Photo: Caitlin Lindsey Feathered Rabbit’s sound hits you in waves. There’s the sultry lounge essence and smoky jazz groove, both wafting with a natural ease. That’s met with a wallop of punchy, gravelly blues and swampy psychedelia that swirl together in a patchwork of sound swatches belonging to a forgone era of American music. Complex […]
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New hue
Photo: Zayra Alvarez Justin Furstenfeld — frontman for alternative rock band Blue October — has lived in the darkness long enough that his eyes have adjusted. Even the bright spots, like the platinum-selling Foiled, sold-out tours and performances on late-night talk shows were channeled from the torment of his most hopeless moments. But with this […]
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PBS offers a new perspective on Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds
bY Dean Robbins As an Orson Welles fanatic, I thought I knew everything about his infamous radio adaptation of War of the Worlds from 1938. The 23-year-old genius crafted the program as if Martians had actually invaded the U.S., with news bulletins seeming to interrupt regularly scheduled programming. Listeners believed the invasion was real, and […]
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Frankenstein’s Army
(2013) So towering is the legend of Frankenstein, one found-footage film just isn’t enough. This spring saw the release of The Frankenstein Theory, and now we have the weirder, wilder, wonderfully imaginative Frankenstein’s Army. Near the end of WWII, a cameraman chronicles the mission of a Russian military unit under Stalin’s order. The men and […]
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That’s a lot of people zooing it
The new record, despite those triple-digit temps, is 989,622. (For those not into math, that’s a full 6,901 more.) According to the city institution, it helped that its first baby elephant, Malee, celebrated her first birthday this past spring, not to mention the arrival of the male Asian elephant named Rex. Perhaps we can rally […]
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The changing scene Everything changes. That’s especially true for the restaurant business, where menus, staff and even owners make transitions. When new owners take over a restaurant, that’s “all new” to me. Let’s give these new owners and restaurants the boost they need. —Carol Smaglinski, photos by Mark Hancock and Shannon Cornman $$: Up to […]
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Trust
In fact, that’s really the only reason I can recommend the family drama: as a cautionary tale about what happens when the social network becomes a sexual one. It should be an “ABC Afterschool Special,” and not playing at theaters starting Friday. At least it’s well-made. With “Trust,” director David Schwimmer — yes, Ross from […]
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Bite size
A famous person you kind of look like: “A gal on ‘Star Trek,’ but I can’t remember her name.” Nobody really knows: “That I can speak five languages: Farsi, Spanish, Dari, English and Arabic.” Favorite cookbook? “All of my recipes come from my head, and I just play with them. I never look at a […]
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Now that’s what I call mad money!
On Tuesday, EMI Music releases “NOW That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 37,” and among its 20 tracks of Eminem, Taylor Swift, T-Pain, Ke$ha and someone who dares call himself/ herself/itself Waka Flocka Flame is Chance’s “Waiting Outside the Lines,” his debut single from last October. Chance can learn a lot from his peers on […]
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Trotting into town
Sunday It wasn’t long ago that the Harlem Globetrotters last trotted through town, but when they return at 2 p.m. Sunday, they’re bringing something new: “the first-ever 4-point shot.” With basketball’s crown princes slated to play against the Washington Generals at the Oklahoma City Arena, 100 W. Reno, the 4-point shot is made from 35 […]