Party Crasher

The Stranger;  October 5, 2006 ;     282 words ...Bad Juju's the Reason for All the Wars in the World...any party: celebrants throw an item of bad juju into a burning barrel to promote a fresh...annoyances by incinerating them in a fire of bad juju? I covered this party last year, and threw...

Party Crasher; Burn, Juju! Burn!

The Stranger;  September 29, 2005 ;     260 words ......100 people packed into a multi-tiered backyard are exorcising the bad juju that they've accrued over the past year. Guests bring items that...fresh start. Article copyright Index Newspapers LLC. Photograph (BAD JUJU BE GONE; Burn it clean)

THE NOXIOUS STENCH OF CURSÉD PANTS

The Stranger;  October 25, 2007 ;     276 words ...PARTY CRASHER We're at the Bad JuJu Party, an annual happening that helps...hideousness. But the main event at the Bad JuJu Party is the simple joy of burning shit...in the barrel, and partyers dump their bad juju-divorce settlements, term papers, photographs...

JUJU, HOO-HA, AND A MISSING WIZARD

The Stranger;  October 9, 2008 ;     290 words ......wizard-a real, certified wizard-at the Bad Juju Party to help revelers purge any cosmic...five-year veteran swears by the power of Bad Juju-incineration: "I think it works, because...nephew-isn't he adorable?" "I think for the Bad Juju, maybe you should burn your phone," someone...

Armed with bullets and Bibles

The Boston Globe;  February 10, 1991 ;     700+ words ......strikes as if they were field goals is bull -- and maybe even bad juju, or bad luck. Many Marines are very superstitious. For instance...before going into action. "Squad photos, man, that is super bad juju," said Sgt. Ernie Grafton. "You can almost imagine that picture...

The New Default

The Stranger;  April 13, 2006 ;     448 words ......serves tacos (among other Mexican favorites). Purr's where the Bad Juju used to be before it moved to the premises of Neumo's; then...makes everyone look better than they actually are." Where the Bad Juju was dark and a little seamy, Purr is pretty-polished concrete...

CAPITOL HILL'S BLOCK PARTY IS A REFLECTION OF ITS PERSONALITY.(What's...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......business partner Marcus Charles of the Bad Juju Lounge, also celebrates Seattle's resurgent...Avenue East and East Pike Street. And the Bad Juju stage is at 1518 11th Ave. E. Tickets...Presidents of the United States of America Bad Juju Stage 5:15 p.m. - Watery Graves 6:30 p...

BAR EXAM

The Stranger;  June 7, 2007 ;     468 words ......variety. Moe Bar, prior to its recent revamp, was called the Bad JuJu Lounge (which itself used to be an entirely different bar under...fixtures and the vaguely New Orleans punk/goth feel of the Bad Juju stint are gone. The new Moe Bar aesthetic is vaguely '70s...

Not 'lake effect,' just a case of bad juju

Post-Tribune (IN);  January 19, 2003 ;     505 words ......on and the people of Lake County didn't. But under the influence of recent world news, I'm wondering if there might be some bad juju at work. We're a nation that relies on science to explain things such as storms and earthquakes, and if we fail to grasp the...

Football: COME IN No4, YOUR TIME IS UP; WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN: INJURIES...

The Mirror (London, England);  May 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ......that a member of the much distrusted English media had become the first westerner to sink a hole in one. Bad karma, bad vibes, bad juju in Jeju. Dress it up how you want. You could even stick a pointy hat on it and say it's a curse. When Danny Murphy was confirmed...

Making up is often the hardest part of relationship

Post-Tribune (IN);  August 21, 2008 ;     406 words ......feelings and bruised egos. I have a temper, but I never have seen any value in holding a grudge. Life is too short to hang on to "bad juju." Looking back over the decades and my four best friends, I honestly can say we have never fought, stopped talking to each...

Candy darling

The Village Voice;  January 30, 2001 ;     307 words ...MUSIC THE SOUND OF THE CITY It's usually bad juju when a singer calls time-out midway through his latest single, so when Antony and the Johnsons hit pause during the radiant "I...

ON THE SCENE; People, trends, gossip and more; Beer, BBQ and jazz

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  September 11, 2003 ;     266 words ......978-459-6150. Reversing the curse Some say when the Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1929, it brought a big heap of bad juju on the home team. Watch "The Curse of the Bambino," narrated by Ben Affleck, (10 p.m. Sept. 16 on HBO), and you'll see a Quincy...

data breaker

The Stranger;  September 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......glimpse infinity in a grain of sound. Robin Judge, Sat Sept 16, Bad Juju, 10 pm. With Tomas Jirku, Judge coproduced the Chain Reaction-esq...Plus, dude's remixed Steve Reich. Ruoho Ruotsi, Sat Sept 16, Bad Juju, 1 am. Another Reich remixer, San Francisco's Ruotsi creates...

LIVE & WIRE; Good News in Triplicate

The Stranger;  August 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Knights and Stabmasterarson are your open-water entertainment.) New Juju: Neumo's is undergoing a minor facelift in the next couple...Reading Room later this fall.) In related news, the original Bad Juju will have its last call on August 27, when a "wake" for the...bar out in style--and all its ...