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The Year of McGee

Now that Prime Minister Dave Thatcher (who would have thought, after that exquisite, exquisite ceremony, that he’d decide take her name) has finally announced, in a cascade of blue fireworks and go-green smoke, that the still-new decade will be known, from henceforth, as the Tory-teens, let’s all hold hands take...
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By , Jan. 19, 2010

Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor, who has been described as ‘kooky’ and ‘alternative’ but whom I can sum up most effectively as effortlessly charming, made her first appearance into my life in 2007 with the simple yet beautiful ‘Samson’. A piano ballad teeming with religious imagery and gut-wrenching chords, it is altogether a...
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By , Jan. 19, 2010