Takoma Park

And her story is amazing — how wild her stardom was for this little girl who came from a duplex house in Takoma Park, Md. Sometimes I think part of what’s happening in our culture is we’re losing sight of the three-generational household.

I get it: they’re easy to demonize, especially if you’re a liberal or leftist news junkie living on the Upper West Side of New York or in Takoma Park, Maryland, or Cambridge, Massachusetts; you read the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, or Politico; and your Monday nights are built around watching Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart.

Phil Wiggins, 69, a harmonica player of such range that he could make his instrument sound like a clarinet one minute, an accordion the next and then an entire percussion section — all in the service of the complex melodies and steady rhythms of the style known as the Piedmont blues — died of cancer May 7 in Takoma Park, Md.

Phil Wiggins, a harmonica player of such range that he could make his instrument sound like a clarinet one minute, an accordion the next and then an entire percussion section — all in the service of the complex melodies and steady rhythms of the style known as the Piedmont blues — died on May 7 at his home in Takoma Park, Md. He was 69.

Takoma Park also burrows its noncitizen voting figure inside its same-day registrant and younger voter data.