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Entries by Karen Dalton-Beninato from 06/2009

China: Red Rocker Video for a Mayor Fresh Out of Quarantine

| Posted 06.10.2009 | Entertainment
Read More: New Orleans, Oley Sassone, Cowboy Mouth, China, Red Rockers, Ray Nagin, Video, John Thomas Griffith, Entertainment News

Now that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is cleared to leave Shanghai, here's something to remember his quarantined stopover with: The Red Rockers new wave classic "China" video.

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Rumi, Twitter and Iran: In Praise of the Whirling Dervishes

| Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
Read More: New Orleans, Iran, Rumi, Poetry, St. John's Eve, Father's Day, Twitter, Spirituality, Media News

The internet is spinning us to a degree that a dervish could love.

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Four Steps to Save Publishing, by the Unpublished

| Posted 06.30.2009 | Media
Read More: New Orleans, Ben Hecht, Chicago, Media, New York Times, Washington Post, Publishers, Huffington Post, Journalism, Newspapers, Molly Ivins, Twitter, Hollywood, James Thurber, Dorothy Dix, Ernest Hemingway, Advertising, Economy, Media News

The collective naval-gazing of reporters and publishers far exceeds the outcry when free downloads upended the music industry and streaming video tanked television ratings, because when a crisis hits the writers it's what we write about.

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