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There was a time when “African music” meant something other than “new indie-chic” and pale indie boys in cardigans and Sperry Topsiders violently clutching copies of “Graceland” like Bibles on Judgment Day. This was a time when African music was a naturally occurring phenomena that filled spaces with joyful noise, pulsing, engaging rhythms and call-and-response camaraderie. This is the time that is revisited on The Very Best’s new album, “The Warm Heart of Africa...
...from the novel to create banal lyrics. For instance, on the track “These Roads Don’t Move” lines like “These roads don’t move / You’re the one that moves,” are surely meant to feel prophetic, but instead just feel insipid. As anyone even vaguely familiar with Beat literature can attest, Kerouac’s writing offers more beautifully composed images than those selected by Gibbard and Farrar to depict in song...
...years.) Complainants alleged that Moir breached Britain's press code because what she wrote was inaccurate, intruded into grief or shock and was discriminatory. British police say they have received complaints alleging that the column incited hatred against gays. Moir has defended her article and said she had not meant to offend and that any suggestion the piece was homophobic or bigoted was "mischievous." (See a timeline of the history of gay rights...
...Well, I think the standard answer would be to read, and that’s certainly important. But they know that already. Well, my teacher used to say, “Stay open for business” which meant, you know, just be open to everything and anything. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten a line that I’ve used in a story, or even started a story with, that came from just eavesdropping. Just listening to people in a theater before a show, at the student center...
...finance but now makes his living playing online poker—says that after he had played a large number of hands, he ran different kinds of win-rate analyses and determined that his chance of going bust was “pretty much zero,” which meant that he would win in the long run. And it’s safe to say that he has: at the 2009 World Series, Hawrilenko won more than a million dollars when he came in first place at an event. He took $100,688 at yet another one. But these...