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The blog from the Alternative Magazine team.


Wordy Celebrity Tattoos: What Does Their Skin Say? (PHOTOS, POLL) (The Huffington Post)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

Sometimes celebrities read something so profound they want to be able to read it over and over again on their own skin. Sometimes they should enlist a proofreader before taking this final step. Click through for some wordy tattoos and vote on whether you think they’re lame or poignant.

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Local Wrestler Honors the Three Stooges with 99 Tattoos (WSIL 3 Southern Illinois)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

Back in high school Dan “Curly” Summers, 37, would go home every friday night at 11:00 to watch the Three Stooges television program. A few years later he began his mission to honor his favorite show.

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Open & Shut: More places to get burgers, tattoos, after-school care and jewelry in Burlington (Burlington Times-News)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

ANDY’S BURGERS SHAKES AND FRIES has opened in the Huffman Mill Plaza in Burlington.

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Rothbury festival returns for a sequel (Detroit Free Press)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

It didn’t take long for Rothbury to make its mark in 2008. In a year widely touted as the dawn of a new festival era, the fledgling Michigan event promptly pushed itself near the front of the national pack, earning rave reviews.

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Rothbury festival returns for a sequel (Detroit Free Press)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

It didn’t take long for Rothbury to make its mark in 2008. In a year widely touted as the dawn of a new festival era, the fledgling Michigan event promptly pushed itself near the front of the national pack, earning rave reviews.

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Glastonbury Festival (Evening Standard)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

If last year was a spectacular comeback for Glastonbury , this was more of a routine victory. Tickets sold out quickly, the sun shone bright and its three-pronged attack of Neil Young , Bruce Springsteen and Blur had more than enough firepower to wow the Worthy Farm faithful.

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Don’t look back (Guardian Unlimited)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

As veteran musicians headline Glastonbury this weekend, does the best writing about rock music also hail from a different era? Is anybody today as good as Greil Marcus or Lester Bangs? Having spent 20 years as a pop journalist, John Harris asks whether music writing has lost its way This month, Faber - in partnership with the indepedent record label Domino - publishes the frst instalment of a …

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DIVA TALK: Chatting with Hair ’s Caissie Levy Plus News of Peters and Streisand (Playbill)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

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CD reviews: The Blueheels, Regina Spektor, Amazing Baby (The Capital Times)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

It’s natural for the Madison-based Blueheels to record their first live album at Cranky Pat’s Pizza in Neenah. The roots-rock band is renowned for their raucous live shows, and Cranky Pat’s is their favorite venue. They recorded “The Only Dance You Know” during two shows over Thanksgiving weekend last year.

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Album reviews: The Mars Volta, Jonas Brothers (The State Journal-Register)

June 29th, 2009 by Webmaster

Reviews of new albums from prog-rock wizards The Mars Volta and the tween-dream Jonas Brothers.

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