Studio: Open Road
Directed by Jon Favreau
May 08, 2014
Cinema
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If you’re the type who gets their culinary rocks off just by watching food being prepared, then you’ll get a lot more out of Jon Favreau’s Chef than the average viewer.
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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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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 way—sometimes by choice, sometimes by cruel twists of fate—and his latest LP suggests his struggles are unlikely to end any time soon.
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May 06, 2014
Books
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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
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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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Studio: Magnet
Directed by Jerome Sable
May 06, 2014
Cinema
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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
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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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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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