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It should come as no secret that most readers of America don't read the poems that appear in its pages. In fact, according to the uplifting annual or semi-annual surveys America's editor in chief sends me, even the ads get more attention than the poems I send him. But then people read America for what it has to say—which it says so well—about social or liturgical or moral or sacramental issues.
In spite of which, doggedly, insistently, red-rimmed eyes afire, this ancient mariner continues to sift through the hundreds—thousands—of hopeful poems submitted to the magazine to find the 10 or 12 poems America publishes annually. I'm not complaining, mind you, for no one ever subscribed to the magazine primarily for the poems. They are an addition, and they refuse to shout their presence from the corner of the page where you come upon them—any more, I suppose, than light on a wall or grace does. Still, they're there, an alternate way of saying, this language we call poetry, this incarnate thing, this living voice that says, as the poet William Carlos Williams wrote late in life about his father, "I was here, I did my best. Farewell." He may as well have been speaking about his own life as a poet, now that that life was nearing its end, and he dared to see himself like some common sparrow squashed on a city street by the wheels of progress, looking for all the world—in the poet's imagination—like a dried wafer, like in fact the Eucharist.
The other day I was in the faculty dining club at Boston College, having lunch with three theologians, one of them the Jesuit priest Michael Buckley, and the conversation turned to the poetry of St. John of the Cross. And suddenly I'm hearing Father Buckley speaking about John and the made thing—the painting, the song, the poem—enfleshing the Word, the words themselves somehow revealing the felt experience of God, the Sublime, whatever name you want to call him. The poem, then, at one level, revealing our innermost life, our deepest hungers, luminous darkness suddenly—in a flash—made visible.
You have to understand: this is not your average luncheon conversation—even sans martinis—but the image, say, of the lover from the secular literature of trysts, stealing out into the sweet-scented garden at night, in darkness, to meet the Beloved. Doesn't that touch on the mystery of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, or the contemplative experience of the Carmelites?
William Carlos Williams again, speaking in his epic, Paterson (yes—a man who spent 20 years of his life meditating on the "filthiest swillhole in Christendom," Paterson, N.J., until he saw under the grime and debasement of the city a vitality, a brilliance, to equal Pound's Venetian lagoons and San Giorgio across the waters, with the music of vespers silvering the evening). It is Williams who speaks there—by way of metaphor and trope—of those archaeologists who dig through the ancient papyrus coverings of the dead, hoping to turn up another fragment of Sappho, a dozen immortal words luminous against that decay.
Is not that what authentic poetry does for us? It is like what daily Mass is for me, huddled against the cold at seven in the morning, winter and summer, something proffered, a gift in the interstices of all the trivia of existence that fill our heads each day: a sacred moment, the Word that feeds.
Against the odds, every year—mercifully—the books of poetry come stumbling out. And since we live in a kind of advanced nominalist moment that would do Abelard and his vox flata proud (language as an empty beating of the gums), a good deal of poetic language now comes to us disguised as language everywhere: as a sort of detritus, garbled voices overheard, a kind of linguistic aphasia that constantly threatens to overwhelm us and rob us of whatever peace we have. And yet, even in a cursory listing one finds fresh books of poetry that are stunners: Richard Wilbur's Mayflies (Harcourt)—a book I've eagerly awaited, especially for the poem "This Pleasing Anxious Thing"—Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! (Counterpoint), John Ashbery's Your Name Here (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Mary Oliver's The Leaf and the Cloud (Da Capo), Stephen Dunn's Different Hours (Norton), Seamus Heaney's Electric Light (reviewed elsewhere in this magazine) and the late James Merrill's massive 885-page Collected Poems from Knopf. As well as some very good books of prose by poets, books—believe me, he said, raving, as he grabbed the lapels of a passing stranger—that are well worth your time: Ashbery's Other Traditions (Harvard Univ. Press), as well as Sherod Santos' A Poetry of Two Minds and Michael Ryan's A Difficult Grace, both from The University of Georgia Press.
These are serious poets who have given over their lives to the burning question of poetry. And—being language of a very special kind—it willy-nilly involves an epistemology and, beyond that, a metaphysics, both most often implied. Periodically, the poet is forced to come over from the world of poetry to negotiate in the world of prose, which everyone (except the mystic) acknowledges is the common meeting ground for most people. And then the poet (and the mystic) returns to the world of poetic language, while the rest of us return to the world of politics, business, justice, international affairs—all the things that fill our daily papers.
But even the language of poetry is splintered. It all comes down, I suppose, to what one is looking for, and what one expects poetry to deliver. If you're looking only for paraphraseable meaning, you probably won't even hear the poem when it speaks. Or, better, when it sings. Chances are it will go right through the gaps in your linguistic receptor and out into the ether again, the way sunlight shines unnoticed on the wall of a room in which there is no one present.
I've taught poetry now for 40 years and read it for over 50. A month ago I discovered a batch of letters I wrote my mother when I was 16 and living away from home for the first time in my young life. That was in a religious house of formation in Beacon, N.Y., a building long since torn down to make way for a public school. The place was there for high school boys who were trying on a vocation—boys mostly from schools where the Marianist brothers and fathers taught. It was there—back in the year that gave us the Hungarian Revolution, the bombing of the Suez Canal and Elvis Presley—that I learned how to write my first poem (ta tum ta tum ta tum) by the rules laid out in my ancient blue-covered English anthology. I began by writing a quatrain about a cowboy who came in second fastest on the draw, and then a sonnet—written during Holy Week—about the Passion (baroque and overwrought, but genuinely felt). For that second effort, I won first place and $10 in a poetry contest run by a local order of nuns, the prize money from which went to buy my mother a rosary.
It was there, in those surroundings, that I learned something of what poetry could do, and which at some (how to say this?) profound level seemed in sync with the Latin poetry of the Mass, which itself went back to the Hebrew poetry of the psalms: Introibo ad altare Dei. Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meum, "I will go up to the altar of God. To God, who gives joy to my youth." I heard something then—in that sacred space which exists now only in the memory—that has stayed with me ever since. Perhaps others have heard it too, a music, a phrasing, a something, whether in Sappho or Catullus or Horace or Petrarch or Chaucer or Villon or Shakespeare or Milton or Donne or Dickinson or the great Walt or Yeats or Frost or Rilke or Ungaretti or Stevens or Williams or Bishop or Berryman or Lowell or the late Bill Matthews or Philip Levine.
Or Hopkins. My beloved Hopkins, read first in years at Manhattan College, and whom I cannot get out of my mind. The English Jesuit and failed university professor who gave us The Wreck of the Deutschland (the best meditation on the significance of the Spiritual Exercises I've ever come across, though it took me 30 years to see this). The poet who gave us those sonnets of praise for the splendor of nature ("Glory be to God for dappled things"), who gave us too those extraordinary poems on the experience of suffering in the light of Christ's passion by which I believe Hopkins himself—in his own kenotic emptying—was lifted to a new understanding of the Word. How is it, please, that a poet who published virtually nothing, who died at 44 in obscurity in a foreign land (Ireland) should have touched so many poets in our own century (I mean the Old Twentieth), among them Auden, Lowell, Berryman and Heaney? It's one of those lovely surprises God sometimes plays on us, which transform tragedy into joy and the mere thought of which brings me close to tears.
And the new voices—voices of a single startling poem, or a chapbook, or five or ten books of poetry. Let us praise them, let us for a moment praise the famous and the obscure, those who spend their waking hours creating beauty, even if it is as momentary as the inimitable snowflake, with its complex geometric structures disappearing into the waters. Let us praise businessmen met on 707's who, when they hear you write poetry, whisper to you as in the confessional box that someone they knew once wrote a poem—not very good, they will tell you—and then reach inside their vest pockets to show the poem furtively to you, waiting for you to acknowledge their tiny world revealed there. Let us praise too all those who submit—against the odds—their poems for your review, though the odds will be against its being published—poets who simply want to share their moment of grace with you and to say "I too was here," before the river that is time propels you onward, and you go on to other things you keep telling yourself are surely more important.
Happy National Poetry Month.


