In Kansas, joking about sports can be hazardous to your high school graduation. Wesley Teague, the senior class president at Heights High School in Wichita, Kansas, found this out the hard way. In a gently mocking 48-character Twitter...Show More Summary
Next month Eleanor Friedberger will release Personal Record — her second solo album and the follow up to her excellent 2011 offering, Last Summer. Co-written with Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding), Friedberger’s sophomore solo outing further showcases her ability to write warm, ebullient pop songs and infuse them with lyrics that are not only [...]
The IRS takes a really hard line on undisclosed foreign bank accounts. See FBAR Penalties Just Got Even Worse. Those who don’t come forward voluntarily can be treated harshly. What’s harsh? Consider 79 year-old Mary Estelle Curran of Palm Beach who inherited Swiss and Liechtenstein accounts when her husband died in 2000. She failed to report them [...]
The Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger has made a new solo album called Personal Record, one that she co-wrote with the musician and writer Wesley Stace (who records as John Wesley Harding). The album arrives this summer, and the first single “Stare At The Sun” is a wordy, gently rollicking track that recalls ’70s studio-rock without [...]
John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders in 2011 (more by Chris Graham) John Wesley Harding (aka Wesley Stace) announced three upcoming dates for his recurring Cabinet of Wonders variety shows. The shows happen on March 14, April 19, and May...
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Boy Least Likely To: "I Keep Falling in Love with You Again"...
Tottenham Hotspur would be wise to avoid Wesley Sneijder and all the baggage he carries. Reports coming out of England have Spurs moving for the out-of-favor midfielder (ESPN.co.uk). Sneijder has hardly featured whatsoever in the Inter Milan lineup. Show More Summary
Rather an amazing and apocalyptic day in New York City! In film, it's Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea and David Lynch's Dune! In music, it's !!! and Concrete Blonde and Berlioz's Les Troyens at the Met—and John Wesley Harding and Robert Pinsky are performing a John Cage happening at Symphony Space. Show More Summary
By Doolan Wesley: Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) has been receiving mixed reviews by analysts lately and it's hard to gauge which ones are right. Some believe the stock is oversold and others think that the share price still hasn't fallen enough. Show More Summary
You might think that Lehman Brothers would have a hard time making money in 2012, what with having gone out of business and all. But, like Wesley in the Princess Bride, the bank was only mostly dead after its 2008 bankruptcy. And today, it proved that it could still summon
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Chris Funk of Black Prairie/Decemberists in Austin in 2011 (more by Tim Griffin) Decemberists side project Black Prairie released their new album, A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart, this past September and went on a...
At Publishers Weekly, Mike Binelli (author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis) lists the 10 cities "that have received the finest treatment in literature, and the books to read for each." A.....
Rhett Miller at MHOW, October 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Rhett Miller has only a sprinkle of dates scheduled from now until the early portion of 2013, but that does include a stop on January 9th, 2013 at City Winery....
John Wesley Harding at Cabinet of Wonders in 2011 (more by Chris Graham) John Wesley Harding (aka Wesley Stace) has been up to a lot this year, as usual. He finally gave his 1996 album, John Wesley Harding's New Deal,...
This week in music: Iceage, Rufus Wainwright, Liars, Rebecca Gates, The Company Band, John Wesley Harding, and much more. [ more › ]
LARK AND KEY GALLERY Wesley and I made the trek to Charlotte today to take my work to Lark and Key for their June show, Storytellers. I'm so pleased to be in this gallery. Some of my favorite artists are in this gallery, including potters Jen Mecca, Amy Sanders and Julie Wiggins. Show More Summary
“Justice” put up a hard fight, but despite Fadeproof’s noble hunt for the Wesley Derpface, “Justice” got knocked out and “These Are the Voyages…” enters our Worst Trek Thunderdome. But [...]
Frequent flyers know it isn't unusual for a plane to be struck by lightning, but Vampire Diaries' star Paul Wesley had to learn that lesson the hard way. On Friday, while en route to an appearance at Toronto Comic Con 2012 with his wife Torrey DeVitto, Wesley realized his plane had been struck by lightning. Show More Summary
When a NASA employee has had a hard day at the office, it’s not Khan’s name they scream from the top of their office building, or a Wesley Crusher piñata they smash. It’s the captain of the Enterprise D that’s the target of their phaser fire.
On the back of North Korea’s failed attempt to get a rocket doing what rockets are known for, the Star Tribune had a chat to f...
$100! It is a lot of money, and yet, it is also not a lot of money at all. Where did your last hundred bucks go, Doree Shafrir?
$27: Ticket to John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders. I saw him tweet about it and bought tickets for my friend and me. Show More Summary