The News Review:
- They’ve made a martyr out of this Holocaust denier
- Afro-Brazilian sport offered in Milford.
- Bob Wills: His Rollicking Roots Are Showing
They’ve made a martyr out of this Holocaust denier
Times nline – Dec 24, 2006
In your separate ways good luck Jenni and good luck Leah-Beth. Tune in to Strictly Come Socialism nce they drew their inspiration from Karl Marx William Morris and the Fabians. Now the Labour party has turned to Strictly Come Dancing a BBC television programme in which people you have vaguely heard of learn to dance. According to one of the party’s biggest weblogs The Progressive this ecstatically bland show epitomises modern socialist values. Activists are instructed with leftie condescension first to watch the programme because “it’s a salutary experience for us serious-minded folk to indulge in popular passions from time to time”. Then to be uplifted by it because it should “act as a spur to everyone engaged in the social democratic project”. A modern-day clause 4 then… The charities and pressure groups which insist that because some other people are miserable we should be too. Church of England bishops — the sober ones at least — lecture us about materialism newspapers tell us that Christmas was better 50 years ago when all you got in your stocking was a new ration card. Allow us one day free from this nagging stuff. We know that both collectively and individually we’ve messed it up and that the world is a dark and dismal place full of poverty injustice and weapons of mass destruction. But please let us return to worrying about it on the evening of January 3 when our hangovers have gone. Muslim extremists in the Middle East and beyond were cheerfully chopping up bishops and setting fire to priests long before the first tanks rolled into Baghdad — and will continue doing so one suspects long after our troops have been withdrawn.
Afro-Brazilian sport offered in Milford.
Free with registration – Connecticut Post – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 24, 2006
(24-DEC-06) Connecticut Post (Bridgeport CT). 24–CRSS BREAK DANCING WITH KARATE — or square dancing and gymnastics — add a hypnotic samba beat and you have some idea of what capoeira is like. A martial art form.
Bob Wills: His Rollicking Roots Are Showing
Washington Post – Dec 24, 2006
Blues polkas and breakdowns; mariachi and jug band music; parlor ballads and Tin Pan Alley pop; Dixieland and big band jazz: As the four-CD set "Legends of Country Music" attests these Western swingers could do it all and with as much imagination and verve as anybody. And they weren’t just magpies fluent in every strain of the American musical vernacular. To paraphrase the immortal "Time Changes Everything" they could "change the name of an old song rearrange it and make it swing… This career-spanning 105-track set isn’t the most complete portrait of the Playboys’ dazzling output out there; that honor goes to the 11-CD box issued by Germany’s Bear Family label. But it’s easily the best-sounding collection of Wills material yet and not just because it so beautifully captures the effulgent warmth of his band’s blooming buzzing ensemble sound. It also renders the individual parts — Junior Barnard’s fat dirty-toned guitar break on “Brain Cloudy” Tubby Lewis’s trumpet tirade on “Big Beaver” Al Strickland’s barrelhousing solo on “Take Me Back to Tulsa” — with more clarity and presence than before. Maybe best of all it presents the expressive blues-inflected crooning of Tommy Duncan in all its nuanced glory revealing him to be a stylist on a par with his idol Bing Crosby. This set’s four discs include material dating from 1932 to 1973 but the irrepressible sides that the Playboys cut for Columbia and its ARC affiliate between 1935 and 1947 constitute the bulk of what’s here. And well they should. In terms of tightness invention and reach the recordings from that golden era are not lightly compared to those of Louis Armstrong’s epochal early combos.