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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
|Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
L- R: Nash, Stills, Young and Crosby
|Background information
|Also known as
|Crosby, Stills & Nash
|Los Angeles, California, United States
|Rock, folk rock
|Years active
|Atlantic, Reprise
|Associated acts
|Crosby & Nash, The Stills-Young Band, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, The Hollies, The Rides, CPR
|David Crosby
Stephen Stills
Graham Nash
Neil Young
Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. They are known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young. They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, often tumultuous interpersonal relationships, political activism, and lasting influence on US music and culture. All four members of CSNY have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice,[1] though Young's inductions were for work not involving the group.
Prior to the formation of CSN, each member of the band had belonged to another prominent group. David Crosby played guitar, sang and wrote songs with the Byrds; Stephen Stills had been a guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter in the band Buffalo Springfield (which also featured Neil Young); and Graham Nash had been a guitarist, singer and songwriter with the Hollies.
Due to internal friction, Crosby was dismissed from the Byrds in late 1967.[2] By early 1968, Buffalo Springfield had disintegrated, and after aiding in putting together the band's final album, Stills was unemployed. He and Crosby began meeting informally and jamming. The result of one encounter in Florida on Crosby's schooner was the song "Wooden Ships", composed in collaboration with another guest, Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner.[3]
Graham Nash had been introduced to Crosby when the Byrds had toured the United Kingdom in 1966, and when the Hollies ventured to California in 1968, Nash resumed his acquaintance with him.[4] At a party in July 1968 at Joni Mitchell's house, Nash asked Stills and Crosby to repeat their performance of a new song by Stills, "You Don't Have To Cry", with Nash improvising a third part harmony.[5] The vocals jelled, and the three realized that they had a unique vocal chemistry.
Creatively frustrated with the Hollies, Nash decided to quit the band and work with Crosby and Stills. After failing an audition with the Beatles' Apple Records, they were signed to Atlantic Records by Ahmet Ertegün, who had been a fan of Buffalo Springfield and was disappointed by that band's demise.[6] From the outset, given their previous experiences, the trio decided not to be locked into a group structure. They used their surnames as identification to ensure independence and a guarantee that the band could not continue without one of them, unlike both the Byrds and the Hollies. They picked up a management team in Elliot Roberts and David Geffen, who got them signed to Atlantic and would help to consolidate clout for the group in the industry.[7] Roberts kept the band focused and dealt with egos, while Geffen handled the business deals, since, in Crosby's words, they needed a shark and Geffen was it.[8]
Stills was already signed to Atlantic Records through his Buffalo Springfield contract. Crosby had been released from his Byrds' deal with Columbia, as he was considered to be unimportant and too difficult to work with. Nash, however, was still signed to Epic Records through the Hollies. Ertegun worked out a deal with Clive Davis to essentially trade Nash to Atlantic in exchange for Richie Furay (who was also signed to Atlantic from having been in Buffalo Springfield) and his new band Poco.[9]
Initial success
The trio's first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, was released in May 1969 and was a major hit, spawning two Top 40 hit singles and receiving significant airplay on FM radio. With the exception of drummer Dallas Taylor, Stills had handled the lion's share of the instrumental parts himself, which left the band in need of additional personnel to be able to tour, a necessity given the debut album's commercial impact.
Neil Young
Retaining Taylor, the band tried initially to hire a keyboard player. Stills at one point approached Steve Winwood, who was already occupied with the newly formed group Blind Faith.[10] Ahmet Ertegün, the head of the Atlantic label, suggested the former Buffalo Springfield member Neil Young, also managed by Elliot Roberts, as a fairly obvious choice.[11] Stills and Nash initially held reservations, Stills because of his history with Young in Buffalo Springfield, and Nash because of his personal unfamiliarity with Young. But after several meetings, the trio expanded to a quartet with Young a full partner. The terms of the contract allowed Young full freedom to maintain a parallel career with his new back-up band, Crazy Horse.
They initially completed the rhythm section with Bruce Palmer on bass, who had previously played with Young and Stills in Buffalo Springfield. However, Palmer was let go, either due to his persistent personal problems or because the band looked and sounded too much like Buffalo Springfield with Crosby and Nash doing background vocals. At Rick James's recommendation, the nineteen-year-old Motown bassist Greg Reeves joined in Palmer's place.[12]
With Young on board, the restructured group went on tour in the late summer of 1969 through the following January. Their first gig was on August 16, 1969, at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, with Joni Mitchell as their opening act. They mentioned they were going to someplace called Woodstock the next day, but that they had no idea where that was.
Their second show was a baptism by fire at the Woodstock Festival. The crowd of industry friends looking on from offstage was intimidating and prompted Stills to say, "This is only the second time we've performed in front of people. We're scared shitless." Their appearance at the festival and in the subsequent movie, along with recording the Joni Mitchell song memorializing Woodstock, boosted the visibility of the quartet.
CSN&Y appeared at other prominent festivals that year. Two performances from the Big Sur Folk Festival, September 13–14, 1969, appear in the movie Celebration at Big Sur.[citation needed] They also appeared at the violence-plagued Altamont Free Concert. At the band's request, their performance was not included in the subsequent film Gimme Shelter (1970).
Great anticipation had built for the expanded supergroup and their first album with Young, Déjà Vu, arrived in stores in March 1970, topping the charts and generating three hit singles. Déjà Vu was also the first release on the Atlantic Records SD-7200 "superstar" line, created by the label for its highest-profile artists; subsequent solo albums by Crosby, Stills, and Nash would be the next releases in this series.[13]
In April 1970, Greg Reeves began behaving erratically and Stills fired him.[14] Reeves was replaced by Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels. Young and Crosby were staying at a house near San Francisco when reports of the Kent State shootings arrived, inspiring Young to write the protest song "Ohio", recorded and rush-released weeks later, providing another Top 20 hit for the group.[15] However, the tenuous nature of the partnership was strained by its success and the group imploded after their tour in the summer of 1970. Concert recordings from that tour produced the 1971 double album Four Way Street. The four members did not come back together until the 1974 tour.
Shifting configurations
Between September 1970 and May 1971, each of the quartet released high-profile solo albums: Young's After the Gold Rush in September; Stills' eponymous debut in November; Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name in February, and Nash's Songs for Beginners in May. All four solo LPs placed in the top 15 on the Billboard 200, with Stills' entry peaking the highest at No. 3. Stills released an additional record in 1971, Stephen Stills 2, which also went top ten. Crosby and Nash embarked on a successful acoustic tour accompanied only by their own guitars and piano, captured for the 1998 documentary Another Stoney Evening.
1972 proved to be another fruitful year for all the band members in their solo or duo efforts. Young achieved solo superstardom with the chart-topping Harvest and its attendant No. 1 single, "Heart of Gold". Stills joined with ex-Byrd Chris Hillman to form the band Manassas, releasing a self-titled double album; counting the three CSN records, Manassas became Stills' sixth top ten album in a row. Young and Nash released Young's song "War Song" to support George McGovern's presidential campaign. Nash and Crosby's touring was so successful and pleasant for them that they recorded and released their first album as a duo, Graham Nash David Crosby, which peaked at No. 4 on the pop album chart.[16]
The group members fared less well in 1973. Young recorded two dark albums. The first, Time Fades Away, chronicled his winter tour that followed the death of his Crazy Horse bandmate Danny Whitten from a heroin overdose, Crosby and Nash joining mid-tour. The second album, Tonight's the Night, was so dark his record company refused to release it until 1975. Crosby spearheaded a reunion album of the original Byrds quintet which was a critical failure and sold only marginally well. Stills released a second Manassas record, and Nash recorded his second solo album released in January of 1974; neither disc sold to expectations. In June and July of that year, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young met at Young's ranch in California and a recording studio in Hawaii for a working vacation, ostensibly to record a new album, tentatively titled Human Highway. However, the bickering that had sunk the band in 1970 quickly resumed, scattering the group again.
