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Rachel Barenblat, Guest Author September 30 – October 4
This week we welcome Rachel Barenblat as our guest author. Rachel holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and rabbinic ordination from ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She is author of several…
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Kershaw Blanks Rockies, and Three Dodger Homers Seal the Deal [by DL]
Just about everyone I know in Los Angeles knows I am planning to go to Dodger Stadium on Friday evening to watch Clayton Kershaw go for his sixteenth victory in a game of little…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: Can’t Democrats Widow’s Dream?
David Embury’s The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, a 1948 recipe book and glimpse into privilege, has this to say about an after-dinner cordial called the Widow’s Dream: …
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100,000 Poets for Change in Chicago: Private Eyes (They’re Watching You) [by Larry Sawyer]
You might not think of this 1981 dab of pop schmaltz served up by the Philly duo Hall & Oates when you think about the National Security Agency but the song makes a…
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ELLISTON POET, R.I.P. – part 5 [by Joshua Butts]
Spring had come to Cincinnati, and so had C.D. Wright. Straight into town from Arkansas via Rhode Island. I was not yet a student at the University of Cincinnati, so that I have an…
