Block 51
If we are all facing the Mayan end of the world in one fashion or another, where do we find the courage to look over the edge, slap our chests [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
Posted December 19, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
‘Augusta’s Daughter: Life in Nineteenth Century Sweden’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang Penfield Books Aug. 28, 2012 $21.95 238 pp. Americans are notorious for the tendency to romanticize the “old country.” This tendency always [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Notes
Sound Notes Pick o’ The Week
The world is a slightly less groovy place now that jazz legend Dave Brubeck shuffled off this mortal coil on Dec. 5. Whether you stick to standards like “Take Five” [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in Recent Posts, Sound Check
CD Reviews
Parabelle ‘Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even’ Independent Parabelle isn’t really what you’d call a Tool knock-off — that becomes more apparent the deeper you get into the [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
‘Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Barb Palar Gotham Books June 19, 2012 $26 287 pp. I was first “introduced” to Brene Brown through a TED lecture on YouTube a [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
Seven yellow jerseys
Here’s the way I see it. There are seven yellow jerseys to give away, one for each year that Lance Armstrong was stripped of his Tour de France victories because [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
It’s getting better all the time
The Beatles’ ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ has improved with age The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” is widely regarded as a failure, but “Magical Mystery Tour Revisited” (Friday, 8:30 p.m., PBS) gives [...]
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Posted December 05, 2012in Game Day, Recent Posts
Best and worst bowl matchups
FIRST DOWN: Wondering which bowls to watch? Here’s a postseason primer … Best Big 12 bowl matchup: Oklahoma vs. Texas A&M, Cotton Bowl, Jan. 4. [...]
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Posted December 05, 2012in Joe's Neighborhood, Recent Posts
A small returned smile
Tucked close to Dahl’s, barely sheltered from the weather, is a bundled-up figure standing outside the store. Julie rings her bell, smiles, and in a soft, husky voice wishes everyone [...]
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Posted December 05, 2012in Book Review, Recent Posts
‘The News From Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story’
Review by Fay Jones Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Knopf October 2012 $ 24.95 208 pp. In her recent work of fiction, Joan Wickersham presents seven brilliant short stories. Each gorgeously-written [...]
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