Dashboard’s ‘Alter’ Grown up & Substantive

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For me, the best albums are the ones where the music changes with you during each stage of life. On their 6th full-length, Chris Carrabba and Co. intentionally create that type of album. Whereas Carrabba’s earlier releases were heart-on-sleeve affairs, Alter the Ending is a bit more fluid in its overall story and message. Alter [...]

The Letter to Mauer Is Sent

On October 27th, we invited you to sign your name to a letter to Joe Mauer. Since we indicated that the letter – asking Joe to stay with the Twins when they offer him a contract extension this offseason – would be sent on this very day, we wanted to provide incontrovertible visual proof that [...]

Why Read Sarah Palin’s Book?

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Bits and pieces of the former governor’s new book are popping up all o’er the interweb. The Drudge Report & AP were the first news sources to get their mitts on a copy, but it was a portion of the work posted by the Huffington Post that reminded us why we’re so looking forward to [...]

Kutcher, Palin & Prejean

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TWG Podcast Volume 36 What’s the lesson that Carrie Prejean’s recent exploits can teach us in the Christian right? And what do Carrie & Alex Rodriguez have in common? Should Ashton Kutcher’s tweets be treated as a source of political wisdom? Where do Palin, the Huck, and T-Paw stand as we look toward 2012? Are [...]

Chapman’s ‘Beauty’ a Tale of God’s Faithfulness

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I’d planned on doing some things around my apartment as I turned on Chapman’s new cd – thought I could have it on as background music as I went about my day. By the middle of the second track, I was glued to my couch, a complete wreck…