February 2012
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The Jazz Baroness Helps Keep It Real
Finished this book recently, which fills in a fascinating hole in jazz history. In fact, while reading this post, play this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvVKsJ8sk4&feature=player_detailpage. For those of you who are Thelonious Monk fans , you may be familiar with his famous piece ” Pannonica.” Turns out it was written in honor of Pannonica “Nica” Rothschild de...
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Stolen, Found, Stolen
Here’s the next episode of last week’s nail biter of a post: Greg and Deb get their two newspaper boxes stolen! Not quite a federal offense. Getting anything stolen , no matter how seemingly inconsequential, can be unnerving though. Plus, as our readers may know, we love our papers, dinosaurs that we are. They’re tactile, offer an amazing amt. of info without searching all...
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Dinasaur Data
I admit I’m a dinosaur. I love reading the Daily Local News and The Philadelphia Inquirer daily, and I say to all the newspaper putdown artists that you don’t know the story from the headlines, you gotta read the backstory. Some of my favorite writers are journalists because it’s a calling. They do a great civic service and they’re not obviously not in it for the...