Ou est Monsier le Grenouille?
You know how musicians sometimes remix each other’s songs? Well, sometimes photographers remix each other’s shots. This is Greg Thow’s version of a photo I took in Reynolda Gardens in October.
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Je suis Mourinho
Is José Mourinho an all-time great, or merely the greatest of a generation? Imagine the following scenario. After last year’s Super Bowl win the New England Patriots enter the 2015-16 season as strong contenders to repeat. However, for reasons that aren’t immediately clear, they come out of the gate slowly, losing a series of games they’d be expected to win.
Read morePremier League TV deals, the Super League and the death of European domestic football leagues
Can Europe’s domestic football leagues survive the new Premier League TV deals? Not a chance. A good bit has been written about new TV deals for England’s Premier League – Sky domestically and NBC in the US – and the numbers are frankly mind-boggling: Sky is ponying up more than £5.1B (~$7.75B) and NBC is paying around $1B for rights through 2021-22. When
Read moreTop o' the Morning: Saturday Video Roundup for December 12
I recently started a new daily feature on my Facebook page. It’s pretty simple – each day I post a song/video. No rhyme, no reason. Usually. Here are the first 18 days, all in one handy place for your enjoyment. Happy Saturday. 11/24/15 Get it On, T Rex
Read moreScott Weiland's ex says "don't glorify this tragedy," but …
Is Mary Forsberg Weiland being honest with herself? And now, for today’s “yes, but” story. In an open letter, the late Scott Weiland’s ex-wife talks at length about the loss the couple’s children face and she lingers on how hard she worked to save him, even after they split. I couldn’t agree more with every word she says. Seriously. And I feel
Read moreAmerica appreciates teachers, but we don't value them
I’ve been wrestling a bit with my career situation lately. Like a lot of folks, I feel like I’m not being compensated very well, and that suspicion is validated by some basic salary research – and also by the CEO, who admits that the company needs to normalize a lot of salaries with the broader market. Of course, the people I work with
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#SNRGTR: Sam's favorite guitar solos
Part 1 in a series. I’ll go first. And since it’s my idea, I’ll take the editor’s privilege and cheat a bit by giving you two solos instead of one. Up first, we go back to 1974 and “Brighton Rock,” the lead track on Queen’s third album, Sheer Heart Attack. The band’s first two releases had been relentlessly self-conscious in their
Read more#SNRGTR: Our favorite guitar solos
Starting tomorrow – fittingly, on TunesDay – S&R will launch SNRGTR, a series spotlighting our favorite guitar work of all time. We were tempted to say “greatest,” but we’ve all read enough online lists from trolls music journalists to know where that leads. Instead, we have kept it simple, selecting our most cherished axe moments. We’ll tell you what we love and
Read moreA brief snapshot from the Information (Overload) Age
Then In 1993, during my first year in the PhD program at the University of Colorado, we had a guest speaker in one of my classes. The subject was information technology and the Internet. He explained that at that moment, the largest repository of stored electronic data on Earth was at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, about four miles away.
Read moreWho's the greatest SNL alum of all time?
Even in its darkest hours, Saturday Night Live has served as a springboard for wildly successful careers. For all but a handful of seasons Saturday Night Live has been nigh-on unwatchable. Still, it has generated a veritable conga line of major stars through the years – you may not even realize how long a line. So this came up recently as I
Read moreThe Tuesday before Thanksgiving: a moment of symmetry in a ragged life
It’s been a strange couple of years. In August 2013 I moved to Seattle to take a new job. I was leaving the city I love, leaving my friends and my life and diving blind into the great unknown. I’ve done this before, several times, but it gets harder as you get older, especially when it feels like you’re running from
Read moreAndrea Quenette controversy: what happened at the U of Kansas and why won't the AP tell us?
When “political correctness” and bad journalism collide… I appreciate the fact that we live in an age where finally – finally – we have grown more sensitive on issues like race, gender, sexual orientation and privilege. (I wish I could add class to that list, but so far I can’t.) I’m sincere about this. The language we use can do more
Read moreBaby it's cold outside: Saturday Video Roundup
Much of America is cold and white today. So let’s have some winter tuneage. John Phillips personal crimes notwithstanding, this is one of the greatest songs ever written.
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