Roberts finally prevailed upon the group to realize their commercial potential. The quartet reassembled in the summer of 1974, with sidemen Tim Drummond on bass, Russ Kunkel on drums, and Joe Lala on percussion, to embark on the first-ever outdoor stadium tour, arranged by San Francisco impresario Bill Graham, fresh off the large-scale indoor arena tour he had developed for Dylan's return to the spotlight earlier in the year. The band typically played three and a half hours of old favorites and new songs.[17] Graham Nash's unreleased film of the Wembley Stadium show highlights the scope and quality of these performances. They opted at the time not to release any recordings of the tour for an album. Finally, to mark the tour's 40th anniversary, Nash, along with Joel Bernstein, selected songs from the five shows that had been properly recorded to release CSNY 1974 in 2014.
While the foursome would have the press believe that their characteristic arguments were a thing of the past, excesses typical to the era took their toll. Stills—who claimed to have served in the Vietnam War as a member of the United States Marine Corps during his tenure in Buffalo Springfield—began supplementing his trademark wardrobe of football jerseys with military fatigues.[18] Having embraced a polyamorous lifestyle following the death of companion Christine Hinton in 1969, Crosby was accompanied by two girlfriends. This chagrined several employees and band members; according to Nash, "Often I would knock on his hotel door, which he kept propped open with a security jamb, and he'd be getting blown by both of those girls, all while he was talking and doing business on the phone and rolling joints and smoking and having a drink. Crosby had incredible sexual energy. It got to be such a routine scene in his room, I'd stop by with someone and go, 'Aw, fuck, he's getting blown again. Oh, dear, let's give him a minute."[19]
Young—who premiered over a dozen songs throughout the tour in what would prove to be one of the most creatively fertile phases of his career[20]—was vexed by the diminished prolificacy of the trio and consequently isolated himself from the group, traveling in an RV with his son and entourage. He would later assert to biographer Jimmy McDonough that "the tour was disappointing to me. I think CSN really blew it... they hadn't made an album, and they didn't have any songs. How could they just stop like that?"[21] Since an attempt at a new CSNY studio album the previous year failed, Atlantic Records issued the compilation So Far to have something to promote during the tour. While Nash viewed the re-shuffling of items from only two albums and one single (including the exclusion of "Marrakesh Express", a Top 40 hit) as absurd, it eventually topped the Billboard album chart in November 1974.[22] Songs first performed on the 1974 tour later appeared on studio releases from each member and duo (Crosby/Nash and Stills/Young). In addition to his uncollected new songs, Young also debuted songs from On The Beach, which was released during the tour.
After the tour ended, Crosby & Nash signed a separate contract with ABC Records and began to tour regularly again, playing a more intimate array of sports arenas, outdoor festivals and theaters.[23] During this period they produced two studio albums, Wind on the Water in 1975 and Whistling Down the Wire in 1976, and the 1977 concert album Crosby-Nash Live. Along with Drummond (retained from the 1974 CSNY tour), they continued to use the sidemen from the ensemble known as the Section from their first LP. This crack session group (ironically rechristened "The Mighty Jitters" by Crosby) contributed to records by a myriad of other Los Angeles-based artists in the seventies, such as Carole King, James Taylor, and Jackson Browne. Throughout the mid-70s, Crosby and Nash also lent their harmonies to hits like Taylor's "Mexico" and Joni Mitchell's "Free Man in Paris".
Meanwhile, Stills and Young returned to their own careers. They briefly united for a one-off album and tour credited to the Stills-Young Band, Long May You Run (1976). Initially the third attempt at a CSNY reunion album, Stills and Young wiped the vocal contributions of the other pair off the master tape when Crosby & Nash were obligated to leave the sessions to finish their own Whistling Down the Wire in Los Angeles.[24] As Stills and Young embarked on a tour to promote the album in the summer of 1976, the old tensions between the pair resurfaced, exacerbated by Stills' insistence that professional studio musicians back them rather than Young's preferred Crazy Horse.
After a July 20, 1976, show in Columbia, South Carolina, Young's tour bus took a different direction from Stills'. Waiting at their next stop in Atlanta, Stills received a laconic telegram: "Dear Stephen, funny how things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach. Neil."[25] Young's management claimed that he was under doctor's orders to rest and recover from an apparent throat infection. Stills was contractually bound to finish the tour alone, though Young would make up dates with Crazy Horse later in the year.
Having peaked at #6 in 1975, Wind on the Water was the only disc by any permutation of the quartet to chart in the Billboard Top Ten following So Far.[26] Later in 1976, Stills approached the pair at one of their concerts in Los Angeles, setting the stage for the return of the trio.
CSN Redux
A year after reforming, Crosby, Stills & Nash released CSN. Recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, throughout late 1976 and early 1977, the album exemplified the meticulously stylized soft rock production ethos of the epoch and contained a hit single from Nash in "Just a Song Before I Go". The album peaked at number 2 on the Billboard chart in the summer of 1977, staying at that position for the month of August behind one of the best-selling LPs of all time, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.[27]
After touring in 1977 and 1978, further work as a group was complicated by Crosby's increasing dependence on cocaine. Nash's 1980 Earth & Sky was supposed to be another Crosby-Nash album, but Crosby was not in shape to participate.[28]
Stills and Nash convened in 1980 and 1981 to record Daylight Again. Atlantic Record executives, however, refused to release the LP until Crosby was reinstated.[29] Crosby contributed the tracks "Delta" and "Might as Well Have a Good Time", along with some additional vocals on other tracks. The album contained two hits, Nash's "Wasted on the Way" and Stills' "Southern Cross". Daylight Again, reached number 8 in 1982.[30]
The trio continued to tour, but the bottom fell out for Crosby, arrested and jailed on drug and weapons charges in Texas in May 1982. Having recorded a potential title song for the film WarGames that was never used, the band released it as a single and hastily assembled concert recordings around two studio tracks for the album Allies, their lowest-charting record to date. Crosby was sentenced to two terms, but the conviction was overturned; arrested several more times, he finally turned himself in to the authorities in December 1985.[31] He would spend eight months in prison.
Based on a promise he made to Crosby should he clean himself up, Young agreed to rejoin the trio in the studio upon Crosby's release from prison for American Dream in 1988. Stills (then battling his own incipient addiction to freebase cocaine)[32] and Crosby (enfeebled by myriad health problems from his fallow period, eventually necessitating a 1994 liver transplant) were barely functioning for the making of the album, and the late eighties production completely swamped the band.[33][34] It did make it to #16 on the Billboard chart, but the record received poor critical notices, and Young refused to support it with a CSNY tour. The band did produce a video for Young's title-song single, wherein each member played a character loosely based on certain aspects of their personalities and public image. CSNY also reunited to play the Bill Graham memorial concert called "Laughter, Love and Music" on November 3, 1991.
CSN recorded two more studio albums in the 1990s, Live It Up and After the Storm, both low-sellers by previous standards. A box set arrived in 1991, four discs of expected group highlights amidst unexpected better tracks from various solo projects. Owing to certain difficulties, manager Roberts, no longer with the trio but still representing Young, pulled most of Neil's material earmarked for the box; only seven CSNY songs in total remained to be included. However, the CSNY version of "Human Highway" did leak to the internet.[35]
In 1994, CSN collaborated with Suzy Bogguss, Alison Krauss, and Kathy Mattea to contribute "Teach Your Children" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. After the Storm barely made the top 100 on the album chart, and by the late nineties CSN found themselves without a record contract. They began financing recordings themselves, and in 1999 Stills invited Young to guest on a few tracks. Impressed by their gumption, Young increased his level of input, turning the album into a CSNY project, Looking Forward, released on Young's label Reprise Records. With writing credits mostly limited to band members, the disc was better received than the previous three albums, and the ensuing CSNY2K tour in 2000 and the CSNY Tour of America of 2002 were major money-makers.
CSN was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; CSNY is the first band to have all its members inducted into the Hall twice. Crosby has also been inducted as a member of the Byrds (1991), and Stills as a member of Buffalo Springfield (1997). In 2010, Nash was inducted as a member of the Hollies. Young has been inducted for his solo work (1995) and for Buffalo Springfield (1997), but has not been inducted with CSN. The CSN logo that Crosby, Stills and Nash have used since the mid-1970s was designed by comedian Phil Hartman when he worked as a graphic designer.
