I wrote this article in 2005 when Jean Durfee was still alive. It was always a treat to have Jean drop in the museum because she always brought something I’d never seen and was a real asset to local history. Toward the end of her life, I’d visit her.
DEFERIET — Spurred by the dilapidated condition of the former post office building on Anderson Avenue, the village Board of Trustees adopted an unsafe building and structures local law on
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The first time Dallas-born rapper Vanilla Ice’s one-hit-wonder “Ice Ice Baby” reached the airways was by mistake. A DJ in Atlanta had meant to play its A-Side counterpart, a cover of “Play that Funky Music.” But, what was done was done and afterward the request lines lit up. By November 1990, the litigated musical mosaic became the first-ever hip-hop track to reach No. 1 on the Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.
Sentiments on this song live on the fringes of the pendulum: It’s the cilantro of music, the Dallas Cowboys of song. In 2004, VH1 and
Blender magazine ranked “Ice Ice Baby” fifth on the list of “50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs … Ever.” Limp Bizkit’s, Rollin was fourth, Wang Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” was third. Billy Ray Cyrus’ Achy Breaky Heart took No. 2, only to be beaten with the dubious top honor, We Built This City by Starship. Yeah, it’s just