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Everybody Hates Mike
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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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Beat Down (4)
Cleveland teachers swap stories of school violence.
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Years after he gave up on rock music, Bob Mould plugs back in
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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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Boozing through St. Patrick’s Day with Bono, Van, and the Pogues
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Summery pop bands brave Cleveland’s harsh weather and reputation
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Recent Articles By Justin F. Farrar
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It took them 10 years, but the Sadies finally craft a country-rock classic
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Blossom Toes
We Are Ever So Clean/If Only for a Moment (Sunbeam)
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Weener
Saturday, December 22, at the Jigsaw, Parma.
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The Pearlfishers
Up With the Larks (Marina)
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The Howling Hex
XI (Drag City)
National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
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Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
Blue Cheer
With the Schwartz Brothers. Friday, November 24, at the Beachland Tavern.
By Justin F. Farrar
Published: November 22, 2006Blue Cheer's Dickie Peterson says his band has at least one thing in common with the James Gang: "Both bands play what I call 'lateral blues.'" This is Peterson's pet phrase for classic hippie-greaser funk, and he's right. From the pummeling psychedelic boogie of Blue Cheer's "Summertime Blues" to the post-Hendrix crunch captured on the Gang's Rides Again, no freedom-rock band outgrooved either of these beasts.
The Schwartz Brothers, hometown bar-rock legends, will open for the Cheer. And as any veteran rock fan can tell you, Glenn Schwartz preceded the mighty Joe Walsh as the James Gang's monster axeman, which can mean only one thing: Be prepared for a night of kick-ass lateral blues, man.
