Name: Jayson Harsin
Dateline: Paris, France
Weblog: parisnormal.blogspot.com
Articles: 32
First Published: Sunday, August 27, 2006
Last Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Currently listing articles 32-1:
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Concert Review: Eli Paperboy Reed, Paris 7/15/08— Eli Paperboy Reed, the hottest new Soul Revivalist, performs his first show in Paris
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Concert Review: The Hives & Gogol Bordello - Le Zenith - Paris, France - April 20, 2008— Gogol Bordello and the Hives's shock therapy for Paris.
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Concert Review: Thedø - La Maroquinerie, Paris, France December 4, 2007— Concert Review of thedø, a buzzing new franco-finnish indie folk duo at the Maroquinerie, Paris.
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Wombat Rock: Interview with The Wombats— “We want to keep on doing music full time. We don’t want to be a flash in the pan.”
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Concert Review: 54 Nude Honeys/Rodeo Massacre: La Maroquinerie, Paris— Spectacular performances by Rodeo Massacre and 54 Nude Honeys at the Maroquinerie, Paris. Bands to watch, especially.
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Sarkozy Triumphs in Struggle to Claim France— Sarkozy wins first round of French presidential elections,amid a range of candidates who all claim, "I am France."
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Sarkozy's French "Law and Order": Racing for the French Presidency— Sarkozy for French president: Neo-fasicsm by a shrewd politician?
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Kirk Rundstrom, 1968-2007: Thank you— Kirk Rundstrom, the beaming, generous and energetic front man of Split Lip Rayfield is dead at 38.
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Music Review: Scott H. Biram - Graveyard Shift — Review of the blues, country, punk album by Scott H. Biram: Graveyard Shift.
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Universal Health Care: The Problems with Public Opinion Polls, Part I— A recent Reuters story on Americans' public opinion regarding universal healthcare demonstrates the flaws of news covering polls.
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Don't French Me In: Indie Style in Paris, Part II— Part II of a meditation on Indie American style transplanted in France
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Don't French me In: Indie Style Among the French— An indie encounter with French fashion norms and a meditation on their relation to power and identity--what's in a pair of pants?
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Concert Review: Girls Against Boys, La Maroquinerie Paris, February 21, 2007— Girls Against Boys Concert at La Maroquinerie club, Paris France showed the band still doing what they do best, even if too briefly.
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Music Reviews: Wolf Parade, Peter Bjorn and John, Tapes'n'Tapes, and More— MP3 Peep Show: Or Riding the Metro with Jayson
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Movie Review: In Praise of the Pagan, Feminist, Anti-Musical Holiday Classic, The Year Without a Santa Claus— The Year Without a Santa Claus — holiday humanism with a feminist, secular twist.
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Indie Music Reviews for the Attention Deficient: Special Holiday Column— Solidarity in pain, regret, and hope for the holidays.
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The Ghosts of Indie Paris Past: Sing Sing and Eloise— Beneath the teeming anthills of Paris tourism and consumerism beats the old heart of indie culture.
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Indie Music Reviews for the Attention Deficient: Pajo— Pajo is post-rock-campfire song-rowboat music.
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How to Win Enemies and Influence People: Hussein and Coincidences— An election in two days and....Click! Saddam Hussein Is Sentenced to Death! Saddam Hussein Is Sentenced to Death! Saddam...
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Don't Have a Real Public Issue? Go Tabloid: Kerry and Election 2006— News coverage of Kerry's statement about troops in Iraq days before a major election is an example tabloidization passing as public debate.
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Concert Review: Calexico at the Bataclan Theatre, Paris, October 29, 2006— Their mariachified indie sound still holds up, though flickers of an identity crisis were observable.
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Elusive Facts, Pervasive Fictions: On Election 2006 and the Horrible/Great Economy— Pundits, politicians, and their cherry-picked research struggle to shape citizens' undestanding of "the economy." Their practices threaten democratic debate.
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Revenge of the Nerd: Weird Al Yankovic Does "A Little Jig"— ...
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Concert Review: ¡Forward, Russia! at La Maroquinerie, Paris— Review of ¡Forward, Russia! concert at La Maroquinerie, Paris, France.
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Indie Music Reviews for the Attention Deficient: Devotchka and Hem— To indie music lovers living under the lash of speed, I give you haiku reviews of Devotchka and Hem.
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Smoking, Pas Chic?— It's practically a cliche to say it: smoking is a way of life in France.
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Paris's "Nuit Blanche": Institutionalized Psychogeography— How do environments, landscapes human and natural, influence and structure the behavior, emotions, and thoughts of human beings?
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Public Memories of 9/11: Exploiting Tragedy Five Years Later— Remembering 9/11 has been the object of continual political exploitation for five years. Most of all, Bush has used it to justify Iraq.
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Indie Music Reviews for the Attention Deficient: Josh Rouse, Gogol Bordello, iForward, Russia!— "Damn, here I am on the Internet and I've got so much crap to do!"
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Music Reviews for the Attention Deficient: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Jose Gonzales, and Shout Out Louds— Short reviews for the attention deficient.
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Security After Katrina: One Year Later— Who's better off since Katrina?
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Concert Review: Rock en Seine: Ca Rocke pas— Review of bands at Rock en Seine, music festival: Morissey, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Raconteurs, Kasabian, TV on Radio.
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