Word: amateurness
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...intelligent dance music), garage, hardcore, ghetto-tech, unusual breaks, acid house, noise and other experimental forms. These “experimental” or “variety” weeklies often showcase local talent and upstart DJs. Institution6, a new weekly that features a collective of local amateur acts in rotation, houses itself at Phoenix Landing and, like many weeklies, claims as its founding purpose the desire to foster a community and promote great (techno) music. Founder and DJ Eric Gray says, “I believe that in addition to education, family, religion, economy and government, music...
Crockett, a preseason third-team All-American selection by Baseball America, returns to the club after declining to sign with the Boston Red Sox, who selected him in the 10th round of June’s amateur draft...
After last season’s no hitter, Crockett was so serious about the draft that he enlisted Ron Shapiro as his advisor. While NCAA rules prohibit amateur athletes from hiring an official agent, college players are allowed to retain an advisor. Crockett consulted Shapiro, a well-known agent who has counted future Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. and the Red Sox’ Trot Nixon among his clients...
These panic attacks lead me to frantic research. I quickly became aware of a community of aviophobes on the internet. Airline safety junkies abound on the web, debating the advantages of different types of airplanes, rating their safety and giving far too much information for the amateur paranoiac. For example, there are websites out there that track the number of fatal accidents for each airline and the dates these accidents occurred. Some a little farther off the deep end spend their time uncovering conspiracies between government agencies and airlines to trade money for safety. But many with my affliction count...
...James Squires, who, when he lost his job as the editor of the Chicago Tribune, blew his golden parachute on a tiny horse farm in the green heart of Kentucky. In Horse of a Different Color (PublicAffairs; 320 pages; $26), Squires tells the story of how, as a relative amateur, he bred an undersize gray foal who made his way through the maze of big-money auctions, minor injuries, grueling workouts and stakes races to become Monarchos--the surprise winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby...