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I can’t remember the last time I set foot inside a church. My streak continued on a technicality: the service that Mom and I went to Sunday morning took place out on the lawn of Rosedale UCC. They had invited the congregations of two other churches to join them: St. Paul AME Zion and Colonial [...]

Last fall, my sister Mary moved from the Fairview neighborhood in Olathe to a house well over twice as big in a subdivision called Persimmon Hill. There she has the luxury of naming rooms by function: the Workout Room, the Loom Room, the Spare. Her house in Fairview was so close to the tracks that [...]

For a fee, A.C. Newman blogged for Rolling Stone about the making of the terrific new New Pornos album. This entry talks about the pedigree of the early-released “Your Hands (Together),” and how the rhythm is the same shuffle as that of their own “Mass Romantic,” which in turn, according to the band’s drummer, comes [...]