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Street Pianos Headed to NYC!

One of the (many) things I love about NYC is the abundance of street and subway performers. May it be a classically-trained prodigy giving an impromptu concert, a struggling musician performing for dollars (often with the wish that a record executive will "discover" them), or an out-of-luck bum drumming some beats on some upside-down plastic containers, you can bet that these performers add as much art and culture to the city as do those who play sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Heck, even street salesmen are world-famous performers here! This is precisely the reason I was so excited to read that NYC will soon follow in London and Sydney's footsteps to install street pianos in public places for anyone to sit down and...

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Where Were You When…

Yesterday I read that the Nevermind baby is now grown up and working for the artist who designed the Obama Hope posters. The Nevermind-wha? This CD cover may help jog your memory: It's hard to believe that this much time has passed since the release of Nirvana's ground-breaking album. I once read that our generation's Kennedy assassination — meaning the prompting and universal understanding of the question "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" — is the late Princess Diana's tragic car crash. I disagree. Among my group of friends, among those who lived out our angst-ridden teenage years in American suburbia, the better question would be, "Where were you when Kurt Cobain committed suicide?" And to answer my own question, I was at school. More specifically,...

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In Two Hours, I’ll Be Waiting in Line…

No, not for Twilight (err, New Moon? Pale Moon?). I hate Twilight. I thought the book was so poorly written that I found the movie — which I downloaded to watch one night while battling insomnia, then trashed immediately after viewing — to be better because at least all the pages full of "staring longingly into each others' eyes" were gone. "Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people...

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