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Sandwiched between the hustle and bustle of Head of the Charles weekend and the Dispatch concert in Sanders, Rockwell Church, a D.C.-based duo, took the stage of Club Passim for their first of two sold-out shows last Saturday. Lead singer Nathan Church Hubbard asked the audience, “Why do they schedule all this stuff at the same time? It must suck the rest of the year.” Suck the rest of the year or not, Boston was in for quite a treat as Rockwell Church opened its evening at Passim with a solid...
Joti Rockwell and Hubbard, two self-described “guys with acoustic guitars and bad hair,” could easily be written off as just another duo who picked up their guitars in college to woo girls—except that they’re not. Lifelong friends, the 20-somethings have been writing music and performing since they were six, graduating in 1997 from Princeton (Hubbard) and Haverford (Rockwell). Their stood-the-test-of-time friendship was apparent in their on-stage banter during the Passim show...
...Hubbard: “Hey—let’s get everyone up on stage to moon the Internet camera. [No one moves.] Oh, man—no one likes to show their butt in public any more...
Officials from the banking-industry-friendly Center for Freedom and Prosperity sat down with top Bush economic advisers Larry Lindsey and R. Glenn Hubbard and urged them to keep the U.S. out of the coalition and firmly support the status quo in many tax havens. The group's pitch: Americans should be free to seek out lower tax rates anywhere in the world; competition from tax havens helps keep tax rates in the U.S. down. The conservative Heritage Foundation met with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and presented a similar argument. And the C.F.P. helped Don Nickles of Oklahoma...
...self you've worked hard to assemble over the years and you feel a new you emerge, a nicer you, calmer, cooler, easier-going. The you you really are and not the guy you constructed at the U and from Gary Cooper movies and tailored to the needs of Hubbard, Buttrick, Bickford & Barnes and re-tuned in therapy with Dr. Koren. Now you become the you you were afraid the world would find out about. Goombah, homeboy, cowpoke or hobo. Or, in my case, a limericist. But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet...