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33 Albums You Should Listen to Before You Die
Music you don’t have on your iPod … yet. Steve Jaeger’s got bold taste in movies, and albums, too. Editor’s Note: This is the list of albums Steve Jaeger would bring with him if he were somehow...
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What Could Be More Christian Than Cutting Off Food Stamps?
N.C. Harrison takes issue with former Cincinnati mayor Ken Blackwell’s claims of a scriptural basis for cutting off food stamp assistance. Ken Blackwell, an architect of George W. Bush’s narrow...
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What It Is Like To Be A Genius
Embed from Getty Images . The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald — It...
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Joni Mitchell’s ‘Hejira’: An Underappreciated Masterpiece
Embed from Getty Images Everyone has albums they come back to again and again, albums they would take to their proverbial desert island. Such albums have made a deep connection to the heart, and to...
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How ‘Girls’ Helped Me Rediscover Joni Mitchell
Embed from Getty Images By Cindy Grogan I am an unabashed, unapologetic, deeply-passionate fan of Joni Mitchell. I discovered her in high school (of course) but my love and appreciation of her...
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“I’m Frightened By The Devil And I’m Drawn To Those Ones That Ain’t Afraid.”
There’s a long, exhilarating profile of Joni Mitchell in The New Yorker. And another strong profile in The Atlantic. Then there’s Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, the just-published,...
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How are Carole King, Joni Mitchell & Carly Simon Like… Falcons? And how are You?
— Buy it on Amazon. These are very distracting days. It’s not accidental. The person who is doing the distracting needs to distract himself. And he needs to distract us from what distracts him. How do...
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Men, Women, and Formal Rules
— To understand the structure of American culture, you can look at old Hollywood movies. It’s like an archaeological dig with a music track supplied. Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century...
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From Nothing
One of the rare joys of being a writer is getting to talk about your work. One of the even rarer joys is getting to talk about the same work more than once because it is being published in a new...
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A Mitchell Man
As a child, I was hell-bent on becoming a professional musician. Trained classically from a very young age, I never could quite wrap my mind around plying the troubadour’s trade-in black tie and...
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Expanding Our Sense of Self Can Create Revolutionary Moments of Happiness
In my last year of college, 1968-9, the improvisational theatre group I was part of rehearsed on a stage in a coffee house. Not only our group rehearsed and performed there, but singers and other...
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Walking Through the World as a Good Man Who Had Walked as a Good Woman
As a music lover since childhood, I am always delighted to discover artists that had not crossed my radar screen. The source for much of that melodic magic is my favorite radio station, WXPN which...
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