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Headsup: Two Fists of Flying Circus!

Trying to figure out what's coming out and what you should buy vs. rent vs. back away from slowly is not for the faint of heart. It's okay, though: I'm a professional. Here we go. A&E returns to the Python well with The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Collector's Edition, a twenty-one disc monster of a set that contains every episode of Flying Circus and then, in a separate book that comes out of the box shown ("Monty Python's Everything Else"), you get, well, just t

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2008 NFL Review – Week 10

Jump to Comments (Philadelphia, Pa) — As we move closer to the NFL weeks that I like to call the “Championship Rounds” (late November and December), the 2007 NFL Season still is one of the wackiest ones that I have ever seen.  Teams that used to be doormats are now contenders (Falcons, Dolphins, Cardinals, Jets, and Ravens) while perennial playoff powers (Chargers, Colts, Cowboys, and Eagles) are clawing each and every week to stay in the hunt for one of the 12 coveted playoff berths. Week 11 st

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Impossibly High Expectations on Race Relations?

Impossibly High Expectations on Race Relations? Can President-elect Obama heal the racial divide? Photo by Charles Dharapak -- Associated Press Photo Much has been made -- and rightly so -- of the historic nature of Barack Obama's election as the first African-American to hold the highest office in the country. Still, new polling out of CNN/Opinion Research Corporation suggests not only lingering divisions between whites and blacks but the almost-certainly-too-high expectation that Obama's e

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Repost: Lt. James Reese Europe, U.S. veteran

(This was originally posted on November 12, 2007.) In honor of Veterans Day, here’s the little-known story of James Reese Europe, a bandleader and composer who had a big impact on early jazz. Born in Alabama in 1880, Jim Europe created music for black theatrical shows of a kind that flourished on Broadway in the early 1900s. He also organized the first professional guild of black musicians. He led a 100-piece orchestra that performed a legendary recital – “A Concert of Negro Music” – at Carne

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MNF Thoughts: Cardinals-Niners

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John holmes

Sunday Show Preview Meet the Press: Obama-Biden transition team co-chair Valerie Jarrett, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) and a roundtable with White House historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Chicago Sun-Times’ Mary Mitchell. Face the Nation: Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Times’ David Brooks and Politico’s John Harris. This Week: Incoming White House Chief of Staff Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), George Will, Atlanta Journal-Consti

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Lisa bloom

Sunday Show Preview Meet the Press: Obama-Biden transition team co-chair Valerie Jarrett, House Majority Whip James Clyburn download sci-fi movie, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) and a roundtable with White House historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and Chicago Sun-Times’ Mary Mitchell. Face the Nation: Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Times’ David Brooks and Politico’s John Harris. This Week: Incoming White House Chief of Staff Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), George Will,

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Sunday Show Preview

Meet the Press: Obama-Biden transition team co-chair Valerie Jarrett, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) and a roundtable with White House historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Chicago Sun-Times' Mary Mitchell. Face the Nation: Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Times' David Brooks and Politico's John Harris. This Week: Incoming White House Chief of Staff Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), George Will, Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Cynthia Tucker

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Liberty, Adoration, and Consistency

In the Federalist Papers James Madison argued that our liberty would be more likely to be protected if there were more competing factions across our far-flung land. With the likes of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid now being united with the new president, our liberty may be more threatened than it has been in any time in our lifetimes. Additionally, Obama has apparently picked hardliner Rahm Emmanuel to be his Chief of Staff. Emmanuel is not a unifer! We must be prepared for some rea

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nfl picks: all the optimism of obama, all the futility of mccain

Scott Feschuk Last week: 6-8 Season: 65-60-4 Scott Reid Last week: 5-9 Season: 54-71-4 Reid: If a black man can be elected President of the United States, is it too much to believe I could actually pick a couple goddamned football games correctly? I think not! And so, inspired by Barack Obama’s historic achievement, I too will reach toward the hopeful grasp of change. And like the President-elect, I will ignite my new winning momentum with a short but stirring oration. It will go somethi

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I'm Every Person You Need to Be

I can't seem to get this song out of my head, and I have no idea why.*sigh* Whatever happened to Vernon Reid? Or Body Glove?

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Bush & Cheney still have until January!!

