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Former Soul Coughing frontman has long abandoned the days of semi-successful alt-rock Bon Bons, relying instead on a single acoustic guitar to entertain. His last work was last year’s Rockity Roll EP, and he’s currently preparing a full-length with a complete band and Semisonic’s Dan Wilson. Performance will likely include some of the new material and perhaps some classics from his former band’s glory days. Tickets $12. 9 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...Madonna. After she secured a deal to publish six children’s stories in 100 countries and 42 languages last summer, the New York Daily News sarcastically told its readers to “forget that her last book was an outrageous and provocative collection of thoughts and semi-porn shots called sex.” With her first children’s book, The English Roses, Madonna was said to “go between the covers again, only this time it’s strictly kids stuff.” Perhaps the Guardian put it best...
Clearly being grouped in with Michigan, Maine, Minnesota and New Hampshire is pretty heady company. But while those teams have won national finals, or lost in them, or at least made the semi-finals, Harvard alone has gone winless in three chances. That is what separates those teams from Harvard, postseason victories versus postseason futilities...
After a hard-fought 2-1 double-overtime victory against Brown in the ECAC semi-finals, Harvard bounced back the next day to rout St. Lawrence, 6-1. Last year, when the Crimson also made it all the way to the championship game, there were fewer of the close battles that have helped shape the current Harvard team...
...Vladimir V. Putin, who coasted to a comfortable victory less than two weeks ago, is extremely popular. Even with the ballot-stuffing, media manipulation and other election irregularities which marred the process, Putin’s 72.1 percent of the vote is still impressive in Russia’s semi-democratic environment. Yet there is still ample cause for concern. Democracy in the world’s largest country is not well—and it is only getting worse...