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Posted on 20 August 2011 (1)

When I was a teenager, my father used to go into NYC for business on a fairly regular basis, and he would always be willing to stop into a record store or bring me a copy of the Village Voice, picked up at the newsstand at Grand Central. (This was before I could drive, and could go get my own copy at the newsstand at Bull’s Head in Stamford, the only place in town I knew of that carried the Voice).

One day he walked in the house and handed me a copy of this magazine.
“You like Bruce Springsteen, right?”
“Right, Dad.”
“They were out of the Village Voice but I saw that and thought you’d like it.”

It was like he had handed me the keys to the kingdom.

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this is what a feminist music writer looks like.

Posted on 03 May 2011 (1)

I attended the Ellen Willis symposium this weekend, organized at NYU by friends and colleagues of mine, and in honor of the amazing anthology just released. Speaking as someone who hung on every word in the previous Willis anthology, Beginning To See The Light, it was a delight to sit in that room with people who felt and thought like me, to be one in a sea of nodding heads when most of the time, that head is nodding solo and alone, or at least it feels that way.

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Listen to me on Live From E Street Nation, Friday, 4/10

Posted on 07 April 2009 (0)

I will be on E Street Radio later this week. The show is called Live From E Street Nation (please, try not to gag too hard). It runs Friday mornings from 10-12ET. I am co-hosting the show with Dave Marsh this Friday, 4/10.

If you do not already have satellite radio, you can sign up for a free online trial (that runs for three days) that will let you listen to the show online:

http://www.sirius.com/estreetradio

The link for the free trial is at the top of the page.

The call in number listed on the site is 1-877-70-BRUCE. I imagine that will also be the number for the call in show, but listen and find out. Tell your friends, call us and ask why in God’s name Bruce has “Outlaw Pete” second in the set.

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which side are you on?

Posted on 09 January 2008 (0)

I have a blog, and every day I’ve been writing up what happens on the picket lines. One of the things I never anticipated is how many non-WGA writers would be joining us. I like when they sign-in as “Future WGA.” Because they’re recognizing that what gets decided through this strike will be the contract [...]

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