Juliana Hatfield: Peace and Love
Armed with a secondhand eight-track recorder, Hatfield ditched the confines of the studio and retreated to the back room of her Cambridge apartment to capture her most independent, intimate work. [Stacey Pavlick]
Interview: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans
"Pretentious is the most ridiculous word, I don't really understand it. We're not as pretentious as the bands playing jangly guitars trying to look all cool and appeal to everyone." [Marcus David]
Rediscover: Baby Gramps Same Ol' Timeously
Listening to Gramps perform is like taking an interactive tour through America's musical heritage, from the first generation of recordings in the 1920s to the folk ballads of the Great Depression to the jazz and blues-infected Southern folklore that followed. [Marcus David]
Prodigal Sons
It's always a shame when a good story doesn't make a good film; it's even more so when the story is a family's troubled history and the film is a documentary by one of them. [Nathan Kamal]
A Prophet A Prophet is not the Arab-Gallic Grand Theft Auto. Rather, director Auidard simply puts his characters in a fish tank and poses a Darwinian fight for survival. [David Harris]
Toe to Toe Toe to Toe's strength lies in the depth of its characters, none of whom are given the option to be one-dimensional or entirely guiltless. [Nathan Kamal]
FILM FEATURES
Oeuvre: Linklater Live from Shiva's Dance Floor
It is perhaps best viewed as one man's attempt to grapple, in a vaguely philosophical, occasional Buddhist, not very original way with some big issues. [Lukas Sherman]
Film Dunce: Rocky
"Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood." [Tara Pierson Hoey]
Rediscover: Withnail and I
We take another look at Bruce Robinson's comic masterpiece, a film that brought both a Richard E. Grant and notoriously dangerous drinking game into the world. [Lauren Westerfield]
FOOD
Curried Sweet Potato Fries
They're called sweet potato fries, our friends, and they will revolutionize your use of the yam. [Lauren Westerfield]
Portobello Mushroom and Feta Lasagna
This recipe features the meaty texture of the Portobello mushrooms and the tanginess of feta cheese. Perhaps best of all, this dish is simple to make and very, very easy to enjoy. [Phyllis Anastasia Gasper]
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Under What Stars by Ryan J. Davidson Under What Stars is not exactly a collection of misty-eyed, boozy travelogues, but rather Davidson's attempt at weaving together fleeting moments spent across these disparate continents that would be totally inconsequential to the objective eye. [Chris Middleman]
Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy
Much of Dan Kennedy's Rock On: An Office Power Ballad is as tedious and ennui-inducing as the mainstream music acts and corporate culture he lampoons throughout the book. [Eric Dennis]
Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah - A New Biography by Tim Footman
Footman speaks to us as if we were both Cohen fanatics and absolute know-nothings, granting inclusion into a fan club while also providing unneeded basic information. [Jesse Cataldo]
