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More than 100 arrested in DC mountaintop mining protestLouisville Courier-JournalWASHINGTON — Opponents of mountaintop mining rallied in the nation's capital Monday, ...and more »
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Belknap County Superior CourtLaconia CitizenAccording to documents in Belknap County Superior Court, county prosecutor Jim Carroll agreed to drop the charge under the terms of "an agreement signed by ...
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Irish TimesThe 50 best British acts right nowIrish TimesAnd who the hell is James Blake? Here it is: the list of Blighty's best, as chosen by JIM CARROLL and LAUREN MURPHY IT WAS the editor's fault. ...The 50 best British acts right nowCalifornia Chronicleall 2 news articles »
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Luck of the Irish: Corky Row Club gains strengthFall River Spirit"It really was the center of Democratic politics in the city," said Jim Carroll, 74, another longtime member. Membership at what started as a men's only ...
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THE FORTUNE TELLER Returens to HERE, 10/28-12/4Broadway WorldErik Sanko is a fixture of the NYC downtown music scene, having worked with many of its most notable artists such as John Cale, Yoko Ono, Jim Carroll, ...and more »
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No charges arising out of missing knives caseLaconia CitizenBelknap County Attorney Jim Carroll, in reviewing an investigative report filed by the Belknap County Sheriff's Department regarding missing ...
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Irish TimesFrom the OffsetIrish Times... promises to be bigger and bolder: guests of note include hip-hop deity DJ Shadow (in discussion with Irish Times deity Jim Carroll) and old-school Mad ...and more »
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Veterans tell of triumph and tragedyEden Prairie NewsMore than 700 gathered for prayers, music and talks by veterans including PFC Jim Carroll, a World War II paratrooper; Lt. Col. Harry Wisdom, a helicopter ...
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The Basketball DiariesJoBlo.comThis is a based upon true events adaption of the late Jim Carroll's life; his no holds barred upbringing on the streets, his aspiring career in basketball ...
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PopMattersThe Basketball DiariesPopMattersJim Carroll's 1978 memoir The Basketball Diaries wouldn't seem like the ideal Hollywood picture. Set in New York City, ...
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The Basketball DiariesBlu-ray.com (blog)By genre By studio Based on Jim Carroll's novel, "The Basketball Diaries" (1995) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Palm Pictures. The supplemental features on ...
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McConnell softens tone on financial reform billLouisville Courier-JournalWASHINGTON — A week after dismissing a financial regulation reform bill as “fatally ...and more »
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AVRev.comThe Basketball Diaries [Blu-ray]Cinema BlendThe Basketball Diaries is the 1995 adaptation of poet Jim Carroll's drug-and-sports-fueled life in New York in the early 1960's. It's out now on Blu-ray. ...DVDs to be released TuesdayMacon Telegraphall 60 news articles »
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Denton Record ChronicleBringing Pandora homeDenton Record ChronicleThe movie makes its Blu-ray debut, featuring an interview with Kalvert and others, including the late Jim Carroll, who reads some of his poetry. ...and more »
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Irish TimesOn the cutting edgeIrish TimesJIM CARROLL finds out AS ODD AS IT may seem at first glance, The Knife and opera go quite well together. Of course, this is not the first time that pop and ...
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Lehigh University AthleticsLehigh meets Colgate in front of national audienceLehigh University AthleticsPatrick Campbell leads the squad with eight assists and Jim Carroll has taken the majority of the face-offs, having won nearly 57%. In goal for the Raiders, ...and more »
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Irish TimesPerfect team performance sees Donegal into finalDonegal DemocratJames Carroll ran himself into the ground in the opening half and a shoulder injury forced him off. While Peter McGee's straight red just before the break ...Murphy powers Donegal to memorable seventh Ulster titleDonegal Democratall 19 news articles »
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The Irish Times - Saturday, April 3, 2010Irish TimesTheir new LP is full of “melodic pop and graceful purrings,” says Jim Carroll Almondy lush smell of gorse On a hillside near you. ...
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Drive-By Truckers Cover Jim Carroll During Epic NYC SetSpinnerTwo hours and the better part of that Jack bottle later, the Truckers closed with a cover of the Jim Carroll Band's 'People Who Died,' transforming the ...and more »
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Grant funds Web help for small businessesTidewater NewsSBDC Executive Director Jim Carroll, who also serves as vice president for small business with the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce, said he was very ...$23000 grant targets area small businessesDaily Pressall 4 news articles »
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Taylor resident investigates strange treeTaylor Daily PressTwo weeks ago, Taylor resident Jim Carroll, 79, peered outside at the picnic table at which he and his wife sit during the evenings and ...
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'Irish Times' journalist scoops blog awardIrish TimesIRISH TIMES journalist Jim Carroll was among the winners at the Irish Blog Awards which was held in Galway on Saturday night Carroll won the best blog from ...In The Papers 29 MarchElectricNews.netall 3 news articles »
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Blizzard cited for going 84 mph while talking on cell phoneLaconia CitizenBelknap County Attorney Jim Carroll is asking a judge to strip Erica Blizzard of her right to drive a motor vehicle as a condition of her bail. ...NH woman convicted in boat fatal in trouble againThe Union Leaderall 12 news articles »
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...start falling for us," Trojans coach Jim Simpson said. "We just really did not get into a flow (in the first half). Give Bloom-Carroll credit. They didn't let us have a lot of second shots, and they were stopping us defensively." Bloom-Carroll (16-7) knocked...
