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The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Wednesday night mentor Kate Pomper grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before moving to Charlottesville, Virginia, to pursue a degree in economics from the University of Virginia. She enjoyed her time at U.Va., saying it is a great school wi...
Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
John Mayer will kick off a North American tour in support of his upcoming release, for his new album Battle Studie , beginning February 8th in Charleston, South Carolina, and will feature supporting acts Michael Franti and Spearhead. Tickets for the majority of dates are planned to go on sale to the general public on November 21st, with an American Express card member pre-sale window from November...
mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
In case you missed his fantastic MFNW sets at The Woods and The Crystal , Langhorne Slim is back in Portland on November 4th in support of his fine new album, Be Set Free . If you haven’t experienced a Langhorne Slim concert, we highly recommend that you do. After seeing one of his performances, you’ll be kicking yourself for having missed him on previous go arounds. The above was good...
DCist (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Perhaps best known throughout the nation for one of his works in Washington – the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, located along the Tidal Basin – Bay Area landscape architect Lawrence Halprin died on Sunday of natural causes. The FDR Memorial features one of Halprin's boldest waterfall elements, a major feature for which his work was known. Fittingly, Halprin also believed that the...
Dedicated Lion (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
By Sol Stern City Journal A content-rich pedagogy makes better citizens and smarter kids. A t his Senate confirmation hearing in February, Arne Duncan succinctly summarized the Obama administration’s approach to education reform: “We must build upon what works. We must stop doing what doesn’t work.” Since becoming education secretary, Duncan has launched a $4.3 billion federal...
Ryan's Smashing Life (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Photographic Evidence / On Further Review by Sean Hafferty TT the Bears in Cambridge (10/17/09) Fighting a bug, Langhorne Slim still rocked Boston last night. The mob joined the band on stage twice - in a night to remember! Sean Hafferty photograph RSL Streaming Photo Album Langhorne Slim at TTs in Cambridge, MA (10-17-09) UPCOMING TOUR DATES Highly Recommended !! 10/21 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH...
Ryan's Smashing Life (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
THE RETURN OF THE INCREDIBLE LANGHORNE SLIM HIS NEW ALBUM & TOUR ! "Say Yes " from Be Set Free One of the Best Live Acts in all of the USA plays town tonight appearing at TT the Bears . We can't speak highly enough about the charming Langhorne Slim and his band of skilled musicians. Touring behind the brand new Be Set Free record (album tour dates below), there should be a lot here for...
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
In the entry, " Second iteration, idealized national network for high speed rail passenger service ," I discussed how transportation planning within the U.S. should occur on five distinct but interconnected levels: - international (connections between countries); - national (such as the Interstate Highway system or the proposed High Speed Rail Initiative); - regional or multi-state (freeways...
Skippers Chippers (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Sugar & Gold remixed by Justin Van Der Volgen of !!!, Embark On Cross Country Fall Tour; AYA 12" Out 10/13 on Antenna Farm "Preening, Parliament-obsessed grooveslayers, excavators of rapturous nightclub funk. And you'd be completely on point-they are basically a (tad) less theatrical, less twee, much more awesome Of Montreal." - RCRD LBL Download this new track Aya! (Justin Van De...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
After months of speculation, the tour dates for the first Phish Fall Tour since 2000 have emerged . Phish.com has been updated with a cute little video highlighting the dates, which are mainly in the Northeast. For the upcoming tour, the quartet will return to a number of venues that have hosted epic Phish shows in the past including Madison Square Garden in NYC, the Times Union Center in Albany and...
The Late Greats (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Family Straw is headed out for vacation tomorrow. We’ll be out and about until Thursday the 15 – look for a return to posting then. IN the meantime, here are a few things to tide you over. Pace yourselves. One of my favorite bands is hitting the road this fall - The Low Anthem. To celebrate they are giving away their version of Dylan's "Dignity". Just go here and register....
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Mount Eerie start their tour off in support of their latest release Wind Poem. If you haven't heard of Mount Eerie , you might know them by The Microphones, or simply the mastermind of one Phil Elverum. The Glow Pt. 2 still gets praise to this day and many album of the year awards back in 2001. Septembe r 17 - Anacortes, WA - Anchor Art Space # % @ 18 - Portland, OR - Backspace # % @ 19 - Oakland,...
RCRD LBL (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
“Calypso Gold” is another tune from Princeton ’s upcoming debut album Cocoon of Love, which might sound a bit schmaltzy if the quartet wasn’t so damn smooth with it all, tinkling guitars and strings and things flowing like water. By the way, girls — I think Cocoon of Love is about you. Why don’t you ask the band yourselves? There’s a good chance they’ll...
Deepness in the sky (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Tier 1 & 2 1 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 1 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 3 Yale University New Haven, CT 4 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4 Stanford University Stanford, CA 4 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 8 Columbia University New York, NY 8 University of Chicago Chicago, IL 10 Duke University Durham,...
Ryan's Smashing Life (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
New Single, Tour Dates... ARTIST UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT - Just about anyone who has ever seen Langhorne Slim play live will tell you that it's an unforgettable live experience. They will also tell you that they are now Langhorne fans. (We've been lucky enough to have seen the man play twice this past month and saw the looks on people's faces both times... [ link : Newport Folk / TT the Bears ] ) We are...
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