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Haight-Ashbury Correspondent, White Cover Magazine
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Mumford & Sons are a pretty damn easy band to like.
How can you hate on their sound, their soul, or their attitude? The British folk band has made a living and a cult-turned-global following from their Celtic-ish jingles and their raspy “we always sound like we’re in an Dublin bar” sound.
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Editor, White Cover Magazine
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On Wednesday night, Ottawa – Canada’s lone remaining team in these 2013 NHL playoffs – was slaughtered at the hands of the probably mightier and far more star-studded Pittsburgh Penguins. 9-3, when all was said and done, and the Senators are only one loss from joining the six other franchise based above the 49th.
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Editor, White Cover Magazine
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The Memorial Cup is a big deal, at least in the way of junior hockey. Those who pay attention to the Canadian Hockey League and its three leagues (of which several of the best teams are often American, as is the case with this year’s Portland Winterhawks) know which stars have what it takes to make it in the ‘Chel, and they know they’ll be watching these players on a bigger stage – Stanley Cups, Olympics, or just in the roster for one of 30 NHL clubs – for years to come. I had that luxury as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario in London, because the Knights teams I watched first-hand and in-person were stacked with talent you now know as Patrick Kane, Sam Gagner, Corey Perry, Nazem Kadri, and John Tavares.
But, for as big as the Memorial Cup is, it’s also watched intensely by only few. It relies on the new news cycle of the Internet, blog entries (like this one), and Rogers TV-produced mini-series to catch the eyes of millions, or just thousands.
So, when Alexis Normand hummed, hawed, and softly mumbled her way through the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ on Saturday, it was hard-to-watch – either because you were laughing too hard or because you just felt really bad for her.
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Haight-Ashbury Correspondent, White Cover Magazine
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Is this how you raise morale, or is this like smashing a lamp as everyone evacuates Ancient Troy?
(*And, yes, you can successfully compare the New Jersey/Brooklyn/Five Boroughs Nets to Ancient Troy.)
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The Raiders — be it the Los Angeles version of that ugly Oakland one — are linked almost permanently with the rap group NWA. This is partly due to Ice Cube’s documentary of the relationship. It’s also due to pop culture in the early 90′s or, more likely, Los Angeles’s hold as the base of that era’s coolness.
And yet, trademark has to interfere.
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