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Taking ‘Shelter’: Jars of Clay continues its slide

September 12, 2010 By Ryan Howard

Everybody hits a rough patch. And I mean everyone. It’s true, whether you like it or not. Sometimes the patches are short (Ronald Reagan hamstringing Gerald Ford, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” the Minnesota Twins and June 2010), and sometimes they’re long (Barack Obama in 2009, Kate from “Lost,” the Minnesota Twins and [...]

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Best Albums of the Decade (or ‘Sorry, ’04 and ’05, You’re Not Invited’)

January 23, 2010 By Ryan Howard 4 Comments

January might be almost over, but if we concentrate hard enough, most of us can still remember those days of yore, those faint and misty memories, those nostalgia laden yesteryears that were the … um, the … the last 10 years. What are we supposed to call that decade, anyway? The two-thousands? The zeros? The [...]