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							 Bob Dylan's 16-year-old grandson, Pablo Dylan, just dropped  10 Minutes , his first rap mixtape. 
							
							 
						
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							 The giant monkey of Danville was my symbol, back then, of the fin-de-siècle nadir in media fluffery, thankfully obsolesced in one grim morning. 
							
							 
						
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							  It's a hot, sticky July afternoon and I'm riding shotgun in Uncle Bob's pick-up truck. We've just spent the past couple hours walking off-trail through the woods, and we're doing much better than I had expected.  
							
							 
						
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							     As I watched Caesar (Andy Serkis), the übermonkey, and his primate minions break free of their human chains en route to conquering the world, I thought:  1)  there are a lot of apes in San Francisco,  2)  there aren't a lot of cops, and  3)  this movie was better before the CGI took over.     
							
							 
						
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							 Some places, no matter how good, manage to fly under the radar. And the recent trend of restaurateurs opening a pizza place, establishing a reputation as a lower-priced, "On the Cheap" joint, and then upscaling into a full-tilt sit-down spot (see: Nebo), has made things even trickier. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							 Devil Makes Three, Gillian Welch, and Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three perform at the  Newport Folk Festival  on July 30, 2011. 
							
							 
						
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							 The giant monkey of Danville was my symbol, back then, of the fin-de-siècle nadir in media fluffery, thankfully obsolesced in one grim morning. 
							
							 
						
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							  Five years ago this week the Portland Phoenix published an exposé of the Maine Turnpike Authority executives' lavish lifestyle.  
							
							 
						
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							  As I walked down the corridors of the Ralph Owen Brewster Hospice for Decaying Political Ideals, there were no indications of despair, pain, or misery.  
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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