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He's comin' through - funeral for jazz trumpeter
Jazz funeral for trumpeter Milton Batiste showcases New Orleans' black Catholic spirit Dirges are the songs of sorrow a brass band plays in ushering ......(Continue Reading) City Desk: A Village Voice - folk singer Dave Van Ronk
When Uday and Qusay passed over, one's thoughts turned to appropriate eulogists: Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Steyn, Christopher Hitchens. My thoughts turned to an old song about a crooked cop, "Dunca...(Continue Reading)Bloomsday at 100: two reflections on James Joyce's legacy
Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, is the day anatomized, commemorated, and celebrated in James Joyce's Ulysses. Striking testimony to the enduring power of Ulysses is that we mark not the birth of its auth...(Continue Reading)That Year's Model
HOW WE ALL LEARNED TO SPEAK ELVIS THIS FALL ELVIS COSTELLO--the pan-pop British singer, writer, and bandleader -- will begin a yearlong term as UCLA's ......(Continue Reading)Newsboy funerals: tales of sorrow and solidarity in urban America
Most children in nineteenth-century America were buried as members of a family or a church, not a trade. Yet in cities across the country newsboys publicly ......(Continue Reading)
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