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Palmer’s songs tell gripping fairytales that are at times angry, often sad and always smart. She knows the importance of a singable hook, as in the bittersweet “Good Day.” But she isn’t afraid of straying from the typical pop song format in “Missed Me” and “Coin-Operated Boy.” The former, a song about statutory rape, relies on Palmer’s impressive vocals—which range from warm and frothy to agonizingly tortured?...
...taught in South Boston for a while last summer. Southie has gained tolerance and diversity in the past 20 years. But as MTV and America have moved in, the neighborhood has lost much of its Irish character. It’s sad to see it go, though I was never there to see it anyway, and have to content myself with reading about the old neighborhood in residents’ memoirs and undergraduate social science theses. The only evidence of the old neighborhood that I can still hear is in their accents—the parents’ are strong...
...sad that so much of the “old” South Boston character was tied to ethnicity—so much so that in the mid-century, even kids with last names like Dobowskl, Spezzini and Lopez would claim Irish heritage. As that unity has faded, none has taken its place, and South Boston too has faded into America. Its defining lines are blurred now, grayscaled and dot-pixeled like the rest of the country...
...this speculation about the economy misses the point, though. The real catastrophe is a generation of college students preoccupied with money. With the economy in its sad state, my friends and many other college students are thinking less like activists and more like conservative CEOs. College students’ role in American society used to be above money. Now money transcends...
...stop with ESPN, he should resign as radio host. It's sad to see in the U.S. that so many people listen to a person with that type of perspective and support his race-based opinions. Let's move forward in this nation and not backward to the early 1900's. Michael Allen Frederick...