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...really nice to come back home and be able to play in front of all my family,” said Taylor, who added that he viewed the home-town showdowns just as he viewed high school games...
...really nice to come back home and be able to play in front of all my family,” said Taylor, whose parents have actually traveled to some of his East Coast contests. He added that he viewed the home-town showdowns just as he viewed high school games...
...Show me how to rap. Yeah, you can make fun of me, but what’s it really about?” While he subsequently gave up verbal fisticuffs in favor of the jovial, cerebral rhyming games he regularly performs on stage and in his home-town record store, freestyling remains Eyedea’s main love and what he calls “a cornerstone of hip hop.” “You don’t get the same ecstasy writing down something on a piece of paper as you do spitting something from your...
...sense, Playboy was the anti-New Yorker. It was the Chicagoan. Playboy was founded at about the time the Second City was becoming the Third, after Los Angeles, in population and cultural import. But from the first, home-town boy Hef pursued Chicago writers and artists, perhaps because he could hustle them personally. Nelson Algren, Ben Hecht, Silverstein, LeRoy Neiman, and later David Mamet, gave Playboy a Midwestern voice to go with its middle-American notion of pulchritude...
...will always remember watching my home-town Florida Marlins win the 1997 World Series and writing an article about it the next...