After a divorce, the singer/songwriter bounces back.
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Josh Ritter’s Messianic Oracular Honky-Tonk
Singer/Songwriter Bounces Back After Divorce Album
Santi Elijah Holley
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Comedian Baron Vaughn on His Improbable New Tour, Grace and Frankie, and the Opposite of Hate Speech
Mandee Johnson Photography Baron Vaughn is a busy man. On the day of our interview, he had just gotten back to the States after a much-needed 12-day retreat somewhere in the jungles of Mexico, with neither cell nor Twitter. He had stopped in Chicago on his way home for only a brief moment, to visit […]
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Baron Vaughn Is Working Saturdaze
Comedian Baron Vaughn on His Improbable New Tour, Grace and Frankie, and the Opposite of Hate Speech
The comedian on his new tour, Grace and Frankie, and the opposite of hate speech.
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Drinking in America: Nope, It’s Not a Mixology Guide
In Susan Cheever’s Latest, A Nation Built by Lushes (That’d Be Us)
In Susan Cheever’s latest, a nation built by lushes (that’d be us).
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Still Living with Everclear’s Ghost
Portland’s Biggest Band of the ’90s Sparkled Before the Fade
Portland’s biggest band of the ’90s sparkled before the fade.
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Oddisee: The Socially Conscious Rapper Fights the Good Fight
Oddisee performs at Holocene (1001 SE Morrison) on Friday, November 6. As both a genre and a culture, hip-hop can be generally divided into two camps: There are the flashy, materialistic, often misogynistic artists you hear on commercial radio who sell records in ridiculous amounts, and the introspective, socially conscious artists who are solely accountable […]
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Oddisee Fights the Good Fight
The Socially Conscious Rapper Remains Stubbornly Underground
The socially conscious rapper remains stubbornly underground.
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Coming to Terms with Sex (the Book)
Madonna’s Book of Raunchy Photos Blew This 11-Year-Old’s Mind
Madonna’s book of raunchy photos blew this 11-year-old’s mind.
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D’Angelo and the Vanguard at Crystal Ballroom, Sun Aug 9
All photos by Minh Tran. Whatever rock D’Angelo has been hiding underneath for the last 15 years has thankfully not caused any lasting damage, as his performance Sunday night at the Crystal Ballroom proved. I’d been fortunate enough to catch D at the Fox Theatre in Detroit during the 2000 Voodoo tour, and it had […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is a Timely, Timeless Discussion of Race in America
Spiegel & Grau BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME: When Toni Morrison tells you something’s required reading, pay attention. In late 1962, with the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation approaching, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his 15-year-old nephew, offering advice and caution as to what he, as a black man in America, could expect […]
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Body Politic
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Open Letter to His Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ open letter to his son.
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Back to the Future (Part III)
The Third Coming of D’Angelo
The third coming of D’Angelo.