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...about a sun so hot it burned holes in your skin. We gave up on our table and Jim pointed to another. We sat and ordered beer. We felt out of place, in the way. We waited for the headliner to take the stage, a British singer-songwriter named Laura Marling...
...expert, but I know Laura Marling is good. (I’ve been listening to folk, to folk-pop, since my mom sent me James Taylor’s self-titled CD in a camp care package when I was nine; I wanted something by Christina Aguilera, and complained bitterly...
Last year, Laura Marling released her debut album, “Alas I Cannot Swim,” to much critical acclaim. She was, in fact, nominated for the prestigious 2008 Barclaycard Mercury Prize, which honors recorded music by British and Irish artists. And she’s still just a teenager...
...Laura Marling is, you know, cool—hot, indie. So I thought I’d find other Harvard kids at the concert. But they weren’t (and if you were there, I’m sorry, I didn’t see you). In Club Passim, I felt like an interloper, like I was somewhere I wasn’t meant to be. But then Laura Marling walked on stage, and I thought I might have found an ally...
...repressive atmosphere of the Franco regime, public discussion of the atrocity - and thousands of others - was prohibited. "Even within my family - my father, my grandparents, the grandparents who went into exile in New York and came back - it was never spoken about," says Laura García Lorca, the poet's niece and president of the Madrid-based García Lorca Foundation. Even after Franco's death in 1975, a so-called pact of silence suppressed any kind of open debate about the crimes committed during his rule while the country peacefully transformed itself into a democracy...