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And Now, If You Will All Please Rise and Place Your Fingers In Your Ears

Hayes Permar | Posted 11.13.2009 | Sports


Hayes Permar

We're in Star-Spangled season when football, basketball and hockey overlap. This means there's a scramble to fill game slates with national anthem singers. It also means some renditions will be butchered.

Oh, Say Can You Sing? A National Anthem to Remember

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment


Robert J. Elisberg

There is in the American consciousness for notable performances of the National Anthem at sporting events. But for sheer emotional joy, it's hard to top what happened on April 27,2003

The Audacity of the Presidential Inauguration Committee: or This Land is Whose Land?

Susan Brison | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics


Susan Brison

I was hoping that hearing Gene Robinson speak at the Inaugural Concert would return to me the joy I felt on election night, but the Presidential Inauguration Committee decided to sell the property rights to HBO.

An American Tune

Anne Hill | Posted 01.09.2009 | Entertainment


Anne Hill

It's one of those weird things, the patriotic hymns of your youth still live in your heart somewhere, despite all the things you learn in the meantime.

John C. Reilly, Flea, Shepard Fairey, Miri Ben-Ari, Russell Simmons, Marc Ecko, MC Yogi (Obama-Inspired VIDEOS)

Ben Arnon | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


Ben Arnon

"If you choose to exercise your right to vote, your opinion matters. A banker's vote carries the same weight as a skateboarder, a farmer or someone who is unemployed."

What So Proudly We Hail (video)

Tom Gregory | Posted 07.12.2008 | Media


Tom Gregory

Times may change but he American Flag remains undaunted, ready to solicit a tear of joy, surge of pride, or a blast of an anthem at her spot-lit presence.