Various compilations of the band's configurations have arrived over the years, the box set being the most comprehensive, and So Far being the most commercially successful. Individual retrospective sets have either been released or are still in progress. In 2007, David Crosby's well received box - Voyage - chronicled his work with various bands and as a solo artist. Graham Nash's Reflections appeared in early 2009 under the same auspices, quite near his 67th birthday. The box set for Stephen Stills, Carry On, was released in February 2013. Compilation and oversight of these releases has largely been managed by Nash.[36]
In 2006, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young set off on their "Freedom of Speech" tour in support of Young's album Living with War. The long setlists included the bulk of the new protest album as well as material from Stills' long delayed solo album Man Alive! and newer material from Crosby and Nash. On May 16, 2006, Crosby, Stills & Nash were honored as a BMI Icon at the 54th annual BMI Pop Awards. They were honored for their "unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers."[37] In February 2007, CSN were forced to postpone a tour of Australia and New Zealand due to David Crosby's illness.[38] Also in 2006, long-time manager Gerry Tolman died in a car accident.
The popular song "Teach Your Children" was performed by Crosby, Stills and Nash on The Colbert Report on July 30, 2008 with host Stephen Colbert filling in the fourth harmony (Neil Young's portion) and wearing a Young-mocking outfit and being referred to by Nash as "Neil". In 2009, Crosby, Stills & Nash released Demos, an album made up of demos recordings of popular group and solo songs. In June 2009 Crosby, Stills and Nash performed at the Glastonbury Festival, England. Stephen Stills was praised for his exceptional guitar playing.[39] Neil Young did not appear onstage with them but did perform as a solo artist.[40] In July 2009, they headlined the 14th annual Gathering of the Vibes festival. Halfway through their set, they enthusiastically announced to the crowd that they would be back next year.
CSN convened with producer Rick Rubin to record a projected covers album (tentatively titled Songs We Wish We'd Written) under the aegis of Sony Music Entertainment in 2010; seven songs were completed before the dissolution of the sessions due to the increasingly acrimonious relationship between Rubin and Crosby, who perceived the former as a disruptive and autocratic figure in the creative process.[41] By 2012, CSN had completed five self-produced re-recordings in anticipation of a potential rights dispute over the Rubin sessions with Sony. [42][43]
Crosby, Stills & Nash toured the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil in 2012 and released a 2CD/DVD entitled CSN 2012 on July 17, 2012.[44] Further tours of the United States and Europe followed in 2013 and 2014.[45][46]
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young performed an acoustic set at the 27th Bridge School Benefit on October 27, 2013.[47] CSNY 1974, an anthology culled from hitherto unreleased recordings of the 1974 tour by Nash and longtime band archivist Joel Bernstein, was released by Rhino Records on July 8, 2014 to widespread critical acclaim.[48] In a September 2014 interview with the Idaho Statesman, Crosby dispelled rumors of another CSNY tour (citing Neil Young's general unwillingness and lack of financial incentive to perform with the ensemble) before characterizing Young's partner Daryl Hannah as "a purely poisonous predator."[49] While introducing a song during a solo performance at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on October 8, 2014, Young announced that "CSNY will never tour again, ever... I love those guys."[50] Two days later, Crosby confirmed that "[Young] is very angry with me" and likened Young's remarks to "saying there are mountains in Tibet." Crosby made further comments, including that he apologized on Twitter.[51] On May 18, 2015, Crosby apologized publicly to Hannah and Young on The Howard Stern Show, saying "I'm screwed up way worse than that girl. Where do I get off criticizing her? She's making Neil happy. I love Neil and I want him happy," and "Daryl, if you're out there, I apologize. Where do I get off criticizing you? There are people I can criticize: politicians, pond scum. Not other artists that have gone through a hard life, same as me. She hasn't had it easy either."[52]
Political activism
CSNY's music unerringly reflected the tastes and viewpoints of the counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With protest against the Vietnam War gearing up in 1970, the group (Crosby in particular) made no secret of their political leanings.
The group recorded two songs in response to political events. The first was "Chicago". The reference here is the trial of the "Chicago 7", seven anti-war activists indicted for their role in the demonstrations and police riots in downtown Chicago during the Democratic National Convention of 1968. One of the defendants, Bobby Seale, was disruptive in the court room and, as a result, was gagged and bound to his chair during the trial. The second song, "Ohio", was written in response to the deaths of four students at Kent State University. The students were shot by Ohio National Guardsmen during an anti-war protest on the campus in May 1970.[53]
The release of "Ohio" marked the boldest musical statement made to that date regarding the Vietnam War, calling out Richard Nixon by name and voicing the counterculture's rage and despair at the events. Between "Ohio", their appearance in both the festival and movie of Woodstock, and the runaway success of their two albums, the group found themselves in the position of enjoying a level of adulation far greater than experienced with their previous bands, as evidenced by the 27 Platinum certifications they received across 7 albums.[citation needed]
The band has been continuously associated with political causes throughout its existence, the latest example being the song "Almost Gone (The Ballad of Bradley Manning)" which focuses on the length and conditions of Chelsea Manning's pre-trial confinement.[54] [55]
Crosby,[56][57] Nash,[58] and Young[59][60] have all been vocal in their support for 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
The collective abilities allowed CSNY to straddle all the genres of popular music eminent at the time, from country rock to confessional balladry, from acoustic guitars and voice to electric guitar, and three-part harmony. With the Beatles break-up made public by April 1970, and with Bob Dylan in reclusive low-key activity since mid-1966, CSNY found itself as the adopted standard bearers for the Woodstock Nation, serving an importance in society as counterculture figureheads equaled at the time in rock and roll only by the Rolling Stones, the Who, or the ascending Led Zeppelin. Producer Peter Fonda wanted CSN to create the soundtrack for Easy Rider, but director Dennis Hopper nixed the idea.[61] Stills' offering, "Find the Cost of Freedom" (on the flip side of "Ohio"), was the only song known to be offered for the soundtrack.
An entire sub-industry of singer-songwriters in California either had their careers boosted or came to prominence in the wake of CSNY. In part, many musicians lived in or near Laurel Canyon, in California. Artists coming to prominence in the wake of CSNY include Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, America, and the Eagles. David Geffen formed Asylum Records in 1971 to record and sell the works of many of these individuals and groups, a time when CSNY was at the height of its popularity and commercial appeal.
For individual discographies, see entries on David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young. See also Crosby & Nash for duo discography.
Studio albums
- 1969 Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN)
- 1970 Déjà Vu (CSNY)
- 1982 Daylight Again (CSN)
- 1988 American Dream (CSNY)
- 1990 Live It Up (CSN)
- 1994 After the Storm (CSN)
- 1999 Looking Forward (CSNY)
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This theater was located on Bushwick Avenue near Moore Street. I believe that it closed sometime in the early-1940's.
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John; I have added the G & M Theatre /theaters/30517/
John – The Echo was long gone before my time. A distant relative, now in his 80's was born on Morell St. Will check with him as to the location of the theater.
Ken, thanks so much for both your quick response and the acknowledgement.
Too bad there are no photos,but it did close a long time ago.
87 yr.old relative recalls going to the Echo as a pre-schooler with his older brother who would read him the subtitltes of the silent screen features. Suspects that the theater closed in the '40s and when he was old enough to make his own theater choices he would opt for the sumptuousness of the Alba. He had no recollection of the G&M theater.
Hector, thanks to you and your 87 year old relative for providing a badly needed first hand account of this old theater. The vision of the older brother reading the captions our loud was especially interesting and got me to wonder if, in an age where literacy – especially in English – was hardly universal, this practice was more widespread. I can imagine patrons lodging complaints against those who drowned out the piano by reading the captions to their co-attendees.
By the way, does your relative remember anything about the surrounding community during the Echo's lifespan? This was a time when Bushwick-Hylan Houses dod not yet exist, Morell St. was still an open thoroughfare and the Moore St. commercial district probably extended to Bushwick Ave. Any memories will be greatly appreciated. But what you have already provided is really terrific.
