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...telegenic O'Malley is known for his brashness, a trait honed by years of fronting a Celtic rock band and being the eldest son among six siblings. He briefly gained national attention in February for saying that in cutting urban aid, President George W. Bush "is attacking America's cities" in much the same way that the 9/11 hijackers did. His fellow mayors grimaced, and O'Malley quickly backed off the analogy. He also attracted headlines when rumors he was having an extramarital affair ("despicable lies," O'Malley said) exploded into public view, and Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich fired...
Recently the mayor announced he was leaving his band, O'Malley's March, to concentrate on his day job. As he hung up his guitar at his last St. Patrick's Day show, he urged his fans to pick up green-and-white bumper stickers. They read O'MALLEY FOR GOVERNOR...
...incontrovertible--there hasn't been a great deal of progress in dealing with it. Paradoxically, that is partly because of the success of the environmental movement, which celebrates a major milestone this week: the 35th anniversary of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Back then a dedicated band of ecology-minded crusaders set out to save the planet with the same sort of idealistic, confrontational activism that was working so well for Vietnam War protesters and the women's movement...
...wine list. The oldest vintage dates back to 1704 (yours for a mere $3,227). More reasonable was a $36 bottle of 1989 Breuer Riesling from the Bischofberg vineyard. As I swirled my glass and dipped crusts of dense rye bread into my Riesling-and-cheese soup, an oompah band pounded in the distance--a perfect German winery experience...
Virtually everybody who cares about music had some kind of “gateway drug”—an artist or band that was just “mainstream” enough to be visible to our young and impressionable eyes, but ballsy enough to put out music that reformatted our synapses and led us to a treasure trove of lesser-known acts. For me, that drug was the living embodiment of the 1990s, Beck Hansen...