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'Black Mass': A Call to Do Nothing?new
John Gray of the London School of Economics identifies many of the world's problems as stemming from those seeking the mirage of Utopia -- the idea that the world can be utterly transformed by human agency according to one blueprint or another.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
12-21-2007 |
Original Work
Miles Davis as a Band Membernew
Collected in an elaborate six-disc set with extensive jacket notes, The Complete On the Corner Sessions brings together everything from that era, released and previously unissued.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Young Franknew
A Voice in Time's material shows the surprising, youthful vulnerability and naïve romanticism of early Sinatra — a far cry from the cocky swagger of his Vegas years.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-30-2007 |
Reviews
Corn-fed Americanew
King Corn, an amusing and entertaining documentary, traces the sources of the food problem displayed in Super Size Me.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-19-2007 |
Reviews
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Team Upnew
If Robert Plant and singer-fiddler Alison Krauss seem an unlikely duo, remember: The roots of Led Zeppelin and bluegrass grow from the ancient drone of Anglo-Celtic folk music.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-12-2007 |
Reviews
Beatlemaniacnew
Ian McDonald devised a book that wraps astute social analysis around the fan bait of track-by-track, annotated descriptions of every Beatles recording, including session notes, trivia and critical exegesis.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Beirut Stays Low Keynew
As his needs and imagination dictate, Beirut can expand into a live orchestra or contract into a small combo.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Beirut, The Flying Club Cup
Recycle, Repackage, Repurchasenew
Few figures from the punk era have benefited from the push to recycle as much as the prolific Elvis Costello, whose albums have been issued and reissued again on CD, always with more bonus tracks.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
11-05-2007 |
Reviews
'Bamako' Puts World Bank on Trialnew
The film is a devastating and eloquent indictment of the world's careless disregard for an entire continent.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako
The Internet Haunts in 'Tell No One'new
Director Guillaume Canet explores the dark side of the Internet, with its potential for stripping users of their privacy and of transmitting unwanted messages.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Guillaume Canet, Tell No One
Whatever Name He Chooses, Black Francis Rocksnew
On Bluefinger, Francis is channeling faraway echoes of classic, mid-'60s Kinks and early-'70s Lou Reed and New York Dolls
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Francis, Bluefinger
AIDS Beginsnew
Director André Téchiné dramatizes the onset of AIDS through the lives of four interconnected people, two of them gay, one uncertain and the other heterosexual.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-10-2007 |
Reviews
'Star Wars' and Afternew
The movie that redefined Hollywood.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
06-01-2007 |
Movies
Roll Over Leonard Bernsteinnew
Classical faces the music?
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
05-21-2007 |
Nonfiction
Rear Endednew
Disturbia is Hitchcock's Rear Window transposed from Eisenhower-era Manhattan to the leafy confines of contemporary, Generation Z suburbia.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
04-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: D.J. Caruso, Disturbia
