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Burgeoning indie-folk star M. Ward followed in March, whose country-folk-through-the-family-radio sound fit the intimate venue perfectly. “You could hear every note, without any noise coming in from a bar,” Hirsch says. With even more exciting and well-known acts lined up for April and beyond, it is obvious that Hirsch is familiar with the vinyl collections of your average hipster...
...Lasting that long as a singer may be a challenge. Already, Mirwais works punishing hours, often singing until 3 a.m. and then rising late to ride his bicycle?whose handlebars have sprouted a bouquet of artificial flowers?to a dirt-floor schoolhouse that has no doors or windows to ward off the icy winter winds. Mirwais sits there with other drably uniformed boys, a bright kid with a sad smile. The schoolyard is full of toughs, and he knows better than to show off his one luxury, a new cell phone in which he's stored dozens of jangling tunes...
...Film Comment, associate editor Melinda Ward and I put together a special issue on Cinema Sex (January-February 1973). It included Donald Richie's report on Japanese eroductions, Ray Durgnat on Jess Franco, Stephen Farber on sexual censorship in California, my long interview with Metzger and Ebert's definitive study of Meyer (which is quoted in the first pages of The Other Hollywood. My favorite essay, a real startler, was Brendan Gill's on porno films. Brendan, a New Yorker staff writer for a half-century, and author of the magazine's unofficial history, Here at the New Yorker...
There were protesters suggesting that Governor Bush should, in an eerie echo of the Elin Gonzlez snatching that took place five years ago, forcibly remove Schiavo from her hospice to make her a ward of the state--with the help of the Florida National Guard if necessary. At one point, they almost got their wish. Agents from Florida's Department of Children & Families actually did begin to head over to Schiavo's hospice, but local police at the scene made it clear that they would not allow them in without an order from Judge Greer, who had previously...
...sitting on your kitchen floor, curled up in the fetal position, crying as you stare at the cutting block and imagine taking one of the knives out and stabbing it into your chest. I can tell you what it’s like to be in the mental ward of a hospital, and after three days, feel so confined that your mind struggles to control your body, and you feel like you’re going to explode into violence, that you will run through the ward punching every glass window in sight. But in describing this...