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...Stitch and Bitch knitting club, it’s just another typical night at Redline, complete with subdued mood lighting, cozy vinyl booths and, of course, free-flowing drinky-drinks. Since last spring, anywhere from three to 12 knitters have been gathering every Wednesday evening at the back of the bar for eats, drinks, good company and great stitching. After a brief summer hiatus, the Stitch and Bitch army is back, armed with circular needles, patterns galore and a glass or two of the choicest poisons...
...years ago, and the number is growing. Most practice the "constant ballast" technique, in which a diver uses fins but no extra weights to dive as far as possible before coming up for air. No-limits free divers take it further, using a weighted sled running down a vinyl-coated steel cable that pulls the diver to depths where Coke cans implode and fish swim nearly blind. An air bag at the top of the sled is inflated by the diver and shoots the diver to the surface. Because of the short submersion time, decompression sickness--the bends...
...suffering - they dropped 5% in 2001 - classical music is feeling the pinch. It now accounts for under 6% of the total audio market. But fans remember a golden age. From the 1960s through the '80s, the major labels regularly recorded the central repertoire with top conductors and orchestras. Vinyl and tapes wore out, so people bought new performances since at that time reissues were less common. When new recording techniques like digital came along, consumers acquired their favorite works with better sound quality. But the durability of CDs - and the emergence of top-selling crossover artists like Andrea Bocelli...
...nothing short of graceful. That’s not to say, of course, that silly shenanigans were in short supply. Carefully poised between center stage and Adams’ guitar amplifier was a tweed-clad phonograph, which he called upon several times during the evening to play a vinyl of Madonna’s “Material Girl.” “Come on Boston!” Adams implored: “Don’t you like Madonna? She can throw plates at me all she wants…I’ll just duck...
...High Church for music geeks, and strolling through Amoeba with Beck--the wispy singer who has made a career out of fusing rap, rock, folk, funk, irony and earnestness--is like cruising the Vatican with the Pope. As Beck moves from the back-room blues section to the used vinyl, everyone sneaks a quick, reverent glance and returns to flipping through the racks, or at least pretending to flip through the racks. All eyes still follow Beck, curious about what the king of musical collage has on his shopping list...