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The Only Thing I Have: by Rhonda Waterfall
The Only Thing I Have by Rhonda Waterfall Rating: 3.5/5.0 Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Unnerving, moving and sometimes exceedingly bleak, many of the stories included in The Only Thing I Have are likely to
Read More »Horse Feathers: Thistled Spring
Horse Feathers Thistled Spring Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Kill Rock Stars The sounds that gently unveil Thistled Spring, the new set of songs from Horse Feathers, could have come from decades, even centuries ago –
Read More »Codeine Velvet Club: Codeine Velvet Club
Codeine Velvet Club Codeine Velvet Club Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Dangerbird Despite what the stupid name might indicate, Codeine Velvet Club have clearly thought things out. Instead of just adding faux-Bond horns and girl group
Read More »No One Knows About Persian Cats
No One Knows About Persian Cats Dir: Bahman Ghobadi Rating: 3.0/5.0 IFC Films 106 Minutes Any repressive culture will inevitably squeeze its citizens so hard they start searching for outlets. During the course of
Read More »Black Francis: Nonstoperotik
Black Francis Nonstoperotik Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Cooking Vinyl Like Stephen Malkmus, Lou Barlow and Robert Pollard, Frank Black, aka Black Francis, fits the mold of alternative indie icon whose solo career may always be
Read More »Concert Review: Surfer Blood/Turbo Fruit/Dirty Mittens
Hype is the worst thing in the world. It can make gods out of mortal men, building false expectations that could ruin a band in a single, false step (or boring album). Similarly, too
Read More »Oeuvre: Linklater: Inning By Inning: A Portrait of a Coach
Oeuvre is an in-depth examination of the entire body of work of an important director. Richard Linklater may be branded as the filmmaker who makes talky movies where Gen-Xers wax poetic about life while
Read More »The Losers
The Losers Dir: Sylvain White Rating: 3.0/5.0 Warner Brothers 98 Minutes Adaptation is tough. Last week we had an adaptation of Kick-Ass wherein Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman took the good bits from the
Read More »Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon: Wu Massacre
Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon Wu Massacre Rating: 2.5/5.0 Label: Def Jam Records As Wu Massacre- the new collaboration between Method Man, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah- ditches Wu’s usual intros and soundbites and
Read More »Greek Potatoes
I stumbled upon the tart, golden goodness of Greek potatoes about a month or so ago, and my ensuing obsession with replicating this simply incredible dish has yet to abate. My boyfriend and I
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