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Fear Isn’t a Reason to Quit
In “Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared,” Caroline Paul writes about being one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department. “I expected people to question whether I had the physical ability to do the job (even though I was a 5-foot-10, 150-pound ex-college athlete). What I didn’t…
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P.O.S Is (Not) Ruining My Life
I first saw P.O.S perform, when he opened for Cursive. It was May 2009, and I had moved to Minneapolis a few months before. P.O.S had just put out the album Never Better. But I didn’t know this. I didn’t know who P.O.S was yet. I had discovered The Current, a public radio station that…
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7 Things You Need to Know About Music Festivals that I learned at Bon Iver’s Eaux Claire Fest
Last weekend, I attended the inaugural Eaux Claire Fest in Eau Claire, WI. (We are all just assuming at this point there will be another one.) The festival was the brainchild of Bon Iver front man Justin Vernon and co-curator Aaron Dessner of The National. They planned a music festival with various genres of music,…
Writer Pam Dewey 