Pages tagged “issue 29”

Amazing Grace

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William Wilberforce is hardly a household name.  read more

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Chowing Down on the Southland Cuisine

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The translation of this quest is revolutionizing the nation’s restaurant industry as well as its kitchen tables.
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4 To Watch: Loney, Dear

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All your friends are out drinking, and you’re staying at home and being lonely.
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James Brown

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For these fans, the theater marquee said it all: Rest In Peace, Apollo Legend, The Godfather Of Soul, James Brown 1933-2006.  read more

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Chowing Down on the Southland

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What makes Southern food so distinctive is that interplay between black and white. America's interest in regional food is spiking.  read more

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Norah Jones

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On a music-video set just south of downtown Los Angeles, on an industrial strip trafficked by semis and surrounded by railbeds, a bewigged Norah Jones is dancing with a man in a tuxedo. Wait, make that a man in a form-fitting lime-green body stocking with a tuxedo pinned to his chest.  read more

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Elvis Perkins: 4 To Watch

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Hometown: Born in New York, grew up in L.A., but considers neither his hometown. Currently touring, he has no fixed address. Fun fact: His father, Anthony Perkins, played Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Why he’s worth watching: He looks like John Lennon, has the musician/visionary thing going on to back it up, and his debut album already feels like a classic. For fans of: Leonard Cohen, The Decemberists, M. Ward Elvis Perkins recorded his debut, Ash Wednesday, entirely on analog tape. “It feels like an actual thing that exists,” he says, “as opposed to putting it into a computer...  read more

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4 To Watch: Paper Route

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The sound of Howat’s semi-electronic trio, Paper Route, is caught between the tired excesses of this saturated music town and a sleep that just won’t come.  read more

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Princess Di-aries

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It had never occured to me that the queen might watch television before bedtime or drive herself across the countryside in a Land Rover.  read more

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The Situation

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The Situation might prove valuable as a humane report of what it was probably really like.  read more

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