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2003 Stories by Eric Waggoner

• Fine Wine

  published May 28, 2003

  "It was cool, and I don't mind talking about it, but . . . you know, a nigga always movin' on to the next thing." Ishmael Butler, once upon a... More >>

• Stir It Up

  published April 9, 2003

  All professions, American economist Thorstein Veblen once observed, are a conspiracy against the laity. In few settings is this more evident... More >>

• Pop Music Studies Conference

  published April 9, 2003

  Among the many events at the 2003 Pop Music Studies Conference are some whose structure, substance, or format doesn't exactly conform to... More >>

• Radio Cure

  published April 2, 2003

  "I don't know," says No Depression's co-founder and co-editor Grant Alden, after a moment's thought. "I don't know whether it's a case... More >>

• Swing and a Hit

  published March 26, 2003

  All right, sports fans: It's the third inning at a spring training matchup between the California Angels and the San Francisco Giants, with the... More >>

• The King is Dead

  published February 19, 2003

  THE MAN BILLY BOB Thornton called a "hillbilly vampire" is holed up in a Holiday Inn in Colorado, doing God knows what. It sounds quiet where... More >>

• Atomic Log

  published February 5, 2003

  BOB LOG III THE COACHWHIPS, HYDRO GURU Crocodile Cafe, 206-441-5611, $8 9 p.m. Fri.,... More >>

• Dear John

  published February 5, 2003

  JOHN SINCLAIR Barnes & Noble 1530 11th Ave. N.W., Issaquah, 425-557-8808 3 p.m. Sun., Feb. 9 More >>

• The Night Manager

  published January 29, 2003

  I PUT A SPELL ON ME EMP, JBL Theater, 206-770-2702, $7/$5 members 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Wed., Feb.... More >>

• Lip Service

  published January 8, 2003

  HENRY ROLLINS Moore Theatre, 206-682-1414, $21-$23.50 8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 10 "TO ME," SAYS... More >>

• Album of the Year

  published January 1, 2003

  The Replacements' final show at Chicago's Grant Park in 1991 wasn't exactly a blowout, or even the pull-out-the-stops performance the band's... More >>

• Band of the Year

  published January 1, 2003

  In retrospect, it's not the album itself that was so important. Certainly Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was Wilco's giant step, the record on... More >>