Bushwick Hylan Houses opened in 1961 but the "urban renewal project" which involved the condemnation proceedings began in the mid to late 50's. Moore St. was its own commercial hub which centered around the municipal market on Humboldt St. bounded by Moore and Varet. The Echo could not keep up with the technological advances and population shifts of the area, and although Bushwick Ave. was a busy thoroughfare, it was not as centrally located as nearby Graham Ave., or served by bus/trolley or elevated subway lines.
I agree that their less than optimal location – especially compared to that enjoyed by the theaters situated on nearby Broadway and Graham Ave. – speeded the demise of both the Echo and the G&M Theaters.
That said, I remain very interested to know the nature of the community that the old theaters served. As we know, this area was pretty well obliterated when Bushwick Hylan Houses was constucted here over fifty years ago. I have been told, albeit without any firm documentation, that a small Italian (mostly Sicilian) commuity once resided here. These were probably the residents who, about 100 years ago, established Our Lady of Pompeii RC parish about a block east of the old Echo's site. However, without any firm evidence to either confirm or dispute this, I really can't be sure if this was the case. So, any facts that can be provided to fill in this gap will be greatly appreciated.
Hi John,
You raise an interesting point. Despite the presence of large ethnic communities in that vicinity foreign language product corresponding to the Italian or Yiddish enclaves that were in the area failed to be presented. It wasn't until after WWII that theaters like the Sun & the Alba began importing Mexican movies primarily through Columbia Pictures, for the Latino population that moved into the neighborhood. As late as the '60s, the Graham may have been presenting some Italian films, but not the art house fare that was popular then.
Of course I'm familiar with Our Lady of Pompeii having attended many a family function there. As it may not relate specifically to the message parameters of CT, let me know if you'd want me to contact you off-line to go into further detail.
Hector, if you – or anyone else – wishes to discuss the old neighborhood in more detailed length off line, please contact me at
However, I believe that most of the items that I raised should be discussed on these pages. In discussing the old movie houses, it is essential that we explore the relation that those theaters had to the communities that they served. This is particularly true of the old "nabe" theaters – like the Echo – that were hardly architetural wonders, but provided very meaningful services to their "nabes" for many years. Thus, in trying to determine "Who went there?", we need to know the character of the community that hosted and supported them. The fact that this neighborhood has not existed for a half century makes this an especially valuable endeavor in urban history.
So, for these reasons, I think it is entirely appropriate for us to explore these questions on this page. Such a discussion could mimic the wonderful dialogue on the Colonial Theatre page, where the interplay of that Bushwick theater and the members of Our Lady of Lourdes parish frames a wonderful – and highly insightful – discussion. The fact that some of the more extreme defenders of "CT discussion purity" would oppose any such discussion should not prevent this very valuable dialogue from going forward.
Talk soon.
Hopefully, this will begin a very interesting diologue – or not.
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There's a water warning in New York City.
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The Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday wait before you drink what's coming out of your faucet, reports CBS 2's Pablo Guzman.
Like most people, when Natalia Cole of Maspeth, Queens heard there were elevated levels of lead in the city's water supply, she got a bit nervous.
"There's nothing I can do," she said.
But the city said what was found was an increase in lead so small, it won't hurt you.
"The levels that were detected, which were very slightly above the action level that the EPA defines, don't pose any clear public health risk," said NYC DEP Commissioner Cas Holloway.
Holloway and Dr. Thomas Farley, the city's health commissioner, held a joint press conference about the slight increase in lead in the city's water, and urged all New Yorkers to run cold water first before using it for drinking or cooking.
Guzman talked with Dr. John Rosen of Montefiore Hospital, an expert in lead poisoning among children. He said that while there's not enough lead in water to be a problem …
"When it comes to lead, it's always better to be safe than sorry because according to the U.S. CDC, according to the U.S. EPA, there really is no level of lead that's safe in children," Dr. Rosen said.
The potential for lead in the water increases in buildings and homes built before 1987, because lead solder was used to seal pipe joints. And for buildings put up before 1961, there's an even greater concern — because the pipelines that brought water to those homes were made entirely of lead.
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The city monitors water in older buildings through regular testing as part of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. In this year's tests, conducted from June to September, 14 percent — or 30 out of 222 tested buildings — showed lead levels higher than the accepted benchmark.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires local utilities to take action if 10 percent or more of tested buildings have lead levels of more than 15 parts per billion.
Too much lead can damage the brain, kidneys, nervous system and red blood cells.
The city said drinking water is rarely the cause of lead poisoning but can contribute to a person's overall exposure.
The guidelines say a tap needs to be run if the water in that faucet has not been used for six hours or longer.
The last time the city's water triggered such a response was in 2005, the DEP said.
In the past decade, other cities have similarly exceeded the EPA benchmark, including Boston, Washington and Portland, Ore.
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"We'll probably see about 5,000 to 10,000 people today," he said. "It's been crazy."
Laurie Williams, 54, of Milton, said she started her shopping late Thursday night at 11 p.m., when she went to Kittery Trading Post for her first ever Black Friday shopping experience. After returning home at 4 a.m. Friday, she slept for some time and then went out shopping again later Friday morning at Big Lots in Rochester.
"That was my first and last time," said Williams, who said that with crowds and long lines, Black Friday shopping was not for her. Williams did manage to pick up gifts for her grandson and son's girlfriend, who she hopes will become her daughter-in-law someday. Williams purchased Maxx the sock monkey, "My First Book" by Leapfrog and a video camera.
Fox Run Mall in Newington was expecting more shoppers than Kittery, with upward of 75,000 customers by the end of business on Friday.
"We have so many different points of entry," Aaron Yust, director of Marketing and Business Development at Fox Run Mall, said. "It's really difficult to gauge a total."
Yust said the mall was swamped between midnight and 3 a.m. with customers looking to gain an early start on the bargains.
"This wasn't really surprising given previous trends. It could certainly be a solid day," Yust said, noting it was also the mall's first year opening at midnight for Black Friday. "It was a trial run, but things have been great so far."
Midnight to 3 a.m. was also the busiest time for Newington's Best Buy, according to its manager, Mike Sargent.
"The line we had outside the door last night was pretty much what we've had in previous years," he said, adding that it consisted of 650 to 750 customers. "We'll probably have about 20,000 people in here throughout the entire day."
Sargent said customers who came in as the doors opened were mostly purchasing televisions, tablets and video games.
Trends at Lilac Mall's Kmart, according to store manager Vincent Par�, were kitchen appliances such as toaster ovens and microwaves, along with junior apparel.
Par� said he saw 250 to 300 people waiting outside the mall at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, expecting typical sales of clothing and electronics. He said he could not have expected the selling out of small kitchen appliances. He said Kmart would most likely sell out of toaster ovens and microwaves by 11 a.m.
"Houseware has been very good," Par� said. "Those smaller kitchen appliances usually sell a little later."
Lilac Mall's JCPenney store manager Jon Herrick said he sold out of all of their $8 toaster ovens and microwaves well before 10 a.m.
"When I got here, I couldn't even get across the front, so that was nice to see," he said, noting that this year's Black Friday was slower compared to others in recent years, but far more steadier.
To keep the season of giving alive, whether sales are up or not, Ralph Dibernardo, owner of Jetpack Comics in Rochester helps local families by offering great deals, but making his customers donate to charity in order to receive the offers.
"Every year we do our best to give back as much as we can," he said, noting 300 people had visited his store in just the first three hours of opening on Friday morning.
The store is holding a "Buy one get three free" sale on thousands of items in the store's gaming room, including graphic novels, action hero figurines and board games. The one catch to the deal, is that each person wanting to participate in the sale must bring in a new toy and one food item to be donated to local charities. By 1 p.m., Jetpack Comics had collected about $2,000 to $3,000 worth of toys for Rochester families and about $1,000 worth of food.
"It was beyond our expectations," Debernardo said, who described his Black Friday morning as "spectacular."
Jetpack Comics store manager Rich Brunelle said anything related to the AMC series, "The Walking Dead," was a big draw for customers.
"I don't think anything has brought people to comic stores more over the past 10 years than 'The Walking Dead,'" Brunelle said.
Rochester's Kohl's shoppers were buying more than just video games and receiving deals of more than 50 percent off items.
