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| | | | | | California is looking increasingly like a breakwater against the GOP wave of 2010. And if the polls hold and former (and future) governor Jerry Brown and embattled liberal Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer overcome their respective challenges by Silicon Valley Republicans Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, the following ads -- three ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | There are two ways to do a classic studio record in concert: Exactly as it was made, original nuances intact; or as fresh meat, the way the songs would get cut now, with evolved powers and lessons learned. My Morning Jacket found a third way during their gutsy complete-catalog stand ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | So I'm on my way to Florida, to work on a story about the foreclosure crisis. On my way I wanted to post this bit of news, that Bank Of America has conceded to a significant percentage of errors in its review of pending foreclosures. This clashes directly with what ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | So I'm on NYYfans.com this morning, the big Yankees fan site, just checking to see exactly how long it would take for Yankee fans to treat the gushing wound of last night's playoff loss by laying claim to every available 2011 free agent, in particular Rangers ace Cliff Lee. In ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Halloween is right around the corner, and hitting multiplexes this weekend is the film Rolling Stone's Peter Travers calls "the scare movie to see": Paranormal Activity 2, the sequel — or prequel, as you'll find out — to last year's surprise hit. Working with a bigger budget (the original was ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | In 1975, T-Bone Burnett hit the road as a cast member, way down on the bill, singing and playing guitar in Bob Dylan's mobile song circle, the Rolling Thunder Revue. On October 20, at New York's Beacon Theater, Burnett — now a very busy and successful record producer — was ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Last week Ben Smith at Politico did a story about some material that's been dug up about Rand Paul's college pseudo-fraternity, the "NoZe Brotherhood" - I have a few things to add to the same story today. First, some background. The "NoZe" was like a fifth-rate Southern wannabe version of ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | So, Max Abelson of the New York Observer has written a profile of me which is out today, and there's one quote in there that I felt needed some clarification. I expressed myself in a very clumsy way at one point in my talk with Max. In the article I ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | "I love the way he talks and how it goes on to the page," James Fox says of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, over the phone from London a few weeks before the publication of Richards' new autobiography, Life. Fox, Richards' co-writer, first interviewed the guitarist in 1973, for a ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | "Memory lane isn't particularly my avenue," Keith Richards says at the start of our conversation about Life, the Rolling Stones guitarist's new autobiography, written with James Fox and out on October 26. "I'm always looking forward. Suddenly you're pulled up short: 'Oh, I'll do the book.' Sure, great. Then you ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | I listened to Soars (La Société Expéditionaire), the debut album by the quartet Soars, before I knew they were from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. I went to college there and remember well the eerie melancholy of fading heavy industry and low wet clouds. Soars — Briana Edwards, Chris Giordani, David Kresge ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Matt Taibbi's unsparing and authoritative reporting on the financial crisis has produced a series of memorable Rolling Stone features. He showed us how Goldman Sachs, that "great vampire squid," played a central role in creating not only the housing bubble but four other big speculative booms that filled its coffers ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Appeared on the Olbermann show last night, see below. Also, a quick note: I watched the O'Donnell debate on Wednesday and had one of those General Kurtz hit-me-like-a-diamond-bullet moments, similar to the first time I saw Obama speak and knew he would be the Democratic nominee someday. I don't think ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Maybe a pact with the devil would have helped. In the spring of 1973, the four members of the British hard-rock quartet Necromandus — guitarist Barry Dunnery, drummer Frank Hall, singer Bill Branch and bassist Dennis McCarthy — were awaiting the release of Orexis of Death, their first album, by ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | There's only one movie on Peter Travers' radar this weekend: Jackass 3D. The 'Rolling Stone' critic loves Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera and the rest of the crew, but ultimately the 3D "is just kind of sucky," and the ubiquity of reality shows like Fear Factor and Survivor have softened ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | It is the great lingering miracle of 1967: Moby Grape — the San Francisco quintet blessed with the voices, songs and guitars to become America's Beatles and Rolling Stones combined, that all but crashed on arrival — are stubbornly present, vibrant and adding to their discography. Live (Sundazed), the group's ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Quelle surprise! So it turns out that one after another of the Tea Party candidates is in one way or another mooching off the government. The latest series of hilarious disclosures center around Alaska's GI-Joe-bearded windbag Senatorial candidate, Joe Miller, who appears to have run virtually the entire gamut of ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | This is why, at their best, we call them jam bands: Nearing the 90-minute mark in their second set on October 8th at New York's Beacon Theater, the upstate quintet moe. hovered with accelerated grace in a piece aptly called "Haze" — guitarists Chuck Garvey and Al Schnier dancing in ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | It's amazing, given the attention the Tea Party allegedly is paying to government waste and government spending, that there hasn't been more controversy about the now-seemingly-inevitable arrival of "QE2" – a second massive round of money-printing cooked up by the Fed to prop up both the government and certain sectors ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | In this installment of Off the Cuff, Chloe Grace Moretz, who plays a young vampire in the new movie Let Me In (and who stole scenes in Kick Ass), talks with Peter Travers about working with Martin Scorsese, her four overprotective brothers (they read her scripts and text messages) and ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | It's a good thing the movie of the year is still in theaters, because as Peter Travers explains in his weekly At the Movies video, this weekend will bring three merely "okay" flicks — plus one romantic comedy that is "worse than you can imagine." Secretariat, the story of the ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | By Sunday, the revelers at "Matador at 21: The Lost Weekend" were showing signs of strain. After three days in Vegas with no sleep, no oxygen, and no food that wasn't swimming in grease and sucrose, the fans on hand for this historic indie-rock blowout were not exactly at peak ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | It's day two of the "Matador at 21: The Lost Weekend," the three-day festival bringing several thousand of America's most indie to the Palms Resort Casino, partying it up in an increasingly red-eyed haze. As we all learned from Robert De Niro in Casino, they pump thin air into these ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Welcome to Las Vegas: the first thing you see as you pull up to the Palms Casino Resort is the gigantic neon marquee proclaiming "Palms Welcomes DJ Pauly D!" But on the inside, it's the Matador "Lost Weekend," a three-day festival celebrating the 21st birthday of the world's greatest rock ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Once again a key piece of news has passed virtually without comment. While the entire nation argues over nonsense like the WTC Mosque, Rick Sanchez, and, yes, blue-red culture war stuff like the Tea Party, congress yesterday quietly took a knee on the "carried interest" tax question. In doing so ... | | | | | |
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| | | | | | I spend enough time pointing out when the Senate leadership screws things up, I suppose I should mention it when they get something right. Got this notice from Ted Kaufman's office today: Majority Leader Harry Reid today appointed U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) as a member of the Congressional Oversight ... | | | | | |
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