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The old man swings his dead right leg out of the car at the end of the cul-de-sac, grabs the cane with the carved tiger handle, and steadies himself under the shadow of a...
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I hate the Grateful Dead. I've always hated the Grateful Dead.
Numerous times over my lifetime, people have tried to get me to appreciate the band, with little success. The...
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If you telephone Flowers restaurant early in the morning when nobody's there, you'll get an answering message. "Thank you for calling Food Amongst the Flowers," a man's voice...
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America — and by extension Hollywood — has an obsession with innocence and the loss thereof. Every generation has that moment when everything changed, from Pearl...
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You thought that every day was “Hockey Day in Canada.” But, no – the unofficial holiday fell on January 7. It started just six years ago, and now, one Canadian...
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Get your calendar and mark Wednesday nights as “booked,” now that the Poor House has launched its weekly “Art of Moving Butts” extravaganza. Jay and Josh...
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NiFlame, a 27-year-old designer, knows that fashion isn’t humanitarian relief or anything, but still, “I realize how clothes can change people’s lives. You see...
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This year, the Florida Pit Bulls have been anything but boring. The first-year team has scored more than Colin Farrell at a sorority slumber party, while streaking to one of...
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Watching televangelists perform their supposed miracles makes for an amusing pit stop while channel-surfing. But then the real horror of the situation sets in – that so...
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Some anniversaries should pass unnoticed: the first time your kittens vomited up their prey, that day you failed algebra – again, or any romantic landmark ending in...
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Before Coach Pat Riley regained the reigns of the Miami Heat earlier this season, the Shaq-less team had been caught in an underachieving rut. One month and a healthy...
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If popular sentiment is correct – that Americans are all fat, indolent slobs -- then how do you explain the continued success of the Komen Race for the Cure? The...
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Now that the iPod revolution has begun, the concept of owning hard copies of music, pictures, and video is quickly going the way of the eight-track tape. Though it’s...
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If there’s one word that sums up Americans’ blasé attitude, it’ s whatever. In Romany, the language spoken by gypsies, there’s a different term...
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So there’s this Hispanic kid named Rosario who lives in the ghetto. He got his ex-girlfriend pregnant, and yeah, maybe he beats the holy living crap out of her now and...
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As they leap across the stage, executing perfect pirouettes and high kicks, it is impossible not to be in awe of these leggy dancers. Exuding grace and strength, the...
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Back in the Less than Zero ´80s, if you talked about your “young professional” friends, we would have probably turned our mohawked heads on you and sneered,...
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Anyone not accustomed to a Black Lips show would probably think the band was on the verge of self-destruction. After all, it’s not often you see band members drop-kick...
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As a North Carolina native, comedian Jim David’s down to earth, charming, not full of pretension – a true-blue southerner. Of course, most southerners aren’t...
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Many people think of poets as quiet wallflowers who occasionally drum up the nerve to read their own prose on stage. Wrong! The days of poetry being seen but barely heard are...
