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Lollapalooza at 20: Highlights, lowlights, revolution and evolution
Lollapalooza wasn’t built to last two years, let alone intended to be around long enough to celebrate a 20th anniversary Aug. 5-7 in Grant Park.
“I haven’t said this before, but after the first year, I went on my merry way, thinking...Tags: Smashing Pumpkins (music group), The Jesus Lizard (music group), Economy, Business and Finance, Santiago (Chile), Philosophy
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Album review: 'Watch the Throne' a royal waste
2 stars (out of 4)
When two of the biggest names in hip-hop – Jay-Z and Kanye West -- collaborate on an album, is there any way it can live up to the hype? Likely not, and that’s the burden “Watch the Throne” (Roc-A-Fella...Tags: Elections, George W. Bush, Wu-Tang Clan (music group), Human Interest, Politics
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A hair-raising experience
Disclaimer: If you are incredibly sensitive about food-related stories, don’t read this! On the other hand, if you’re that thin-skinned, you probably shouldn’t be reading my articles anyway. Speaking of which, recently, a comment hit...Tags: Entertainment, Personal Service, Radio, Auction Service, India
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Taking batting practice before Cubs-Sox
Some early BP before this week’s oil spill of a City Series:
Who goes crazier tonight, Cubs runners on Gavin Floyd or the flash mob in Carlos Zambrano’s head? Web poll!
Or maybe the question should be: Who do the Cubs run on more, Gavin...Tags: Paul Konerko, Derrek Lee, Cook County Government, Sports, Ozzie Guillen
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Nathaniel Ayers plays the Foshay Learning Center
I picked him up at 10:30 Monday morning. He was waiting on the sidewalk outside his apartment with a cello, a violin, a guitar, a trumpet, a walking stick and a backpack full of music.
"Good morning, Mr. Ayers."
"Good morning, Mr. Lopez."
When...Tags: Netherlands, Pancreatic Cancer, Theater, Human Interest, Carnegie Hall
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Jim Newton: Tackling the truth in Compton
It is a source of fierce shame and more than a little defensiveness in Compton that the area's lone bastion of higher education, Compton Community College, lost its accreditation in 2005 after officials absconded with public money and the district came up...Tags: California, National or Ethnic Minorities, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Los Angeles Unified School District, Colleges and Universities
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Tim Rutten: Snapshot of a split America
One of American politics' most comforting nostrums is the notion that we always are united by far more than what divides us. It's a sentiment Barack Obama repeats frequently in his speeches, and both the president and California Gov. Jerry Brown are...Tags: California, Republican Party, Elections, Hispanic and Latino Americans, The Daily Show (tv program)
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Ballet and All That Jazz dance recital Saturday
Ballet and All That Jazz dancers will perform Saturday at 2 p.m. at The Maryland Theatre, 21. S. Potomac St., Hagerstown. Tickets cost $5 each and can be purchased through The Maryland Theatre box office or by calling 301-790-2000. For more...Tags: Entertainment, Christianity, Sports, Dancing, Human Interest
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Jim Newton: Compton's racial divide
Imagine if today's Los Angeles were governed by a white mayor and an all-white City Council. And then imagine if that anomaly was protected by city election rules that virtually guaranteed no Latino candidate could land a spot in elected office. The civil...Tags: Compton (Los Angeles, California), California, National or Ethnic Minorities, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Regional Authority
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Meghan Daum: Obama's fast brain vs. slow mouth
Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate. "The guy can't talk his way out of a paper bag!" a reader wrote to me recently. "Sarah Palin is a brilliant speaker. It's the president whose sentences are undiagrammable,...Tags: Newt Gingrich, Woody Allen, Colleges and Universities, William F. Buckley, New York
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Tim Rutten: 'Geronimo' Pratt and Johnnie Cochran
Los Angeles is a city that lives in the present and looks to the future. Time passes here in a blur, and there's usually little appetite for weaving together the strands of memory into the stories we call history — and few hungry to hear them when...Tags: Justice System, Human Interest, Politics, Crimes, Orange County Superior Court
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