Reprise In recent months, Neil Young fans have had much reason to rejoice. In November, Young began releasing albums from what is reportedly a vast vault of archives. The first was a ripping good show from Neil with Crazy Horse in 1970 at the Fillmore East in New York City. This, the second in […]
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Masters of Horror: Family
lues Brothers,” “Animal House”) directs his second episode of the Showtime anthology series with more verve than anything he’s done in the past 20 years. “Family” finds a game George Wendt (“Cheers”) delighted to see he has new neighbors moving in: a cute married couple played by Meredith Monroe (“Dawson’s Creek”) and Matt Keeslar […]
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Twin Peaks: The Second Season
1990-91/2007 Almost six years after the first season came out on shiny platters, the second/last season of David Lynch’s revolutionary television series “Twin Peaks” finally hits DVD. The half-decade wait was worth it “? not just because Paramount has done a fine job in the audio/video department, but because the late, lamented show is a […]
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Jarvis Cocker – Jarvis
no finally breaks in at the 29-minute mark. The track seems unnecessarily buried, though perhaps Cocker might be giving authority the finger when he thinks they’re not paying attention anymore. “?Charles Martin
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Hot Fuzz
Reviewers’ grade: A The team that kidded zombie horror in “Shaun of the Dead” returns to take on the cop/action movie and, as they did last time, manage the tricky feat of making a picture that stands as an example of the very thing they’re parodying. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost return, this time […]
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One place where “separate but equal” lives on (for potty users, anyway)
Afghan nationals who work at NATO’s Kandahar Airfield must use their own “separate but equal” toilet facilities, according to a March dispatch in Toronto’s Globe & Mail. The American officer in charge of administrative contracts said the policy was based on hygiene, in that some locals customarily stand on toilet seats and then squat down, […]
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The Fratellis – Costello Music
Interscope We can assume there’s no one in the Fratellis named Fratelli. It’s better to think of the trio as a musical gang, kind of like the Ramones, but smarter … and Scottish. In this 12-track debut, the guitars stay up past 11, the tempos start and stop on a dime, and the tunes […]
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Science on the Cutting Edge
American researchers in West Africa believe they’ve found the first instance of an animal (other than humans) building a multi-step weapon, after observing wild chimpanzees grab sticks from 1 to 4 feet long, sharpen the ends with their teeth, and murderously jab them into deep tree hollows where delicious bush babies may be nesting. Writing […]
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Least competent criminals
Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested in San Marcos, Texas, in January after being caught allegedly robbing coin-change machines at an apartment complex, and police subsequently found apartment guides for several cities in their van, along with a half-ton of quarters ($18,700). Kevin Russell, 21, was arrested in Hobart, Ind., in February when he went to […]
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Compelling Explanations
“(Death row) is the calmest place I’ve ever been in,” said convicted murderer Paul John Fitzpatrick in March to a judge in Largo, Fla., hoping to avoid a mere life sentence, which would place him in the general prison population. “I probably found the most peace I’ve ever had in my whole life (in his […]