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Written by Rino Breebaart
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 Once it come along a dime by the dozen ¦ That ain't nothin' but drug store lovin' ¦ Pretty little thing, let me light your candle ¦ Cause mama I'm sure hard to handle, now, yes around. |
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Written by Kirk Marshall
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In vino veritas, especially in hindsight. A look back at the buddy film, road movie, intellectual farce, and moral wine-sour satire slash romance Sideways. |
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Written by Adam Robert Green
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Thoreau builds a truck and drives across America — a look at Steinbeck's last great work. |
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Written by Chrissie Gold
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Call me lame; call me sad; call me a bit of a git if you like, because I've just asked my newsagent to put aside the fortnightly Carry On Film Collection. |
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Written by Rino Breebaart
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Wonderfully coherent, thoroughly of our time, strictly Radiohead and yet gilded with a strange and subtle beauty — a really great album of non-pop. At last. |
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Written by Rino Breebaart
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One keeps coming back to Roth — there's always more to explore. Here's a review-batch of six novels from across his literary spectrum. |
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Written by Adam Green
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A look at an in-depth series of podcast interviews on the legendary tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. |
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Written by Edward Burke
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 Sure there's a bird on the front, but tipple this aged Yankee drop with WhiskeyMan Ed. In the words of the poet:
"Scrambled eggs and whiskey, in the false-dawn light." Hayden Carruth |
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Written by Chrissie Gold
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Once in every lifetime… comes a comedy show that changes the world of comedy. |
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Written by Mike Wood
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A discovery of the permanent beauty of the world: an insight into the work of the Armenian director. |
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Written by Adam Rivett
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Kanye West is that rarest, sweetest of occurrences — the deserved popular success. Follow his ego-schooling from College through to Graduation. |
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Written by David Nolan
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No American Director has ever fallen the way Michael Cimino did. In a way, that was only fitting, because his rise had been just as sudden and startling. |
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Written by Rino Breebaart
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 An austere yet faithful meditation on the nature of two worlds in collision, this is one of the best films of the last ten years. Forget the Farrell factor, this is pure spiritualism in cinematic movement. |
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Written by Rino Breebaart
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When the glorious 70s slipped into the cool 80s, Abba put out what would become their last great album. Get ready for some serious art built on divorce and sadness and amazing craft.
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Written by Edward Burke
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What's in a name? What's in the smokey still out in the back yard? Well, about four fine Irish whiskeys, subtle and lighter than your Scots variety which bludgeon you with malt. Ever run through a field of barley with your mouth open?Jump over to Eire and taste the alternative. Come in from the cold and rally your toasts with our smooth and well-aged guide to Bushmills Irish Whiskey. |
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Short Review
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Would you believe you can count the number of independent Irish whiskey distilleries on one hand? Would you believe: one finger? Sad 't is. Try Greenore. |
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Verging on self-parody or an interesting excuse for exotic location-scouting? Broken families all over again? I'm all for the artiste/auteur theory in film, but even Hitchcock never descended to such levels of... self-familiarity... |
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Everyone of a certain age has their moment when a Bob Mould song either helped them speak the unspeakable or gave them such a cathartic rush that reminded one that everything was going to be ok as long as you weren't afraid to make some noise. |
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Deeper than Down Home, there's the source of the Blues. Take a look at one of the original Southern Bluesmen. Before they all pass on... |
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Is God a numerological truth or a Wall Street fact? A look at the politics of modern numbers. |
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Alternative title: All This Ridiculous Beauty. Let's talk about the overcooked style of (the) Mann. |
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White-boy soul on another level, and so much better than Steely Dan's last output, this is High Donald Art. |
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A musicological head-squeezer that incorporates Hegelian aesthetics, John Cage's 4'33" and the shock tactics of Throbbing Gristle... |
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Ah, the Dan... where would the 70s be without them? But watch out, they snare and draw you in with their studio smarts and pop cleverness! A dialogic review. |
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The first Slow Wine Review is of an elegant and rounded Barossa red from Cameron Vale. Crack open the cheese and gather your tasting notes for a fine drop. |
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It's a petulant one, this drop. A whisky you should really don a pair of boots before drinking, but an interesting one nonetheless. |
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Albums with ballads and standards are often overlooked in the jazz canon because they are less exploratory, but this makes them more revealing and contrapuntal. |
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An essential DVD for any fan of music, no: an essential disc of the heaviest primal rawk ever to come out of a single voice. In leathers.
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A monster of a cigar, like a grandiose and overweight statesman... so much smoke you have to sit down and shudder your jowls. |
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There's a tendency to think of the Blues as an easy genre for amateur guitarists and old black singers with lotsa heartbreak, an all-too-familiar vernacular riddled with cliches and guitar faces. |
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