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While assured of her status as a great American singer, Lucinda Williams has never been most people's idea of an easy one--someone whose music you'd trot out at a wedding, say, or any other event where keening is frowned on. Williams isn't po-faced; she's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweetness and Light | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Williams is too sophisticated to song-write her own bio, but she's also too shrewd to ignore it, and her engagement to manager Tom Overby (who co-produced Little Honey) seems to have inspired a challenge: say something new about love and happiness. Lyric-sheet readers may wonder if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweetness and Light | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

2. Hefner's first real high-school love interest spurned him. "He saw [Betty Conklin] as the ultimate coed and they learned to jitterbug together, but when school started, she invited someone else to the hayride," Watts writes. Suffice it to say that the jilted lothario-to-be rebounded. Hef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Playboy | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, "Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians." She's right, for despite some lively writing, much of her tale of the settlers who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony involves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

With roughly three weeks until elections, the American cultural landscape stands on the precipice of a paradigm shift the like of which has not been seen in nearly a decade. The shift is one that will define a cultural vocabulary for the next four, if not eight years, and it...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vowell Discovers Timeless Humor in U.S. History | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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