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May 07, 2014 TV Game of Thrones

[Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the latest episode of Game of Thrones, “First of His Name,” then read no further.] For the last few weeks, Game of Thrones has been ramping up a few of its many plots. Since the riveting Purple Wedding in this season’s second episode, the show has treaded along cautiously in the wake of its most hated character’s demise.

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May 07, 2014 Music Eno • Hyde

Where might be the common ground between Karl Hyde, known for his work with the electronic music group Underworld, and Brian Eno, whose background opens up myriad possibilities within a collaboration?

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The Double

Studio: Magnolia
Directed by Richard Ayoade

May 07, 2014 Cinema

Jesse Eisenberg gives an impressive pair of performances in Richard Ayoade’s The Double.

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May 07, 2014 Music Papercuts

Given the hardships of Jason Quever’s story so far, Life Among the Savages feels like an appropriate title for Papercuts’ fourth studio recording. The San Francisco-born songwriter has always done things the hard waysometimes by choice, sometimes by cruel twists of fateand his latest LP suggests his struggles are unlikely to end any time soon.

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May 06, 2014 Books Web Exclusive

In this punctiliously annotated history, Lawrence Goldstone documents the origins of flight from the first man who deigned to strap wings to his arms to try to fly like a bird.

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May 06, 2014 Music Web Exclusive

There’s never been an obvious way to define tUnE-yArDs. Merrill Garbus’ turbulent transmissions of pulsing rhythm and unconscious reels of garbled poetry are almost always unplaceable.

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Stage Fright

Studio: Magnet
Directed by Jerome Sable

May 06, 2014 Cinema Web Exclusive

Think Glee meets Sleepaway Camp and add in a few musical numbers, and you’ll be heading down the right path.

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May 06, 2014 Music Web Exclusive

Like R.E.M. without Berry, Queens of the Stone Age without Oliveri, Pixies without Deal, or The Spice Girls without Ginger, Do to the Beast is good but not exquisite and just not quite right.

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Lykke Li

I Never Learn

Ll/Atlantic

May 05, 2014 Music Lykke Li

Lykke Li returns with what is reportedly the third in a loose trilogy including 2008’s Youth Novels and 2011’s Wounded Rhymes.

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