VAGUE SPACE
Having moved to Hoboken in May, I'm much closer to the hub of indie rock concert activity -- NYC -- only a 10 minute train ride away. Of course, I'm now much further from Philly, where I used to go frequently, but all in all the exchange allowed me to see a grand total of 34 concerts this year. Unfortunately, I had tickets to probably 50 shows but due to work and other responsibilities I was not able to attend them, leaving me short of my goal of 40 shows this year. Also, the legendary Maxwell's in Hoboken, which is only a 10 minute WALK away, closed down in July, just after I moved here, so I didn't get to feast very long on the amazing feeling of walking to a concert and then walking home. So it's been a bit of a mixed bag. But this has been a pretty great year of concerts that was quite difficult to cull down to a top 20 list.
The Basketball Jones
Justin Tinsley is a sportswriter who’s written for The Sports Fan Journal and The Smoking Section. 50 years ago this afternoon, perhaps America’s most recognizable speech and march took place in Washington, D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream Speech” may or may not have been his finest oratory ever — his impassioned, yet physically taxing “mountaintop” speech given the day before his assassination hits home with the same intensity and forward thinking — however, what happened in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, became the focal point of a battle for equality still, in many ways, being fought today.
'Entire life' sold for £192,000 on ebay BBC NEWS
A Briton living in Australia has agreed a bid of more than £192,000 after putting his "entire life" up for sale following a split from his wife. Ian Usher, 44, who left Darlington six years ago, included his house, car, job and friends in the online eBay auction, in an effort to make a fresh start. The lot attracted a peak offer of 399,300 Australian dollars (£192,276) when bids closed early on Sunday. Despite expecting higher bids, Mr Usher said he had "no regrets". At one point offers on the "life lot" rocketed to over two million Australian dollars (£1m) within hours of the sale's start last Sunday.
We All Want Someone To Shout For
Weigel
Dana Stevens and I just recorded a Spoiler Special for The Unknown Known, Erroll Morris' long-awaited, critic-confounding documentary about Donald Rumsfeld. Off the clock, I went to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the latest blockbuster in the Marvel movie universe, and the one most likely to incite anger on Fox News followed by anger-at-the-anger on The Daily Show. It wasn't planned this way, but the two films went together like a white wine and fish pairing. The Unknown Known comes to the screen with heavier expectations, of course, and an aura of Importance.
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