Few bands have had a better start than Arrested Development did in 1992, when its debut album, “3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…,” sold four million copies and earned the group two Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone named Arrested Development its band of the year, and film director Spike Lee asked […]
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Obama’s speech: tax breaks vs. opportunity
Political convention speeches are meant to be emotional and rhetorical. They’re meant to fire up the base, and President Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech last night was no exception. PHOTO COURTESY STEVE JURVETSON Barack Obama That said, there was still a moment in Obama’s speech where the rhetoric really surprised me, pleasantly so. It […]
