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Here's how you race Death, Mike Harry is saying: Ride horse down hill, cross river, go into arena, receive applause, tip hat. Nothing to it, he says."But always say a prayer...
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Dear Dategirl, Recently a married friend had a small breakdown while we were chatting online. He was maudlin and drunk, and I was trying to joke with him and get him in a...
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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Your conscience may dictate that you should stand by and allow someone to attempt a good deed, regardless of whether they’re really qualified....
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Dear Mexican,I see a lot of vatos around wearing the clam-digger pants with the knee-high white socks and white sneakers. While this is nothing new, I've noticed recently that...
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At the 2010 Grammy Awards, Pink appeared onstage wearing next to nothing. But even riskier than the potential for a wardrobe malfunction a la Janet Jackson was that the pop...
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Dusseldorf-born Ludger Szmania, who turned 18 the year ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest, has long nursed a dream of opening a nightclub. But his disco ambitions weren't...
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On its face, the title is misleading. Crime After Crime sounds like a repeat-offender case study, but instead concerns the injustice done to Deborah Peagler, an incarcerated...
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THURSDAY/8/25 Food: Frozen Friends Theo Chocolate says National Ice Cream Sandwich Day is today. (Google disagrees, but so what? I'm hungry.) And the shop has other...
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When Dice opened for Aloe Blacc last November, it became extremely clear that her glaringly honest songwriting was a force to be reckoned with. Even before that, Dice was...
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Upon initial listen to Mouthbreathers' debut 7-inch (on legendary trash punk label In The Red), it's easy to imagine the band broadcasting live from a ramshackle ballroom...
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Their name conjures visions of some kind of a psilocybic hell—say, that clammy, grope-y (and worst of all, campy) pit of hands from Labyrinth—or worse, just some...
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The cornerstone artists of upstart record label/sultans of soiree Members Only, State of the Artist have grown noticeably over the past year and change, releasing the more...
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It’s difficult to resist comparing Nazca Lines to At the Drive-In, simply because frontman Cory Alfano’s strident, clipped howl immediately echoes that of...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death came together around their shared love for analogue synthesizers and cult classic films (their name comes from a Samurai epic, band members have clocked...
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Kenny Rogers produced some great songs in his prime, but he is no longer a singer. He's an entertainer. To take in a Kenny Rogers show is to submit oneself to The Kenny Rogers...
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So many Bens, so little time. For the record, Ben Harper was not part of the rock super-trio The Bens—that was Ben Kweller, Folds, and Lee—but he is arguably the...
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In a reverse example of art imitating life, Jeff Bridges has embraced his Academy Award-winning character of Otis Bad Blake and is now a part-time country singer. A career...
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Janet Jackson is living proof that you can make it as a diva even if your voice never rises above a whisper. So it makes sense that for the Seattle swing of her No. Ones: Up...
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The pummeling, power-chord-loving Mississippi duo Bass Drum of Death stirred up some attention earlier this year when they served as the backing band for Odd Future’s...
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When David Simon, creator of The Wire, began filming his new Treme, few knew it would be such a gift to music enthusiasts. Each episode of the HBO series, which loosely...
