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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.

Sarah Palin and Jewel: The Alaskan Supergroup That Almost Was

By Eleanor Barkhorn
Aug 31 2010, 8:40 AM ET Comment



Sarah Palin may be the most famous Alaskan in America right now, but in the '90s another woman was the Last Frontier's best-known resident: Jewel. Today on Funny or Die, the singer/songwriter/poetess/former truck-dweller reveals a little known fact about her past with Palin: they were once in a band together. Watch her describe how they got together (at a gig at The Crab n Coffee), what their band name was (Sarah Barracuda and The Jewel), and what they looked like when they performed (thanks to some very impressive video editing):

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