Word: bluegrass
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Hilly Kristal, who died Aug. 28 of complications from lung cancer, agreed to a rare interview in November 2006 to discuss the legacy of CBGB, the club he had founded to promote his first musical loves - country, bluegrass and blues (CBGB) - and which in the 1970s and '80s became the official mecca of the underground New York rock scene. By that point, he had been battling cancer for some time, making him noticeably skinnier and less mobile...
...thinks those rules are finally changing, that voters everywhere are ready for a sharp critique of what's gone wrong. And he has one advantage his opponents lack: a sweet-tea voice that makes his tough talk go down easy. He isn't ranting; he's twanging like a bluegrass banjo, rolling along in full control-outraged on behalf of people who have lost their jobs or pensions to corporate restructuring, people who watch their children go off to "this mess of a war in Iraq." And he's enthusiastic about all the things he'll do for these people...
...article said. In addition to his art, Ketelhohn taught tai chi classes in Cabot for students and brought two different musical groups of which he was a member to play at House events, including a square dance. Livingston describes Ketelhohn as enthusiastic about “old-timey and bluegrass music.” As a guitarist, he played with various local bands in the Waltham area despite the fact that he could not read music, according to Livingston. Adam J. Benitez ’07, a government concentrator who worked in the House office with Ketelhohn, also recalls...
...what he found to be the dry, dull, and downright boring science documentaries he saw that were giving his profession a false reputation. “Flock of Dodos” is the antithesis of all of these stultifying films, keeping the masses entertained with clever animations, rousing bluegrass background music, and occasional periodic commentary from the sparkling Muffy Moose, who may very well be the liveliest 83-year-old on the planet.Though the film has yet to be released widely, there have been dozens of screenings of the film all across the country, including many in Kansas just before...
...idea that this would engender the kind of uproar that it has," says Kentucky state Rep. Kathy Stein, a Democrat who this month became the Bluegrass State's first woman to chair the powerful House Judiciary Committee. "Some parents might be cautious before giving a vaccine that is fairly new to a child and I can understand that. But many, many conservative groups - and I won't say Christian groups, but many of them are - say it is the parents who have a right to decide what happens to [their] children. They argue that if you are good folks...