Heather Young, 37, of Rochester, shopped for her three young children on Friday, buying clothes and Christmas wrapping paper to prepare for the holiday season. She said the lines were well worth it, with the amount of savings she was seeing.
Diane Crawford, 60, of Somersworth, was buying trendy toys for her great nephews and her goddaughter at Kohl's. Her shopping cart was packed with a Mr. Potato Head, a pink Volkswagen for Barbie and a Vteck recorder that lets children play and record music.
Crawford said Black Friday shopping has been a longtime tradition in her family. The savings at Kohl's, she said, was what drew her to the store. She said the early bird specials gave customers who arrive at the cash register by 1 p.m. an additional 15 percent off the price, with most toys already 50 percent off.
"With the economy the way it is, every little bit helps," Crawford said.
Michelle Kingston, Oliver Jenkins, Andrea Bulfinch, Liz Markhlevskaya and Samantha Allen contributed to this report.
All about the deal: Crowds will endure most anything for area Black Friday bargains
NEWINGTON — From cameras to televisions to comic books and children's toys, Black Friday crowds were on the hunt for any gifts they could score a deal on, no matter how late or how early it was, or how far the lines wrapped around the stores.


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Today I am featuring another Rachel from I Heart Crafty Things. Where do I start?! Rachel's blog is filled with fabulous stories with snacks and activities to go along with them. Not only is she sharing the joy of reading with her kids, but she is making it fun and educational too! Her blog is an amazing resource for parents, teachers and caregivers of younger children. Please take a moment to see what Rachel has been doing over at her blog.
Some of my personal favorites over at
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1) A House for Hermit Crab (Eric Carl) 2) Mr. Shark Alphabet Chomper Game
3) Monster Pillows 4) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Story Time
Some of my personal favorites over at
I Heart Crafty Things...
1) A House for Hermit Crab (Eric Carl) 2) Mr. Shark Alphabet Chomper Game
3) Monster Pillows 4) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Story Time
Hi, I'm Rachel over at I Heart Crafty Things. I am HUGE fan of Sun Scholars so I am beyond excited to be here today! I developed a passion for children's art when my oldest child became a toddler and ever since then we've been crafting like crazy at our house. We love combining our projects with books and also enjoy doing crafts based on activities that we do as a family. We recently took a trip to our local Aquarium and ever since then we've enjoyed doing some super cool ocean-themed crafts around our house.
We decided that before we end our ocean-themed unit we wanted to be sure to make one of our most favorite creatures of the sea, the Sea Turtle.
My 4yr old is pretty proud of his little guy, and he makes sure that when he is pretend playing with him that he has a surfer dude accent when he talks just like on "Finding Nemo". Haha! Want to know how to make this adorable sea turtle?
Materials you will need:
-Template found HERE
-small paper bowl
-small paper plate
-green paint
-paint brush
-green and brown paper
-black marker
-wiggly eyes
1. Turn your small paper bowl upside down and paint the entire bottom of it with green paint. Let it dry completely.
2. While your paint is drying, print out the template I made, found HERE. You can either print it out on green card stock paper, or you can print it out on white card stock paper and have your child color it green.
3. Have your child cut out all the pieces on the template. Some of the pieces are a little tricky, but that makes it excellent practice for a preschooler.
4. Cut out several small squares out of your brown and green paper. We used card stock because it was what I had on hand, but it probably would work better with just plain paper that isn't so thick. You will see why in a minute.
5. At this point, our paper bowl was dry, or close enough that we could move on to the next step. Spread glue all over the paper bowl and place your small squares all over to make the turtle's shell. Let it dry.
You can see how it would have worked a little better using paper that wasn't so thick, but since we like to use what we have on hand when we can, the card stock managed just fine.
6. Now it is time to assemble the sea turtle together. We will be sandwiching the turtle shell, the turtle pieces and the small paper plate together, just like in the picture below, and then stapling it shut.
I started with the head, then added each arm, and then the two legs. I knew glue wouldn't hold up very well so stapling is really the best option.
7. At this point Luke said, "All he needs now is some of those googly eye things." So true! We glued on some eyes and used our black marker to add two small dots for his nose.
Now step back, take a look and say "Whoa, dude...That is one awesome sea turtle!" :)
Happy Crafting!!
Make sure you stop by I Heart Crafty Things to say hello!


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Six different Tommies scored touchdowns and host St. Thomas set a school record with 697 yards of total offense in Saturday's MIAC football win at O'Shaughnessy Stadium.
UST coach Glenn Caruso (60-9), whose team was coming off a 20-18 loss to St. John's on Sept. 21 and a bye the previous Saturday, improved to 6-0 in Homecoming games and won his 60th game in six seasons.
The No. 6-ranked Tommies (3-1 overall, 1-1 MIAC) rolled up a 354-29 edge in rushing yards over the Knights (2-2, 1-2). The Toms rolled up 34 first downs. They converted 9-of-12 on third down, while limiting Carleton to 2-of-12.
UST had just one turnover and never punted as it split time between two sophomore quarterbacks in place of junior starter Matt O'Connell, who is recovering from an illness.
Sophomore RBs Brenton Braddock and Jack Kaiser and freshman RB Nick Waldvogel each scored two touchdowns. Eleven different Toms caught passes. UST had 354 rushing yards and 343 passing yards.
Sophomore QB John Gould of St. Thomas Academy, in his first college start, rushed four times for 95 yards and completed 9-of-12 passes for 127 yards with one intercepted. His 66-yard scamper set up the Tommies' first score. Sophomore QB Alex Fenske of Marshall took his first varsity snaps and played equal stretches with Gould. Fenske completed 13-of-17 passes for 208 yards and no turnovers.
Braddock rushed 12 times for 89 yards, including a 59-yard scoring run in the second quarter. Waldvogel had 96 yards of rushing and receiving yards on 16 touches.
Sophomore Jordan Young had a partial block of a punt, and the Tommie defense received interceptions from Tremayne Williams, Sean Hamlin and freshman Bennett Celichowski to go with six tackles for loss as a unit.
Carleton standout WR Chase Gottschalk left early in the game with an injury and didn't return. The Knights' Mason Schnarr had a first-quarter interception, a break-up and seven tackles. Daniel Cook had three tackles for loss and eight solos.


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The world-renowned Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has an encyclopedic collection that ranges from French Impressionists to ancient Egyptian art. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) showcases contemporary art in its striking new building overlooking Boston Harbor. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, the Harvard Art Museums are home to works by Matisse, Picasso and Italian Renaissance masters in intimate galleries. And travelling north of metro Boston, Salem's Peabody Essex Museum exhibits connections between art, architecture and culture.
Large-scale American sculpture is sited throughout the 35 acres of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln. Worcester's Art Museum, acknowledged as one of America's leading small art museums, includes works by Cassatt, Gauguin, Goya, Monet, Sargent and Whistler. In Western Massachusetts, the Norman Rockwell Museum houses the largest collection of the illustrator's original art, many from the Saturday Evening Post. Fuller Craft Museum is one of eight museums in the country specializing in contemporary craft.
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The Toll Gate girls' swimming team is in the same position this year that it's been in for several seasons in a row. The Titans have decent numbers, some standouts who will compete at the state level and plenty of inexperienced swimmers. As always, that will create some challenges, but also some opportunities for success.
The Titans will try to seize them.
"Our general expectation is to stay competitive in our division," said Toll Gate head coach Mike Seidenberg. "Obviously, there are going to be teams that are bigger and in terms of technical stuff, maybe they've been swimming since September. But I'd like to stay in the middle of the pack and win a few meets. Then we'll see if we can focus on doing well at our division meet and getting the girls who are going to make states ready for that competition."
That formula is nothing new. After going 12-2 in the 2007-08 season, the Titans haven't been as successful since, but they've remained competitive both within the Division II ranks and in postseason meets. Last year, they went 2-5 in the regular season, but finished fourth at the Division II meet and had several strong swims at states.
They'll likely follow a similar path this year.
"We just have to keep physically working – getting everyone where they need to be so they can be swimming faster and more competitive," Seidenberg said.
The Titans will be led by junior Mikayla Rogers, a year-round swimmer who was the team's top performer a season ago. At the state meet, she finished fifth in the 100 butterfly and seventh in the 500 freestyle.
