Logue
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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…
Taylor Long
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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…
Jon Cummings
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For a few precious years in the late 1980s and early Á¢€â„¢90s, the most communal experience on the pop touring circuit was a family affair. Recording artist-producer Don Dixon and…
Jack Feerick
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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…
Jon Cummings
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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…
Tony Redman
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Big Daddy is a musical group with a rather unusual back story. IÁ¢€â„¢ll let the liner notes explain: While on a USO tour of Southeast Asia in 1959, Big Daddy…
Ted Asregadoo
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Á¢€Å“Wow, these grapes are sour!Á¢€Á‚ 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…
Scott Malchus
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Like any film student who worships Chinatown and loved The Pianist, I was intrigued by how Roman Polanski, the charismatic film director, would be portrayed in Marina Zenovich’s documentary, Roman…
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