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...those of you living in a hole in the ground—which I hear is popular in some regions of the globe these days—March Madness is a multi-million dollar enterprise that has at its core a mildly intriguing tournament that brings together the “top” Division I programs in the entire country...
Byrne has a reputation for an obsession with worldbeat, but on this album he not only makes musical leaps around the globe, but also through time. Bizet’s “Au Fond du Temple Saint” and Verdi’s “Un Di Felice, Eterea” pop up in orchestral forms not too distant from their 19th-century originals, except, of course for the presence of Byrne’s Francophone chops. He is joined on the Bizet cover by Rufus Wainwright, another artist from the northeast known for operatic...
Spent your St. Patrick’s Day drinking O’Douls and studying for midterms? Get in touch with your inner leprechaun on with Altan, “the hottest group in the Celtic realm these days,” according to the Boston Globe. The Irish sextet features fiddler/vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and the acclaimed rhythm section of Dáithí Sproule on guitar, Dermot Byrne on accordion and Ciarán Curran on bouzouki. Altan has been around since the eighties and is consistently rated among the most exciting groups...
Talking amongst friends, I was shocked to discover that many had not even heard of this attack, and those who had were not especially affected or concerned. It was not even the headline the following day in the Boston Globe. Could Americans really be so self-interested to not care? Could we possibly have become so accustomed to such tragedies to have grown callous to them? Perhaps there was a time when it was somewhat excusable that Americans did not empathize with those affected by disasters of this nature—we hadn’t experienced such tragedy...
...Mine?s not a pure FCC obscenity story.?Yes, the expletive is classified by the FCC as "strong" since it was used as a verb - as opposed to Bono?s euphoric Golden Globe exclamation last year , "It?s f___ing brilliant," which is considered OK because, well, he was just saying it for emphasis and not talking about an act of, um, love. But my outburst was never supposed to make it on the air. It was not part of a lewd series.? The FCC never even contacted the station to complain. KCRW called my firing a "preemptive distancing." Although...