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Ubuntu’s Natty Narwhal

Perhaps Ubuntu should have named their 11.04 version, released in April, after something a bit less endangered. In any event, it arrived to a mixed reception to the millions of people who … Continue reading →

April 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

The Walking-Away World

Editor’s Pick: Lust For Justice: The Radical Life & Law of J. Tony Serra THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TOMORROW. Cory Doctorow. PM Press. As part of their “Outspoken Authors” series, … Continue reading →

April 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

Exploring Mount Shasta’s B&B Scene

MOUNT SHASTA RANCH BED & BREAKFAST. 1008 W.A. Barr Road. Mount Shasta, California. 96067. (530) 926-3870. The tiny town of Mount Shasta is well-known through-out the western states for its … Continue reading →

April 1, 2013 · Leave a comment

The Wide Open Eyes of the World

Chronicles: Bob Dylan Digests Himself The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia & An Interview With Michael Gray Suze Rotolo On Dylan Music Writer Kathleen Mackay Blood Idioms: the Art of Johnny Cash … Continue reading →

March 1, 2009 · Leave a comment

Transgressions & Internal Bleeding

TRANSGRESSIONS. Edited by Ed McBain. Forge Books. In Transgressions, a collection of ten novellas written by some of today’s most acclaimed suspense novelists (and edited by noted mystery writer Ed McBain, … Continue reading →

June 1, 2005 · Leave a comment

Bob Dylan & the Beatles

BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES (Vol. 1 of the best of the Blacklisted Journalist). Al Aronowitz. First Books Library. Al Aronowitz is often referred to as “the godfather of rock … Continue reading →

November 1, 2004 · Leave a comment

Eye On the Independents

re: BACH. Lara St. John. Sony Classical. If there’s one word that might describe Lara St. John — it’s “guts.” How many other classical violinists would dare to invite pedal steel guitar … Continue reading →

May 1, 2004 · Leave a comment

Fiction & Nonfiction

TELL THE COURT I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law – An American History. Peter Wallenstein. Palgrave/Macmillan. In Tell The Court, Virginia historian Peter Wallenstein has written a timely and absorbing study … Continue reading →

April 1, 2004 · Leave a comment

Never Mind the Pollacks

AsEverWas: MEMOIRS OF A BEAT SURVIVOR. Hammond Guthrie. SAF Publishing. Even though this work makes reference to the “Beat Generation” in its title, it’s anything but a nostalgic trip down memory … Continue reading →

October 1, 2003 · Leave a comment

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