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Congratulations are in order for David Lynch, sommelier and co-author of The Wine Snob’s Dictionary. His wine list for the John Dory is singled out for praise in Frank Bruni’s favorable review of the place in the New York Times, and Bruni professes to “admire [Lynch] immensely.” As we all do. February 11, 2009 More Wine Snobbery »
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Big Star. Anglophilic early-’70s American combo whose first two albums, #1 Record and Radio City, have Koran-like status in POWER-POP circles. Led by Memphis native Alex Chilton, who began his career as a teenager with the blue-eyed-soul boys the Box Tops (“The Letter”), Big Star recorded tunes that, while catchy, were too fraught with druggy tension to be commercial—thereby guaranteeing the group posthumous “great overlooked band” mythology. Chilton, who later had a Replacements song named after him, is now a rheumy-eyed eccentric who occasionally performs with original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and their adoring acolytes at quasi-reunion shows. Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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