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...Roses Association. Filled with television cameras and shivering boy scouts bearing float banners every January 1, Wrigley Mansion is the year-round home to a wealth of Pasadena history. Aside from the pictures of Rose Parades past, visitors can stop by to view Tournament aficionado Gene Autry's cowboy costume, the bathroom where the President Dwight D. Eisenhower once locked himself for hours shortly before the parade's start and all the marble a fortune in Doublemint could possibly...
...their best, the Cowboy Junkies seem to embody their name perfectly. They make people feel like they need to listen, and the capacity crowd at Avalon could be seen straining to soak in the Junkies' painfully beautiful songs...
...between every song of the Cowboy Junkies' 90-minute set last Friday at Avalon, a woman on the right side of the stage could be heard screaming to lead singer Margo Timmins...
...ever-perceptive eyes scan the American tundra, we find ourselves, in favor of the Cowboy junkies, William Vollman and, as always, Tonya Harding...
...intellectual weight of satire. Humor need not and probably should not concern itself with furthering any social agendas. But for The Book of Guys to champion humor, these stories would have to be funny. Keillor's humor consists chiefly of rank anachronism and clumsy juxtaposition: A Wild West cowboy buys a condo from a realtor; Dionysus hits 50, gets de-deified, and sees a therapist about his midlife crisis; Don Giovanni dispenses romantic advice from the Sportsman Bar, where he plays piano. Maybe these stories would be funnier if Keillor were telling them himself. Perhaps the humor of setting...