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Wes Phillips
Mmmmmm, Bacon Salt
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 19, 2007  |  1 comments
Because everything should taste like bacon.
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Fred Kaplan
Who Says Jazz Isn't Commercial?
Fred Kaplan  |  Jul 19, 2007  |  3 comments
The ad team at Dolce & Gabbana seems to think it can be. Would Charles Mingus’ “Moanin’” become a best-seller if more people knew it sounded so cool—or if the millions who watched this TV commercial knew that’s what they were hearing? Could it be that jazz just needs shrewder marketing? (The whole song can be heard on Mingus’ great 1959 album, Blues & Roots.)
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Wes Phillips
Mee-Yow!
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 19, 2007  |  0 comments
Alexis Petridis reviews Paris Hilton's debut record. "She sings like a woman who has heard of something called singing, can't be sure of exactly what it might entail, but is fairly certain you do something a bit like this."
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As We See ItAudiophile Essentials
Missing In Action
Barry Willis  |  Jul 19, 2007  |  First Published: Jul 01, 1997  |  0 comments
Dear High-End Dealer,
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Wes Phillips
The eBay Voldemort Confesses
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 19, 2007  |  0 comments
Will Collier tells the tale behind that $250 pre-publication sale of the final Harry Potter volume.
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Wes Phillips
Farewell, Comma, He Said
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 18, 2007  |  0 comments
Robert J. Samuelson laments the lapsing of the comma.
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Wes Phillips
Rational Voters?
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 18, 2007  |  2 comments
Louis Menand's review of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Politics is an interesting read—possibly more interesting than the book itself. However, back in 2004, Gene Weingarten covered the same questions, getting up close and personal with Ted Prus, a non-voter who "just doesn't give a rat's ass."
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Wes Phillips
The Worst Of The South
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 18, 2007  |  1 comments
The final article of The Oxford American's Best of the South issue is Hal Crowther's splenetic rant about the region's less savory characteristics.
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Wes Phillips
Passchendaele In Color
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 18, 2007  |  0 comments
Everybody knows WWI was in black and white.
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Ariel Bitran
All the World's a Stage
Ariel Bitran  |  Jul 17, 2007  |  0 comments
Invisible airwaves
crackle with life
bright antennae bristle
with the energy
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