"Mikayla is working hard," Seidenberg said. "She's in the middle of her season right now so she's feeling some aches and pains. I think she'll be tired throughout the season, but as she gets some rest toward the end of the season, I think we'll see her times drop. Technically, she looks very good in the butterfly, and I think she's getting physically stronger."
Senior Nina Yu is back after qualifying for a state event last year, and the Titans will benefit from the return of junior Stephanie Hager, who was injured last season.
"She's back after an injury kept her out of the whole season last year," Seidenberg said. "She's feeling it a little bit too but as she gets more confident and gets more swims, I think she'll be fine."
In the season-opening meet last Thursday against Westerly, the Titans also got contributions from seniors Molly Turner, Courtney Caesar and Shannon Garvey, juniors Yamile Garcia and Amanda Wilks, sophomores Breana Coleman, Abigail Lewis and Karly Mallette and freshmen Rachel Evell and Madeline Hayes.
For many of the swimmers, it's a learning process. In a 12-week season, it's no easy task.
"It's just a question of teaching them quick enough and getting them physically where they need to be," Seidenberg said. "That's the balance with only a 12-week season. It's tough. We practice two weeks and I have to teach four strokes, all the turns, starts and what you can get disqualified on. A lot of the kids don't come in knowing that stuff if they don't swim, so it has to be taught."
The Titans lost to Westerly 55-36. Rogers won the 100 fly and Hager took first in the 100 breaststroke to lead the way.
It was a good starting point for the Titans, and it'll provide a baseline for the rest of the schedule. The team was scheduled to swim again on Monday against Narragansett. After that, the Titans won't be back in action until Jan. 3.
"We're very much green and learning," Seidenberg said. "We have a lot of new kids on the team so we have something to work on, most definitely."


text: ATLANTA (AP) -- Hank Aaron doesn't plan to be at the ballpark if and when Barry Bonds breaks his home run record. "Uh-uh. No, no. I'm not going to be around," Aaron was quoted as saying in Tuesday's editions of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bonds has 735 homers, 20 short of Aaron's career record. While Aaron has declined most interview requests in recent months, he spoke with Journal-Constitution columnist Terence Moore. Aaron said he wouldn't attend if Bonds were within reach of the record when the San Francisco Giants play at Atlanta from Aug. 14-16. "I'd probably fly to West Palm Beach to play golf," Aaron was quoted as saying in Moore's column. "Again, it has nothing to do with anybody, other than I had enough of it. I don't want to be around that sort of thing anymore. I just want to be at peace with myself. I don't want to answer questions. It's going to be a no-win situation for me anyway. If I go, people are going to say, 'Well, he went because of this.' If I don't go, they'll say whatever. I'll just let them make their own mind up." Aaron, who did not return a call from The Associated Press, said baseball commissioner Bud Selig has told him that Bonds has asked several times why Aaron hasn't contacted him as he approaches the record. "I don't talk to anybody, really, and I've never talked to Barry, outside of that commercial we did together a few years ago, and a few other short times," Aaron was quoted as saying. "I'm 72 years old, and I'm not hopping on a plane and flying all the way to San Francisco for anybody."


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Dave Walsh was crying. A couple of years ago, the comedian had just finished watching "Vacation," the Chevy Chase screwball comedy about a family's ill-fated cross-country trek to a theme park. The credits were rolling, showing snapshots taken along the way, and Dave couldn't help himself. But he did question his sanity a bit when he realized what was causing the tears.
"The reason why I was crying was because they have such a great story," he recalls. "These Griswolds have experienced something that I would pay money, I would pay great money, to happen to me in my life. And they can never tell the story because they don't recognize the value in it. And it was so heartbreaking to me because that's what my life is about in a way, is telling the story that I experienced."
Dave and Chris Walsh, Charlestown natives known as the Walsh Brothers, told stories through stand-up, sketch, and video comedy for more than eight years in Boston before they left for Los Angeles in 2007. Their regular Thursday night "Great and Secret Comedy Show" at the old ImprovBoston in Inman Square was notorious for its outrageousness, and featured some of Boston's funniest regulars, like Ken Reid, Nate Johnson, and Chris Coxen. "It was a creative sandbox," says Chris, 35. "We could do whatever we wanted, and we could make that space and make that world anything we wanted to do."
Most often, the performance would start out on the street around 9 p.m., an hour before the stage show, with Chris and Dave playing a multitude of characters. "I would walk down to Ryles [Jazz Club] and be chatting people up on the street in character," says Chris. "People would be like, who is this weirdo? What's going on? It sort of became the pre-show. Anything you could think of, even that day, could be part of the show."
The brothers, who have recently brought their antics to the new Comedy Central Studios website, are in town headlining Friday's show at Great Scott — a benefit for the family of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old who died in the Boston Marathon bombing — and giving their own sold-out performance Saturday at the Davis Square Theatre.
Their online videos, which have been making the rounds on social media like Facebook and Twitter, feature professional hiders, street pranks such as a living statue grabbing a kid and running (preplanned; no need to worry), and the return of the "Naked Yeti" character, which is just extrovert Chris appearing suddenly in public places completely nude.
"Comedy is having this experience that I share," says Dave, 38. "In a weird way, that's what Chris and I love to do. We love to give people a story. So if [we're] snatching a kid off the street or walking nude between two fire engines, someone's going to walk away from that and tell that story, and it can brighten their day. It might make their month."
The Walshes' comedy is a peculiar mix of characters — like wannabe playas and motel heirs the Ramada Boys — and silly stunts. They once led a crowd of a couple dozen people into the old ImprovBoston's tiny basement prop room for a Halloween show, telling them they were being sent to hell. There were no lights on, and when Chris led them out, he was nude except for angel wings, guiding them with a lantern.
It's not that the brothers are always on, always testing material on unwilling friends. But they live for those stories, and the best moments in life for them are when they can blur the line between what they do onstage and off. Take, for example, their cousin Jimmy's wedding, years ago. They showed up in thrift-store clothes, fur coats included — ensembles that cost $3 apiece.
"Right before we entered the hall," says Dave, "we're like, 'They're gonna love us,' and it was the exact opposite." The crowd and cousin Jimmy didn't enjoy it in the moment as much as Dave and Chris had hoped, but by the time they finally saw the couple again, about a decade later, it had turned into a treasured memory for them. "They were like, you made that day the greatest day of our life," says Dave, laughing. "This is exactly how we go into every situation — 'They're gonna love us!' And that has never been true at any time in my life."
The Walshes certainly have had an enduring impact on the local scene. When Boston comics put together any kind of underground show, it is often compared to the "Great and Secret Comedy Show." Rob Crean has run "The Gas" Friday nights at Great Scott in Allston for nearly five years and the storytelling show "Horse's Mouth" at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge for two years. He was inspired by the Walsh Brothers' mix of stand-up and sketch, and admired a work ethic that had them hosting so many of their own nights at the Comedy Studio and other venues when they lived in Boston.
"Before I saw the Walsh Brothers do it, there were these big comedy clubs that seemed unattainable, you know," says Crean. "The fact that they just got a show together and did it themselves was really cool. And I still try and do a lot of stuff in the same spirit of what they did at the 'Great and Secret.' "
Now the brothers may be poised to make a bigger splash with their Comedy Central videos. The network is treating its CC Studios as a kind of minor league for developing shows. And the Walshes have been working lately with a trendy movie-making app for iPhone called Vine, which limits videos to six seconds and provides no editing tools beyond the capability to start and stop recording at will until the six seconds are up. It can take serious planning to get it right, something Dave is meticulous about. "He gets very serious about directing these six-second shorts," says Chris. "It's hilarious to me. Sometimes I feel like my brother is the Ethan Coen of Vine."
