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Inconsistently Great

23-Oct-07

When my grandmother got well into her eighties and nineties, you couldn’t always be sure what the next plate of lasagna might bring: too much oil, too much salt? A mystery ingredient from the brillo box? Even though her better days of cooking were behind her, each meal left her unforgettable stamp of flavor and [...]

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Middle-Passage Man

28-Jun-07

Francis Dunnery is on to something.
I had seen his name for years, always mentioned with high praise but never actually heard any of his music. A week prior, Dave Bamundo mentioned a house concert being hosted by a guy named Ray Heffernan. I perked up; years ago I had organized a similar event for [...]

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Carry On Wayward Band

14-May-92

The Rock Palace, Staten Island, New York
May 14, 1992
Take me back to Kansas, the band from the heartland who swept up the seventies with an unmistakable violin/keyboard blend and round melodic vocals. The band that virtually vanished during the eighties, was back. In an unlikely and first-time appearance at Staten Island’s own Rock Palace, the [...]

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