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Friday music blogging: Best Coast
Best Coast is a Los Angeles indie trio that's gotten all sorts of hype over the last year. After a series of singles, EPs, and videos, their debut LP Crazy For You came out in July. The sound is pretty much a perfect storm of things that are hip these days: low-fi, echoing drone, chiming surf rock guitars, and sugary sweet, lovestruck sha-na-na vocals from frontwoman Bethany Cosentino (every indie kid's latest crush).
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How automobiles make our streets less livable [VIDEO]
Sure, you know who Jane Jacobs is. But have you ever heard of Donald Appleyard? In his pioneering book Livable Streets, Appleyard documented how cars destroy a sense of neighborhood. A new video brings his research back to life.
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Grist needs a T-shirt slogan
Dearest readers, help us come up with a slogan for our 2011 T-shirt! Comment on this post with your wittiest suggestions. The Grist staff will select our two favorite slogans and then, you, our beloved audience, will vote on the winner. The author of the winning slogan will receive eternal fame and glory as well as a free T-shirt!
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Top of the Article Page Cleanup
Among a few site changes introduced yesterday, we rolled out a small refresh of the top of our articles. It provides a cleaner, easier experience for sharing and retweeting articles — we hope you enjoy it. Coming soon and throughout the year, look for improvements in the facebook sharing mechanism, and further streamlining on these […]
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Prop 26′s dirty backers flee from political poison of Prop 23
Millions of dollars are pouring into California's Prop 26, a fail-safe for the possibility that the pro-pollution Prop 23 fails.
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Friday music blogging: Black Mountain again
Vancouver-based psych rock band Black Mountain has gotten the FMB treatment before, but their latest album is so monstrously, mind-blowingly good they've earned a second go-round.
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Friday music blogging: Jenny & Johnny
If there's any dreamy chanteuse that indie boys crush on more than She & Him's Zooey Deschanel, it's Jenny Lewis, late of Rilo Kiley and more recently of a string of critically beloved solo albums. Now she's out with a new album, a collaboration with her boyfriend Johnathan Rice (also a solo artist) under the moniker Jenny & Johnny. It's called I'm Having Fun Now.
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Water for a Wife
In parts of the West African nation of Ghana, water has become so scarce that young women ask suitors about the distance to sources of clean water in their communities before accepting marriage proposals. Where water is hard to find, food is also often scarce, so girls are interrogating potential husbands about their ability to […]
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Friday music blogging: Wisco
This is neat -- a Wisconsin label gathered together a bunch of bands from the state to pay tribute to one of the finest albums from one of the finest bands ever to come out of the Midwest: Wilco's 1999 Summerteeth.
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The right’s climate denialism is part of something much larger
Denialism has come roaring back -- like everything reactionary -- with the economic downturn. What should we make of Rush Limbaugh's army of deniers?
