Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
One underappreciated aspect of this year’s election is that we may wind up with more than two new At Large City Council members. We started with two open seats, and with incumbents Sue Lovell and Jolanda Jones in runoffs, the possibility exists that we could have as many as four freshman members in January. This [...]
Bay Area Houston (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
With Tom Schieffer dropping out of the race for Governor and strongly encouraging Mayor Bill White to run, it leaves the race wide open for Democratic pretenders, Farook Shami, and Kinky Friedman to drop out before being embarrassed. Running for Governor in a state as large as Texas requires money, a professional campaign, knowledge of state politics, and a serious, skilled, candidate. Shami has the...
Planet Rugby (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Sale recovered from a 14-3 half-time deficit to record a 24-17 victory over Leeds in the Guinness Premiership on Sunday.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Dennis Brown threw a 61-yard touchdown pass to Chris Bell with 1:26 left in the third quarter, and Norfolk State held on for a 28-21 win over Winston-Salem on Saturday in the season finale for both teams.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Dennis Brown threw a 61-yard touchdown pass to Chris Bell with 1:26 left in the third quarter, and Norfolk State held on for a 28-21 win over Winston-Salem on Saturday in the season finale for both teams.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
NORFOLK, Va. -- Dennis Brown threw a 61-yard touchdown pass to Chris Bell with 1:26 left in the third quarter, and Norfolk State held on for a 28-21 win over Winston-Salem on Saturday in the season finale for both teams.
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Good Hair Directed by: Jeff Stilson Starring: Chris Rock, Nia Long, Ice-T, Al Sharpton, Maya Angelou, Eve, Tracie Thoms I have more rap albums than I have black friends on Facebook, and I don't have that many rap albums. There is and has always been a lot of black culture that I can only understand so much, but I never really thought about hair's role. It seems so simple - you grow it, you dye it,...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The idea of the band This Mortal Coil is quite ingenious, really. Ivo Watts-Russell, who founded the label 4AD Records (probably past, present or future home of some of your favorite bands) started a band in the early 80s whose original purpose seems to have been to promote his label. The band featured [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The golden-pop aura that New Yorkers saw hovering in the night sky on November 18th was from a rare local landing, at Brooklyn Masonic Temple, of the Memphis Beatles, Big Star: singer-guitarist Alex Chilton and drummer Jody Stephens with their reunion associates since 1993, guitarist Jon Auer and bassist Ken Stringfellow of the Posies. You [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Ladbrokes, the bookmaker, announced plans to close its call centre at Aintree, Liverpool, with the potential loss of 263 jobs.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A dog breeder has been jailed for 20 weeks and banned from keeping animals for life after 15 dead and dying puppies were found in suitcases in a locked cupboard under her stairs.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Chris Bell caught a 39-yard touchdown pass from Dennis Brown with 49 seconds left and Norfolk State overcame a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat Delaware State 21-16 on Saturday.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Chris Bell caught a 39-yard touchdown pass from Dennis Brown with 49 seconds left and Norfolk State overcame a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat Delaware State 21-16 on Saturday. Delaware State jumped out to a 16-0 lead after Riley Flickinger kicked... NorfolkStateUniversity - United States - Touchdown - Delaware - Society and Culture
The big take over (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Pre-order – Subscribe – Renew – Great gifts! Subscribers: Update Your Address ASAP (if changed) Once again the big news is that Big Takeover #65 Fall 2009 issue with Sonic Youth on the cover (and concluding part twos of our awesome Decemberists, Swervedriver, and Controllers interviews, and fabulous history interviews with Big Star—and John Fry on Chris Bell—and The Nerves...
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
You may have read about the next installment of Beck's Record Club - taking on the odd & obscure classic album Oar by Skip Spence and recruting help from Wilco, Feist and Jamie Lidell to do it. Spence, for those of you unfamiliar with him, was a founding member of Moby Grape and one time drummer for Jefferson Airplane. He often gets lumped in to the small group of mysterious, puzzling, creative...
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