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...time for us to be movin' on," sings blues musician Keb'Mo', even as he preserves the art form that most perfectly captures the agony of the past and the promise of making something lasting out of the pain. The Delta town of Clarksdale, Miss., is trying to find its way by re-engineering its cash crop: the blues, with a new museum honoring such hometown heroes as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. The history of the music is the story of the people who invented it and the suffering that created...
...bias isn't clear enough, let me come clean. I am the son of a bread-truck driver who taught me never to enter a restaurant or store in which I couldn't shake the hand of the owner. Only with great pain do I admit that the every place/no place that Moe speaks of--an America built in strips and spurts and without hesitation or nearly enough shame--has one thing going for it. It works. Location, value, convenience--the retail superhighway has got all that. On rare occasions, I suppose, you can even find quality and service there...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) unit was dispatched to Au Bon Pain and removed a group causing a disturbance...
...ease that transition). On the other hand, as Los Angeles TV news shrink Carol Lieberman told the New York Post, those 15 minutes of fame can be a powerful balm. "I'm not saying it's not humiliating," Lieberman says. "But the attention they get helps mitigate any pain they might be feeling after being called a loser in front of millions of people." As the man said, there's no such thing as bad publicity...
Richard Williams has invited himself to a friend of a friend's funeral in order to avoid the paternal pain of watching a grinning, shrieking, fist-pumping blood match between daughters Venus and Serena on Centre Court at Wimbledon Thursday. "One of them is going to be buried," Williams said. "I might as well go to a real funeral. At least I get the music...