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Concert Review: Sting
It’s quite easy to be cynical about Sting. Mostly it’s because he writes naïve, romantic love songs that teeter between heartfelt and cloying. I first discovered his music when I was 16, a time
Read More »Foals: Total Life Forever
Foals Total Life Forever Rating: 3.0/5.0 Label: Sub Pop Oxford five-piece, Foals, made a lot of noise with their debut album Antidotes back in 2008, when they hit #3 on the UK charts. Instead
Read More »Garth Steel Klippert: Music For Taxicabs
Garth Steel Klippert Music For Taxicabs Rating: 3.5/5.0 Label: Field Hymns Airports are known as vast, seemingly endless places that contain a whirlpool of conflicting emotions. They induce remarkable anticipation, miserable goodbyes and headache
Read More »The Prime Rib: Philadelphia, PA
1701 Locust St Philadelphia, PA 19103 (215) 772-1701 www.theprimerib.com A lot of people celebrate their birthdays at the Prime Rib. How do I know this, you ask? Well, perhaps I’m deducing it because it’s
Read More »Reel Injun
Reel Injun Dir: Neil Diamond Rating: 3.0/5.0 Kino Lorber 80 Minutes As a group, American Indians have a lot to feel bitter about. Besides being robbed of their homelands, herded into dingy reservations and
Read More »In Defense Of: Southland Tales
In Defense Of. When bad movies go good. Rotten Tomatoes: 36% Fresh In 2001, a friend and I silently left a nearly empty movie theater, having just watched a film with the vaguely comical
Read More »Concert Review: The Sadies/Kurt Vile
Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood likes to think itself some kind of Little San Francisco. Here you’ll find the famous troll sculpture, hiding under the George Washington Memorial Bridge and a Lenin statue, imported to this
Read More »Stars: The Five Ghosts
Stars The Five Ghosts Rating: 2.0/5.0 Label: Vagrant Records Somber boy-girl ballads are nothing new for Montreal’s Stars, known for delivering soft and haunting songs, occasionally laced with their own fuzzy brand of pop.
Read More »Spirituals: Spirituals
Spirituals Spirituals Rating: 2.0/5.0 Waaga Records Spirituals is the one-man project of Tyler Tadlock, lately of our own Portland, OR (although, since no one is actually from Stumptown, he hails from Mississippi), and his
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Film Dunce: The Princess Bride
Film Dunce is a weekly series in which one of our writers finally succumbs to the lure of a movie that has long been a big part of our culture that they have never
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