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David Byrne: "I Will Find a City, Find Myself a City...to Bike In"

September 30, 2009 by Warren Karlenzig
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Last night's City Arts & Lectures program on "Bike Advocacy and the Urban Environment" featured former Talking Heads maestro David Byrne as lead-off for a panel friendly to the two-wheeled revolution that is transforming select cities in the US and abroad. Byrne, who recently published Bicycle Diaries (Viking), acted as frontman for... [read more]

David Byrne, stop making sense: your perfect city is just about perfect

September 18, 2009 by Kaid Benfield
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I confess that the Talking Heads were more a band that I thought I should like rather than one I actually did.  Maybe that's because I grew up in the South in the 1960s, where the good music had a backbeat, soul, and maybe a bit of twang.  The Heads were all intellectual and Yankee and couldn't possibly have been whiter.... [read more]