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humor essay in playphilly from august the oh-six, holmes! catching up on posting old stuff! trying to slather it all up here and rub-a-dub before it disappears into the vortex!
sorting out the whole time-space continuum issue/s, too.
An Open Letter to Incoming Freshmen
Hey you! New kid!
Welcome to Philadelphia. We welcome you with warm, brotherly-beating hearts. You [...]
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Henry Chalfant
Tues., Feb. 19, 8pm. Free. Drexel University, 3175 JFK Blvd. 215.895.2629. www.drexel.edu
Graffiti: My parents weren’t having it when I told them how much I loved the jumbo words tied into knots spray-painted across their old neighborhood. Is graffiti the ultimate urban art brut, or gussied-up vandalism scratched by punkass wannabes? It totally depends, right? [...]
Piping hot on Venuszine.com this morning.
Tara Murtha loves someecards.com
By Tara Murtha
Published: February 11th, 2008 | 12:00am
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Sometimes a regular e-mail doesn’t have the oomph-sha-la-la to get across what I want to say, mere words being like ill-fitting jackets for our emotions and all. But I’ll be damned if I send an e-card popping with cartoon puppies and rainbows. I [...]
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Mix Tape with …
Tara Murtha Contributing Writer
08/15/2007
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Janiva’s Ladies, We Have the Right To Sing The Blues Mix
Janiva Magness, meet the upright citizens of Philadelphia (chew with your mouths closed for once, people). Denizens of Philadelphia, meet the lovely Janiva Magness. Why all the formality? This is no fly-by-night operation. The lady comes [...]
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Top 10 summer tunes with Tom Gillam
TARA MURTHAContributing Writer
06/14/2006
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Tom Gillam returned recently to the music scene after suffering three heart attacks last March. Now he tells PLAY what his picks are for our mixed tape.
PLAY caught up with Tom Gillam, Philly-based rocker extraordinaire, host of a [...]
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Making a mix
TARA MURTHAContributing Writer
06/21/2006
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Chris Kasper had the heart to help us out with a mixed tape this week. Check him out a World Cafe Live on June 27.
Pre-game: Chris Kasper’s favorite songs by indie artists
Sure, it’s getting harder to be a patriot every day (Hi Stephen Colbert! we [...]
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Mixed Tape with Greg Thomas
TARA MURTHAContributing Writer
07/19/2006
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The Lesser Birds of Paradise with Tim Joyce, Mark Janka and Greg Thomas.
The fate of the interstate: On the road with Lesser Birds of Paradise
Greg Thomas, drummer for Chicago-based trio Lesser Birds of Paradise, graphic designer and self-professed defender of the Garden State, is [...]
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Sunday Morning Soundtrack
TARA MURTHAContributing Writer
07/26/2006
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Hezekiah Jones will celebrate his debut album at Milkboy in Ardmore on Aug. 4. Show up and meet the guy.
Mixed Tape with Hezekiah Jones
We always appreciate when we get an album in the mail by an artist we’ve never heard of that doesn’t suck.
If the [...]
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Mix Tape with BC Camplight
TARA MURTHAContributing Writer
08/09/2006
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BC Camplight shows you how to cry and be a man.
Songs that make me want to drink a bottle of gin and sob uncontrollably
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon during the XPN festival in Camden, and a bunch of us were hanging [...]
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Mix Tape with Transistor Rodeo
TARA MURTHAContributing Writer
08/16/2006
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Transistor Rodeo will perform at Milkboy in Ardmore on Sept. 9.
Songs to crank up on your way to report to the slammer to serve your bit
We always get a little nervous when the receptionist buzzes up about a special delivery. It’s never something [...]
