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FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY

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AHEAD-OF-HER-TIME SINEAD, NOW WORSE... FLAILING IN A NETHERWORLD OF POST-CONSTITUTIONAL DENIAL... PILLAGING A SEEMINGLY MORE INNOCENT PAST TO MAKE EVEN LESS SENSE OF AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE PRESENT... TOM LEHRER DROPS SATIRE WHEN REALITY SURPASES HIS ABILITY TO MAKE FUN OF IT... OVER FORTY YEARS AND … [Read more...]

DON’T STOP

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'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH In retrospect, the crotch clutch seems at once desperate and abstract. It is as if he were telling us, "Fine, you need to know I'm a man, a black man? Here's my dick: I'll thrust my dick at you! Isn't that what a black man's supposed to do? But I'm Michael Jackson, so just … [Read more...]

THE GOOD PEOPLE OF VERMONT

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WILL NOT APOLOGIZE "Billy Joel is no Leonard Bernstein..." FOR ITS CHEESE [WAIT! THERE'S MORE...] MORE CATHOLIC RECRUITMENT SLOGANS: "I think for myself not to come up with my own teaching," he writes, "but to make the Church's teaching my own." … [Read more...]

TRAMP THE DIRT DOWN

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DIED. CASPAR WEINBERGER, 88, wry, intellectual public servant whose long record of toil in the White Houses of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which … [Read more...]

FOR EVERYTHING ELSE THERE’S ELVIS

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Gasbag cranium duty on History Channel's 10 DAY-WORLD -SHAKE series, the Elvis installment, airs Tuesday, April 11, at 9/8pm. Brought to you by MasterCard: the freaky-deeky credit card with the curiously pre-Wiki CompoundName. … [Read more...]

SUPERFINGERS

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Tickets are still available for this Concord Chamber Music Society's Special Artist benefit, featuring Yefim Bronfman. Here's the scoop: Friday, April 7 @ 7:00pm (Pre-concert lecture with Steven Ledbetter begins at 6:00pm) Concord Academy Performing Arts Center 166 Main St. Concord, MA Fantasy, Op. … [Read more...]

SHARON STONE’S CHINATOWN

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This time, DAVID HOUSEMAN plays a law-enforcement psychiatrist whose sleazier than a British MP... And if its spread-eagle teaser is anywhere near as original as its title (BASIC INSTINCT 2) then [snarky riposte]... HAD WE BUT WORLD ENOUGH I'd like to see … [Read more...]

SLAPSTICK YODEL

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH, BELLS ON From Frank Kogan's new collection REAL PUNKS DON'T WEAR BLACK (Georgia): "Rock criticism is built on unintelligible cross-references..." NIGHT EDITOR "No peg, no larger social issue (except random murder?), no point, really, we'll pose it as a whopping tale but it's … [Read more...]

SECURITY BABES

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IT'S COME TO THIS Donald Fagen's new CD is out, and it may be the only time I ever find my name alongside his on the same disc, so suffer. FREAK ON Found this on Flickr. … [Read more...]

WHO’S THAT GIRL?

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She's everywhere, the European laptop blond whose magazine ad smirk sells zillions of language tapes. Why hasn't she turned up plugging milk? Aren't copy writers knocking down her agent's door? Who does she think she is... the ad world's Eva Cassidy? Doesn't she look like she's about to stand up … [Read more...]

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