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Music Review: NRBQ – ‘High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective’
NRBQ are every bit as adventurous as they were as a young bunch of guys playing around at the Adams home some 51 years ago, even though Terry Adams stands alone as the only band member spanning the timeline from then to now. How he’s been able to hang on to the energy and charming irreverence that permeates this box of collected performances (both studio and live in concert) is a testament to his continued enthusiasm and love of music.
Read More »The National Museum of African American History and Culture: Blood and Mortar of African Americans
Long before you get to level four and Chuck Berry’s shining red Cadillac where he was seduced some nights by groups of adoring white teen girls, you pass by the memorial to Emmitt Till, the teenage boy brutally murdered by white men for whistling at a white woman.
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If you've never seen Iggy Pop in concert, 'Post Pop Depression: Live at the Royal Albert Hall' is the next best thing.
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The cost of ivory is too heavy to bear; it is the extinction of a species as told in Leonardo Di Caprio's "The Ivory Game" presented at the Hamptons and Toronto Film Festivals.
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One line or one paragraph can grab us. But can it make a book memorable? Try these on for size.
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Cuba boasts of national parks, amazing architecture, cute villages, terrific shopping, and birding territory.
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"The Walking Dead" is an excellent show, but blew it on these two deaths.
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Since Bob Dylan seems uninterested, I wish to nominate myself to be the recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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After countless listens, I feel as if I both know Fela Kuti more than I ever knew any other African artist before, and also how little I appreciated the struggles and injustices that take place across the world in other people’s hometowns or communities. It takes a strong light to shine down on some of the darkest days in the shadow. Thank god Fela Kuti burned as bright as he did for our awareness.
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