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Days before the start of the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas, Wallach unloads these wise words over the phone. His band, Chester French, is scheduled to play several gigs during the festival in preparation for a month long tour in support of N.E.R.D. These shows will be the first with their current lineup, comprised of Wallach, bandmate Maxwell C. Drummey ’07, and three studio musicians, including Tyler G. Wood...
Drummey agrees. “South by Southwest is, in a sense, a circle jerk of all these critics and all these fucking gatekeepers who just want to massage their egos by determining who they think is great. But we’re just here to make real fans...
...northern Iraq, Coalition forces say they killed eight armed men, at least one of which they believe to be affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq, during an targeted attack Thursday southwest of the remote village of Tuz. Six others who the U.S. military says are affiliated with al-Qaeda were captured through two operations in the Mosul area...
...follow. I am certain that I am not alone when I open up the Stars and Stripes, the military's daily paper, and immediately search for the section with the names of the fallen to see if they include anyone I know. While in a combat outpost in southwest Baghdad, it was in that distinctive bold Arial print in a two-week-old copy of the Stars and Stripes that I read that my best friend had been killed in Afghanistan. No phone call from a mutual friend or a visit to his family. All that had come and gone...
...rest of the Southwest can use its water more efficiently, it should be safe for decades. One solution could involve diverting more of the river's water away from agriculture--which claims 85% of the supply--in favor of the region's thirsty cities. That would be challenging politically, but something has to give. Still, while Lake Mead has shrunk to just 52% of capacity, the immense reservoir still contains an incredible 9 trillion gal. (35 trillion cu L) of water. But the dry sky above and the rock all around reinforce the inescapable fact that this land...