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October 19, 2009
- Look anywhere. There are ‘special’ people, a few being touted as prodigies only because they can do some stand-up comic act – “Boss, what a genius”. What surprises me is that the term genius is used so carelessly.We live in a world where research is developing a thinking cap that will unlock the hidden brilliance it believes all of us possess. It’s a switch on and off device that ...
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October 7, 2009
- “A Guide to Selected Essays on African-American Music, Part One.”by Josh Friedberg Not yet having devoted a whole column entry to readings on music, I thought this would be a fantastic place to start. I chose to write about essays rather than books, mostly because essays are more concise but are still tremendously informative for sampling a wide range of perspectives. And I chose to write ...
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August 25, 2009
- So this is a recent comment I recieved in response to a column I wrote about living as a 1950s housewife (specifically about aprons), and what follows is my response. I appreciate the reader's feelings, but they missed the point of my project and I felt I needed to set the record straight. Did I come off a little frosty?I hope not, because that wasn't my intention. From Reader:As a modern ...
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August 8, 2009
- Music geek’s encyclopedia presents divas by Josh Friedberg For this edition of Music Geek’s Encyclopedia, I am focusing on two brilliant talents who are unlimited by genre and deserve a greater contemporary audience — two versatile divas with talent and attitude. The first recorded everything from blues with unsubtle double meanings to duets for early rock ‘n’ roll fans. The second was ...
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July 31, 2009
- Amid the country’s headlong rush for “change,” we have at last found a workable model for a successful economic stimulus program—one that might, indeed, bring about some real, positive and immediate change. Ironically, this model is found in the so-called “Cash for Clunkers” program, which at the time of this writing is six days old… and which, also at the time of ...
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July 26, 2009
- Music geek’s encycplopedia: the best of country by Josh Friedberg Country music has a bad rap. Today, radio confections have more pop polish than twang, creating a skewed image of the genre. But, of course, bubblegum country describes only one part of the music’s history. Since the first country recordings in the 1920s, the music has told enough tragic and triumphant stories to merit ...
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July 7, 2009
- Hey, and welcome to my blog. I plan to post several types of work on this site, and I'll be interested in the feedback I receive. Below is an entry in a music column I wrote for my college newspaper:Music geek’s encyclopedia: Three great live albumsby Josh FriedbergThe three live albums reviewed here all show the performers — a rock and folk icon, an underrated giant of soul and one of ...
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June 21, 2009
- As a recovering journalist myself (see: "Chicken Little," a link to which is posted on the right of this page), I found an exercise in "new" journalism a refreshing experiment: last week, Israel's oldest newspaper gave its reporting staff the day off and subbed in a lineup of novelists and poets to report the day's news. Here's an excerpt from Politics Daily on the event, ...
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March 25, 2009
- Visionary Vibes started out as a somewhat bold experimental column published in the Creative Loafing weekly entertainment news magazine during the mid 1990s. It has since made appearances on in a number of publications and on such web sites as AuthorsDen, Blogit, and Bright Skylark Literary Productions. Its purpose was to explore the different ways that people employ various forms of culture ...
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March 20, 2009
- This is why I love Fox News-- they look for the story inside the story. Especially when they report on the unexpectedly salacious "side effect" of a spider's painful bite... even if buried in the middle paragraphs of the story. "We doa'n need no estinkin' leetle blue pills," said an unnamed (and presumably, un-manned) Brazilian researcher. "Not when ...
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