Please help Dirty Excuse, three amazing, rocking Brooklyn ladies and one lad, to become the 101.9 RXP House Band by winning the radio station’s “your…
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Pavement – In A Berlin Minute (Week 3)
So the night finally arrived: Pavement played in Berlin! I had bought the tickets for the show long before I booked my flight to Berlin…
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MusicMonday: Retro cover art edition: Sharon Jones & MGMT
Awesome retro album covers! I simply cannot get enough of the fantastic Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings album “I Learned The Hard Way” – especially…
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St. Pauli – In A Berlin Minute (Week 2)
Another trip to Hamburg: FC St. Pauli, my soccer club, internationally known “Weltkulturgut” and cult favorite among the alternative crowd as well as the working…
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Paths To Zero: Eliminating Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century, the video I edited for the Federation of American Scientists, is having its premiere today…
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MusicMonday: The National – “High Violet”
And I wasn’t going to write about The National again (and again). I swear, I wasn’t – especially not after already tweeting about their show…
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Articles about abuse at Mamou Alliance Academy
Christianity Today, the premier American magazine for Evangelical Christians, features as its cover story the personal recollection of Wess Stafford (Compassion International) in regard to…
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Plane, Bus, Still, Train – In A Berlin Minute (Week 1)
I’m a German from outside of Hamburg. Since I was a kid I wanted to live in New York City. For the last 11 years…
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Wiesenkerbel und Wasserlilie*
This coming Sunday, May 9th, Günter Westphal (who just happens to be my dad) is having an art opening featuring large photographs of plant life.…
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I’d like to kick myself in the shin that I didn’t jump at the opportunity to download “One Life Stand”, the latest album by the…
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Bangkok 8: A Novel (Sonchai Jitpleecheep Series #1) by John Burdett My rating: 4 of 5 stars Insightful, entertaining and suspenseful – full of twists…
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Tomorrow I’m getting on a flight to Berlin, where Scott and I want to make a home for a while. The song that keeps coming…
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Spring Flowers & Spring Cleaning… Of Your Mac
Incredibly fragrant lilac in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Tuesday It’s that time: the sun is shining, fresh air is blowing through the open window,…
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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the first romance novel I’ve ever…
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Pictures from Minerva Screening of “All God’s Children”
Stained glass window at Minerva United Methodist Church On Sunday, April 18th, All God’s Children screened at the United Methodist Church in Minerva, Ohio. Our…
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(A personal) MusicMonday: “There’s XXXX (Within My Heart)” – You Say Party! We Say Die!
Scott Miller on his wedding day A few days ago one of my dearest friends, Debbie, lost her husband Scott, whom I unfortunately only met…
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