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House & Garden
How to Kill Your Brother-In-Law’s Fish
The following procedures are to be followed if your brother- and sister-in-law are in-between moving from an old house to a new house, and your brother-in-law gives you his fish to watch: Hook up the […]
Art
What Art Thou Poetry?
Madeline Patti is the greatest poet of all time. Period. If you don’t know who Madeline Patti is, she’s a woman I went to college with in the early 1980’s. Madeline Patti was mostly known […]
Music
CBGB’s & Patti Smith in the 70’s — An Eyewitness Account
Crazy story: A friend of mine named Ray set me up to get free tickets to see Amici Forever in Brooklyn. After the show, my daughter and I stop into an eatery across the street, […]
Music
Meeting John Lennon
By Jonathan Wolpert I was dreaming of the past………. 17 November 1974, I met John Lennon. It remains one of the greatest thrills of my life. I was 16. The Beatles were my first musical […]
Music
Music Out of North Carolina: An Interview with Bonnie of Sequoya
Sequoya is a music band emerging from Durham, North Carolina, USA, the same North Carolina-Virginia music belt that has produced a steady stream of terrific American musical artists, from Dave Matthews Band to Aimee Mann. […]
On the Town
Prettiest Dummies in the World
By Archie Jacobson If the world turned into a Twilight Zone episode tomorrow and storefront dummies became real overnight, I’d be heading over to Macy’s in a flash, with maybe a stop at Extaza on […]
About
Richard Paul Sheppard Bio
Born Jersey City, Margaret Hague Hospital on Baldwin Ave., just before the pivotal 1960 election between J.F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Father Paul, born Brooklyn, N.Y., Mother Mary born Castlebar, Mayo, Ireland. Named for Richard […]
Music
Album Review: Sequoya — Sleep and Dream of Fire
Sleep and Dream of Fire, released by Sequoya in September, 2008, vaults to select company as one of the best albums of the decade. It is great American folk music, sometimes hard driving, sometimes soft, […]
Music
Why Janet Jackson Sucks
This article originated on the old paperbacknovel.com site, and continues to draw traffic on internet lookups — especially after Janet Jackson was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This means I […]