Pages tagged “issue 50”

Alex Wheatle

While the term generally describes the Southern outposts of...  read more

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Jeffrey Renard Allen

If you haven’t yet heard of Allen, you will...  read more

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Buddy & Julie Miller: Written In Chalk

Teenage boys don’t typically learn how to play the guitar in order to make some grand artistic statement...  read more

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On the Waterfront: Kevin Drew Directs Feist in Short Film

Midway into Feist’s 2007 breakthrough album The Reminder is a bewitching ballad called “The Water.” The track moves slowly, as if water itself, and its emotional resonance inspired Broken Social Scene...  read more

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Joltin' Joe and the Hospice Bed

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My dad, who died a couple months ago, was not much of a music fan. He had the same small stack of vinyl LPs that could be found in millions of suburban American households...  read more

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M. Ward: Hold Time

"Everybody’s goin’ out / Havin’ fun / I’m a fool for stayin’ home..."  read more

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Gomorrah

Gomorrah’s portrait of Italy’s Camorra crime family is more a...  read more

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The Tudors: The Complete Second Season

Overrun with crude political intrigue and comically exuberant sex...  read more

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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin Tomeo

The reader who trudges...  read more

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Lily Allen Gets All Dolled Up

Since the release of her 2007 debut, Alright, Still, 23-year-old British starlet Lily Allen has established herself as a chameleonic pop darling—by turns a teary blogger...  read more

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