Preps Out West (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The first week of the 2009-10 season is done, with every Westside team playing at least one game. Here's what we learned last week, and what we might learn in the coming seven days: REWIND -What we learned? Not much. Pretty much everything went according to preseason expectations. Class 4A No. 1 Ben Davis dropped Brownsburg 61-30 on Saturday, again showing that stifling defense that helped the Giants...
Ecofriend (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Eco Factor: Solar-powered system teaches the simple principles to go green. Designed by Valeria Bianco, the CLOVERS is a renewable energy education system that uses flexible solar panel technology to teach teenagers about the electricity usage of..
Puritan Blister (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
"...I go on/ Sounding my doomed eternal bodiless goddamned/ I, I, I, I, I." --T.R. Hummer 1. JoeF- A Means To An End (Joy Division) 2. JoeF- Satellite Of Love (Velvet Underground) 3. JoeF- Venus In Furs (Velvet Underground) 4. Here & Now- Another Brick In The Wall (Pink Floyd) 5. I just don't know- One Mint Julep (Rudy Toombs/The Clovers) 1. Hood Internet- Fire It Up, Firemouse (Lil Wayne...
MyRightWord (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Steve Plaut sent this out: All week Tel Aviv University officials were flooding the media with reports that one of its professors was about to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. As it turns out, TAU was counting its chickens before the Nobel egg was laid. He did not get the prize. TAU, which is arguably Israel.s most politicized universities, has never produced a Nobel Prize winner. On the other hand,...
The Inkwell Bookstore Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Odd-as-f*ck adaptation news! Into The Wild actor Emile Hirsch is working on a horror movie remake of Shakespeare's Hamlet with Twilight director, Catherine Hardwicke. Ancient adaptation news! Click here to read a letter from Philip K. Dick regarding the surprise, enjoyment, and hope for the future of science fiction films he felt after watching Blade Runner . Deadly dull adapt ation news! Columbia...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Following on from the last entry, here are my favourite girl groups (and in some cases mixed groups), again in no particular order: 1. Shirelles (pictured right), 2. Crystals, 3. Chiffons, 4. Ronettes, 5. Angels, 6. Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans, 7. Cookies, 8. Essex, 9, Exciters, 10. Ikettes, 11. Jaynetts, 12. Jelly Beans, 13. Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, 14. Majors, 15. Martha & the...
Boxwish (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Give me a B, give me an R, give me a…nope it’s too long. The world of cheerleading is making a comeback in the stage adaptation of the 2000 hit movie Bring It On. Cleverly titled Bring It On: The Musical , it’s due to hit the stage in 2011 with a small regional run, hopefully followed by a national tour. Created by a team of Broadway specialists like Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights)...
Preps Out West (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
The football (regular season) midpoint has passed. This blog's (small) hiatus is over. Games are (almost) here. And they are... - Brownsburg (3-1, 3-1 HCC) at Avon (1-3, 1-3): Mentioned the rivalry here and here , but this has larger implications. A win tonight, and Brownsburg has a good shot at 6-1 heading into its Oct. 9 meeting at Zionsville. As for Avon, this could start a four-game winning streak...
Locks Park Farm (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Why did we think they’d get it right? We believed them too. And we began to plan ahead. Strange in the circumstances… Let’s face it; they’d got it wrong so badly so much. But last week we were told the sun was going to shine. It happened. Just like they said! After a grisly start to the week, [...]
man with black hat (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The song was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1959, and was recorded that same year by The Clovers. But it was The Searchers who made it number three on the USA charts in 1963. But it's not about number three; it's about number nine, so here it is. .
Thighs Wide Shut (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
'Revolution 9' played forward - lyrics/dissection 'Revolution 9' played backwards - lyrics/dissection Ferris was abs ent 9 times 'Love Potion Number 9' The Clovers & The Searchers & Tate Donovan? K-9 The Nine Lives of Marion Barry Plan 9 From Outer Space Miss Nine etc, et al, etc al any questions?
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Collectors of Golden Oldie R&R, R&B and Country music hits are, I'm sure, well aware of the quality received from British outlets, especially Ace Records with their almost flawless sound reproduction and copious liner notes in series such as The Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll and Teen Beat, among many others. Acrobat Music & Media Ltd. is almost as good with their Jukebox Hits series...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Ahmet Ertegun (Turkish: Ahmet Ertegün) was born on July 31, 1923 and he passed away on December 14, 2006. He was the Turkish American co-founder and executive of Atlantic Records and chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and museum as well as an inductee into the Blues Hall of Fame. He is described as "one of the most significant figures in the modern recording industry". According...
Curbed LA (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
"> " style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;"> Click the image above to view the full photogallery. When last we visited this condo project on Federal Avenue and a few blocks south of Santa Monica Boulevard (not far from the very different TLofts ), we didn't really grasp the level of medieval influence going on. Three months later, it's getting clearer. Note the clovers,...
poem-a-day-lionel (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
SMALL WORLD This iridescent emerald speck materialises on my arm, passenger without a name - welcome to the insects. In first warmth, honeybees swarm around eager new poppy buds; in the dozing day, a bumblebee hovers over the clovers. A water boatman skidders across the sky in my pond; beetles forage in the dark below. Evening gnats ball up in aerobatic fury. Ladybirds helicopter into May to gorge...
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