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LINGUISTIC ALCHEMY: AN EVENING WITH LAUREL ANN BOGEN

July 22, 2000

LINGUISTIC ALCHEMY: AN EVENING WITH LAUREL ANN BOGENLaurel Ann Bogen - poet, mentor, and all-around word witch (Sun in Aries, Moon in Cancer, Sagittarius Rising), is rarely at home, being a creature of multiple tasks and titles. For this reason I became, some three years ago, the nominal guardian of her cat: a large, mild-mannered orange tabby, innocuously christened "Little Guy Bogen". Being Little Guy's adoptive parent entitles me to visit Laurel at regular intervals for dinner, which I…

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July 22, 2000

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Those of you who read the Beef every month may have noticed that last month there was no Beef. When I started this web zine I started this column thinking that it would be easy to rant about something that was bothering me that month. In fact, I figured that I would have an overabundance of stuff to rant about in print. Just a drive to the grocery store is enough to keep me in material for months...I thought.…

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June 30, 2000

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Music & Spoken Word BURT BACHARACH The Best of Burt Bacharach Hipp-O Records, (A & M/MCA) A funny thing happened to me when I was growing up, my parents played music that I actually liked. One of their favorites was Burt Bacharach. They also played stuff that I thought was overblown mush, but there was always something snappy and cool about Burt's music that went beyond the usual middle brow fare. The best of his stuff had an economy…

Video Reviews

June 1, 2000

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AYN RAND - A Sense of Life Documentary First Look Pictures "Howard Roark laughed." For my money, that is still one of the punchiest three word opening paragraphs ever penned. Right up there with "Call me Ishmael." But that is where the similarity stops. Our boy Melville went on to write a whale of a story, pardon the pun, which became an enduring American classic, delving into deep philosophical waters. Ayn Rand merely went on to write another didactic…

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March 30, 2000

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AM I BLUE? Canned Heat's drummer, Fito de la Parra talks about life with one of the great blues bands. Canned Heat, named for the drink that the truly desperate make from cans of Sterno, has truly lived the Blues. Its members have drank hard, taken all the drugs the 60's had to offer, and enjoyed the attentions of female fans and groupies across several continents. Many of its members have died over the course of the band's history...none…