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                    [Title] => What I’ve learned (from music)
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Here are some thoughts and memories — and possibly even wisdom (such as it is) — from a lifetime of obsessive listening:

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135509 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479270 [AuthorName] => Luis Katigbak [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7258/lblj.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 962348 [Title] => What grooves Toti’s nation [Summary] =>

Here’s our lightning round with Toti Dalmacion, groove-digger and label boss, who once said these words: “If I were to choose between being blind and deaf, I think I’d rather be blind. For if I were to lose my hearing, that would be the end of me.”

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 953133 [Title] => Egypt's opposition rejects call for unity talks [Summary] =>

Egypt's largest opposition group on yesterday rejected calls by the president for national reconciliation talks as "too late" as pro and anti-government protesters briefly clashed ahead of plans for a mass rally calling for his ouster later this month.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-12 05:21:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1484278 [AuthorName] => Maggie Michael [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 952760 [Title] => Egypt warns all options open for Ethiopia Nile dam [Summary] =>

Egypt's president warned yesterday that "all options are open" in dealing with Ethiopia's efforts to build a dam that threatens to leave Nile-dependent Egypt with a dangerous water shortage.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-11 05:20:58 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1155330 [AuthorName] => Aya Batrawy and Maggie Michael [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908819 [Title] => Some thoughts about songs and girls [Summary] =>

Devastating is not too strong a word for the right combination of song and girl.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135509 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479270 [AuthorName] => Luis Katigbak [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 876569 [Title] => Back to the future: Up Dharma Down’s ‘Capacities’ [Summary] =>

Third albums are notoriously hard to make.” So said Billy Bragg in a recent interview on the BBC about his LP, “Talking with the Taxman about Poetry,” which — after all — bears on its cover sleeve the inscription: “The Difficult Third Album.” He describes them as being “make-or-break” records.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135989 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1308998 [AuthorName] => Erwin T. Romulo [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img21/5844/ystar1thumbo.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 871857 [Title] => Up in the air [Summary] =>

Since releasing their first album “Fragmented” in 2004, Up Dharma Down has challenged Pinoy pop sensibilities, giving listeners songs that brim with love, thawing heartbreaks and familiar futures. Next week, the band releases "Capacities,"  their much-awaited third album that brings the band back to the roots of their aural upbringing.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096675 [AuthorName] => Don Jaucian [SectionName] => Supreme [SectionUrl] => supreme [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img31/4700/sup6o.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 867826 [Title] => UN renews peacekeepers for Abyei [Summary] =>

The Security Council has extended its peacekeeping mission in Abyei, a region contested by Sudan and South Sudan, and demanded that Sudan withdraw a platoon of police troopers from an oil refinery in the area.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-17 07:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 746511 [Title] => Made of stone [Summary] =>

When someone asked me several years ago which band I would like to see make a comeback, I answered: The Stone Roses.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135509 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1479270 [AuthorName] => Luis Katigbak [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/2931/ystar3thumb.jpg ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 744250 [Title] => Sudanese army seizes rebel stronghold in Blue Nile state [Summary] =>

The Sudanese army has entered al- Kurmuk town, a stronghold of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in southern Sudan's Blue Nile state, Sudanese media reported Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-04 08:11:14 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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