Friday, March 19th, 2010
Reviews
Music video meltdown: Prepubescent birthday edition
Movie Reviewer Bécquer Medak-Seguín tears apart three of pop music's most recent videos.
Joanna Newsom’s monstrous ‘Have One On Me’ feels like work, doesn’t justify its incredible length
Joanna Newsom's third album, Have One On Me, is a behemoth. It's a '70s-style triple album, in the spirit of George Harrison's All Things Must ...
Raymond Chandler’s detective story, ‘The Little Sister,’ remarkable for its introspection
“The Little Sister” is not the best of Chandler’s novels, but it is remarkable in its introspection—a quality that was sparse, if not lacking, in ...
Minor problems don’t keep Saffron from offering solid, if untraditional Mediterranean fare
Critiques aside, my date and I enjoyed our visit to Saffron. The menu is focused and delivers, albeit sometimes untraditionally, many of the wonderful flavors ...
Laptop-wielding Four Tet pleases ‘obsessive fans’ at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge
Live, Hebden performs alone, and it's difficult to tell what exactly he's doing at any given point in time, as his live setup consisted of ...
2010 Oscar predictions
I wholeheartedly disagree with the Academy nearly 100 percent of the time and believe the Oscars are nothing but a laughable, luxurious series of cameos, ...
‘Almost Alice’ offers delightful blend of electropop, rock
Almost Alice is rare among film albums in that it is not a soundtrack - Tim Burton’s longtime musical partner Danny Elfman scored the film, ...
‘Dangerous Laughter’ subtly, gracefully blurs line between dream and reality
These stories are strange and Millhauser revels in the extraordinary, much to my appreciation. There is at least one story in this collection that will ...
Few moments stand out from The Magnetic Fields’ lazy, nondescript ‘Realism’
'Realism' is a melodically gorgeous album, but one that simply doesn't push Merritt's songwriting in anything resembling a new direction.
‘Juno’ creator finds success with no-frills ‘Up in the Air’
If there's one thing I've learned from watching an exorbitant amount of films every year it is that good ones, though not necessarily great ones, ...
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