Monthly Archives: March 2010 »
Career Assessment: American Graffiti
Career Assessment is a weekly look back at the hot, young things of yore. A tribute to both those who survived and enjoyed a fruitful career and to the others that flamed out just
Read More »Hot Tub Time Machine
Hot Tub Time Machine Dir: Steve Pink Rating: 3.5/5.0 MGM 98 Minutes Judd Apatow, look at what you’ve wrought. In the good way. Like the best Apatow comedies, Hot Tub Time Machine allows its
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Concert Review: Dr. Dog/The Growlers
(Photos: Richard Abrahamson for EUJacksonville.com) For a major college town, State College, Pennsylvania’s tolerable music scene is fairly dark and quiet. A cover band’s take on “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit can be
Read More »Fang Island: Fang Island
Fang Island Fang Island Rating: 4.5/5.0 Label: Sargent House Fang Island is a band you fall in love with before you even hit “Play.” Hailing from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, the
Read More »Jaguar Love: Hologram Jams
Jaguar Love Hologram Jams Rating: 1.5/5.0 Label: Fat Possum Records All anyone really needs to know about Portland-based Jaguar Love can be summed up by lyrics from “Cherry Soda,” from their second LP, Hologram
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She & Him: Volume Two
She & Him Volume Two Rating: 3.0/5.0 Merge Records She & Him’s sophomore effort may have one of the most apt titles for an album ever- Volume Two picks up exactly where the duo
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Oeuvre: Linklater: Before Sunset
Oeuvre is an in-depth examination of the entire body of work of an important director. Nine years after tantalizing audiences with one of cinema’s most delicious “what-if” endings, Richard Linklater returns to the characters
Read More »Mid-August Lunch
Mid-August Lunch Dir: Gianni Di Gregorio Rating: 3.5/5.0 Zeitgeist Films 75 Minutes The set-up sounds like a bad joke. A middle-aged bachelor caring for his octogenarian mother must endure three other ladies of a
Read More »Sweet Potato Pie
The things about traditional holiday food is that it can get well, boring. After all, you’ve probably eaten some variation of turkey, ham, that weird green bean casserole and pumpkin pie every year for
Read More »Shy Child: Liquid Love
Shy Child Liquid Love Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Say Hey Records Maybe it’s our comparatively conservative views on sexuality or the war on drugs; I couldn’t begin to guess. Whatever the reason, it’s no point
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