Natalie Merchant

Autism and My Grandson's First Swim

Don McNay | Posted 05.20.2012

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Don McNay

My grandson and I recently went to a baseball game. He is learning about the sport his grandfather loves. While we were there, he completely reprogrammed my cell phone. He fixed a problem in thirty seconds that Apple's tech people couldn't fix in three hours.

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Laura Rowley

Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 02.02.2012

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Natalie Merchant was still a teenager when she strolled into the community college radio station in Jamestown, New York, arms loaded with albums and e...

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Giving Thanks For The Occupation, Election, Demonstrations

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Social Security, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Thanksgiving, Natalie Merchant, Gop, John Kasich, Main Street, Medicaid, Medicare, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, Recession, Republicans, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

Before the occupation movement began, country club conservatives had confined political discussion and concern to government deficits. No one acknowledged the unemployed, the impoverished or the foreclosed on -- except to condemn them. The occupations changed this.

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From Buddy Holly Day to The Hopelessly Devoted: A Week of Revival in L.A.

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Brian Wilson, Ringo Star, Peter and Gordon, Stevie Nicks, Peter Asher, Buddy Holly, Phil Everly, Gary Busey, The Tender Idols, Jeff Lynne, The Hopelessly Devoted, The Troubadour, Jackson Brown, Natalie Merchant, The Idyllists, The Fray, Maria Elena Holly, The Everly Brothers, Ian Webber, Slidepollajax, La Around Town, Los Angeles News
Kristi York Wooten

If there were ever a week for a midcentury music revival in L.A., this must be it.

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Put 10,000 Maniacs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Dave Astor | Posted 09.09.2011

Read More: Roxy Music, The Cure, Mary Ramsey, Patti Smith, Indie Bands, Steve Gustafson, Alternative Rock, Robert Buck, 000 Maniacs, Jeff Erickson, Natalie Merchant, Dennis Drew, Jerry Augustyniak, John Lombardo, Joy Division, Maria Sebastian, 10, R.E.M., The Clash, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
Dave Astor

As I write this post, I'm sitting in The Wishing Chair. That's the name of a 10,000 Maniacs album from 1985, and also reflects my wish that the band be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It would be a much-deserved honor.

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HuffPost Video Exclusive: R.E.M.'s "Überlin," Plus Conversations with David Lowery and Cowboy Junkies' Michael Timmins

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Ragogna

The following video, "Überlin," is R.E.M.'s latest offering, premiering exclusively on HuffPost.

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TED, Solar Power, Windpower, and All Things Amerikana: A Conversation with Thomas Dolby

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pacifica, Van Morrison, Al Gore, Natalie MacMaster, Houdini, Paul Simon, An Inconvenient Truth, Grace Jones, Trever Horn, Dolby's Cube, Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club, Gordon Brown, Stevie Wonder, Lene Lovich, Ted, Technology Education & Design, Mtv, Tracy Chapman, Frank Zappa, Bill Clinton, Dan Hicks, Guy Ritchie, Mike Shipley, Nokia, The Buggles, Theremin, George Clinton, Mark Knopfler, Grammy Awards, Roger Dean, Prefab Sprout, Regina Spektor, They Might Be Giants, Herbie Hancock, Danny Kleinman, Larry Klein, Dire Straits, Howard Jones, Natalie Merchant, Quentin Tarantino, Joni Mitchell, Def Leppard, Blade Runner, James Bond, Thomas Dolby, Silicon Valley, Foreignor, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

"Among other things I do," says the British musician, "I'm the music director of an organization called TED or Technology, Education and Design. That's an annual get together of people sort of figuring out how to save the planet."

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Happy to Be "Irrelevant"

Stephanie Dolgoff | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women, Aging, Youth, Swiffer, Lps, My Formerly Hot Life, Ozzy Osbourne, Pop Culture, Beauty, formerlyhot.com, Splenda, Our Lips Are Sealed, Body Image, Natalie Merchant, The '80s, Lady GaGa, Mohehan Sun Resorts, Simon LeBon, Go-Gos, Healthy Living News
Stephanie Dolgoff

The '80s were when I was in high school and college, when, like every raw and angsty adolescent, I felt on some level that Simon LeBon and Natalie Merchant and even Ozzy Osbourne were living inside my head.

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Natalie Merchant a Disappointment in Concert

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Jim Taylor

Natalie Merchant is undoubtedly a tremendous songwriting talent with a extraordinary voice. But as far as her concerts go, she has lost this fan and customer forever.

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Natalie Merchant and American Radical Traditionalism

David Shasha | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Shasha

In defying convention, great artists like Natalie Merchant have reopened our culture's creative archive and firmly asserted their strong commitment to maintaining the cultural legacy that we have inherited.

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Play > Skip: New Music for April 13

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natalie Merchant, Jason Castro, Jeff Beck, Mgmt, Coheed and Cambria, Entertainment News
Shawn Amos

Beck's back with his first new studio album in seven years. For the rest of you who want vocals, there are new releases from MGMT, Natalie Merchant, Coheed and Cambria and Jason Castro.

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Natalie Merchant Sets Poems to Music

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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John Lundberg

Natalie Merchant will be on tour this summer performing songs from Leave Your Sleep, her first studio album in seven years.

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Letter From Paris: Natalie Merchant Sings Life Into These Old Words

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beth Arnold

Natalie Merchant quietly walked onto the stage of the sold-out house at the L'Alhambra in Paris wearing a simple black shift and jacket, hair loosely across her shoulders, and face plain without a facade of make-up.

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New Attitudes: Conversations With Shelby Lynne & Jennifer Knapp

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Ragogna

Shelby Lynne and Jennifer Knapp are two strong women who are not shy about sharing their feelings and convictions. This month, both artists return with new fiery albums.

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TED2010: A Social Entrepreneur's Perspective

Courtney Reum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google Phone, William Li, Ze Frank, Sarah Silverman, Sir Ken Robinson, Alcohol Sector, James Cameron, Natalie Merchant, Acai, Arianna Huffington, Veev, Bill Gates, Green Alcohol, Corporate Social Responsibility, Green Entrepreneurs, Philip Howard, Technology News
Courtney Reum

If there's one clear thing I take away from TED every year, it's that the world is on the precipice of some monumental shifts, and technology has created an acceleration of these changes at a rate mankind has never seen before.

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"Thank You Friends": A Very Special Thanksgiving Playlist For The Huffington Post Community

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Wild

Here's my personal Thanksgiving playlist, designed to help put us all in the proper mindset for Thursday's holiday, and arguably for every other day here on earth too.

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Music's Biggest Quitters: 20 Who Quit

Spinner | Spinner Staff | Posted 05.25.2011

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They say winners never quit, but in the music biz there's something to be said for going out at the top of your game. Whether they left for greener p...

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Playing the Hand that Life Deals You

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2011

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Don McNay

I've dealt with hundreds of parents of special needs children. They take the hand that is dealt to them. And usually turn that hand into aces.

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