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Mike Ness: Punk Rock’s Miracle Boy
Happy Birthday to Mike Ness, the legendary leader of Social Distortion. In honor of his birthday, enjoy this 2007 interview conducted by our colleague Troy M. Meier, my former bandmate in The Belvaderes. Cheers. By Troy M. Meier While members … Continue reading
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Crucifixes, Guthrie, and the Dropkick Murphys
By Steve Beard For the last few years, I’ve gotten hooked on livestreaming the Dropkick Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day concert. This remains the one redemptive habit I’ve clung to from the pandemic years. Over the last 25 years, the bagpipe-and-banjo-infused … Continue reading
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Not Just Another Pretty Face: Raquel Welch, RIP
By Steve Beard “Contrary to popular myth, I didn’t just hatch out of an eagle’s nest, circa ‘One Million Years B.C.,’ clad in a doeskin bikini …,” wrote Raquel Welch about her provocative cavewoman publicity photo for the 1966 film. … Continue reading
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Confessions of a Roller Derby Queen
In 1952, Joan Kazmerski was 18-years-old when she made her professional debut with the Chicago Westerners in the National Roller Derby League. The Akron Beacon Journal recently told her story in an article called “Confessions of a roller derby queen.” … Continue reading
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Happy International Clash Day!
I just can’t imagine my high school years without “London Calling” and the song “Train in Vain.” If I ever end up taking refuge in a bomb shelter someday, this is one of 10 albums that go underground with me … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Alice Cooper
Happy Birthday to Alice Cooper, the hilarious and provocative golf-addicted, churchgoer who is most well known as the granddaddy of shock rock. He turns 75 today — and he still owns that stage. For nearly 20 years, he owned Cooperstown … Continue reading
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Happy St. Brigid’s Day
In Ireland, the first day of February is St. Brigid’s Day, as well as the ancient Celtic holiday of Imbolc, marking new birth and the threshold of spring. It has just recently been christened as a government holiday in Ireland … Continue reading
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Lisa Marie memorialized at Graceland
“This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me,” Elvis Presley told reporters on the set of his film “Raceway” in 1967. His wife Priscilla had told him that they were going to have a baby. As he … Continue reading
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Blue Suede Shoes: Remembering Carl Perkins
“Well, it’s one for the money two for the show/ Three to get ready now go, cat, go/ But don’t you step on my blue suede shoes,” sang Elvis. “Well you can do anything but/ Lay off of my blue … Continue reading
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A Poet for ‘Bruised Evangelicals’
By Kara Bettis, Christianity Today On a cool, drizzly summer day in Vancouver, a few Regent College students trailed after their visiting lecturer into a standard American-fare restaurant. But their 65-year-old professor’s tweed jacket, his shoulder-length white hair and full … Continue reading
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