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One Very, Very Indie Band

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Given its outsize musical ambitions and unabashed theatricality, the Arcade Fire could have filled a three-ring recording studio. The place it ultimately found to record “Neon Bible,” the band’s follow-up to its successful and surprisingly poised 2004 debut album, “Funeral,” was a 19th-century redbrick church in a small farm town an hour outside of Montreal. The church already had a stage in front, a hundred-foot ceiling that returned rich, live-sounding reverberations and a rear balcony that could be turned into a glassed-in sound booth.

Author: Darcy Frey
Published: Mar 4, 2007
Length: 19 minutes (4,980 words)

Consumed

Consumed

The West Wing, Season II

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For Obama, retooling on this scale does not come naturally or happily. Among the hallmarks of his political career has been constancy: a tight and basically static cadre of close advisers and a stubborn resistance to calls for midcourse corrections. Yet in a series of interviews in early January with senior White House officials and many of Obama’s closest confidants outside the building, a picture emerged of a president engaged in a searching, clear-eyed, and sometimes painful process of self-scrutiny, and now determined to implement a plan to fix what has ailed his enterprise—and himself.

Published: Jan 24, 2011
Length: 26 minutes (6,696 words)

In a House by the River

In a House by the River

The Man Who Saw Too Much

The Man Who Saw Too Much

Sober Traveling: AA Roadside Assistance for a Recovering Alcoholic

Sober Traveling: AA Roadside Assistance for a Recovering Alcoholic

Sober Traveling: AA Roadside Assistance for a Recovering Alcoholic

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My goal for this trip in the winter of 2008 is to drive from California to a conference in Florida and back, attend AA meetings in seven states and see how they differ — and how they don’t. I have two fears: that a low-budget camping trip is dangerous for a lone woman and that I’ll end up hating the AA I find outside my local group. Without the one place I’ve felt most at home the last 28 years, where would I be?

Author: Kathy P.
Published: Jan 2, 2011
Length: 21 minutes (5,301 words)

Paleo Fitness: The Workout that Time Forgot

Paleo Fitness: The Workout that Time Forgot

Twin Freaks: On High-Altitude Skiers the Marolt Brothers

Twin Freaks: On High-Altitude Skiers the Marolt Brothers

'Damn Right,' I Said.

‘Damn Right,’ I Said.