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The New York poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll was the author of The Basketball
Diaries, a lurid account of his transformation from a clean-cut teenager
attending a private school in Manhattan to a junkie hustling around Times
Square to support his
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If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be -- Yogi Berra
I was a Catholic boy, Redeemed through pain, not through joy - Jim Carroll
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be -- Yogi Berra
He won the 1964 Cy Young Award when, as a member of the Los
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But nice. Many of the writers I’ve read have hin either third or don’t even mention him. And, while I’m at it, if the season started tomorrow, he’s hitting lead-off.
and who they believe will be best in the long run, whereas writers tend to
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I don’t. Spanks/LAAAAAA is on my radar (love).
I was a Catholic boy, Redeemed through pain, not through joy - Jim Carroll
I have no use for the NL, but I guess I’m gonna have to pull for the Phils, since they got a Hawaiian. And I also like Victorino
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I think this is tomorrow.
St. Louis @ the other LA tonight, right?
In Minnesota, when 11,000 people are in the Dome, you feel like you are at an especially depressing demolition derby. -Joe Posnanski
I was a Catholic boy, Redeemed through pain, not
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...take your hobbit circle jerk to another thread
by larry on May 18, 2009 8:58 PM PDT
I was a Catholic boy, Redeemed through pain, not through joy - Jim Carroll
what a baby.
the suck is not just a river in ireland.
Dodgers first, for Jim Thome. If not
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Jim Carroll's recent death inspired as many eulogies and elegies as
might be expected from the passing of a poet, rocker, and memorist,
especially one whose reputation is so bound to a specific place (New
York City) and time (the late 1970's and early 1
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A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: French Publisher Sues Google; ‘Lost Symbol’ Is German Bestseller; Carroll’s Last Project; Frankfurt on the Cheap; Why Writers Can’t Talk.
French Publishers Sues Google
A French publisher
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(Below, via his home in Athens, GA, Daniel Hutchens shares his thoughts on the life and work of Jim Carroll…)
A while back I wrote a Diversions feature for Aquarium Drunkard about my “ten most influential albums.” I found out ten wasn’t nearly enough.
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During his final days as he suffered from pneumonia and hep C, Jim Carroll had returned home to the same Inwood apartment where he was raised and detailed in his classic, The Basketball Diaries. Carroll went back to Inwood to save money and work on
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IT’S not easy to come up with a second act when your first act was being Jim Carroll.
FINAL SHOT Jim Carroll, here in the late 70s, soared to stardom young, with his book The Basketball Diaries and his punk band. He was finishing an autobiographical
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...some inauspicious wormhole of time. But I don’t buy it. This is nothing more than a litany of “So It Goes,” or in Jim Carroll’s case, “these are the people who died.” Far from anonymous, the author/rocker/one-time All-City baller, never attained the level...
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Were I to finally succumb to the quasi-cosmic entropy that envelops soft California skulls, I’d blame the melodramatically named “Summer of Death” on a psychic shift between old and new blood, some paroxysm of pestilence, some inauspicious wormhole of
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Sam Jacobs a.k.a alt country outfit The Flying Change penned this tribute to poet and author Jim Carroll last week. Though not a contributor to DiS we said we'd run this excellent piece. Here's what he wrote.
I heard today that Jim Carroll passed away.
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Yet it will always be The Basketball Diaries – which he wrote between
the ages of 12 and 16, and which was made into a Hollywood film starring
Leonardo Di Caprio in the mid-1990s – for which he will be best remembered.
The Diaries, published in 1978,
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As the only member of my high school's Class of '78 who was a dues-paying member of the Patti Smith fan club, I waited for her rare local appearance at San Diego's California Theatre with the giddiness of an Opus Dei insider waiting for an audience
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Jim Carroll was a poet by 12, junkie by 13, prep-school gangster 14, posh-girl-seducer 15, all-star baller 16, and then on to the Pulitzer nod, the punk-rock classic, and the author of the smartest, toughest New York City lowlife memoir ever published.
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Jim Carroll, 60, the poet and punk rocker who wrote The Basketball Diaries, died of a heart attack Sept. 11 at his Manhattan home.
In the 1970s, he was a fixture of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene, where he mixed with artists such as Andy
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And one by one, the line is drawn through the names of those who helped make New York what it was back when what happened below 14th Street still mattered and reverberated around the world. This week brought news of the death of the poet, memoirist
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09/14/2009
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Basketball Diaries' Jim Carroll Dies was a top story for this week. Here it is again: (Nightwatcher) Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60.
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And by that, what I really mean is the fact that, thanks to a tribute medley aired on a London radio station, She's Like the Wind from Dirty Dancing is playing endlessly inside my head. In common with so many things that spin around, it's making me
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I went to Jim Carroll's wake and then to his funeral. It's what one Catholic boy does for another. Conventionally described as a "punk poet" (although there was nothing punk in the least about his Frank O'Hara-influenced/Arthur Rimbaud-inflected verse),
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Jim Carroll seemed to have a problem with elderly Irish women. Then again, Jim Carroll had lots of problems.
Carroll, the author of the proclaimed memoir “The Basketball Diaries,” died this week. He was 60 years
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With the death of Jim Carroll last week, America has lost one of its singular and most under-rated poetic voices. As depicted in his most popular work The Basketball Diaries, Carroll grew up on New York's Lower East Side, the son of three generations
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AMERICA AT LARGE: Poet, diarist, teenage basketball prodigy, heroin addict. He was a friend of mine, and he died, writes
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SO MANY friends had drawn their last breath over the past few months that more than once I’ve found the lyrics to
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Solitary, spare in his poetry and his person, the writer and musician Jim Carroll, who died last week at age 60, was never easy to take as an artist. His songs were punk rants, his poems drug-scorched versions of Frank O'Hara's versified journal
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