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News & Observer music critic David Menconi's random (and we do mean random) musings about all things related to music and culture of the "popular" variety.
A fond farewell to Ted Kennedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts who has died from brain cancer at age 77. Anybody who annoys Ted Nugent this much can count his time on earth a success. And we should all be so lucky as to have the president sing us happy birthday sometime.
David Menconi has been the News & Observer's music critic since 1991. Before that, he spent five years at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo. He has a masters in journalism from the University of Texas and a B.A. in English from Southwestern University. You can find more of his writing here.
