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...huge free-range farm," says Anton Rychener, head of the Hanoi office of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Although Ho Chi Minh City has shut down its once ubiquitous wet markets, it still isn't hard to find a live chicken for sale there. Two blocks from Cho Lon market, where rows of empty cages once housed squawking chickens, a vegetable vendor offers to locate live poultry for a finder's fee of about 60?. She leads her customers to a back alley where a woman in a baseball cap opens several plastic bags, revealing four live chickens...
...until 2002 that the game became watchable. In No Limit Texas Hold 'Em (the preferred game of the poker cognoscenti), players are dealt two cards that only they can see, called "hole cards," and then five more community cards are placed in the middle of the table. According to Lon McEachern, the play-by-play guy on World Series, watching Hold 'Em without seeing the hole cards "was like having McEnroe and Boris Becker playing Wimbledon in the dark, then turning on the lights after the point was over to see who won. You never knew what skills they possessed...
...Mhaonaigh’s rousing fiddle playing shines on the title track, a welcome set of jigs that break pace from the downtrodden songs that open the album. While Ní Mhaonaigh’s voice enchants, particularly on the Irish language tracks “Cuach mo Lon Dubh Buí” and “An Cailín Deas Óg,” the album’s real strength is its instrumentals. Arguably the group’s backbone, these tunes burst with the energy of live sessions, and their smooth melodic...
Some missteps are evident, such as “The Pretty Young Girl,” which features rather out-of-place vocals by Dolly Parton. The saxophone on “Cuach mo Lon Dubh Buí” oozes uncertainty, and ultimately doesn’t blend with Altan’s usual mix of instruments. While credit is due for Altan’s creativity, the group’s essence still lies in the picking of guitars or bouzoukis and the harmonies of fiddle and cello...
...Coach Lon Ceglarski, whose current team is 0-7 in Beanpot finals and ECAC playoff games, it was one more heartbreaker...