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N.J. Paper Gets Letter to the Editor From The Boss
By not in system - AOL NewsNEPTUNE, N.J. -- Bruce Springsteen has written a letter to the editor to what he calls his hometown newspaper. Today Springsteen thanked the Asbury Park Press for a March 27 article about how anti-poverty groups in New Jersey are facing an uphill battle as Gov. Chris Christie seeks to cut spending and property taxes. Springsteen writes that the "article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty." Springsteen says it will "likely to continue to get worse over the next few years." The letter is signed: Bruce ...
Born to Politics: Our American Road Trip to Tomorrow
By James Grady - Politics DailyAll politics is personal. There is no magic line between "us" and some "them." We're all in this together and politics is how we get things done. Ever since the Greeks invented the concept of politics as what occurs in our public space, ambitious leaders have claimed that their opponents were "playing politics" and for that reason, we should ... you got it: "Trust me." Right. If someone tells you that politics is the problem and they are a some magic "non-political" solution, hold onto your wallet, hold onto your vote, hold onto your children. I'll leave it to academics to argue over when ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
Bernie Williams, Going to Bat Against Hunger
By Chris Epting - AOL News"It was great. I mean, I play different stuff than rock 'n' roll, but they made me feel right at home up there. It's what I love about music. I can adjust to other situations than I'm used to being in. That's music. Whatever the groove, it's fun to adjust." It's the morning after former New York Yankees legend Bernie Williams played onstage at the Anaheim Convention Center with The Band From TV, the popular group of musicians made of stars including Hugh Laurie, James Denton and Greg Grunberg, among others (players that night included Grunberg along with Adrian Pssar, Jesse Spencer and Bob ...
Tim Pawlenty on Michele Bachmann, Michael Steele . . . and Hockey
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyFormer Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is weighing a run for president in 2012, is on a book tour. I caught up with him for a quick interview Thursday morning. We discussed a wide range of topics, from Afghanistan to the Minnesota Vikings. Here are some excerpts from our discussion: - On rumors Michele Bachmann might run for president: "Well, it's a free country. Anyone can run that's over the age of 35. I have respect for Michele Bachmann. I've had a cordial and positive relationship with her." - On House Speaker John Boehner: "I like John Boehner a lot. I think he's got a blue-collar ...
Our Year of Zombie Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyWait: Even in politics, 2010 was the year of zombies? Sure, the hot new wonky tome "Zombie Economics" tells how "dead" economic theories walk among us to shape our paychecks, and sure, zombies lumber out of our TVs almost no matter what channel we click to, and sure, my fellow fantasy prose-slingers are flinging new novels about the undead at the dust of Stephen King and George Romero, but zombies as a metaphor for 2010's politics? Come on! What happened to vampires? Vampires are a great political metaphor! Bloodsuckers. Say no more. But zombies? Who are they in America's 2010 ...
Rolling Stone Releases Lennon's Final Interview
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NEW YORK (Dec. 8) -- Three days before he was gunned down, John Lennon complained about his critics - saying they were just interested in "dead heroes" - and talked optimistically about his family and future, musing that he had "plenty of time" to accomplish some of his life goals. Lennon's final interview was released to The Associated Press by Rolling Stone on Wednesday, the 30th anniversary of the musician's death. The issue using the full interview will be on magazine stands on Friday. While brief excerpts of Jonathan Cott's interview with Lennon were released for a 1980 Rolling Stone ...
The Thanksgiving of Our Dreams: Open Your Eyes, It's Right Here
By James Grady - Politics DailyHey, 2010: We've made it this far, and that deserves a lot of thanksgiving. Politics is part of how we got here. Part of the good. Part of the bad. Part of our American dream. Part of politics we can be thankful for now is the SHUT UP factor. Listen to your lives. Do you hear it? Maybe not the sounds of silence, because the shouting never stops in modern America. But now the volume of political shouting is dialed-down because our latest electoral brawl is over -- except for random re-counts, court challenges, simple twists of fate and Congress's "lame duck" soup. Now, driving home ...
Jason Garrett a Jersey Guy at Heart
By David Elfin - AOL NewsLike most offspring of football coaches, Jason Garrett's childhood was a series of stops: Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Louisiana and finally Ohio, where he attended junior high and high school. But New Jersey has always been special to Garrett. Not only is his father a Garden State native, but Garrett starred at Princeton and later played four years for the Giants, beginning with their 2000 NFC Championship season. And Garrett's parents have retired to the Jersey shore. So even though Garrett has lived half of the years since his Princeton graduation in Texas, New Jersey also feels like ...
Glockenspiel Musician 'Born to Run' With Bizarre Springsteen Tribute
By David Moye - AOL News
(Oct. 13) -- A conceptual artist in New York is doing for the glockenspiel what Christopher Walken did for the cowbell. Sort of. Artist Cory Arcangel was so impressed by Bruce Springsteen's use of the high-pitched percussion instrument on three tracks of his seminal mid-1970s album "Born to Run" (including the title cut) that he thought he'd add extra glockenspiel tracks on the other songs. "I had always wanted to write a composition which was to be played in tandem with another. An addendum. I thought this was an interesting way to predetermine the variables I would be working with when ...
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