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Kerouac fans will remember that Denver, the site of the Democratic National Convention, played a significant role in On the Road , in part as the home of Dean Moriarty. Yesterday, Michael Powell had a tasty essay in the Times' Week in Review, musing...
In this week's Phoenix, Mike Miliard ponders the first post- Hunter S. Thompson presidential election: In Gonzo , Thompson’s first wife, Sandy, rues his suicide. It was not a “courageous act,” as some called it, she says. It was cowardly. And it robbed...
Novelist and West Warwick native Ann Hood , who made a splash with her recent New York Times' essay , about being married to a Republican, made an appearance yesterday morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough . There was much good-natured amusement...
This isn't up there with Bruce Springsteen's pique with Ronald Reagan , but . . . CONCORD, N.H. ( AP ) — The chief songwriter and founder of the band Boston has more than a feeling that he's being ripped off by Mike Huckabee. In a letter to the Republican...
The most unusual candidate running in NH today could be Vermin Supreme , a political activist from Rockport, Massachusetts, who is on the Republican ballot . I only heard of him for the first time during a recent network TV report, but Supreme has a long...
Bryan Rourke has the story in today's ProJo of how former porn star Marilyn Chambers, now 55, plans to run for vice president next year. This seems like the most interesting bit in the piece about the born-in-Providence actress: The Mitchells’ 1972 release...
With the increasingly formidable Rudy Giuliani due in Rhode Island today, Seth Gitell , a former political reporter for the Boston Phoenix, and former press secretary to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, has an interesting post about Italian-American politicians...
A reminder, as previously reported here , that Obama for Rhode Island is slated to hold its first event on June 13. Charlie Bakst , meanwhile, has the scoop on visits to our little town on Wednesday by GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani , as well...
