Jo Maeder

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Chuck Berry, the author, takes out the trash and dishes it, too

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I confess, I probably wouldn’t have read Chuck Berry’s autobiography had I not seen Bob Dylan reading it backstage. I immediately bought it and devoured it. Not long after, Berry played a club in New York City and I was asked to introduce him onstage as part of my DJ duties as “The Rock and […]

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QUICKIE Q&A: HOPE EDELMAN

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                  Ever since I read Shirley MacLaine’s 2001 book The Camino about her walking the Camino de Santiago – a 500-mile pilgrimage in northern Spain – alone when she was in her sixties, I’ve been fascinated with this spiritual trek. When I saw that Emilio Estevez had written, directed, and acted […]

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