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...folk repertoire around 1950. Like Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb and Makeba, Odetta played the swanker nightclubs before the big (mostly white) folk-music surge kicked in later in the decade. Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, the 1956 Tradition LP with definitively scalding interpretations of "Muleskinner, Easy Rider" and "God's Gonna Cut You Down," announced the arrival of a voice whose sonic and emotive power could raise the dead and reach the deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odetta: Soul Stirrer, 1930-2008 | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...favor. Make two long, sober speeches: one explaining systemic risk, and one explaining, conceptually, what you will be up to once you take over at Treasury. The chuckleheads of American pop culture and political journalism be damned; these times - alas - demand seriousness. And you, thank God, are up to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter to My Friend Tim Geithner | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...God. Oh my God. I cannot believe my eyes right now. I. Cannot. Believe. My. Eyes.”The five us of leaned forward in our seats with unspeakable delight, staring at the bright blues and yellows dancing before us. We were completely enraptured. We had somehow lost control of our limbs, which were flailing wildly. We looked—and felt—like a bunch of junkies tripping on acid.We were watching “High School Musical 3.”I feel your eyes rolling reader, and I don’t blame you. Frankly...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of an HSM Addict, A Misplaced Endpaper | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...than family entertainment and jobs for dogs. One can only assume the thousands of greyhounds simultaneously unemployed on January 1, 2010 will turn their focus from running races to running drugs.We followed Chiappini’s pre-track rituals: getting liquored up, praying to Anubis, the Egyptian dog-headed god, and burning several dollar bills to get used to the feeling of losing. There was no trouble getting new bills at the track because they have stacks of cash (that used to be other people’s).The first decision at the track was whether...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Turkeys & Trifectas | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...constitutional referendum on whether presidential term limits should be eliminated in the western hemisphere's largest oil producer. "We're going to achieve it," the left-wing Chávez declared to thousands of supporters in Caracas on Sunday. "We're going to demonstrate who rules in Venezuela. If God gives me life and health, I will be with you until 2021" - the bicentennial of Venezuela's independence from Spain. "Uh-ah, Chávez no se va," he sang: "Chávez isn't leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo Chávez for President ... Now and Forever? | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

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