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The Importance of Being Liquid

Do you remember some time back when I told you about a pal who was losing his job and didn’t have much in savings to fall back on? He earned a ton of dough, but when his contract was called, he didn’t have much to show for it. He was, …

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Golden Globes Quid Pro Quo

Golden Globes | Altman’s Oscar and Other Buzz Golden Globe Prez: ‘There’s a Quid Pro Quo in Everything You Do’ (Part 2 runs tomorrow) Last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — the group of 80 or so foreign journalists who vote on the annual Golden Globe Awards — spent …

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Bounce 101: A Primer to the New Orleans Sound

Chicago has house music. The West Coast has hyphy. Houston has screw. New Orleans has bounce. This regional hip-hop sound began in Louisiana in the late 1980s and for nearly two decades it’s had the same two up-tempo beats — Triggaman and Brown Beat. “We call it ‘dat beat,’” said …

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