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The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus: The Main Event

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012
by on Playing Around

Some moments in the history of rock and roll defy the imagination, and The Rolling Stones’ Rock & Roll Circus is certainly one of them.

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The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus:
The Opening Acts under the Big Top

Monday, December 24th, 2012
by on Playing Around

Some moments in the history of rock and roll defy the imagination, and The Rolling Stones’ Rock & Roll Circus is certainly one of them.

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“We’re So Vain. . .” Creating a Downton Abbey Vanity

Monday, December 10th, 2012
by on Shopping Around

What do the women of Downton Abbey, Mick Jagger, and I all have in common? If you said, “very little,” you’d be correct. But there

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The “New Cuisine” of Mexico:
Part I – Mexico City and Queretero

Monday, October 31st, 2011
by on Living Around

Forget everything you think you know about Mexican food – it’s heavy, it’s fried, it’s fattening – and come with me to discover new, sophisticated

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Rental Reboot: Performance (1970)

Thursday, May 26th, 2011
by on Playing Around

Growing up as a fan of The Rolling Stones, I had always known Mick Jagger dabbled in acting. I also knew he played a drugged-out

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Take Me Now, Mark Rylance

Thursday, April 28th, 2011
by on Playing Around

Mark Rylance doesn’t enter to applause when he first appears on stage in Jerusalem. In the guise of Johnny “Rooster” Byron, he’s completely unrecognizable. Emerging

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The Films of Kenneth Anger

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
by on Playing Around

To say Kenneth Anger makes short films would be a gross understatement. I made short films as an undergrad, and they were all pretty terrible.

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Pets Alive Honors Rock Star Rob Thomas and Wife, Marisol

Monday, September 6th, 2010
by on Living Around

By MJ Hanley-Goff When Rob Thomas and his wife, Marisol Maldonado, first saw Tyler, the bundle of white fur at the Middletown, NY, no-kill shelter,

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