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Thought for the Week: The Virtue of the Blind Boys

November 4th, 2007 · 14 Comments

I had the pleasure of seeing the Blind Boys of Alabama at the Grand Opera House last week, and what a show it was. The only negative point about the night was the rather odd Argentinian guitarist & Irish accordion player duo singing songs mostly in Spanish, prompting my rather bigoted father to remark, “For […]

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Tags: Music · Stephen Graham

Dog: back to the pound

November 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments

‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ is no more. The show was shelved by the A&E network on Friday, which is something I feared would happen when I wrote this post on Thursday. The network “stopped short of saying” they’d cancelled the show, although I’ll tell you in a few minutes what I’d expect to […]

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