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Blogcritics Section: Sports - Jun 30, 2007
Why do we do it? Why do grown men -- and some grown women -- go out week after week to humiliate ourselves in blistering heat, humidity, rain, snow, geese droppings, rampaging deer, and attack squirrels pretending …
Tagged: sports
Blogcritics Category: Music: Rock - Jun 30, 2007
Veteran Seattle rock heroes Pearl Jam have always been fan-friendly, especially when it comes to selling their concerts. Either they do it themselves or allow fanclubs to sell bootlegs of them to the public, whether …
Tagged: music
Blogcritics Opinion - Jun 30, 2007
In Part I, we looked at some aspects of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy, but, more important, we acknowledged how difficult it is to play historian when dealing with current events. Historians have enough …
Tagged: politics
Blogcritics Category: Music: Progressive Rock - Jun 30, 2007
If you were wondering why Rush has not toured with an opening act since 1994's Counterparts tour, it is probably so that they can get away with the marathon three hour shows they have been putting on ever since. Not …
Tagged: music
Blogcritics Books Reviews - Jun 30, 2007
Everyone gets the blues. But for many of today's listeners, the blues might evoke a dreary, dusty sound that has little to do with modern times. That's a mistake - give them a chance, and you'll find that 70- or …
Tagged: books
Blogcritics - Jun 30, 2007
A few nights ago I sat down in front of my computer and was met with a panicked e-mail from our beloved and mysterious sports editor Matt. T Sussman who is affectionately known as Suss -- and in some circles as Gimpy …
Tagged: sports
Blogcritics - Jun 30, 2007
With all the colors in the world, it's hard to know exactly which one to use when painting your house. Those of you determined to fairly represent each hue might set out to paint one room red, one orange, one yellow …
Tagged: culture
Blogcritics Section: Music - Jun 30, 2007
Truth to tell, I only recently realized how a brief encounter with Joe Strummer over 25 years ago completely reshaped my approach to writing. It was 1981, and the Clash were lined up to be the cover story for the …
Tagged: music
Blogcritics Category: Culture: Personal History - Jun 30, 2007
I have a love/hate relationship with boots. Up until recently, I had about a half-dozen pairs of boots. And I can't remember wearing a single pair of them since high school. Even then, the wearings were few and far …
Tagged: culture
Blogcritics Category: Sci/Tech: Health/Fitness - Jun 30, 2007
A study published in the June 29 issue of the magazine Science provides the first evidence that Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) can be fought by removing HIV's DNA from infected cells. A group of German scientists …
Tagged: sci tech