March 06, 2009
Someone wrote to us this week that a person in his family is terminally ill, and that he was told "that the cost of the casket, funeral, viewing, and burial would possibly exceed 12,000 dollars." He thinks that's an "exorbitant amount of money," and so do we. There is no reason to pay that much mone...
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Chris Walters
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February 21, 2009
Culture and Media Institute (via): [CNN's Valerie] Streit writes that while dying may be very natural, modern burying rituals such as “formaldehyde-based solutions� and “concrete vaults� are not at all “nature-friendly.� The Green Burial Council's executive director Joe Sehee supported t...
Evangelical Ecologist Blog - Conservative Christians and the Environment
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Don
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January 28, 2009
If Cake were to somehow become relevant again, start recording records where they're trying to cover They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top (not to mention moving an entire recording studio into the bottom of a damp mineshaft), the guys in The Phantom Band would probably have ever...
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January 06, 2009
The holidays are over, which is a big YAY for anyone looking for signs of life from the music industry via new releases. It’s still a relatively small week, but things are finally revving back up. I’m excited about what appears to be a stateside release of Burial’s contribution to ...
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Josh Mock
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December 30, 2008
Remixes have been a constant since the late '70s. Artists have been holding remix contests since at least 1983, when Tommy Boy advertised for a prize to the chancer(s) who best recast G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid's "Play That Beat, Mr. DJ" and inadvertently birthed unto the world Double Dee & Steinski, the...
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Michaelangelo Matos
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Jewish Law, Halacha, is very different from the standard American, Christian, western. For Jews growing up out of Israel, in the galut, diaspora, it's sometimes hard to realize that local Jews have adopted many non-Jewish customs. I guess it sounds peculiar, and can be misread, for me to say that I ...
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December 12, 2008
Those of you who are the praying type, please send up a request of bodily protection as I attend the Progressive Damnation tour stop tomorrow. I ask this not only because of the recent snowy weather, but also because Club Octane can become cramped and hot: not a good combo when metal or hardcore are...
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December 08, 2008
Indian Muslims demonstrate against Mumbai attacks (Ruth Fremson/NYT) I’m struck by the fact that India’s Muslim community immediately responded to the Mumbai terror attacks by not only denouncing them, but by refusing the dead terrorists burial in Muslim cemeteries. A Muslim readers in...
Tikun Olam-תקון עול�: Make the World a Better Place » Mideast Peace
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Richard Silverstein
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December 03, 2008
After the Burial, Born of Osiris, and Shai HuludBackbone Music, Delray BeachTuesday, December 2, 2008 Better Than: Feeling old in a place with no live music.... The Review: Backbone Music, in the heart of downtown Delray, got the Broward-Palm Beach New Times' Best Record Store nod in 2007. But becau...
CrossFade - Miami
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November 27, 2008
Director : Stanley Kubrick Release Date : 23 May 1980 (USA) Genre : Horror, Thriller Cast : Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance, Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance, Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann, Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman, Philip Stone as Delbert Grady, Joe Turkel a...
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