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An ancient Apollo statue landed in Cleveland and touched off an international outcry
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Joe Cimperman hopes to tear down his former hero, Dennis Kucinich
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Beat Down
Cleveland teachers swap stories of school violence.
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Everybody Hates Mike
The peril of coaching an icon.
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How Progressive insurance lost what made it progressive
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At Indie-Rock Singles Night in Cleveland, an event for hipsters lacks one key ingredient: Hipsters (21)
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$100 Bounty on That Kid (19)
Copley-Fairlawn finds a way to keep the impostors out.
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Dennis Kucinich’s brave talk about working and fighting — from the safety of the officer’s tent (10)
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How Progressive insurance lost what made it progressive (5)
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Beat Down (3)
Cleveland teachers swap stories of school violence.
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Beer, BBQ, industry schmoozing: Rounding up SXSW 2008’s local delegates
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Crazy Talk
Miranda Lambert is a lot like any other girl with a soft spot for guns and setting exes on fire.
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Years after he gave up on rock music, Bob Mould plugs back in
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It took them 10 years, but the Sadies finally craft a country-rock classic
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The Hives are buzzing again, thanks in part to hip-hop producer Pharrell
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Reader: Progressive is "young" because it whacks all the veterans
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Practice being Irish by getting hammered in Parma. Huh?
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R.E.M. at SXSW: A lapsed fan's notes
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Plan of attack for St. Pat's
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Feagler: They just don't stump like they used to. And speaking of stumps ...
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Breaking the Seal
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Forty and Going Strong
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Venom
With Devil Driver. Friday, August 18, at the Agora Theater.
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Matt Herbert
With the Summer of Cars. Tuesday, August 22, at the B-Side Liquor Lounge.
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The Black Lips
With Be Your Own Pet and Plasma for Guns. Saturday, September 23, at the Beachland Tavern.
By Tony Ware
Published: September 20, 2006Atlanta's Black Lips cast a Gaussian blur over psychodelic garage rock. Or maybe these unhinged flower punks -- coming from the crustier end of the Back From the Grave spectrum -- see it through the haze rising off the tarmac, or maybe in the opalescent oil slick of acid-rain-beaded glasses. To the lysergic lads, rawk is like a Polaroid picture -- not just something that inspires a good shake (or a strangulating spasm), but also a highly malleable emulsion. As with the Cramps, the Dwarves, and the Lollipop Shoppe, it's equally lo-fi and voyeuristic.
Beating back the Black Lips' fumes is Nashville's adolescent take on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Be Your Own Pet. Like a nitro-burning soapbox racer, it's jittery, hand-cobbled chaos blurting in short bursts more combustible than Mentos in Diet Coke.
