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Wes Phillips
But I Like It Rumpled!
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 22, 2006  |  4 comments
Huckleberry fails to see the appeal of a perfectly flat rug.
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Wes Phillips
New Fossil
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 22, 2006  |  0 comments
Discovery of a "hybrid" skeleton in Portugal has paleontologists speculating that it might be the result of Neanderthal/modern human mating, perhaps challenging the "out of Africa" scenario.
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Stephen Mejias
A Prophylactic 'Good Job'
Stephen Mejias  |  Sep 21, 2006  |  0 comments
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Wes Phillips
How Common is Your Surname in America?
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 21, 2006  |  2 comments
Mindless fun—and it's ed-u-ma-cational!
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Features
Recommended Components Addendum
Stereophile Staff  |  Sep 21, 2006  |  First Published: Oct 21, 2006  |  0 comments
FM Antenna
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Wes Phillips
Tiki Tiki Tiki
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 21, 2006  |  1 comments
How sex, rum, and WWII ignited the fad that will not die.
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Wes Phillips
Crypto-Musicology
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 21, 2006  |  0 comments
How Matmos came to use an Enigma machine on For Alan Turing.
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Wes Phillips
Music Training Boosts the Brain
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 21, 2006  |  0 comments
As the US eliminates music education from its curriculum, we begin to see proof that music has "real" benefits. I thought that exposing kids to beauty and greatness was enough, but what do I know?
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Robert Baird
America Friendly Music or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Elks Lodge
Robert Baird  |  Sep 20, 2006  |  2 comments
Earlier this week I was invited to Per Se, a sleek restaurant in the Time Warner Center here in NYC for a lavish lunch sponsored by Concord Records. Co-owner Norman Lear was there. So was former SNL and now Letterman band leader Paul Shaffer who served as MC. The occasion was the release of another Ray Charles project which I will be writing about in more detail in an upcoming issue of the magazine. Titled Ray Swings—Basie Swings, it's an elaborate studio creation. Again though, Look for more in December's Stereophile.
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Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 20, 2006  |  0 comments
The name of the essay is "Fervor," and that's what Ross writes with. If you can read the last paragraph of this tribute to Ms. Hunt Lieberson without tearing up, you have my condolences.
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