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Top Five Pop Albums of 2012

Salty Eggs Staff — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:28:02 +0000

Grant James sifts through new releases each week to bring us some of the good, the bad, and the Evanonsense. These are his five favorite pop releases of 2012. They are all available at Radio-Active Records and Sweat Records. 5. AlunaGeorge, You Know You Like It The You Know You Like It EP was one of the [...]

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Top Five Hip-Hop and R&B Albums of 2012

Salty Eggs Staff — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:24:34 +0000

Grant James sifts through new releases each week to bring us some of the good, the bad, and the Evanonsense. These are his five favorite 2012 releases for Hip-Hop and R&B. They are all available at Radio-Active Records and Sweat Records. 5. Brandy, Two Eleven Brandy Norwood’s comeback was one of the more silent victories of 2012. [...]

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National Book Award Finalists Worth Checking Out

Shannon Sharpe — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:11:41 +0000

Times are changing for the National Book Awards — at least according to the New York Times. They have achieved a new level of glamour complete with a red-carpet entrance to the awards ceremony at the glitzy Manhattan restaurant Cipriani. Apparently the National Book Foundation, which awards the prize, is sick of playing second-fiddle to the Booker Prize. While [...]

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Five Mystery Writers You Should Check Out at Book Fair

Shannon Sharpe — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:34:55 +0000

While everyone loves a good mystery, it’s a genre overrun with writers, which makes it hard to decide who’s worth your time. To assist you, we’ve compiled a list of five mystery writers, both debut and established, who are participating in the Miami Book Fair this weekend and worth checking out. No matter what you’re [...]

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If Texas Secedes, Here’s What Its Bill of Rights Might Look Like

Tara Nieuwesteeg — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:30:50 +0000

Here’s the deal: sore losers residents in all 50 states have filed secession petitions through the Obama administration’s “We the People” program. This program dictates that the White House will respond to any petition that manages to reach 25,000 signatures in 30 days. Obviously this would be a ridiculous North Korea-style disaster, but Texas has [...]

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After Sandy: Reflections on Past Natural Disasters

Shannon Sharpe — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:09:07 +0000

Natural disasters have a way of changing people’s outlook, at least temporarily. As we see the wreckage left by Hurricane Sandy, we face a stark reality: people lost their lives, homes were destroyed, cities and towns throughout the Atlantic corridor crashed to a halt and are only inching back to normalcy. It’s also a time [...]

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Over Drinks: Three Interesting Books About Booze

Shannon Sharpe — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:00:25 +0000

Much to our dismay, most people don’t consider consuming alcohol an intellectual activity. Sure, we can go to a wine tasting and act fancy as we mull over how a certain Zinfandel complements a creamy sheep’s milk cheese from France and differs from the floral essence of a semi-dry German Riesling. But that’s not how [...]

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Modest Proposals: A Trump-Inspired List of Political Deals

Thomas Francis — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:15:04 +0000

In keeping with his humble role as America’s modern King Solomon, Donald Trump has recently offered to broker a trade on behalf of this Godly nation’s two contenders for the highest office: If President Barack Obama releases his college transcripts, says Trump, then perhaps Gov. Mitt Romney can be persuaded to release his taxes. I lack Donald [...]

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Love True Crime? Four Great Reads for Fans of ‘American Greed’

Shannon Sharpe — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:21:32 +0000

Our society is obsessed with true crime. The current John Edwards case is a prime example. We have a politician, a mistress, and the illegal exchange of money. The only thing that’s missing is a murder. Although many would argue (and I’m inclined to agree) that cheating on your dying wife isn’t that much higher [...]

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Five Memoirs for the Musical Bibliophobe

Shannon Sharpe — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:06:41 +0000

One of the most fascinating things to me about the memoirs of musicians (besides the sex, drugs, and rock and roll, of course) is the amount of people who read them who normally wouldn’t crack a book. A guy who had recently read Keith Richards’s 2011 memoir Life cornered me at a Christmas party last [...]

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