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...album's weak point is "Yipi," a Cherokee chant/American folk fusion song so downbeat I can't imagine anyone would enjoy driving to it. Still, The I-10 Chronicles provides enough bright moments for a long road trip, just in time for summer...
...swung from periods of intense electric to pensive acoustic. Young's latest album is a return to the latter. Silver & Gold picks up where Harvest Moon left off eight years ago. All of the album's ten songs are love songs, in some form, and set to a folk or country sound. For most rockers, this combination may sound silly, but for Young the effect is sweet and touching. His lyrics are direct, which sometimes works well, as on the ballad "Good to See You"-"Good to see you/Good to see you again/Good to see your face again/It's good...
According to Maria Cabrera, a parent from Jamaica Plain, La Pinata is a community group that centers on folk dance. It pairs Latino Harvard students with neighborhood children for tutoring and mentoring...
...ultimate punishment in order to satisfy the essentially civilizing deal that we make with one another as citizens. We forgo individual revenge, deferring to the law, but depend upon a certainty that the law will give us a justice that must include appropriate harshness. I favored the Texas folk wisdom: "He needs killing." If the law fails in that task, I said, and people see that evil is fecklessly tolerated, then the social contract disintegrates. Society needs a measure of homeopathic revenge...
...city is host to many other popular festivals each year, starting with a Mardi Gras observance in early spring and including a Creole Heritage Festival, jazz and folk festivals and a Festival of Lights in December. The area's cultural offerings are enhanced by Northwestern State University, which has 9,000 students and supports an acclaimed symphony, ballet, dinner theater and music recitals...