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April 9, 2013Luna Sur Latin Bistro opened last week in Hell's Kitchen. The menu features Latin flavors with a mix of Peruvian, Spanish, Mexican, and Cuban dishes like empanadas, tacos, croquettes, and arroz con pollo. The restaurant will host a DJ on the weekends during "Latin Brunch," and a back patio is open t ... More >>
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February 27, 2013Pass the whiskey for the man in black
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February 7, 2013"It's all a big surprise to me," says Ed Bankston, 60, talking on the phone from his home in Phoenix, Arizona. "It's like the ghost of Christmas past has shown up." In 1983, the songwriter and guitarist Bankston started a label called Oracle Records to self-release Over There... and Over Here, the f ... More >>
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January 30, 2013Influentialalbums.com is a "quiz" one of your Facebook friends might've posted, boasting "Very few people own 70 or more. How many have you got?" and listing 100 albums ranging from the duh (Blonde on Blonde, Pet Sounds) to the hmmm (Gerry Rafferty? Felt??) to the genuinely bizarre (well, see below) ... More >>
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October 3, 2012On the man who carried Cash
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October 3, 2012Fathers, sons, and Johnny Cash distinguish a new doc
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April 11, 2012Voice Choices
February 22, 2012Have a whisky for Johnny Cash
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October 10, 2011VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>
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August 15, 2011"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>
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February 16, 2011Raise a glass to Johnny Cash
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January 20, 2011News came down this morning about the FBI's largest organized crime bust in New York history, in which raids resulted in the arrest of over 100 alleged mobsters from all five crime families including the Gambinos, Genoveses, Luccheses, Bonannos and Colombos. Charges run the gamut from murder ... More >>
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December 27, 2010Via RedditThe original imageThis weekend a 92-year-old man became a meme when his grandson posted his picture to web-forum Reddit. After viewing some of the photoshop work on the site, he told his grandson he wanted to "see what those young whippersnappers can do to my pic." Over 500 comments ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Reba McEntire's new album, All the Women I Am, features a spirited rendition of Beyoncé's "If I Were a Boy," which you can hear above, and which got us thinking again about the tricky nature of cross-genre cover songs. McEntire remains true to the song's melody, save the addition of her country tw ... More >>
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September 28, 2010No, people: Jimmy Carter is not dead.
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August 26, 2010NPR asks an intriguing question today. With so many -- of such varied backgrounds, ages, and degrees of fame -- using their middle fingers to express discontent, are we simply growing numb to the shock value of the bird? Does it need a replacement, stat? In the last few months, the gesture ha ... More >>
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July 26, 2010Joan MarcusMillion Dollar Quartet has proven that by throwing together a low-budget show with actors imitating four music legends (in this case Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins), the tourists will come and you can make lots of cash while nabbing some acclaim and even a To ... More >>
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June 22, 2010It doesn’t get more American than Rosanne Cash
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April 20, 2010Voice Choices
March 2, 2010Return to Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash
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January 5, 2010On a country giant's favorite chords, songs, and Bob Dylan lines
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June 17, 2009
Next week, Regina Spektor will release her first new album in three years. What we've heard of Far is more cinematic than her often bare 2006 breakthrough, Begin to Hope, which may or may not be a good thing. Take a peek at the Beacon tonight.
Loudon Wainwright III, patriarch of the venerated Wai ... More >>
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April 28, 2009
If you like Johnny Cash at San Quentin, you'll love Wayne Kramer at Sing Sing. The legendary MC5 guitarist, who did two years at Lexington for pushing coke, is working with addict outreach group Road Recovery, and after doing a benefit concert for them at the Nokia Theatre on May 1, he'll go the n ... More >>
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April 8, 2009In praise of Rodney, Eric, Pat, Keith, Jason, Dierks, and the women they love for loving them
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February 18, 2009(. . . of birthday candles)
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April 8, 2008Major-Label Hip-Hop Records in Burying-Best-Tracks Shocker!
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March 11, 2008Voice Choices
February 19, 2008A birthday party for the Man in Black
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November 8, 2005Cash in hand but slightly out of focus, in Mangold's leisurely paced, well-acted biopic
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November 1, 2005As Nashville invades New York, a home-grown hayseed scene thrives beneath the CMA's radar
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July 20, 2004Home
February 3, 2004NYC Life
December 30, 2003Juke Joints and Alpine Lodges
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September 16, 2003Cowboy and Indian, Sinner and Believer, Patriot and Protester, the Man in Black Walks his Final Line
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August 5, 2003She Doesn't Have to Wear Those Dreads Tonight
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June 17, 2003Yellow Things Flipped Like Burgers, for a Price
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