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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Music Reviews-Aretha Franklin, Richard & Linda Thompson, Parliament

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Aretha Franklin and King Curtis Live at the Filmore West Aretha Franklin needs no introduction. Many people have probably heard these songs ...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Film Reviews-Harry Brown, Centurion, Dinner for Schmucks, The Killer Inside Me, Supernatural Season One

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Harry Brown One might consider this a British "Death Wish". Michael Caine plays the title character. I recognized some of the othe...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Book Reviews-47th Street Black, The Blade Itself, Armed America, The Scourge of God

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47th Street Black by Bayo Ojikutu This was a debut novel that I impulsively purchased and read. It won the Washington Prize for Fiction and ...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Film Reviews-The Fighter, I Spit on Your Grave, A Shock to the System

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The Fighter This is a good biopic of Lowell MA based welterweight boxer Micky Ward ( Mark Wahlberg ) and his boisterously dysfunctional and ...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Good and Evil in Art

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We recently featured a post concerning homophobia in hip-hop . Let's go beyond that. Let's include all human creativity-music, writ...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Book Reviews-Game of Thrones, Hit Me Fred, The Big Book of Pulps

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A Game of Thrones By George RR Marti n I finished this book, thankfully before the HBO series completed. Some people have compared it to Tol...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Like and Equal are not the same thing at all!

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Let's say that Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Duane Allman, Eddie Hazel or BB King,after picking up a guitar and passing through an ardu...