|
The Davis Enterprise (The Davis Enterprise)
CD reviews for February 8, 2007: "I (Heart) Comix" - Matt and Kim; "Silent Shout" - The Knife; "The Architecture of a Heartbeat" - Kyoto Beat Orchestra; "The Sweet Escape" - Gwen Stefani; "Frengers" - Mew; ?Don?t You Fake it" - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus; and "Oh! Gravity" - Switchfoot.
CD reviews: Arcade Fire; The Stooges; Fat Freddy's Drop; Vieux Farka Toure (R...
"Neon Bible"; Merge Records
PERFORMING ARTS (Washington Post)
Bizet's tragic opera "Carmen" may be one of the most compelling stories of passion ever told. When the naive Spanish soldier Don Jose falls in love with the free-spirited and irresistible Carmen, he drags them both into a whirlpool of love, violence, treachery and death. It's a daring exploration of...
Music and Lyrics (Daily Vidette)
Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back. Boy and girl live happily ever after. Typically, this is the plot in every romantic comedy that makes it to the big screen. However, movies starring Hugh Grant usually turn out to be a breath of fresh air by actually surprising its viewers by having a twist in the story line.
'Music and Lyrics' sings a frothy tune (USA Today)
Hugh Grant's has-been pop star in Music and Lyrics is the ideal fit for the actor's trademark low-key, self-deprecating wit.
'Music and Lyrics' sings a frothy tune (USA Today)
Hugh Grant's has-been pop star in Music and Lyrics is the ideal fit for the actor's trademark low-key, self-deprecating wit. But this appealing romantic comedy undertakes the conventions of the formula without an inordinate amount of clichs.
Most Viewed This Week (Yale Daily News)
Printing symposium lays out new angles March 6, 2007 By Rebecca Arzoian This past Saturday, the newly renovated Yale University Art Gallery hosted a symposium on contemporary printmaking titled ?The Contemporary Print: Artists and Masters.?...
Gay pop star's "coming out" causes stir in Mexico (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
A 22-year-old pop star's announcement that he is gay, making him the first high-profile member of Mexico's show-business elite to "come out" in public, has caused a stir in the deeply conservative Catholic country.
Diversions for March 1, 2007 (Evansville Courier & Press)
BLUES NIGHT COFFEEHOUSE, featuring the music of singer/songwriter Eric Clapton, 8 p.m., at Vincennes Universitys Beckes Student Union, Vincennes, Ind. (free). The VU Blues and String ensembles will perform, along with The Hoosier Swing Band and Nash Dunn and the Coatneys.
Top Ten Pop Songs I?m Embarrassed to Like (Part One) (Alibi)
Somewhere back in the ages, I promised to make a list of embarrassing but appealing pop songs. By ?embarrassing songs? I mean the ones I would never admit to liking in public or make protest if someone flipped the radio station away from them.