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14850 Magazine: May 200414850 Magazine > May 2004 Issue
by Robert Morris
I've been here before; in fact, the present scene as I exit the auditorium of the Clemens Center is one of eerie familiarity. It is no small thing to be so often within the corona of a burgeoning stardom. This is the draw of the Sons of Pitches for me: they achieve the Holy Grail of performers of popular music, making each audience member feel at the same time that the songs are for everyone and for them alone.
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by Joseph Prisco
Back in 1989, Depeche Mode released a concert film called "101". Half the film focused on live performances and backstage behind-the-scenes footage of the band as it toured. The other half of the film focused on a group of 20-somethings who were picked to follow the band around during the last stops of the tour. Flash forward to 1992, when MTV began the process of "reinventing" itself by airing more and more shows and fewer actual music videos. Ah, "The Real World," the first of the "reality-based" TV shows.
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by Mark H. Anbinder
A friend and I went to Willow last month to try the new spring menu, and we're very impressed with chef Sean O'Brien's new combinations of delicious flavors. Willow is right next to Fall Creek Pictures at the north end of Tioga Street. If you're not sure how to get there, find Tioga Street in downtown Ithaca, and head north until you can't any more.
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by Cherie Prist
That was a different kind of war -- brother against brother, hypothetically and sometimes literally, and maybe that's why they tell it so different. If you press the buttons on the monuments and hear the old men talk, the veterans of 140 years ago don't discuss the enemy as we do now. Only just now there is a monument to those who fought (with us or for us) in the second world war. It is there on the lawn in DC, and it is appropriately massive, if a little late in coming. I watch the old men on TV, doddering about the green in their shriveled skins and decorated dress uniforms, and it saddens me to know how few of them have made it to see this belated and permanent thanks.
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by Michelle Mogil
It's good to be surprised once in a while. And I was certainly surprised by the performance Janis Ian gave. What I expected was a somewhat subdued, mildly depressing concert, mostly soft tones and quiet guitar riffs. What I got was a a bundle of energy and opinions and a wide range of vocal styles. Some songs she whispered, some she belted out loudly accompanied by an amazing demonstration of fingerboard virtuosity.
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by Sue Freeman
We proved it! Even landlubbers can enjoy paddling on the waterways of Central & Western New York. My husband Rich and I qualify as dyed-in-the-wool landlubbers. We enjoy long distance hiking and feel best with backpacks strapped to our backs. But, for the past two years we traded our backpacks for kayaks (not on our backs, of course) and explored 55 ponds and over 620 miles of flat-water streams as research for two new guidebooks. Along the way we discovered some special places and experienced surprises that left us with a whole new appreciation for Central & Western New York.
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