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Author Archives: Scott Rosenberg
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How I Learned to Like Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf With David Dalton To Hell and Back: An Autobiography (Regan Books) Meat Loaf VH1 Storytellers (Beyond Music) By Scott Rosenberg When I was in high school there was an ad in the back of comic books for a children’s literacy campaign, or something equally touchy-feely. The most memorable thing about the poorly drawn […]
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Right Hooks and School Books
By Scott Rosenberg Ninos Abraham is 14 years old, a clean-cut, attentive honor student who respects authority, follows instructions, and gives his all when it matters most–usually somewhere in the first 30 seconds of round three. Watching Ninos fight is a joy. It doesn’t take a trained eye to see that he has skill and […]
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Made From Scratch
First Bi-Annual Midwest Turntablist Competition at the Laboratory, October 9 By Scott Rosenberg The one fan in the room shorted out long ago, and bodies are pressed together in the saunalike heat. It’s a little after nine at night and people–a hundred or so young men and a handful of young women, black, white, and […]