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Dear TBA editors,
I notice that Patsy Moore offers up an Obama quote on her main site, has praised the much-hyped presidential candidate regularly on her MySpace page and, in your February issue, you featured a piece about him. Should we assume that The Bohemian Aesthetic is officially endorsing the junior senator from Illinois? If so, why not just come out with it? |
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-Jon C.
Salem, Oregon USA |
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| Actually, Jon, while I'm aware that some of the senior editors, here, enthusiastically support Senator Obama (and, yes, that definitely includes Patsy), we haven't ever discussed an official TBA endorsement of him. So, no, you shouldn't assume anything on that front. |
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-Kym Cooper-Rodgers
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Cambridge, England UK/Prague, Czech Republic
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The Post-American World |
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"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling The Future of Freedom, Zakaria describes, with equal prescience, a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. |
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| He sees the "rise of the rest"—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination. |
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| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead |
| (rated R for a scene of strong graphic sexuality, nudity, violence, drug use and language) |
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Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet (The Verdict, Dog Day Afternoon Serpico) scores big with this absorbing suspense thriller. Oscar®-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman is Andy, an overextended payroll executive who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is the store owners are Andy and Hank's real mom and pop; and when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage sends them hurtling toward a shattering climax. |
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| Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts |
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Academy Award® nominated director Scott Hicks (Shine) documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators—including Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese. |
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| For their second full-length, the Montréal-based seven-or-eight-piece Arcade Fire show themselves capable of Big Rock, as original, and as potentially marquee-topping as TV on the Radio and Sigur Ros. Regardless, the intentional murkiness of these pleasantly anthemic New Wave dirges makes it sound as if the music has already reverberated through a crowded cement stadium. Named after cult author John Kennedy Toole's first novel, Neon Bible is smart and subtle enough to present itself as a personal discovery for every listener, every word to be pored over by fans (as with those of Tori Amos, Pavement, and Radiohead). Surely, lines like "The sound is not asleep/ It's moving under my feet" have already been scribbled onto the margins of countless textbooks. Such words are delivered with less intensity this time, but no less import. For vocal influences, lead singer Win Butler seems to have traded his '80s Bowie in for an '80s Springsteen, at least on the songs "Antichrist Television Blues" and "Windowsill" (though "Intervention" sounds an awful lot like '80s era Go-Betweens). The kitchen sink arrangements include the use of an Eastern European orchestra, pipe organ, hurdy gurdy, and a military choir. -Mike McGonigal for Amazon |
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| Little Voice |
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| For many listeners, Little Voice will be their first exposure to this soulful singer/songwriter, but it's actually Sara Bareilles' second record. Her first, the self-released Careful Confessions, led to a deal with Epic. Since then, Bareilles has opened for Marc Broussard and Maroon 5. She's also become a bonafide soundtrack queen with tracks featured in female-centric films Girl Play, Loving Annabelle, and Monster-in-Law. As with her out-of-print début, the UCLA grad wrote every song on her first major label recording (Little Voice features re-worked versions of several demo numbers). Like the portrait on the back of the CD—Bareilles in strappy black dress and lace-free high-tops—the piano-playing chanteuse combines the sweet with the scruffy. While her jazzy pop melodies are radio-ready, her relationship-oriented lyrics can be unexpectedly salty ("Bottle Up" and "Come Round Soon" wouldn't pass FCC muster). A little profanity here and there, however, doesn't indicate tough-girl attitude—Amy Winehouse can rest easy—so much as a desire to express herself freely. As Bareilles explains in "Love Song", "I'm trying to let you hear me as I am." (Not surprisingly, her degree is in communications.) Fans of Sarah McLachlan and Alicia Keyes will find much to like here. -Kathleen C. Fennessy for Amazon |
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| Self Portrait |
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| Critically acclaimed vocalist and song stylist Lalah Hathaway continues the musical legacy with her Stax Records début, Self Portrait, a contemporary urban soul collection that takes you on a journey through joy and sadness and everything in between, and that features the new single "Let Go". The daughter of soul legend Donny Hathaway, Lalah is well respected in both Jazz and R&B. This album is an introspective journey into the contemporary adult R&B world that will truly satisfy Lalah's core fans and is so refreshing that it will guarantee new fans, as well. -Amazon |
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Fall 2007's most engaging, clever and funny new series is about an amiable slacker who’s been sold into indentured servitude to the Devil. But what about the hell of toiling for a little-seen network like the CW? Your fantastic show doesn’t get nearly as much buzz as the similarly-themed, hotly hyped hit "Chuck" over on a bigger network, that’s what. |
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| In any case, a well-tailored Ray Wise is showing up that hoary old satyr Jack Nicholson week in and week out, playing Satan as a sublimely patronizing alternative father figure whose oily charm belies a taskmaster you don’t want to upset. -L.A. Weekly |
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As colleges and universities continue to introduce and support courses in film and media studies in general, and Buffy Studies in particular, there's a growing body of Buffy curricula at undergraduate and graduate levels of study. Slayage provides an important forum for publishing graduate and professional scholarship in BtVS matters. Seriously. |
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interactive site of brilliant Singapore-based graphic designer Jonathan Yuen |
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Amazon serves up online shopping from the earth's biggest
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| Earth Cinema Circle is the only DVD club dedicated to increased environmental awareness through entertaining films. |
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| Netflix® offers more than 6.3 million subscribers access to
