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On the Efficacy of Prayer or My Friend Seamus Has Cancer [by Michael O’Keefe]
In May of 2009 my ten-year old friend Seamus Morrison was diagnosed with a medulla blastoma on his cerebellum. They are a poorly differentiated malignant neoplasm composed of tightly packed…
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Bob Dylan as Rebel (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Subtlety is a threat to minds manacled by ideology. That is why Bob Dylan so angered those people who were determined to slap a label on him. Anthemic folk singer, protest poet, folk-rock hipster.…
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A Little Bit of Bix (by Laura Orem)
Lots of cats tried to play like Bix. Ain't none of them played like him yet - Louis Armstrong One of the most tragic figures in American music is the jazz cornetist, Leon "Bix"…
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XVII. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Waruiyatsu hodo yoku nemeru (The Bad Sleep Well) [1960] (by Lewis Saul)
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
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On Jason Shinder and Why I Love Him on the Day My Father Died [by Michael O’Keefe]
photo by Bill Hayward Jason Shinder (left) died on April 25, 2008 after a prolonged period of living with cancer and leukemia. Those of us who knew him valued his humor, buoyancy and…
