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This year is the 60th anniversary of my rhythm ‘n blues addiction. The starting point was my purchase of a Ray Charles album in 1959. At the time, “LP’s” as they were known to hip […]
This year is the 60th anniversary of my rhythm ‘n blues addiction. The starting point was my purchase of a Ray Charles album in 1959. At the time, “LP’s” as they were known to hip […]
SEDVILLE, Mo. The NFL post-season begins in earnest this weekend, but one team of tough, battle-tested veterans is already lining up to scrimmage over a high-stakes issue; the use of Velcro-fastened “crib sheets” by the league’s quarterbacks. […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. Maggie Turbek is a writing coach who learned the hard way the perils of caring too much. “I turned in a magazine article a day late because I wasted a whole Sunday on a nuclear […]
Accountancy has a good claim to being the world’s oldest profession. Edward Chancellor, Wall Street Journal review of “Double Entry” by Jane Gleeson-White We were hanging around, me and my buddies Ug and Nutz, […]
WELLESLEY FALLS, Mass. Marci Bowline is noted among her suburban housewife peers for her enthusiastic, some would say aggressive approach to the holiday season that runs from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day. “I’m not saying […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. elena gotchko is the editor-in-chief of plangent voices (“upper-case free since 2003!”), a literary quarterly whose mission is to bring difficult, even impenetrable verse to its readers, but she’s tearing her hair out […]
TORONTO. The two professional rock-paper-scissors leagues will end their long-standing rivalry today and merge in the biggest sports combination since the American and National Football Leagues joined forces in 1970. U.S.A. Rock Paper Scissors League, […]
In Italy, they throw old dishes and glasses out their windows. In Latin countries, women wear yellow underwear for good luck and red for success in love. In America, people blow noisemakers and pretend to […]
It is one of the most difficult problems of aesthetic philosophy: What do we mean when we say that a song or poem is sad? I’ve read Aristotle, Kant, Croce–Benedetto, not Jim–all the big names. […]
BROOKLINE, Mass. The population of this near suburb of Boston is disproportionately Jewish now, but it is also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, the nation’s only Roman Catholic President. “In many ways, this is the […]