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    The Piggery Brings Pork Chops from the Farm to Your Doorstep; Burger King Introduces Fancy Burger

    ​The Piggery is the first meat CSA servicing the New York area. The family farm, located north of Ithaca, has about 130 pigs that they raise in an open-air barn. Some 45 participants have already enrolled, mostly from Brooklyn. [NY Daily News] Thousands of black farmers who were denied farm loans ... More >>

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    Wayne Kramer, Handsome Dick to Play Sing-Sing

    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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    THE RING OF FIRE . . .

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    Behind Jim and Artie Mitchell's Behind the Green Door

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    Voice staff writer Chris Thompson not only knew the Oakland reporter shot dead by a follower of the Yusuf Bey family, he'd also incurred the family's wrath

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    Metallica Finally Gives In to the iTunes Empire

    Voice staff writer Chris Thompson not only knew the Oakland reporter shot dead by a follower of the Yusuf Bey family, he'd also incurred the family's wrath

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    July 25, 2006

    Leaving Heel Marks on Our Consciousness

    Voice staff writer Chris Thompson not only knew the Oakland reporter shot dead by a follower of the Yusuf Bey family, he'd also incurred the family's wrath

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    February 28, 2006

    Letters

    Voice staff writer Chris Thompson not only knew the Oakland reporter shot dead by a follower of the Yusuf Bey family, he'd also incurred the family's wrath

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    Show Tune Liberation

    Every day Nellie McKay wonders why she’s in the music business—but she definitely is

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    December 6, 2005

    Tookie's Long Goodbye

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    August 16, 2005

    Horoscope

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    September 16, 2003

    Johnny Cash, 1932—2003

    Cowboy and Indian, Sinner and Believer, Patriot and Protester, the Man in Black Walks his Final Line

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    October 17, 2000

    His Own Kind of Guilt

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    Taking the Rap

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    April 11, 2000

    Attica Brother

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    November 9, 1999

    Mumia's Last Stand

    A Celebrated Death-Row Inmate Implores Angela Davis to Organize the People on His Behalf

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