Pioneer Valley Blogwire

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• UMass Health Services: Not Diagnosing Swine Flu?

  —Amherst Life Blog

  People, UMass-Amherst's Heath Services Center is not diagnosing students with Swine Flu nor are they keeping track of the numbers of students with swine flu... They don't seem to think that knowing/having the number of students with swine flu matters. We find this troubling. More troubling is the fact that' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:43am EST
  by The Crew

• Lincoln Street Closes, Still no Parking

  —Amherst Life Blog

  Um, excuse us, but did the town vote to SHUT DOWN the entryway from Lincoln Ave. onto the UMass Campus? For the first few weeks of school, barricades were set up, police were patrolling and ticketing anyone who tried to go around the barricades, traffic was altered, and all of [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:35am EST
  by The Crew

• Moti Restaurant

  —Amherst Life Blog

  Well, we don't want to boast, but it does look like the owners of Moti saw our business prospects in Amherst posting (along with two new taxi companies) and they are doing very well. The moral of the story: if Amherst Life calls for a new business in town, one' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 3:30am EST
  by The Crew

• Off to My Favorite Land, Far, Far Away

  —Readuponit: Travel and voracious reading

  We are off, tomorrow at 6 am, flying to Los Angeles and then tomorrow night, to Auckland and then Wellington New Zealand. It has been a day of packing and trying to remember everything, and accepting that things won't get done but will upon our return on Dec 3.
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:12pm EST
  by Max Hartshorne

• Jack's Advice

  —Tommy Devine's Online Journal

  Writing Tips.
  
  
  
  I can't believe I never saw this before! It's a list that Jack Kerouac once wrote of the "essentials" of writing which he called Belief and Technique for Modern Prose. Here's the list with my comments after each one based on my' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  by Tom

• Watch Amp Live do the Robot

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  Producer Amp Live, of Zion I and Radiohead remix fame, Trackademicks, and Mr. Micro get “dummy retarded” with a silly robot costume in the video for the Oaktown Electro jam “Gary is a Robot.”
  
  
  
  “Gary is a Robot” is the first single and video taken from [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:27pm EST
  

• The Furcast is Grey

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  
  
  “Grey is Old” from California-based duo Furcast is a slinking cinematic symphony equally evocative of film-noir soundtracks and the ‘90s Trip-Hop acts who took inspiration from them.
  
  It also has a furious Heavy Metal breakdown in the middle which makes it sound all the more [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:13pm EST
  

• Oprah Winfrey Retires: Will the world end?

  —The Moviezzz Blog

  Number of comments: 1
  Oprah Winfrey announced today that she is retiring.
  
  The media is freaking out. In the car this afternoon, the talk show host I was listening to was acting as if the world was ending.
  
  Can everyone settle down?
  
  Oprah is retiring in 2011, 18 months from [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:45pm EST
  by Moviezzz

• Animal Collective are “Feeling Envy for the Kid Who'll Dance Despite Anything.”

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  This song, “In the Flowers,” makes me tear up, and the video is just beautiful.
  
  
  
  It's from ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion,’ by far the best album of the year. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:34pm EST
  

• School for the Dead on Facebook

  —The Living Rockumentary of School for the Dead

  Are you on Facebook? Come on over and join us there too! We'll be your best friends.
  
  FB.init("e50c91f81087616148ba66bb3acd72cc");School for the Dead on Facebook ' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:33pm EST
  by Henning

• Ryan-O'Neil is Hyphenated and Apostrophed

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  
  
  Queens emcee Ryan-O‘Neil—the vocal half of true-school revivalists duo 100dBs and Ryan-O’Neil—emerges two years after the release of their debut LP ‘The Adventures of the One Hand Bandit and the Slum Computer Wizard’ with ‘Hyphenated & Apostrophed,’ a 7-track EP!
  
  Released 100% free of charge [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  

• :Kinema: Babysit Animal Collective's “Girls”

  —IMAGEYENATION.COM

  
  
  One of my favorite tunes of the year—Animal Collective's “My Girls”—gets a bubbly, auto-tuned cover courtesy of :Kinema:, a Brighton, UK-based Indie-meets-Disco-meets-R&B-meets-Pop trio.
  
  :Kinema: “My Girls” (.MP3)
  
  Fans of Lo-Fi-FNK, Erlend Øye's The Whitest Boy Alive side-project, N*E*R*D and their boy Kenna, old-school [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

• Northeast Center for Youth & Families Ursa Dedication Ceremony

  —Easthampton City Arts

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  On November 19th, 2009 Northeast Center for Youth [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:05am EST
  by Easthampton City Arts