There is a possibility that the Vine shorts will wind up on the Comedy Central site as well. "If they ever put them up on the Comedy Central website, it becomes a whole different ballgame for us," says Dave. The hope, he says, is that it will make people think, "These guys know how to tell a story in six seconds. What if we gave them 22 minutes?"Nick A. Zaino III can be reached at nick@nickzaino


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This blog is about fairness; about looking at objects from multiple perspectives. Stable transformation comes only slowly; and only if the environment is free of sporadic jitters of passion and anger that destabilize growth. I strongly believe that the path to peace crosses through the battle with self.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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This is will be more a surprise and a hilarious one too. cardboard backpacker In Tehran
Cardboard Ayatollah
- Sunday, February 05, 2012 6:47:00 PM
- nunya said...
Just the title made me laugh. Your link to amazon brought up books that others bought and one of them was "The Ayatollah Begs to Differ" which I have read and enjoyed. Have you read it?
- Sunday, February 05, 2012 8:57:00 PM
- goatman said...
I take it you are not in Iran. I would avoid Isfahon if not so. I hate to see those wonderful mosques destroyed by the vibration of bombs -- other wonders ruined by the nonsense of power.
It was funny seeing the old Viet Nam era American F4H phantoms being flown by Iranian air force! Some Russian Migs would be a step up, but still not enough I fear.
Point is, the world cannot allow the Ayatollas to possess nuclear weapons. Somehow religion will stop at nothing.
A good arguement for the separation of church and state do you not agree?
- Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:34:00 PM
- Naj said...
Goatman: NONESENSE!
It is not the Ayatollahs who will not stop at nothing, It is the USRAEL who have a long record of crime against humanity and genocide. The IRanian ayatollahs have harmed no one other than some Iranians who disagree with their hold on power.
The religion that is destroying the world is America's imperialism not some old cranky ayatollahs of Iran!
- Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:57:00 PM
- Naj said...
Hey Nunya,
It's a really funny book you will enjoy it. I have ot read the book you mentioned but have bought it and will get to it in a couple of months.
- Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:57:00 PM
- Naj said...
goatman I don't object to the separation of religion from state affairs, but I object to your suggestion that the Iranian religious leaders must be stopped at any cost, and the cost being the CRIMINAL GENOCIDAL ISRAEL AND AMERICA BOMBING IRAN!
- Tuesday, February 07, 2012 8:04:00 PM
- goatman said...
What would they do with a nuclear weapon, in your opinion?
- Friday, February 10, 2012 8:22:00 PM
- Naj said...
What is Israel doing with a nuclear bomb?
What is Pakistan doing with it? What is North Korea doing with it? Israel and the United States of America have a longer track record of aggression and abuse of nuclear material in war than any other country.
Iran IS ENTITLED to nuclear technology; and unless it has a weaponizing know-how the rest of the world would not REALIZe that they have to sit and negotiate with Iran like a state and not like a COW that needs carrots and sticks.
it is UTTER NONESENSE to think that if Iran has nuclear weapons, then crazy Mullahs will use it.,
You also seem IGNORANT ABOUT THE FACT: that the Iranian "mullahs" have a FATWA AGAINST weapons of mass destruction. It is indeed AGAINST the religious decree to develop and use nuclear bombs!
(I really am mad at you, I thought you are well-informed :)) )
- Friday, February 10, 2012 9:22:00 PM
- goatman said...
I am not for any country having them (and I am surely against my country having used them to destroy 250,000 people in Japan with them -- I don't think killing civilians is ever justified, but then look at Trade Tower nonsense) but we must deal with reality and try to control the madness.
I don't see any country as a threat to Iran without Iran being a threat to them. Real, demonstrable, not just perceived.
Please don't be mad. Cannot we discuss this reasonably without emotion?
- Friday, February 17, 2012 6:48:00 PM
- goatman said...
I would not even trust our "clerics", i.e. evangelicals, with the bomb.
Why would I trust yours?
- Friday, February 17, 2012 11:24:00 PM
- Naj said...
Goatman, the problem with your logic is that you think it is RELIGION that is running Iran. That is not the case. Religion is a mask for economic interests of a few, they know it and the people know it and at no time has the religion been SO WEAK in Iran ... what necessitated it for Iran to have nuclear technology is "membership" to the club of Asian governments who can no longer be bullied by the West.
You need to understand that NO COUNTRY can be under as much geopolitical threat as Iran is, without spending a good bit of it fortune on military. Israel and Iran are similar in that case, both surrounded with 'enemies', except that Israel gets handouts from the US taxpayers, and Iran does not!
is it so hard to grasp??
- Friday, February 17, 2012 11:32:00 PM
- goatman said...
Generalities are never hard to grasp; that is why they are used for political ads and propaganda. But I am not seeing any facts here and I am now looking at a photo in the Times (NY) of Karzai, Zardari, and your Ahmadinejad at a meeting in Islamabad last week. Although your guy looked a little stiff in the photo, he did manage to say "The nuclear bomb will not bring superiority to any nation" -- clearly a historical falsehood. Where is fact for your assertion that Iran is "surrounded by enemies". Certainly Iraq is no longer a threat? Arabia has made no advances that I know of. Iran makes its own enemies.
Seems to me that with the oil money your country has at its hands that it could afford to build a progressive and peaceful society worthy of it's Persian history.
- Monday, February 20, 2012 5:19:00 PM
- Naj said...
Goatman, I cannot summarize Iranian history for you. Animosity is not always in the shape of armies that invade.
You can ignore the fact that "arabia" was united behind Saddam in attacking the "dirty persians". If you read history, you will also learn about Russian, Afghan, Turk invasions of Iran.
Has Iran ever made advances on any nation???
Anyways, the burden of proof that Iran has enemies is not upon me, the burden of proof that Iran IS a danger to you, is upon you! The one who is beating the war drums is your "civilized" nation!
But suit yourself; thing of history and politics like and engineer ;)
- Monday, February 20, 2012 5:31:00 PM


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How to have more fun as a yarnbomber? This is so obvious ,you must be thinking, yarnbombing being fun itself. Well this is very true,yet I still often forget to relax and have fun. So I will make a list.
1. Use your most exciting idea.
Director Betty of Gallery Route One wrote me and asked me if we could yarnbomb the 2 poles right in front of their gallery. Yes, I knew these poles, I had eyeballed them when we had yarnbombed a bannister in Pt. Reyes last fall. I instantly wanted to knit 2 very simple long brightly striped pieces for those 2 big poles. 2 poles right next to each other, how exciting. I pushed aside all my previous very important ideas.
2. Knit a lot. All the time.
I had been knitting kind of slowly on some ruffles. If you want to be really happy you must make art all the time. Hours and hours. Every day.
3.Use fabulous colors in great profusion.
I have cardboard boxes filled with all the yarn I've spun , about 100 colors. I dumped them out on the floor, lined them up and rolled out huge balls of colors. And then I knit, knit, knit. Ken Burns documentaries on baseball or The Civil War are good for knitting.
4. Be spontaneous.
5. Get in your car and drive somewhere exciting.
6. Don't be a weenie.
I finished knitting these 2 exceedingly long pieces and wanted to put them up right away. But I didn't want to have to drive an hour and a half out to Pt. Reyes. I tried to shoe horn my partner into driving me and The Russian, but shockingly he chose to go to work. So I told myself-go have FUN! Get in the car and drive ! Don't be a weenie!
I really enjoyed the drive.
8.Appreciate weather, what ever it is.
It was sunny and balmy on the streets of PT. Reyes. And it was cold and windy on the corner as we sewed. It all feels good. I had to lend The Russian my angora beret. again.
9. Keep remembering to stop ,breath, look around and keep having fun.
10.Go to the Bovine bakery .
The navy bean and acorn squash soup is a good choice and get a peanut butter chocolate chip blondie for the ride home. The harvest moon was the best The Russian had ever seen.


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It's almost unbelieveable that the few British soldiers were able to hold off the Zulu warriors for as long as they did, but it was because of their use of the redoubt system when the British formed into three ranks, shooting volley after volley into the stunned Zulus, who eventually withdrew after massive casualties.
Apparently, there were many historical inaccuracies in the film regarding characters, the regiment, weaponry, the Zulus, and the ending. However, in 2004, the magazine Total Film named "Zulu" the 37th greatest British films of all time and it was voted eighth in the British TV programme The One Hundred Greatest War Films. Take a look at this short section of the film and tell me you wouldn't have been scared sh**less had you been one of those soldiers!


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