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The Wailers Honor the Memory of Bob Marley by Continuing the Social Revolutionnew
The core of what has become a family tree of musicians began in 1963, when Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston, Peter McIntosh, Beverley Kelso, Junior Braithwaite and Cherry Smith united as a ska band known as The Teenagers.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
01-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Obama's Victory Revives the American Dream ... For Nownew
After the hype blows over, it's hard to say whether the President-elect can deliver on his sweeping promises. Like Carter with Nixon, Obama is in the awkward position of being an apologist for his warmonger predecessors. And while the comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq wars have become almost cliche, Obama's biggest test will be in ending the Iraq war.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
11-17-2008 |
Commentary
McCain's Mistake: Putting His Party Before the Peoplenew
Wearing the mask of party loyalist while subtly nodding to his reform record, McCain tried to work the crowd when he should have been slamming his fist on the almighty podium, promising to rid Washington of these impostors and carpetbaggers who'd somehow slipped into power.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
11-03-2008 |
Commentary
Being John Lennonnew
Yoko Ono discusses the artistic life of John Lennon and his evolution as an icon.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
09-29-2008 |
Music
Sarah Palin Shows that Political Standards Are at an All-Time Lownew
We live in a barbaric epoch that produces the most riveting advances in technology while simultaneously cultivating the lowest expectations of our so-called leaders. We've had our Dan Quayles and Spiro Agnews in the past, but these were aberrations from the norm. Now the aberrations are the norm.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
09-22-2008 |
Commentary
Violence at the DNC Could Blow it for Obamanew
The DNC is shaking out to be a knee-slapping tragicomic convergence in Denver of 100,000 people taking themselves way too seriously. Even the protesters are serious. And so are the cops. Which is a recipe for the kind of intensity that may even blow it for Obama.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
08-25-2008 |
Commentary
Stevie Wonder on the Death of Ray Charles and His Hopes for Barack Obamanew
His 2007 U.S. tour, A Wonder Summer's Night, is his first broad-based national tour in over a decade, inspired by the 2006 death of his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, a sharecropper's daughter born in Alabama in 1930.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
06-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Activism is Just Another Marketing Schemenew
Let us bow in praise to activist celebrities -- those all-knowing martyrs of the American melodrama, forever guiding the aimless masses with their acute political observations and personal reflections.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
05-19-2008 |
Commentary
Affluence Has Turned American Men into Cream Puffsnew
Perhaps an economic meltdown would be the best cure-all remedy for America's socio-cultural confusion, sexual or otherwise.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
02-11-2008 |
Commentary
Dr. Phil Can't Fix Britney, and He Can't Fix Americanew
If you're addicted to Dr. Phil's feel-good salve like so many Americans, don't forget that his predecessor, Rush Limbaugh, father of hope, became a despairing pill-popper himself when God started giving him the straight dope.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
01-14-2008 |
Commentary
Mahalo, Hunternew
Colorado writer Ben Corbett, reportedly the last journalist to publish a feature-length interview with Hunter S. Thompson in an American magazine, dashes out his parting words for the Good Doctor.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
03-04-2005 |
Media
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