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Darnielle has been recording since 1991, when he worked as a nurse in Southern California. His reputation grew throughout the 90s as a lo-fi avatar, recording his erudite and sometimes recherché love songs on department store boom-boxes. He has since gained wider repute for his talent as a wordsmith and songwriter. In 2002 he joined the esteemed roster of famed British label 4AD, alma mater of the Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Cocteau Twins. Tallahassee, the first release on his new label, was a concept album that concretized the “alpha-series...
...those who remember Superfund’s glory days—back in the ’80s and ’90s when it was flush with money—the program’s funding problems may seem unbelievable. It all stems from Congress’s decision in 1995 to turn its back on the principle that polluters should pay to clean up the messes they make. Until 1995, Superfund got most of its money from polluters. In most cases, the company that contaminated a site would pay to clean it up. In cases where no existing...
...funding cuts take their toll, more and more sites are getting ignored. In the mid to late ’90s, Superfund cleaned up an average of 87 sites per year. In 2003, the program cleaned less than half that number. If Superfund continues to be the victim of tight budgets and misplaced priorities, even more sites will end up like Atlas...
Dennis P. Eichhorn's "Real Stuff" (Swifty Morales Press; 208 pp.; $19.95) collects highlights from the mid-'90s series of the same name. Part of an autobio boomlette of the time, Eichhorn's stories stood out for their juicy barroom-vignette style. Full of violence, sex and drugs, nearly all of them could begin, "I remember one time ?" Put into rough chronological order, starting from his childhood, the collection slowly adds up to a portrait of a rebellious baby boomer - from angry gridiron jock to drugged-out longhair, and into mellowed middle...
...growing list of actors who have played some version of Kaufman’s harried hero. The writer’s sense of humor, it becomes clear, is no more Carrey-esque in real life than it is on celluloid—at least, not in that mid-90s sense, when the world knew Sunshine’s star as the spastic man behind The Mask. Kaufman will at no point shout “smokin’!” or “somebody stop me!”—and neither, for that matter, will...