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...Ani Difranco...
Depending on how you count them, Educated Guess is Ani Difranco’s twentieth album in less than 15 years. This is her first entirely solo record and the result is an album that takes Difranco’s trenchant, self-revelatory style and folds it over onto itself, producing music so intimate it would be uncomfortable, were it not for Difranco’s wry delivery. Spoken word poetry is woven into the album, giving it the feel of an open-mic coffeeshop after everyone else has gone home. Politics is unsurprisingly omnipresent, ranging from the subtle...
...said they are holding roughly 5,000 "suspected terrorists" in custody in Iraq, including 300 with foreign passports. But the officials aren't always able to say where the detainees are, frustrating Iraqis desperately looking for friends or family members who have disappeared. The last time Raed Karim al-Ani saw his brother Mohammed, 27, was in mid-May, when the taxi driver climbed into his battered 1983 Volkswagen and chugged out the driveway of his parents' house. In early July two men came to the house with Mohammed's ID card and car, and said they had seen...
...Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and other poignantly humorous novels like About a Boy and How to Be Good, will read from his latest publication, Songbird, a collection of short essays about musicians. Songbird explores Hornby’s thoughts on a wide range of musicians, from Ani DiFranco to The Beatles to Nelly Furtado. Though different in format from his previous novels, Hornby continues his custom of literary music-loving, offering insights for music geeks and book lovers alike. 7 p.m. Free. Wordsworth Books, 30 Brattle St. (SS)MUSIC | The Good Word
...Early on in the standoff, claim Iraqi diplomats, al-Ani's wife made threatening phone calls to three Iraqi families who live in the compound, telling them she would kill them if they didn't leave the embassy grounds. Says one diplomat, "she called my home and said she'd shoot my son and deliver his body to my wife's lap." Al-Khudairi has applied to China's Foreign Ministry to intervene on his behalf, but thus far Beijing has merely posted extra guards outside the embassy. "This man is a thug," says al-Khudairi...