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Best Music kudo for scribe

bestmusic09cover.jpgFormer CityBeat editor Rebecca Schoenkopf has a piece she wrote for the late weekly included in "Best Music Writing 2009," the annual edited by Greil Marcus. Schoenkopf also gets a nice excerpt from her story featured today at the New York Times' book blog, Paper Cuts. Sample: "It is not a BMI awards dinner without a) an open bar; b) industry types who won’t schmooze you; and c) a guest of honor that makes the ladies scream."


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