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Jeff Hart's Ghosts of the Old North State (Singles 1991-2011)new
Built on a base of country twang but finished with touches of British Invasion rock, '60s garage pop, '70s Laurel Canyon, North Carolina bluegrass and jangle pop, Ghosts reveals Hart as an equally fine collector and creator. (Bombay Records)
Tags: compilation album, Jeff Hart
Ballet Magnificat! Marks 25 Yearsnew
As a professional ballerina, Kathy Thibodeaux began to pray about her career and her future when she became a Christian in 1979. "Should I keep dancing? Do I give up dancing?" She wondered. At that point, she says, no one in the country was really dancing for Jesus. Her Christian friends were skeptical that dancing was something a nice Christian girl should do.
Jackson Free Press |
Briana Robinson |
12-08-2011 |
Performance
Democrats Occupy the Occupy Movement
The very same Democrats who killed liberalism and blocked leftists from candidacies, appointments, even the slightest participation in discussion—are trying to co-opt the Occupy movement.
Depression, destruction, and selfishness play out in Melancholianew
In the first half of Melancholia, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) slowly but surely sabotages her own wedding reception, and you can't really blame her, because there is no one there who doesn't demand something from her or from the occasion.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Cohen |
12-07-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Melancholia
Sushi, Pigtails, and Hopsnew
Who puts wasabi in beer? Brewers who are trying to pair their creations with those of a top San Antonio sushi chef.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
12-07-2011 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Wasabi Beer
Melancholianew
Melancholia opens with a series of dramatically lit, startling dream-like images: falling birds rain during the day, a collapsing horse falls painfully slow in the dark. Wrapped in a wedding dress, Kirsten Dunst floats down a stream like a waking Ophelia.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-07-2011 |
Reviews
Swift Justicenew
A Utah town is still trying to recover five years after a high-profile immigration raid.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Matthew D. LaPlante |
12-07-2011 |
Immigration
Amazon To Cock-Block Local Businesses This Holiday Seasonnew
Internet instant gratification behemoth Amazon is telling hopeful consumers to go into local retailers and photograph inventory prices in exchange for a paltry 5 percent discount (up to $5) on Amazon-equivalent products.
Nashville Scene |
Jonathan Meador |
12-07-2011 |
Business & Labor
Patron Saints of Ominous Creepnew
Foreboding palls and incipient malevolence is singer guitarist Pall Jenkins' preferred shade, coating his band's muscular chamber roots with a gothic air. It's kind of like the electro-addled blues of Califone transplanted into Nick Cave's murky environs and given the ramshackle, wounded grace of a Tom Waits tune.
It isn't called The Black Heart Procession for nothing.
Boise Weekly |
Chris Parker |
12-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
20 Essential Techniques To Make You a Better Cooknew
Is Michael Ruhlman more of a writer or more of a cook? Given his impressive body of work, it can be hard to tell. Call him a renaissance man.
Charleston City Paper |
Brys Stephens |
12-07-2011 |
Food+Drink
The Memory-Invoking Power of Quincenew
Boisean Dave Turner knows all about taste and memory, if not Marcel Proust and his madeleines. The catalyst that shot Turner into his past was quince, a fragrant apple-like fruit.
Boise Weekly |
Guy Hand |
12-07-2011 |
Food+Drink
Gratitude in the Face of Crueltynew
Occupiers protesting the crimes of global capitalism found fellowship with a group of transgender activists and allies: a vivid prompt of solidarity and the potential of conjoined political energies.
Tags: #OCCUPY, transgender activists
To the end of the world with Lars von Trier in Melancholianew
Melancholia is a lingering, thorny, beautiful experience that makes our doomed planet and our fickle lives richer for the tiny amount of time we're here to appreciate them.
The Explorers Club issue a rave-up series of suitesnew
If today's youngsters are infected with irony, an evening with the Explorers Club might just be the antidote. With a sound lifted straight from pop radio hits of the '60s and '70s, the Charleston band crafts its songs as if punk never broke.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
12-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Explorers Club
A First Class Bitchnew
Young Adult is pitch (perfect) black comedy.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-07-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Young Adult, Diablo Cody
