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• :Kinema: Babysit Animal Collective's “Girls”

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  
  
  One of my favorite tunes of the year—Animal Collective's “My Girls”—gets a bubbly, auto-tuned cover courtesy of :Kinema:, a Brighton, UK-based Indie-meets-Disco-meets-R&B-meets-Pop trio.
  
  :Kinema: “My Girls” (.MP3)
  
  Fans of Lo-Fi-FNK, Erlend Øye's The Whitest Boy Alive side-project, N*E*R*D and their boy Kenna, old-school [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

• Northeast Center for Youth & Families Ursa Dedication Ceremony

  —Easthampton City Arts

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  On November 19th, 2009 Northeast Center for Youth [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:05am EST
  by Easthampton City Arts

• SANTA BUDDIES (2009) BLU-RAY REVIEW

  —The Moviezzz Blog

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  WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
  
  With Christmas Spirit on the decline, Puppy Paws, the son of Santa Paws, leaves the North Pole. He hops on a mail truck and winds up in the hometown of the Buddies, a group of talking dogs. They teach him [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Moviezzz

• Pledging Allegiance

  —GavinThink

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  So I read in Catherine Sanderson's blog that it's illegal for Massachusetts schoolteachers not to lead their classes in the Pledge of Allegiance.
  
  It's not WAY illegal-- the punishment is a fine "not more than $5." (makes me wonder: who sets the fine? Could Amherst decide to fine [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:43am EST
  by Gavin Andresen

• Pie in the Sky

  —In Our Grandmothers' Kitchens

  

    You will eat bye and bye
  In that glorious land above the sky.
  Work and pray, live on hay,
  You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.                         –  Joe Hill, “The Preacher and the Slave”   With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I’m ready to devote a few [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:00am EST
  by tinkyweisblat

• Council votes on Green Street Cafe-Smith College impasse

  —Northampton Redoubt

  Among the robust commentary offered on issues before the City Council ranging from a Living Wage Resolution to the city's impending purchase of a portion of the Bean Farm property in Florence, numerous city residents spoke during the public comment portion of yesterday's City Council meeting regarding the lingering dispute [...]

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:00am EST
  

• I Miss My Bike.

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  
  
  Dear Santa, Bring me a new one.
  
  xoxo
  
  - Emeyesi [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:33pm EST
  

• If You Think Our Bloomin' Onion is Bad, Try This

  —Readuponit: Travel and voracious reading

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  I ordered a burger at the Outback Steakhouse in Orlando. A meal voucher had spat out of the Delta self check-in when my flight was delayed, and I took it to this temple of gastronomy to see what I could get. In tiny print down at the bottom, my server [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:54pm EST
  by Max Hartshorne

• Springfield Republican: "Strip clubs need Sarno ultimatum"

  —NoPornNorthampton

  The Springfield Republican published this editorial today:
  Strip clubs need Sarno ultimatum
  
  After two murders and countless testosterone and booze-laced disturbances, Springfield’s strip clubs have presented the city’s License Commission with a plan to bolster security...
  
  We have said in the past that the city should shut the clubs down because of [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:19pm EST
  by NPNAdmin

• I have great daughters and a great granddaughter!

  —Michaelann Land

  
  
  My daughter Jess just updated her blog and I'm going to take this opportunity, before turning to more serious things,  to remark that both of my daughters and my granddaughter have blogs.  Jessie's blog came about after she discovered a trove of old writings she' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:55pm EST
  

• Journalism class fun etc.

  —AboutAmherst

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  One of our most engaging guests ever came to journalism class yesterday -- Amherst Police Capt. Jennifer Gundersen. Students barraged her with questions and her answers were way more informative and sometimes entertaining than I expected them to be.
  "Great transparency," Julian, our Hampshire [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:40pm EST
  by Mary E.Carey