PULSE, VOLUME 10, ISSUE 37
DEC 12-19, 2006
IN THIS ISSUE:
THE CURE FOR TERRORISM by Ed Felien
There is no cure for terrorism, just like there's no cure for cancer.
By the time cancer has started, those cells are gone. They won't come back. You can cut them out, blast them out with chemotherapy, burn them out with radiation, but cells that have become cancerous cannot once again become healthy cells.
There is no cure for terrorism, just like there's no cure for cancer.
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GEORGE AND NORM AND THE GRAND ILLUSION by David Rubernstein
Nothing seems to be able to pry George Bush out of his delusion. Our Senator Norm Coleman is right in there with him, but in his own way, ready to move in any direction.
About a month ago the President was speaking at a press event while on a trade-related visit to Vietnam. Things there looked "œhopeful," he said. A reporter then asked if he saw any lessons for the debate over Iraq.
"The task in Iraq is going to take a while," he replied. "We'll succeed unless we quit."
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NEWS:
Memorial service held for Lisa Jean NiebauerThe Police Federation versus Ralph Remington—we loseIn Case You Missed It* * *
ARTS:
THE GIRLS AND BOYS OF MOTHER GOOSE by Betsy Mowry
This little artist, she worked her hardest,
On nursery rhymes for children galore.
Mosaics, no doubt,
Gave her reason to shout,
Upon publishing tales of yore.
People don't come up with fascinating nursery rhymes anymore—poignant stories with deep, hidden meanings and nonsensical storylines. But creative interpretation of the classics is clearly in the hand of artist Barbara Keith, who for the past year has been diligently making a series of mosaics based on favorite nursery rhymes. The work illustrates 20 nursery rhymes in Keith's self-published book "The Girls and Boys of Mother Goose," (Brownian Bee Press), and this weekend she'll be on hand at local mosaic purveyor Mosaic on a Stick for a book signing.
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HOT TICKETS
Senorita Extravida, Missing Young Woman :: Fancy Ray :: Vitriol, 2024 and Afternoon Records Holiday Party :: Mr. Dibbs and Co. :: Bee Gees Tribute :: Homemade Peace Workshop :: Winter Solstice Celebration :: Deftones AND THIS WEEK'S HOT PICK: Know Name Records Death Party ...
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MUSIC
JESSY GREENE: ON GREENE'S DEMON STREET by Andrea Myers
[It's not often that I have the opportunity to sit down with someone as genuine, humble and well-spoken as the lovely and multi-talented musician Jessy Greene. And it's even more rare that all of the bits of wisdom I collected, which were recorded by my dying analog tape recorder, are completely and totally erased due to some sort of freak technical malfunction.As luck would have it, one of the better interviews that I have conducted in recent memory—which I intended to transcribe for you here—has been lost to the wayside. The following is an attempt to paraphrase our discussion and represent Ms. Greene as accurately as possible without the usual aid of notes or recordings.]
As I pull up outside Spyhouse, a swanky and slyly hip coffee shop sandwiched between the Minneapolis Institute of Art and and the heart of Uptown, it occurs to me that I'm more than a little nervous to go inside. Jessy Greene is probably the most accomplished violinist in town, and has been invited to play with everyone from the Jayhawks to P.O.S. to Mark Mallman to Golden Smog; over the past decade she has become the go-to girl when string talent is required. Nationally, she has played and performed with the Geraldine Fibbers, Wilco and REM, among others. In other words: She's kind of a big deal.
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GOLD STANDARD: IT'S ABOUT THE HORNS by Dwight Hobbes
The guys in Gold Standard actually aren't crazy about the band's name. "We were just sittin' around one day," co-founder Dylan Nau recollects, "and somebody come up with it. We thought, hey, that sounds kinda nice. Somethin' we all sort of agreed on." Then, he regretfully adds, "Now, that we look back, we're not too happy about it. But, it's alright." What do they know? The name fits just fine. It is a poor dog that doesn't wag its own tail and the funksters at GS have nothing to be modest about.
Indeed, this airtight outfit raises the bar for area soul bands with one of the freshest sounds to come along in quite some time. The musicianship and material are solid, but that hardly singles them out in a scene that features the legendary likes of Greazy Meal, reigning all-stars The Truth and a full host of bad-to-the-bone ensembles. You can't swing a dead cat in the Twin Cities without hitting one first-rate assemblage or another. Gold Standard, though, stand on singular ground. Sporting ace hands all around and fueled by the inventive songwriting of guitarist/lead singer Nau, they prevail on the strength of Nau's fascinating arrangements, which are state of the art. The sweet, key ingredient is off-the-hook horn charts. Tasty as can be and executed by Aaron Stoehr (trombone), Jason Marks (trumpet) and Andrew Schwandt (sax), the arrangements work some of the most amazing magic since the late '60s, when The Electric Flag and Al Kooper's original Blood, Sweat & Tears brought back—for a while, anyways—the big-band sound.
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