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Zero Dark Thirty: Katherine Bigelow Was Robbed [by Stacey Harwood]
David finally convinced me to see Zero Dark Thirty, a movie I avoided because in general I have a low tolerance for violent movies (insomnia, nightmares). Now, having seen it, I have a theory…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat at Gagosian [by Sharon Preiss]
Wunderkind/High school drop-out. Gifted artist/Street scribbler. Incredibly successful in his early 20’s/Heroin addict dead at 27. Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life was a study in warring forces, forces that fueled both his painting and his addiction,…
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Most Popular Funeral Songs [by DL]
In the age of sabermetrics, they ("they, they who are known as they," as Kenward Elmslie has it), have tallied up the songs (and versions of same) most popular to play in funerals. Click…
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Elaine Fletcher Chapman, Guest Blogger March 18 – 22
This week we welcome Elaine Fletcher Chapman (formerly Elaine Walters McFerron) as our guest blogger. Elaine holds an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars where she works as Alumni Liaison. She founded The Writer’s…
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Richard Hell’s punk poetry memoir ‘I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp’: No void here [by Ken Tucker]
Richard Hell wrote one of the best songs built around one of the least useful, or at least most misunderstood, phrases of 1970s punk rock in “Blank Generation,” for his band the Voidoids. To…
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“Sway Me Smooth, Sway Me Now” [Dino and Jerry cut up and dance on Jerry’s birthday]
Happy birthday, Jerry Lewis (born on this day in 1926). The same song occurs in the 1999 French movie "Girl on the Bridge."
