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...with the release of his 46th album, Together Through Life, Dylan is, officially, old. Listening to these songs, I imagine him as one of the last guests at someone else's 70th-birthday party, sitting at a table that's been cleared except for the wine stains and bread crumbs. He's wearing a bolo tie and his scraggly mustache, telling stories about women he used to know but never cared for all that much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan: Time For One More Change? | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...began as a tribute act: Woody Guthrie reinvented, down to the studio photos in which he pooched his lips like Woody and held his guitar the same way. On his first, eponymous album, Dylan sang mostly other people's songs--except for one talking blues and the haunting "Song to Woody," which was an exercise in folk classicism. He wrote new lyrics to the tune of Guthrie's "1913 Massacre," just as Guthrie had applied his lyrics to the ancient ballads he'd learned from his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan: Time For One More Change? | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...items (sausage, bacon, eggs) for weekday breakfast are cut, except in the 'Berg...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Budget Plinko, Part I | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...Actual Retail Price: More 3am walks through Cambridge Commons. You can still call the escort service though! Except HUCEP shuts down at 2am from Sun-Wed...so you have 30 extra minutes. So helpful...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Budget Plinko, Part I | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...Except that life is much messier and all the odds were against them, and in a real sense it diminishes Bristol's challenge, and her clear determination to meet it, to pretend otherwise. Only 4 in 10 teenage mothers finish high school; less than 2% of girls who have babies under 18 will finish college by the time they are 30; just waiting until 20 or 21 increases the odds fourfold. Two thirds of families of young unwed mothers are poor. When pregnant teens do marry, they are 50% more likely to get divorced than those who marry without being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Bristol Palin, Abstinence Spokeswoman | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

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