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January 2011 Edition

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In this Edition

Featured Artists

Artist Resources

Music Reviews

Book Reviews

Publisher Essays

Cinema

About RARWRITER.com

Archives

 

 

Strange Stories

 

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Soundscan Charts

 

 

SPECIAL REPORTS

 

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Artist

Management

 

 

 

 

 

Blues

Series

 

 
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

 

MUSIC EDUCATION: Doug Strobel's "You Can't Get There From Here" Music Education Series

 

POLITICAL OPINION: Sam Broussard's Advice to Republicans

 

THE "LINKS AT RARWRITER"
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MUSIC REVIEWS
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RAR reviews LPs from Sam Broussard (Veins), Edo Castro (Sacred Graffitti), and Elizabeth Kay (My Fugitive Years). Also read reviews from RARWRITER contributors Doug Strobel and Diana Olson.

BOOK REVIEWS AND MORE (click here): This edition, RAR takes a long look at Philip K. Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Clemens and The Iowa Writer's Workshop. Read earlier RAR reviews, including a look back at David Halberstam's The Reckoning, and Alan Greenspan's book "The Age of Turbulence."

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ARTIST INDEX:

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J. Vermeer -  "The Artist In His Studio"

 

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ARCHIVES: Selected features from past editions.

 

RARADIO: Click here to go to the RARadio page to hear innovative acts from across the spectrum of musical genres.

 

POLITICAL LINKS -

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