Uh Huh Her PJ Harvey (Island) On Uh Huh Her, PJ Harvey’s righteous, angel-of-death passion and anger are imprisoned within familiar lyrical tropes and familiar, simple arrangements, which make her latest release as weak and timorous as her previous masterpiece (and greatest album), 2000’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, was strong and […]
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Worldly
Michael Cunningham has a thing for third wheels. In 2002 s The Hours, three women s lives were examined based on a primary relationship with a romantic partner and a complication from a third party. I was astonished by The Hours unflinching look at the varieties of depression and its effect on the lives surrounding […]
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We Recommend
Tim Sampson was off this week, We Recommend will return when Tim does. Thanks
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The Others
It s hard to believe that 14 years have passed and the spirit of Pretty Woman is still very much alive and well. Beloved by audiences, liked by critics, and reviled by many sociologists, Pretty Woman endures as a very specific but widely held fantasy by many men and women: that if she can look […]
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Here’s To Your Health
Drinking beer and grilling meat is one of those quintessential, all-American pairings. Almost everyone has sucked back a beer while grilling some nicely marbled steaks, slabs of salmon, lamb, chicken, or whatnot. Everyone also has heard the somewhat overrated health risks involved with grilling meat too, right? If not, let’s refresh your memory. Several studies […]
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Only Human
Michael Mann s Collateral is a dark subversion of the city-as-plaything ideal that s been a staple of romantic cinema from L Atalante to Lost in Translation. But unlike those other urban-set, dual-protagonist pairings, this is no romance. Rather, Collateral is city-as-haunted-playground, because Mann s Los Angeles is a spread-out, disjointed killing field of eerie […]
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Can Obama Deliver the Black Vote?
Before, during, and especially after his rousing Democratic National Convention keynote speech, Illinois legislator Barack Obama was hailed as the shining knight who will energize black voters. But it will take more than a stirring convention speech by the still relatively unknown and untested state legislator to do that. Despite their fear of another Bush […]
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monday, 26
ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSES. Two levels of instruction are presented Amazing Grace Lutheran Church, 1203 Ridgeway. $10. 7-8:30. OASIS PILATES WORKSHOP. Rantos Fitness. 2858 Poplar Avenue. Free. 6 p.m.
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saturday, 24
SOUTHERN VERNACULAR POETRY SLAM. A nationally certified and registered poetry slam Empire Coffee, 2 S. Main. $3 cover. 7:30 p.m.
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friday, 23
THOUGHT EXCHANGE. Artists present spoken word, song, poetry, hip-hop, rap, interpretational readings, and music. Cultural Connection, 2288 Dunn. $3. 8 p.m.
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Short Cuts
Radios Burn Faster Read Yellow (Fenway Recordings) Harnessing a potent combination of Dischord label punk (think Fugazi or Nation of Ulysses) and college-circuit noise collagists (Sonic Youth, the Pixies), Massachusetts’ Read Yellow have accomplished more on their sophomore release than most bands hope to do in an entire career. Radios Burn Faster literally bristles with […]