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TRINITY RODMAN, SOCCER PLAYER You know you’re old when you can remember when…Dennis Rodman ascended to become not just a Detroit Pistons “Bad Boy” but the Bad Boy in American sports, and his daughter who…
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SILK SONIC: AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Dead on arrival. The supposed super duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak may love 70s urban music, but their retro tribute is as lame as an…
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THE FORTY YEAR ITCH? NEWS earlier this year the Swedish pop superstars ABBA had secretly reunited and were releasing their first new album in nearly half a century had to dumbfound so many of us.…
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1.LISTENING TO FRANK ZAPPA’S “HALLOWEEN 1978” ON HALLOWEEN 2021 Halloween isn’t a premitted activity where I live(thank God), so with no anticipation of ringing doorbells all evening long I could settle down in the…
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‘STAR WARS VISIONS’ STAR WARS: VISIONS HARDLY SEEMS the most appropriate let alone artistic subtitle for what this groundbreaking anthology actually is. Maybe Star Wars: Associations. Or Star Wars: Improvisations Or Star Wars: Reinterpretations. The…
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PHENOMENONS SHOULD BE investigated regardless of one’s partisan view(if any) going in. The sensation may be about more than peer pressure, of not having a specific opinion or feeling “left out” of a discussion.…
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BOB DYLAN HAS A HABIT OF not immediately releasing songs. Another Minnesota legend had a habit of not releasing entire albums upon their completion. For reasons known only to the Sphinx from Hibbing, some of…
IF ANTHONY BOURDAIN(1956-2018) HAD not existed Hollywood(and/or Madison Avenue) would have had to invent him. Perhaps some bright, bright mind with a prescient outlook about the future of American attitudes and consumerism would sit at…
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1.THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK(2021) official trailer #2 The second and presumably final trailer before the October 1st official release ups the ante from the excellent first effort. It’s even more suspenseful, and a rewarding…
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THERE ARE STORIES THAT DO not bear repeating—at least in “mixed” company. Among potentially non-friendly ears. Some pro-wrestlers are learning this the hard way after the resumption of season three of Dark Side of…