Mary Travers Is Praised for Her Voice and Words
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Mary Travers of the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, who died on Sept. 16 at 72, was remembered on Monday night.
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Peter, Paul & Others Celebrate Mary
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Last night was the memorial for late musician Mary Travers , which took place at the Riverside Church in Morningside Heights. NY1 reports back, saying that her long-time collaborators Peter Yarrow and Noel 'Paul' Stookey were joined by Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Tom Paxton and more. Stookey said, "We dearly miss her. And this thing, death, it's like two shoes dropping. The first one drops when...
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Monday, November 9, 2009 Pt 1
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Today in History Kristallnacht : Jews were beaten and killed by Nazis, and their homes and shops destroyed, during "the night of the broken glass" (1938) Northeast Blackout of 1965 : 25 million residents of seven US states and Ontario, Canada, lost power for up to half a day due to the failure of a switch at a Niagara Falls power station Rolling Stone : music and pop culture magazine published...
Explore : Berlin, Canada, Eric Dane, Germany, Lou Ferrigno, Music, Nick Lachey, Ontario, Peter, Paul and Mary, World
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RIP - Mary Travers
NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Tomorrow's her birthday and there will be a memorial for her. Here's one example of her haunting sincerity.
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Daily Chat 07/11/09
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A meteorite landed in a wheat field near Ensisheim, Alsace, in 1492. The London Gazette was published for the first time in 1665. Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives in 1916. Only four months after opening, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed when steady 42 mph wind caused the bridge to begin swaying. Carl Stokes became the first black mayor...
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Mary Travers Memorial Set for Monday
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Mary Travers, the lovely (a face and figure every bit as adorable as Tuesday Weld, said one of our more august colleagues) and committed Peter, Paul and Mary linchpin who died in September...
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Mary Travers Celebrated Next Monday
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Mary Travers, of folk singing group Peter, Paul & Mary fame, died at the age of 72 back in mid-September . The NY Times now reports that a memorial celebration of her life and music will be held at 7 p.m. this coming Monday at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights. "The service will be open to the public. Tickets will be available on the day of the event on a first-come-first-served basis....
- Mary Travers Memorial Is Scheduled for Nov. 9 - New York Times
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Top Stories: November 3, 2009
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
• News Ticker: Casablancas, Mary Travers • Rihanna Confirms Slash, Jeezy Guest on LP • This Is It Extends Run After $101 Mil Week • Pearl Jam Dress Like Devo for Epic Philly Gig • Weezer’s Cuomo on Lambert Team-Up • Green Day Perform as Foxboro Hot Tubs • Eminem, Lady Gaga Join AMAs Lineup • Kiss, Jane’s Addiction: Voodoo Interviews • Flaming...
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News Ticker: Julian Casablancas, Chris Brown, Ian Brown, Mary Travers
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas tells the NME he plans to release “I Wish It Was Christmas Today” as a holiday single 7″ in December (the song is available as a bonus track on iTunes now). The chipper little tune originated on an episode of SNL, when it was performed by Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Chris [...]
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Puff's daddy still magical
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Peter Yarrow's latest book was about to debut at No. 1 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, but his thoughts were on the past. Mary Travers, his partner in the 1960s folk-singing trio Peter, Paul and Mary, had just died.
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Mama Cass, Mary Travers, Joni Mitchell: I Shall Be Released
rogerbourland.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Pardon me: I’m having a wave of nostalgia. What a trio!
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Dead Air Church: I shall be released
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I did not initially do a respectful obit for Mary Travers , because she once reamed me out when I did customer service. (sings: How many roads must a CSR walk down, before you talk to her niiiiiice? ) But I've decided to relent, and today I say, REST IN PEACE, Mary. Spiritual note: Once upon a time, I would never have relented. And now, you'll notice, it only takes me about 5-6 weeks. PROGRESS! The...
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On The Move
The Impolitic (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
My indulgence in balloon nostalgia aside, posting has been light because I'm about to move again. I'm at the end of my lease and I can't stay in this place for a number of reasons. Link on the sidebar to Last One Speaks if you want the gory details. Meanwhile here's some fun stuff to peruse on a Saturday night. Woody is having a contest . His blog is about to turn a milestone and the 100,000 visitor...
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Amateur Photography
Toner Mishap (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
What is written about a person or an event is frankly an interpretation, as are handmade visual statements, like paintings and drawings. Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004) author, literary theorist, and political activist from, "On Photography" (U.S....
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Tracking McDonald’s, the Caesar Salad, and Dan Brown’s Worst Sentences (Hot Links of the Week)
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Salads are forever, but restaurants come and go. Ave atque vale , then, O Caesar's, where the Caesar salad was born 80-odd years ago. Gourmet magazine will soon die, and Mary Travers, singing the sweet ditty "Puff the Magic Dragon" in this video, is gone, too. Yet Dan Brown endures. Is there no justice left in the world?