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THE YEAR 2025 - 2525

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This one-hit wonder was way ahead of its time.

BRONX BAAD

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This weekend is an excellent opportunity to be BAAD in The Bronx. This is the poorest congressional district in the USA, with nearly half the residents living below the poverty line, along with a percentage of single-parent families, and where many students never finish high school.

DEFY DEMENTIA

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Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, a recent scientific study suggests. The new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline.

GOP DESPERADO$

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Have all Republican politicians lost touch with humility, human connection, planning, or public service purpose? Their MO is to create a problem, blame it on others and appear to fix it.

CARPENTERS WANTED

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Dedicated to Yirong. I love my wife, and she enjoys listening to Karen's songs along with her heavenly voice.

MUSIC HISTORY

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“Oh, Pretty Woman” dominated the charts in 1964, and made history decades later by shaping how we understand fair use and parody in copyrights.

OCCURRED IN 1971

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History may not always repeat but it rhymes. It's a good line no matter who originated it. Essentially it suggests that events may not occur again in exactly the same way but there often are enough similarities to make it seem like a spot of deja vu.

RASPBERRY PARK

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When my daughters were little girls we traveled to Asbury Park beach, which is the same place I frequently visited as a teenager. We collectively renamed it to Raspberry Park. We also went to Wildwood and Cape May, I hope to take my grandkids there someday.

YES SI MON

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Say YaY for Monterey 😍 The iconic event was full of notable performances by Canned Heat, Laura Nyro, Jefferson Airplane, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, and the Grateful Dead. Monterey’s multi-genre bill offered the best of what the 1960s had to offer: sentimental folk, experimental psychedelia, and straightforward rock ‘n’ roll. In addition to the music, the festival’s social attitude, artistic style, and general “vibe” helped define the ethos of the Summer of Love. West Coast was a musical mecca, and the Monterey Pop Festival was the world’s journey to this central point.

Roughly 200,000 people attended the Monterey International Pop Festival. Compared to Woodstock’s approximately 400,000, the 1967 festival seemed somewhat small. But at the time, it was one of the largest and most significant musical events the U.S. had ever seen. Fortunately for many of the artists involved, this impressive accolade meant that their inclusion on the lineup caused their careers to skyrocket practically overnight.

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