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Overheard at the Record Store – Part 9

“That candy made me feel awful. I’m going to go get some beer.”
“This is my friend’s band bro. If you’re into anything good, you’ll love this.”
“A bunch of people playing “All of Me” on the uke. How can you have a bad day?”
“Here’s how you deal with that guy: no eye contact and monosyllabic answers. [...]

Stop That Train!

The other day at the brewbar, my coffee was placed under a card with this photo on it. The image wasn’t unfamiliar, but I was particularly struck that day by the magnitude of what I was looking at and set about to find out more. Without further ado, here is the story of The Gare [...]

The Many Faces of Robert Irwin

For the past seven years, visual artist Robert Irwin has been working with hard shell gourds, creating masks and dolls that have appeared in 12 shows and the book Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures by Jim Widess and Ginger Summit. He has won multiple awards for his work in the Arts and Humanities and [...]

Royal Mail Rocks

Royal Mail, the national postal service of the United Kingdom has announced a set of stamps celebrating British album covers. The featured albums were selected by UK music editors, graphic designers and design writers who were asked to choose the most significant sleeve designs used by British artists.

Record fans will be pleased to find that [...]

Outstanding Anagrams

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once. Great anagrammatists create words or phrases that reflect or comment on their subject. Here’s a collection of outstanding anagrams, some of them [...]

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