Word: concert
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...Walking downtown on Tuesday, I heard a guy selling Obama reggae paintings tell a woman that he was going to the Public Enemy concert that afternoon. As I turned around to ask him about it, a guy walked by me talking into his cell phone about the James Taylor show. That night, I was on the list to see Death Cab for Cutie, who was playing a few doors down from Nelly, at a bar right near where Moby was DJing. On Monday, I went to the New Orleans Jam-Balaya, where I saw Randy Newman, Terence Blanchard, the Meters...
...Republicans have to be wondering how their candidate can possibly fight back. The Creative Coalition is throwing a Black Eyed Peas show here; for the GOP concert, they booked the Charlie Daniels Band. The ONE campaign's answer to their Kanye show in St. Paul is Chris Daughtry. If you're a Daughtry-loving Dem, don't fret: it turns out you can see him here in Denver...
...small, as an independent program broadcast from the university town of Boulder, Colo. Today, the show has over one million listeners and is carried internationally by National Public Radio. As a sign of its influence, on Aug. 26 - the second night of the convention - Etown will hold a special concert in Denver's Temple Hoyne Buell Theater, with artists including James Taylor, David Crosby and Ani DiFranco. "The show, in many ways, will capture the essence of this year's Democratic National Convention," says Helen Forster. "It's about change and the exchange of ideas, and that's something...
...superdelegate, a co-chairman of the DNC Youth Council and a political-science student at Marquette University--says he has promised to call friends from the floor to "keep them in the process." It's the young wonk's version of holding up a cell phone at a rock concert so a far-away fan can listen...
...hysterical women had any voices left at all. In one of the Games' most lopsided gold-medal matches, China's Lin Dan demolished Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei in men's single's badminton, 21-12, 21-8. As the heavily partisan fans raised the decibel level past rock-concert intensity, Lin rewarded the audience after the match by throwing his racket into the crowd. Next came one sweaty shoe, then another. Chances are Lin's throwaways are already attracting furious bidding on Chinese online auction sites - if, that is, the lucky recipients can bear to part with such national...