Mar 31, 2010
Comic Books
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Jack Staff: Rocky Realities may be easier to understand if you’ve read what came before it. I did not.
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DC
Written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti; Art and Cover by Amanda Conner
Mar 30, 2010
Comic Books
DC Comics
The main reason it took me a long time to get around to reading Power Girl is because the covers looked quite silly. Sure, they had those Silver Age-esque colors popping out at you, and uh, Power Girl’s two main assets, but Amanda Conner portrayed our heroine in a vampy, sort of cartoonish manner. Don’t get me wrong, I love fun, self-aware titles (i.e. Booster Gold), but this just rubbed me the wrong way. Negative first impressions aside, the graphic novel collection Power Girl: A New Beginning is not too shabby. It collects the first six issues of the series and it’s a fairly fun and sometimes exasperating read.
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Mar 30, 2010
Music
Evelyn Evelyn
Somewhere deep in the untamed wilds of MySpace, producers Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley discovered Evelyn Evelyn Neville—a pair of conjoined twins sharing three legs, two arms, three lungs, two hearts, and a single liver. Isolated in a hotel in Walla Walla Washington, the girls developed their obsession with The Andrews Sisters and Joy Divison into a series of lovingly executed ukulele covers. Or so the story goes.
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Dark Horse
Written by Sheldon Stark; Art by Jerry Robinson
Mar 29, 2010
Comic Books
Dark Horse
It’s well known that U.S. comic strips, films, and TV shows from the height of the Cold War stripped away several of the fantastical elements from 1930s and 1940 space opera. Before the Soviet Union launched their first satellite into orbit in October of 1957, heady science-fiction was a household commodity as essential as electricity. Its new fans desired smarter and more socially aware narratives, that mirrored the dramatic tensions of the real world. One of the genre’s worthy and long-lost entries to this literary legacy, is New York Herald Tribune’s Jet Scott.
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Mar 29, 2010
Music
Titus Andronicus
Even if The Who are the only non-prog rock band that ever really pulled off what could truly be called concept albums, it’s been entertaining over the years hearing musicians hang songs around a theme. Usually. With The Monitor, Titus Andronicus co-opts the Civil War for use as a metaphor in a group of songs about someone who leaves New Jersey for Boston and is unhappy with his decision.
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Mar 28, 2010
TV
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Timothy Olyphant finally found a vehicle that made the most of his charm and talents in HBO’s lamentedly short-lived Deadwood, and FX and producers Graham Yost and Elmore Leonard intelligently cast him in a similar role in Justified. Based on some of Leonard’s short stories, Olyphant stars as U.S. Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens, who in the premiere, is forced to return to his hometown in Kentucky after shooting a criminal he’s given 24 hours to leave town.
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Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Mar 26, 2010
Cinema
Issue #30 - Winter 2010 - Vampire Weekend
A gynecologist (Julianne Moore) suspects that her husband (Liam Neeson), a suave music professor, is cheating on her, so she pays a young escort (Amanda Seyfried) to test his fidelity. Sounds rational and plausible, right?
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Mar 26, 2010
Music
Gorillaz
2001. Boy bands continued to reign, and music fans, for the most part, still bought physical CDs at some store called Best Buy (you might have heard of it). So naturally, when Gorillaz’s self-titled debut was released that year, there was something incredibly refreshing about it.
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Mar 25, 2010
Live
Vivian Girls
SXSW 2010
Sondre Lerche
SXSW 2010 Party
The Veils
Plants and Animals
Avi Buffalo
Everything Everything
The Invisible
SXSW 2010
Under the Radar‘s 2010 SXSW day party went down on Saturday, March 20, from 12 - 6 p.m., at Klub Krucial, and was sponsored by JanSport. It was the fifth year that Under the Radar has hosted a SXSW party and the magazine’s sixth SXSW party over all (one year we hosted two). The cold and rainy weather didn’t deter enthusiastic music fans and music industry professionals from venturing out on the last day of SXSW. The party included performances by Vivian Girls, Sondre Lerche, The Veils, Plants and Animals, Avi Buffalo, Everything Everything, and The Invisible.
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Mar 25, 2010
Music
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As sweet as apple pie and as American as nostalgia for a Norman Rockwell-colored era that never really existed, The Living Sisters’ Love to Live is a non-guilty pleasure aimed at an all-ages audience. However, given the charming absurdity of Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond), sly subversiveness of Inara George (Bird and the Bee), and no-nonsense style of Eleni Mandell, one can’t help but wish for a bit more from these talented women.
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