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| NewspaperArchive.com | It is the mission of Heritage Microfilm to be the world's leading provider of historical newspaper content, focusing on individual people and the events that impacted their lives. Through constant improvement, they are committed to providing a high volume of quality content via innovative and useful delivery methods. |
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Shutterfly.com is a leading Internet-based social expression and personal
publishing service that enables consumers to share, print,
and preserve their memories by leveraging the site's technology-based
platform and manufacturing processes. |
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| wine.com makes it fun, easy and risk-free for you to discover great
new wines from all over the world—whether shopping
for yourself or sending a gift. |
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| Wolfgang's Vault is the home for the past, present and future of live music. It is the exclusive destination for The Bill Graham Archives, the King Biscuit Flower Hour, and the Record Plant, along with a dozen other archives that live and are relived there. |
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Editors
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We're back. We're late. We know. We're sorry. We leave you to explore our meaty second quarter issue. -Patsy
Moore, Editor-in-chief |
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once more, unto the breach
(stuart chait)
Whereas The Believer was starkly realistic—a gut-shot treatise on identity, religion, and self-loathing—writer/director Henry Bean's new film, Noise, has transitioned him into the role of parable spinner. (more)
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C.S. Lewis saw that many Christians—particularly American Christians—were trying to take away his beer, and he wasn't going to stand for that. In Mere Christianity, he refers to such Christians as "a certain type of bad man". In Prince Caspian, Lewis gives these anti-beer Christians another name: "Telmarines". (more)
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john j. hagan
John Hagan is the current Art Director for Vox Pop, an über-progressive coffee shop/book store/publishing house located in Brooklyn, New York. He's also a TBA staff illustrator and photographer. (more)
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the clarence major
interview
(peter quinones)
Clarence Major's Dirty Bird Blues takes up sundry themes which seem to be profoundly ingrained in American society, as well as some that are more universal in scope.
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better than soup
(kelly byrne)
rated 'M', for language
I was convinced the entire city of Hartford was peeking over his shoulder at me curled in fetal position in that booth, waiting to inhale my last breath. Human beings have a quirky fascination with death. Rubberneckers all. (more) |
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art amsterdam and
its satellites
(karin bos)
The latest global phenomenon has reached us: an explosion of satellite fairs during the week of the always much-anticipated Art Amsterdam. (more) |
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david owen's
in sickness and in power
(tim haigh)
If Woodrow Wilson hadn't suffered a devastating stroke in 1919, might he have been able to drag the United States, kicking and screaming, into the League of Nations, and would her participation have made it effective in preventing the Second World War? If Mountbatten and Nehru and Gandhi had realized that Jinnah was dying of tuberculosis, could they have withstood his demands for a separate Muslim nation and prevented Partition of the Indian subcontinent? If the Western powers had known of the Shah of Iran’s leukemia, would they have earlier forced him to create a regency and a managed succession, and avoided the Islamic revolution; and might this have forestalled the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the consequent presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia which so enraged Osama Bin Laden and, who knows, the present debacle in Iraq? The game of What If...? is irresistible, and this is the grown-up version of it. (more) |
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nailing an exhibition
(francis powell)
If you'd said, ten years ago, that I'd have
a one-man show in Paris, I'd never have
believed it. Such a thing would have seemed
so far away, almost impossible. (more) |
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mountain, table,
anchors, navel
(jordan sanderson)
The sky was white-knuckling it. We had just come off the road, and our unconscious, though once weeded, plowed, and planted, had long since gone to seed. Behind the guest house, pumpkins dangled from the root clump of an uprooted oak, the hillside greened with rye grass. “I bet rabbits come here,” a woman said, tipping her hat to another woman going to fetch the paper from the box. (more) |
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thinking small
(alyssa stebbing)
A movement is afloat in the world today that engages more people than the membership of the Catholic Church. From it, a collective intelligence has emerged which has the potential to surpass the power of corporate think-tanks and could outdo the influence of religious and economic fundamentalism. It's not organized, it doesn't have a leader, it doesn't attract media attention, nor does it advertise. (more) |
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Sam and Katah Kerson believed that if they could shine light on twenty flawed—possibly mistaken—cases of executions, their work might bring the death penalty, itself, into question. (more) |
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sydney pollack, r.i.p.
(dana stevens)
Sydney Pollack's best movies tended to share this polemical element—the crossing of swords between evenly matched equals. (more)
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the daddy of dada
(jim newcombe)
We're right to be suspicious of verse in translation, but where there's no unmistakable meaning, no formal patterning and no rhyme, there ought to be less difficulty for the translator. There's still the problem of finding the closest approximation to the original word, and the closest approximation to the cadences of the original poem. (more)
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the union + larry norman +
richie valens + roxy music
sammy davis, jr. + naked city + lenny bruce + the coctails +
25 jaar pinkpop +
the pussycat dolls f/snoop dogg +
mostly bears + kylie minogue +
simon & garfunkel + crow tongue +
al margolis/if, bwana + lullabies +
the gibson brothers + lynn marie
(jamie lee rake)
"The Candy Man", Sammy Davis Jr.'s biggest pop hit, is far more awful than I recalled it being upon first hearing it at my Milwaukee cousins', during the saccharine ditty's radio heyday. With that grand exception (Davis was no fan of it, himself), the Rat Packer was one consummately exciting singer, bringing a showmanly zing to most everything he laid to tape. (more)
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The sharp, milky force of the Pecorino and the musky, meaty punch of black truffle were lofted on an amber wave of sweetness. They danced. They cajoled. They told a cheeky story of foolish demigods, bringing me to simultaneous laughter and tears. (more) |
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