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Virtual School Isn't a Public Schoolnew
Court rules against taxpayer-funded home-schooling scheme.
Shepherd Express |
Staff |
12-14-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Johnny Cash: Master of Mainstream Countrynew
Michael Streissguth's Johnny Cash: The Biography distinguishes itself as a portrayal of a man who was not ahead of his time, though he sure lived that way, but associated with those who were.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
12-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
Proposed Mortgage Solution May Not Help Everyonenew
The five-year freeze on mortgage interest rates proposed by President George W. Bush last week is projected by most housing experts to assist only about 20 percent of those facing foreclosure -- those who have managed to keep up with their increasingly expensive mortgage payments.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
12-14-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Miles Davis as a Band Membernew
Collected in an elaborate six-disc set with extensive jacket notes, The Complete On the Corner Sessions brings together everything from that era, released and previously unissued.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Jimmy Eat World: The Past is Historynew
While Chase This Light may not be the band's most inspiring work, there is something comforting in the simplicity and earnestness with which the band members, some 15 years after their start, still approach their craft.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Carriere |
12-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chase This Light, Jimmy Eat World
Holiday Presents on the Cheapnew
25 inexpensive gift suggestions.
Shepherd Express |
Brian Muilenburg |
12-14-2007 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
Sister Hazel Tries to Get on the Nice Listnew
Recorded while touring in support of 2006's Absolutely, Santa's Playlist finds the jangle-rockers taking plenty of liberties with traditional classics.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
12-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Santa's Playlist, Sister Hazel
Reliving the Newport Folk Festivalnew
The folk-blues revival was a lively movement of rediscovery. It ran circa the early-1960s through Bob Dylan's death-knell summer of '65 performance captured on this DVD.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
12-07-2007 |
Reviews
1956's Composed New Soundnew
At the risk of bludgeoning the band with a comparison that it is bound to resent over the next couple of months, 1956's latest album, Saboteur, sounds an awful lot like The National.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cloud Cult's Green Operationnew
The band's label, Earthology Records, which Minowa founded in 1997, is a nonprofit that donates to environmental charities. On the road, each band member keeps careful tabs on how much energy is expended or wasted; even amps are monitored for ecological output.
Shepherd Express |
Paul Smaxwill |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cloud Cult, The Meaning of 8
Louise Lambrecht on 'A Sackful of Quarters'new
Listening to Lambrecht talk about her full-bodied short stories is nearly as good as watching the narrative somersault off the pages.
Shepherd Express |
Yolanda D. White |
11-30-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A Sackful of Quarters, L.M. Favier
Young Franknew
A Voice in Time's material shows the surprising, youthful vulnerability and naïve romanticism of early Sinatra — a far cry from the cocky swagger of his Vegas years.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-30-2007 |
Reviews
Renters are Latest Victims of Subprime Mortgagesnew
Rent hikes and foreclosures lead to evictions.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
11-30-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Bob Schneider's New Focus on Rocknew
His newest album, The Californian, showcases a sound previously underrepresented on his albums: full-tilt roots rock.
Shepherd Express |
Alan Scully |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bob Schneider, The Californian
The Importance of Buying Localnew
The owners of Beans & Barley, the natural foods grocer and café on Milwaukee's East Side, expected to take a hit last year when the national chain Whole Foods opened a super-sized store just a few blocks away, but they were still surprised by the number of customers they lost.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
11-30-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
