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The songfinder: a reader-assisted song search service - why the singers for 'I'll Fly Away' are different in the movie 'O Brother Where Art Thou' and the
FLYING AWAY Last issue, sounding like a frontier yarn spinner, I boasted that Songfinder had gotten so speedy, a question had arrived in my mailbox ......(Continue Reading) City Desk: A City Christmas - Column
What is the city of Christmas in the English-speaking world? Probably still 19th-century London, thanks to Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol, but ......(Continue Reading)Porch Songs - Mark Linkous, musician/founder of the band Sparklehorse
LUCKY FOR THOSE LAZY SUNDAYS, SPARKLEHORSE'S LONESOME QUAVER IS WAY, WAY OFF THE CHARTS A GUY LIVES IN A VAN BY the Pacific Ocean. Man, he hates his ......(Continue Reading)The magic handbag: a Christmas tale
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a poor little match girl (actually a young, nubile woman) who almost never sold any matches. There were a number of reasons ......(Continue Reading)Mutilated: Tennessee Williams's Apocalyptic Christmas Carol, The
Like so many of his post-Iguana works, Tennessee Williams's Slapstick Comedy (1966) incurred the critics' calumny. In fact, the two plays that comprise ......(Continue Reading)
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