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    Articles by Kurt B. Reighley
    Pop goes the diva: von Otter and Costello.
    The Same Old Songs
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Don’t be surprised if, someday soon, you should spy a fellow stamping around Pike Place Market sporting unkempt locks and…

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    The Okefenokee Orchestra makes its CD debut.
    Playing Possum
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    WHEN IT COMES TO teaching kids the fundamentals of zoology, comic strips and cartoons have a long way to go….

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    From Victoria to Nashville
    From Victoria to Nashville
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    With a cast of 24 principal players and its labyrinthine subplots, Nashville left a discernable dent on American cinema when…

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    Memory Boy
    Memory Boy
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    If you are reading this on Wednesday, Feb. 27, stop right now and get your ass over to the Baltic…

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    Ennio Morricone: the little Italian man.
    More Morricone
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Like the little black dress, Ennio Morricone is always in vogue. Since he first burst into the mainstream with his…

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    Fa-la-la your way through the holidays.
    Oh, Carol
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    LET’S NOT FOOL ourselves, people: We’re in a recession. So unless you’re part of the 1 percent of the population…

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    Sing along with Chris Carrabba.
    Sing-along Punk
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Contrasted with the cheap sentimentality of commercial pop and the obtuse mumbling of most indie rock, the songs of Dashboard…

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    Paul Manchin, foxy Canadian schoolteacher.
    Talking to Strangers
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    I am not in the habit of chatting up young men at bus terminals: I never talk to strangers, no…

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    Basement flacks
    Basement flacks
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Sooner or later, it happens to everyone. You’re watching television, and suddenly a song you love pops up in a…

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    Those crazy cassingles
    Those crazy cassingles
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    A walk through the history of ridiculous music playback formats.

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    Columnist's Corner
    Columnist’s Corner
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Two Ears and a Tale says I see London, I see France, I get you some…

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    It doesn’t matter any more
    It doesn’t matter any more
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The fluorescent light inside the 24-hour Texaco shimmered with the sickly blue iridescence of skim milk, making the soft drinks…

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    Barry and Fred
    Barry and Fred
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Barry polished off his second beer, licking the sticky sweetness off his upper lip as he set down the pint…

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    Clash of the titans: Chicks on Speed.
    Clash and Carry
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Fledgling female-led musical movement gets ready to blossom.

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    In praise of the Saint
    In praise of the Saint
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    During the last two years of high school, I whiled away my weekends at a certain Washington, DC, disco. I’ve…

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    One-track mind
    One-track mind
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Isn’t it funny how you can love a person or thing to the core of your being, and yet still…

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    David Byrne's new attitude
    David Byrne’s new attitude
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Burned all my notebooks What good are notebooks? They won’t help me survive TALKING HEADS, “LIFE DURING WARTIME” The above…

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    Found art: Damien Jurado goes conceptual.
    Postcards from the edge
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Damien Jurado fans, be advised: The Seattle troubadour’s new CD, Postcards and Audio Letters, is a marked departure from his…

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    Tater talk
    Tater talk
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    The secret history of potato salad.

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    Garofalo
    Sunburn
    By Kurt B. Reighley • October 9, 2006 12:00 am

    Who knew there was a summer-camp movie genre to parody?

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