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  • Bob Dylan, My Story

    May 30, 2012 • 1:56 pm

    Sally Swift

    By Sally Swift

     Charles Dharapak/AP "Bob's voice, with its weight, its unique gravely power, was redefining not just what music sounded like, but the message it carried and how it made people feel. Today, everybody from Bruce Springsteen to U2 owes Bob a debt of gratitude. There is not a bigger giant i…

  • Chicago Guy

    Doc Watson's front porch spirit

    May 27, 2012 • 4:43 pm

    By Chicago Guy

    In the Watson biography, “Blind But Now I See,” Kent Gustavson quotes folk singer Greg Brown, “If the wind and the rain could play guitar, they would sound like Doc Watson.”

  • Brian Carter

    Romney vs. Romney

    May 29, 2012 • 2:28 am

    By Brian Carter

    Romney faces a self-inflicted Sisyphean task to overcome an utter inability to relate to the average voter and his endless flip-flopping on virtually every campaign issue

  • Jake Highton

    Obama militarist, NATO outdated

    May 29, 2012 • 12:19 pm

    By Jake Highton

    Ministers from 28 nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held a summit meeting in Chicago last week, triumphantly proclaiming the status quo and proving NATO’s irrelevance

  • Cranky Cuss

    The Huffington Post circa 1969

    May 25, 2012 • 10:57 am

    By Cranky Cuss

    Trying to imagine what Arianna Huffington’s site would have looked like if it had existed in 1969                                …