CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Dec 11, 2008 | Music

Jeremy Milligan QuintetStill Moving(Tight Records)Classically trained guitarist Jeremy Milligan likes to find those spaces between the well-travelled paths of genre. His group mixes elements of Latin jazz and classical music with a dreamy sense of song construction...
Behind the Beat: Party Like the Wolf

Behind the Beat: Party Like the Wolf

by | Dec 11, 2008 | Music

"The first thing I'd definitely like to clear up is that people always think we're talking and singing about ourselves, but we're not—we're singing about the Wolf," says Party Wolf frontman and guitarist Ian Reed.So begins a lengthy and...
War Games

War Games

by | Dec 11, 2008 | Film

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas (4 stars)Directed by Mark Herman. Written by Mark Herman, based on the novel by John Boyne. With Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Zac Mattoon O'Brien, and Domonkos Nemeth. (PG-13)The Boy in The Striped Pajamas is a...
Locavore: Let Them Eat Cookies

Locavore: Let Them Eat Cookies

by | Dec 11, 2008 | Food + Booze

"Doing without" was a way of life during the long shortages of World War II. In his collection of essays, One Man's Meat, E.B. White wrote: "…Every day I shall use the milk of the previous day, never taking advantage of the opportunity to...
Easy Poetry?

Easy Poetry?

by | Dec 11, 2008 | Arts

Poetry's got a reputation to uphold, apparently—the reputation of that last brutal Himalayan peak in the dim haze of the academic distance. There have been plenty of attempts to make it seem friendlier, like the recent Poetry for Dummies. Add to those...