What propelled Nirvana out of the underground into stores monitored by SoundScan wasn’t
Butch Vig’s glossy, radio-friendly production. It wasn’t even Samuel Bayer’s visually catchy “Smells Like Teen Spirit” MTV video, with the band, moshing fans and anarchy-symbol-wearing varsity cheerleaders disrupting a high school pep rally. It was
Kurt Cobain’s ‘60s-pop-radio-bred compositional smarts, which sliced through the wall-of-filth guitars like a chainsaw aimed at a stack of Kleenex. Having a monster drummer in
Dave Grohl helped, as did Cobain’s uncanny ability to scream on pitch. But his songs perfectly captured the ennui and frustrations of the entire latch-key-kid generation entering their early 20s. They ensured Nirvana went mega. However, a quick scan of many of
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We’ve reached 2021, finally and with hope. We groaned, suffered, despaired, and grieved our way through 2020 with all its trials, tribulations, wrong turns, a pandemic outbreak still with us, and increasing violence. For almost everyone, it was a disaster in one way or another.
My optometrist reminded me the other day that I need to make an appointment for my annual examination. Given my age and a couple of medical issues that could potentially damage my vision, I have to be careful with my eyes. I’m too fond of reading, needlework, and television, and I don’t want to go blind. Although I might see in a normal range with remedial lenses, I notice each year, I see a little less well. Even with new prescriptions, I doubt I will ever be able to see 20/20 again for longer than a few months at a time. Still, I am grateful for even slightly impaired vision most of the time, that is except when trying to read street signs further away than half a hundred
Young Kwak photo Spokane Tribal Council Chairwoman Carol Evans along what used to be Fort George Wright Drive.
Seth Peterson: Is it too much to ask for the stoppage of cancel culture? Just because something makes you uncomfortable or has a few skeletons (news flash: we all are fallen humans) doesn t mean you have to get rid of said thing or person entirely. Keep at it, and we ll have a completely sterile culture, void of any meaning or sustenance.
Logan Long: My dawg, to play a little devil s advocate, or not, would it be wrong to tear down swastikas after WWII? I dislike cancel culture as much as you, but we should distinguish victory from cancel culture. Native Americans are beginning to claim victory over being the target of years of genocide.
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missouri, colorado, arizona. as we go forward, we want to check up on the claims regarding health care. what adds up and what leaves something to be desired? something you have read about, the contraception controversy. they chewed out the president for a rule that requires insurance plans to cover contraception. even plans for those with religious organizations. just in the last several days, the administration said under obama care, religious organizations like schools catholic schools, catholic hospitals have to provide for free contraceptives and free morning after pills, abortive pills for employees, in violation of the religious conscience of those organizations. after that, the white house said look, you know, governor romney was flip-flopped. romney responded to that. here is how it went down. former governor of massachusetts is an odd messenger on this given that the services that this rule would provide for women around the country are the same that are provid