God bless America
Shirley MacLaine gives the Brits a run for their money in ‘Downton Abbey’ “Downton Abbey,” Masterpiece Classic’s period soap opera, returns amid post-World War I turmoil (Sunday, 8 p.m., PBS). [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Posted January 02, 2013in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
Good closing argument
OK, it is the dark and dreary days of January with the bulk of winter ahead of us. I know what you’re thinking. Yup, I overheard your conversation. You’re beginning [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Harriet Leitch Random House Nov. 13, 2012 $35 800 pp. Another biography of Thomas Jefferson! Jon Meacham has written an authoritative, detailed biography of [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
By the time everyone reads this — no doubt from the comfort of your new smoking jacket or Trans Am, or whatever people give one another as gifts nowadays — [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Check
CD Reviews
Various Artists ‘JDR Winter Mixtape’ Jeffery Drag Records Nashville-based Jeffery Drag has fairly quickly established itself as one of the finer establishments for all the various flavors of punk music [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
Traveling without leaving Des Moines
He was an old man when I lived with him years ago. But I suspect this was his pattern even as a young farmer. Up early in the kitchen. Mandatory [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Wear and tear
Joan Rivers rips into 2012’s celebrity style in ‘Fashion Police’ Joan Rivers weighs in with a year-end fashion roundup on “Fashion Police” (Friday, 9 p.m., E!). Along with Giuliana Rancic, [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ the Week
Ravi Shankar — the finest sitar player of his generation, inspiration to everyone from The Beatles to Philip Glass and father to Norah Jones — passed away last week. It’s [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Check
CD Reviews
Razorwire Halo ‘Robotboy’ Independent One thing you need to give Razorwire Halo credit for is its level of commitment: There’s not a huge commercial clamor for electro-goth rock anymore, but [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Part-human, part-chimp
‘Project Nim’ tells a true tale of science gone wrong “Project Nim” (Thursday, 8 p.m., HBO) tells the story of a chimpanzee who was raised like a child in a [...]
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