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...their latest album, “Sam’s Town,” lead singer Brandon Flowers and his Merry Bunch of Killers have turned musically and thematically towards New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen, using his brand of proletarian songwriting to illuminate the plight of their blue-collar peers on the mean streets of Vegas...
...unfortunately and inaccurately-named genre—calling New Jersey part of the “heartland” raises both geographic and normative issues—popular in the early to mid-1980s, is usually defined by down-home folks like Springsteen, Tom Petty, and John Cougar Mellencamp: artists who wrote tender blue-collar tales of broken American dreams and perseverance over folksy rock backings, not maudlin anecdotes over bubbling synth lines...
...exciting I made it in my head—did not have the potential to teach me what it’s like to live in Scotland, I got a first-rate glimpse. In the end, although I’ll ultimately have to submit to always being a Jersey girl, I will forever strive to incorporate new homes into my life, and I’m glad I got to add Scotland to the list...
...most of the 300 million people in this country, both that sight and the idea of promoting it through legislation are unacceptable. Since the New Jersey Supreme Court’s ruling last week that gay people are constitutionally guaranteed equal benefits to married heterosexual couples, President Bush has had a renewed spring in his step. As ABC News’ The Note reported, if Republicans manage to hold Congress on November 7, the “best supporting actors/actresses” will be “liberal, activist, gay loving judges...
...Running from the GOP in New Jersey In a race that may hold the key to control of the Senate, Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr. hopes to knock off a Democratic incumbent by keeping a distance from his own party