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Eric Snider
Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg Times from ‘87-’93. Snider was the music critic, arts editor and senior editor of Weekly Planet/Creative Loafing from 1996-2009. Over the years, he has written for a variety of national publications.
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Air Waves
The rocky past and uncertain future of public access TV — the TV you make yourself
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Calling Dr. C
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Cheapskate 101
The art of giving without spending much of anything
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Smile Again
The remarkable fall and rise of former Beach Boy Brian Wilson — and the story of how he finished the most renowned unfinished album of all time
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Gettin’ Funktional
The Neville Brothers freshen up their act
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Bring Us the Head of Vincent Naimoli
It’s time to stop pretending this emperor has clothes on
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You Can Go Home Again
Ex-FAMU president opens a library back in the ‘hood
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Billboard Hits
Musicians hawk cars for local ad campaign
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The Battle of MAD Beach
An unlikely activist fights to save a strip of Madeira Beach
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Rider on the Storm
The TV newsguy who snagged the first live shots of Punta Gorda
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Punching Their Tickets
Amid a Bay area boxing boom, up-and-coming fighters chart paths to glory — or oblivion
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Old Sport
Time is a baller’s toughest foe
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Mandatory Madness
What happened to a man whose only crime, it seems, was trying to ease his chronic pain
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No Convictions
But His Practice Is In Ruins
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Eat my dust!
Drag Racing
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Not a Diva, Not a Patsy
Feisty k.d. lang left Patsy Cline behind, but not to ape Whitney
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Married to the Mob
Steven Bernstein and Sex Mob do it all for the peeps
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Back to Bombastics
Regrouped Yes dancing on graves of punk detractors
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Blues Cruise
On the trail of America’s first roots music to see if and how it survives