Posted by Lynda on November 3, 2008 Bush and Cheney STILL have things they want to do! By Special to washingtonpost.com Friday, October 31, 2008; 12:12 PM Dan Froomkin  Did we really expect President Bush and Vice President Cheney to go quietly?   R. Jeffrey Smith writes: “The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January. “The

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JO - Palin continues to paint Obama with socialist label

Jamaica Observer Palin continues to paint Obama with socialist label Vernon Davidson Saturday, November 01, 2008 PITTSBURGH, USA - Sarah Palin yesterday continued the Republican Party's attack on Barack Obama, accusing the Democratic Party's presidential candidate of harbouring a socialist agenda and a commitment to big government.Palin, the controversial vice- presidential nominee of John McCain, also said McCain's combat and prisoner of war records qualified him to be elected presiden

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Blue Haze - Songs Of Jimi Hendrix ( Varios Artistas )

Track Listing: 1 - Angel (Eric Bibb)2 - Who Knows (Walter Trout/Popa Chubby/Jimmy Thackery)3 - I Don't Live Today (Eric Burdon)4 - The Wind Cries Mary (Buddy Miles & Double Trouble)5 - Purple Haze (Friend 'N' Fellow)6 - Star Spangled Banner (Walter Trout & The Free Radicals)7 - Hey Joe (Walter Trout & The Free Radicals)8 - All Along The Watchtower (Taj Mahal/The Hula Blues Band)9 - House Burning Down (Michelle Shocked)10 - Voodoo Chile (Eric Cales/Trudy Lynn)11 - Hear My Train Comin' (Bernard Al

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BlackBook Media’s Inspiration Today! Festival: A Rundown

BlackBook Media’s Inspiration Today! Festival: A Rundown October 31st, 2008 at 12:45 pm by Memphis Meateater Though a tad befuddled when our free passes failed to materialize, Jeff and I nonetheless woke at the crack of dawn Saturday morning and made our way to Cooper Union. We have no problem financially supporting what must be the preeminent assault on innocuity [yes, that is a word…or ‘mediocrity’ but I use that word way too much]. Luckily, we ran into J.T. Leroy scalping passes and scor

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Globalism in the Azores

Globalism held its head high at the tenth annual Ponta Delgada Jazz Festival last week. Five nights of concerts performed by an international coterie of improvisers in the superb acoustics of a nicely modernized old center-city theater for a stylish, educated audience didn't seem a cultural far cry, though they were held in the capital of the Azores, the mid-Atlantic archipelago 700 miles from mainland Portugal. My detailed critique of the fest, which featured bands led by New York-based al

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US Embassy closed and protested

Tens of thousands of Syrians turned out Thursday for a massive government-orchestrated protest against a deadly U.S. raid near the Iraqi border. A mile away, hundreds of Syrian riot police formed a protective ring around the closed U.S. Embassy, but the flag-waving crowds dispersed peacefully after a couple of hours later, with students heading to schools and employees to work. Above is the opening to Bassem Mroue's "Syrian Riot Police Form Ring Around US Embassy" (AP) so, yes, the US Embassy d

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FuseBox Radio Flashback - Dec. 27, 2006 & Feb. 28, 2007

What's up folks, Hope you had a good week so far! Every once in a while, we over here at BlackRadioIsBack.com are going to dig in the vaults and give you a flashback/thowback/old school episode or two of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast to checkout, download and enjoy. Folks have not done that in a while, so just wanted to dust off some joints from the archives for everyone's listening pleasure... Hope you like them! And here goes: This is an older episodes of the syndicated FuseB

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Listening Post: Fear of a Black Rock Planet Edition

The latest issue of Spin magazine features a fantastic retrospective on the birth of the Black Rock Coalition. For the uninitiated, the BRC was founded in the mid-80s by Vernon Reid of Living Colour; it was an organization aimed at helping black bands and artists who dared to do the unthinkable as far as record producers and promoters were concerned -- that is, play guitar-heavy rock and roll -- get a leg up in the industry. Early members included, of course, Living Colour, as well as 24-7 Spy

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The CBS Monday Football Column: Sponsored by Fox Sports

The Monday Football Column written by Patrick Sajak is truly a great read.” - Dick Stockton Vernon Davis wishes he was Alex Smith for first time in his life Things were so bad for the 49ers Sunday that Seattle fullback Leonard Weaver finished with 116 receiving yards and two touchdowns on four catches … the same Leonard Weaver who had six receptions prior to Week 8, and 40 career catches and 325 yards prior to the ‘08 season. Amazingly, Weaver’s 43 and 62 yard touchdown receptions weren’t the

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