Carlos Boozer.
Quick, what comes to your mind when you read that name?
Off the top of my head, I’d tell you that he’s a power forward for the Utah Jazz who averaged an incredible 24 points and 12 rebounds a game in the playoffs last year. That he’s an injury prone bum […]
I’m writing this in a waiting room at Georgetown University hospital, where a friend is having an MRI. She’s been healthy her whole life, but in the past couple of months has endured a whole catalogue of physical and emotional ills — stomach pain, severe indigestion, back pain, anxiety, insomnia. This morning, she said to […]
Earlier this fall I set out with a group of students to survey cheap eats and sweets on the Lower East Side. In spite of constant weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over the gentrification of this neighborhood — which for hundreds of years has been the home of one immigrant group after another — […]
In 1967, BBC Radio ended the Home Service and the Light Programme to launch four radio stations to meet the needs of contemporary Britons. Radio 1 brought pop for the kids, Radio 2 easy listening for the parents, Radio 3 for the classical fans, and Radio 4 to be a British speech radio station […]
(For those of you embedded in academia and/or standardized test prep)
1. Cause and Effect
The Chiffons, “He’s So Fine” is to George Harrison, “My Sweet Lord”
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T-Rex “Metal Guru” is to Louis XIV, “Letter to Dominique.”
2. Part to Whole
Vanilla Ice, “Ice Ice Baby” is to David Bowie and Queen, “Under Pressure”
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A Tribe Called Quest, “Lyrics […]