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...understand Brendan Benson’s current situation is to understand his past, and to understand his past is to understand upheaval. After spending childhood pinballing between his birthplace of Detroit and Louisiana, Benson eventually settled in Oakland, California, where in the mid-1990s he was discovered by Virgin Records and signed to a multi-album deal. Benson’s 1996 debut, Mississippi One, fell into the familiar rut of being critically acclaimed but commercially shunned, due in part to troubles with the record company. His first record has gone out of print, but since its release, Benson...
...across from Cambridge College, specializes in both congeniality and comfort food. On a recent Sunday afternoon, three employees bustle about behind the counter and below a menu of pizzas, hot and cold subs, salads, spaghetti and simple red and yellow paintings thereof. Pictures of chefs, family and the Virgin Mary adorn the back wall of the kitchen. Red plastic booths overflow with pleased patrons and Impressionist prints in gilded frames crowd the wall. A large cardboard box of cans and bottles demonstrates the establishment’s environmental friendliness. The cashier rings up a meal totaling $6.04 but requests only...
...Selling an 11-year-old virgin turned out to be even easier. At the first place they came to in Thailand, less than a kilometer from the bridge over the Nam Ruak, a brothel owner bought...
...plot deepens, Ba’al travels a path from moral uncertainty to dissolution, and then to despair. Those influenced by the ballim who enter his life—a virgin, a priest and a woman whom Ba’al seduces, impregnates and abandons—further Ba’al’s rejection of self-constraint...
...last winter that the board, as "a special thank-you," commissioned a new tartan, Romantic Scotland, in honor of the duo. "Madonna is the original Material Girl, so a length of fabric seems doubly appropriate," said the board's marketing head. The color scheme: pearl white, for Like a Virgin; blue, for the early True Blue album; yellow, for the Blond Ambition tour; and purple, for Scottish heather. But what about Ritchie? Oh, yeah: "A three-line overcheck echoes the style of the Ritchie tartan." What, no blood red for his action sequences...