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...cover of the Psychedelic Furs’ “Heaven” and a brilliant multi-paced rendition of “Blacking Out The Friction” among many other emotionally driven compositions. Jason, who joined the band just last year, played his heart out. Nick danced wildly and soaked up every minute on stage. Chris, jumping from guitar to Rhodes, dazzled the room with precise riffs and flowing rhythms. And Ben, sweating like a wild animal, put his soul into every note he played and every word he sang. These guys are honest musicians; yet they...
...hunting with dogs [Sept. 27]: Nature's law is to kill other animals only if a creature cannot find food in any other way. But very few hunters today kill wildlife to keep their children from starvation. Most hunters kill for pleasure. The hunting of any wild animal should be banned once and for all. But no politician is brave enough to favor such a position - hunters vote. Vassilis Banavas Thessaloniki, Greece You noted that protesters against the hunting ban have pointed out that foxes will still have to be killed as agricultural pests. That is not only appalling...
...that ‘There are no rules. You have to make your own way. No matter what people tell you, promises are not kept,’” says Kuhn. In Gormsen’s memory, “We all kind of went a little wild when Rudy was around...
...online thanks to a wireless hub in the trunk, a silver dollar-size antenna mounted behind my head and the wi-fi card built into my computer (an X40 mininotebook from IBM). It's just like jumping online at Starbucks, and it lets me go wild multitasking--catching up on e-mail and otherwise staying productive while in transit. Rarely am I trapped at a coffee shop, concerned that my workday is slipping away, but the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway can kill an entire afternoon...
...might assume that Kerouac was as wild as Dean Moriarty, the human jackhammer at the book's center, who was based on Kerouac's soul mate, Neal Cassady. On the Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man you meet in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking; 371 pages), a poignant selection of Kerouac's diaries edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley. The journals begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear...