Archive for November, 2008
This past Sunday afternoon, I asked my wife if she wanted to hop on her bicycle and ride a little while with me, and so we did.
I wanted to wheel away from the election news, having had my fill of the TV talking heads and the print pundits. I wanted to glide back into the real world. So while my wife’s parents watched our kids, she and I rode for miles.
Plenty of others had the same idea. We biked down the hill to reach the Allegheny River Trail that runs along the North Shore, and found a stretch alive with bikers, walkers and joggers, a scene that was a world apart from the lonely shore it had been when I moved to the North Side 18 years ago.
[ Full article available at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08309/925094-294.stm ]
It was only fitting on Halloween weekend that the Deadheads assembled at the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead got to join in unison to sing, “steal your face right off your head.”
The most skull-centric piece of Grateful Dead lyricism was delivered by Bob Weir and Ratdog deep in the second set of a show that spanned nearly four hours.
The Dead’s co-frontman sports a bushy gray beard these days to go along with dropping as many beloved Jerry Garcia songs into the set as his own. In addition to the aforementioned “He’s Gone,” Weir even reached into the Garcia solo catalog for “Mission in the Rain,” a song he doesn’t sing with the tenderness Jerry did but was effective nonetheless.
[ Full story available at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08307/924851-388.stm ]
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