The celebrated animated paean to small-town Texas aired its final episode in 2009.
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Ryan Coleman Updated,
EW.com,
25 July 2025
Karl Johnson makes an excellent Firs, the ancient servant who regrets the freeing of the serfs and who alternates between dignified paeans to the old days and mumbling streams of profanities.
Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
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Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.
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Unwritten Recipes
Chantal Braganza
Anyone who’s lived long enough to learn to feed themselves likely has some kind of biographical dish.
Perfectionism often gets misunderstood as an unstoppable striving for excellence, a quality that many of us would love to (half-heartedly) lament.
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Caroline Mimbs Nyce,
New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2025
Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.
Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.
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Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.
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