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I see Tables For Two has become The Food Scene, which perhaps gives Rosner more scope.

The latest piece on diners contains a discussion about whether, when a diner’s food reaches a certain level, it is a diner no more; the sort of debate that could have run for months on Mouthfuls when we were young and carefree.

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It’s Old John’s Diner on their own Instagram feed, it’s Old John’s on their website with no suffix I can find. It comes up as Luncheonette if you run a Google search, but that’s Google.

Not clear that the business itself changed the name back (and why bother?).

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I was pleased to see the piece on Trouser Press and Ira Robbins.

Okay, so let's gripe about it:

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Trouser Press, as it came to be called, soon became a scrappy yet integral vehicle for the incursion on these shores of Brit genres, like prog and New Wave...

I can imagine that the term "prog" was more a U.K. term than a U.S. term (correct me if I'm wrong), but the assertion that these were British genres is jaw-dropping.

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...shelves holding more than thirty thousand records, almost a third of them vinyl LPs.

The other two thirds, I assume, are vinyl 45s or perhaps shellac 78s. Either that, or someone thinks we should refer to CDs as "records." But what a tough fix, what is a sub-editor supposed to do? How about replace "records" with "albums"?

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I think Wiki is right for once:

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[Progressive rock] primarily developed in the United Kingdom, United States, and Germany through the late 1960s and early 1970s.

You certainly can't leave out the Germans. (Also the Dutch: Focus.)

Wiki mentions The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Mothers of Invention, Spirit, Rush, Todd Rundgren. I might list Jefferson Airplane ahead of the Dead.

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33 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:

I think Wiki is right for once:

You certainly can't leave out the Germans. (Also the Dutch: Focus.)

Wiki mentions The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Mothers of Invention, Spirit, Rush, Todd Rundgren. I might list Jefferson Airplane ahead of the Dead.

I see you on the Germans and the Dutch, but the American acts Wiki mentions either came after the British ones (or, as in the case of Todd Rundgren, went Prog in the wake of the British acts) (he was Pop before that) or aren't Prog (I don't see the Doors, the Dead, or the Airplane as Prog at all -- they were Psychedelic, which was a whole different thing -- and even the Mothers seem to me to be something else).

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I am not citing WikiP as definitive, but clearly there are divergent opinions on this:

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...the style was an emergence of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music

Emphasis added, and the statement isn't restricted to the UK. 

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