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Postcards from the edge
Damien Jurado fans, be advised: The Seattle troubadour’s new CD, Postcards and Audio Letters, is a marked departure…
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Ghosts of the Blue Ridge Mountains
The pocket of the Blue Ridge Mountains where my parents dwell—and where, consequently, I am spending the holidays—is…
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Imperial Birthday
Birthdays are the niftiest invention. It’s like having an extra national holiday, except that, instead of honoring a…
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Ugly Americans
On a sunny autumn afternoon, a man walks into a bar packed with laughing patrons. “I’d like a…
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Everybody Is a Star . . . Not!
FELIX DA HOUSECAT, DJ EVA Baltic Room, 625-4444, $12 adv. / $15 9 p.m. Thurs., June 13 Andy…
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Ooh!
Recently, a reader compared my work to Lester Bangs’. Curious as to why, I started reading the pioneering…
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Nasty Gal
INITIALLY, WHEN MY boyfriend asked me to celebrate this Christmas, our first together, with his brother’s family in…
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Berlin stories
I fancy myself a tough guy. I while away weekends lurking in leather bars redolent with cheap beer,…
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Joy Division Remembered
When singer Ian Curtis hung himself in May 1980, two days before Joy Division’s first North American tour,…
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Ammunition
I’ve been spending a lot of time with teenagers lately. No, I didn’t drill a hole into the…
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One Hoagy With Everything
THE FIRST TIME I heard the name Hoagy Carmichael, I scratched my chinit was college, and I rarely…
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Car trouble
For somebody who works at a dot.com—and I don’t mean as a Kozmo delivery guy—my ignorance of technology…
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Bow down to David Holmes
A few weeks ago, when Radiohead’s Kid A debuted as the No. 1 album in America, after a…
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Hornito
If jealousy is a green-eyed monster, my bosom is chief among the beast’s favorite nesting spots. Recently, upon…
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Tales of Two Cities
I am an inveterate journal keeper. Partially, it’s because it helps me organize thoughts and emotions, but mostly…
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Dolly Pardoned
I can’t stand to think I’m missing out on anything. Occasionally I’ll deliberately eat foods I don’t like,…
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The Divine Miss M
CONSIDER YOURSELF warned: Should you approach High Dive, the fourth solo album from Maria McKee, expecting spirited alt-country,…
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Jill Sobule
Regardless of the size of the bulge in your jeans or the cut of your six-pack, it takes…