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A decade’s worth of banned books

In the midst of National Library Week, the American Library Association has released both its list of the 10 most frequently challenged books of 2009 and the top 100 banned/challenged books of 2000-2009.

Just as with the bestseller lists, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is number one on all-decade all-star team, so to speak. […]

Midweek Music Moment: Vehicle, The Ides of March

By the most common definition of the term, The Ides of March were a one hit wonder band. Forty years ago this week their song “Vehicle” broke onto the Billboard charts, where it would peak at number two in late May 1970. Never again would the band hit the top 40.

A popular Chicago-area group, […]

Book Review: The Long Way Home by David Laskin

Usually lurking somewhere in today’s ongoing immigration debate is an idealized notion of times when the vast majority of those coming to our shores were Europeans. One of those periods was the early part of the 20th Century when eastern, central and southern Europeans came en masse. More than 1 ¼ million immigrants arrived in […]

Weekend Edition 4-10

Bulletin Board

Check out the local B&N tomorrow (Sunday) as it hosts a bookfair fundraiser for the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society. Books and jazz — hard to ask for a better combination.

Copyright law turns 300 today.

A esearch-based website has launched to tell the story of a young farm family […]

Friday Follies 2.9

“A 28-year-old man said he wanted a third degree felony on his record so he wouldn’t be allowed to attend law school.” I think, though, there are much easier ways to avoid it. (Dumb as a Blog)

Like Jonathan Turley, I’m not sure who the traffic sign is directed at but I’m guessing “attenzione prostitute” […]