CD Shorts: Spoon

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Music

They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)   Spoon has been a good band for a long time—the project began in 1993—but this eighth album may be the point at which Spoon reaches escape velocity. They Want My Soul offers something few albums do: breathtaking...
CD Shorts: Jon Hassell

CD Shorts: Jon Hassell

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Music

City: Works of Fiction (All Saints)   More than a simple reissue, this three-disc expansion of trumpeter Jon Hassell’s City: Works of Fiction serves as a recontexualization of his otherworldly music. Hassell is best known for his Fourth World concept, which...
Cinemadope: Bogie at 12 O?Clock

Cinemadope: Bogie at 12 O?Clock

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Film

What makes a film a classic? It’s one of those questions that has both a thousand answers and none, and is often defined more by the person asking it than by the work itself. Usually, we chalk it up to time and a vague collective consciousness—not...
Top Choice

Top Choice

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Food + Booze

A ceiling-high wooden grid that houses booze bottles and serves as the bar backdrop makes Plan B the perfect setting for a guy’s night out. Dark brown leather seats and tables of matching wood give off a romantic vibe that’s just right for date...
Structuring the Unstructured

Structuring the Unstructured

by | Aug 14, 2014 | Careers & Education

When I arrive at the Florence Organic Community Gardens, Pandora Redwin is standing a couple feet off the ground, balancing on a wooden post and tending to a tarp that stretches out over her. Next to the tarp structure, several smoothed logs stretch out in a circle....