Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton Two score and 17 years ago, a marginal knuckleballer pitched a little, and took good notes. Now at this long remove, Seattle is rejoicing, in some measure at least, in a World Series championship won years too late, and in a place far, far away. And as the last out was recorded, …
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by Kevin Burton If I told you my first two years of formal education – the grahamcracker years – were spent in Bermuda, would you then nod knowingly. Mm Hmm…That explains a lot! No one said a word to me about the Bermuda Triangle whilst I was there (whilst being a Britishism I brought out …
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by Kevin Burton We should do this more often. This was salve to an aching heart. Driving around with my wife, looking for garage sales, soaking in that 60s music sound. It was the weekend of our town’s citywide garage sale. On the horizon: low-priced treasures we can not live without, that we …
by Rob Patterson Best Classic Bands There are two Woodstock festivals that happened in 1969: First and better known is the Woodstock Myth: the paramount Aquarian Age experience, as the mythic echoes imply, and they are not without a sizable measure of truth in some ways. The second is what really happened: the reality of …
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by Tim Ott interestingfacts.com Even those unfamiliar with the details of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s can point to Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks as key figures of the era. A deeper dive will reveal names including A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Whitney M. Young, and Medgar …
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by Dictionary Scoop Throughout history, sports legends have given us more than just great games to watch. These were people at the top of their game who pushed themselves to the limit. And still, along the way, they picked up knowledge that is relevant to all of us. Here are ten quotes that stand …
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by Toby Luckhurst BBC In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day conflict that cost thousands of lives and displaced thousands more – a bloody struggle still remembered as the Football War. It was 2-2 after 90 minutes at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. This was the third game between Honduras and …
by Kevin Burton I’ve had a ton of fun writing about pop music on Page 7. But I have juuuuust about talked myself out of the notion that I am any kind of knowledgeable, creditable music critic. And I’m getting close to swearing off all music critics. I mean, we like what we …
by Kevin Burton Here’s what we know about the female character from “December 1963 (Oh What a Night,” the Four Seasons’ fifth and last number one hit: She had the ability to walk. She walked into a room. That’s all we get. No eyes of blue, no golden hair, no perfume in …
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by Kevin Burton I love laughter, I love rain, and I love me some Neil Sedaka. So the news that Sedaka died Feb. 27 at age 86, stung. I never knew the man of course. Never got within 100 miles of him as far as I know. Yet he was a friend …
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