Washington Post Answer Sheet Blog, March 2014 by Valerie Strauss Bertis Downs is a parent who lives in Athens Ga., and the former legal counselor and manager of the band R.E.M. He wrote the following letter to President Obama, inviting the president to visit a high school in Athens to see the impact of his … Continue reading Parent to Obama: Why don’t private schools adopt your test-based school reforms?
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Postcard from Todos Santos – 2014
The third incarnation of Peter Buck’s creation, the Todos Santos Music festival, is off to a rocking start and could just turn out to be the best one ever . . . I am pretty sure it will. For the rest, please go here.
PARIS 1983 THANKSGIVING REMEMBERED – 2013
A great Thanksgiving memory was one of the most memorable early R.E.M. shows–Thanksgiving night 1983– at Les Bain Douches in Paris. It was a fairly early show I guess and afterward they took us upstairs to the restaurant and one of the entree selections was luncheon meat turkey For the rest, please go here.
Postcard from Athens, September 21, 2013
Two years ago today, on September 21, 2011, Mike, Peter and Michael made the announcement, from sort of outtatheblue, that they had decided to “call it a day” and that R.E.M. would cease to exist in the active, record-making, touring together, making music mode of the past three decades. It was bittersweet for them, to … Continue reading Postcard from Athens, September 21, 2013
Postcard from London for Tired Pony – 2013
I just spent a couple of days in favorite city London for the Tired Pony show–Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Jacknife Lee joining ringleader Gary Lightbody and many others for the group’s only European show in support of the brilliant new Ghost Of The Mountain record, and their first show in about three years. For … Continue reading Postcard from London for Tired Pony – 2013
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