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...knowing exactly what is amiss at the exclusive English private school Hailsham. But something is definitely off. The teachers are afraid of the students. The students are afraid of the forest. And nobody wants to put into words just what exactly is going on here. Set in a creepy alterna-England, Never Let Me Go is a horror novel, but it's less about fear than it is about a deep, existential sadness that the world is such a horrifying place. By the time you learn the secret it's much too late: you've been drawn into this strange...
...gatekeeper of the musical elite: Maxim’s Blender magazine. His Omaha-based label Saddle Creek have hosted a handful of similarly insipid alt-rockers, many of whom, like The Faint or Rilo Kiley, have recently met Mammon’s warm embrace. Adored by hordes of sobbing alterna-teens, Oberst has generated an elaborate cult of personality that often obscures the mediocrity of his music. Photographs of his skinny indie-bod and endearing bedhead hair frequently appear in the music press, which predictably enough, has gone apeshit over his weepy singer-songwriter crooning (as if atoning...
...demeanor he poured into superb renditions of his finest material. Providing a rich backdrop, the Flaming Lips deftly fleshed out some songs, like “Lonesome Tears” and the lounge jam “Paper Tiger,” as they cleverly injected their own alterna-pop flavor into others like “Lost Cause.” As serious as he seemed at times, Beck was in top form during the most rollicking and silly tracks, like “Nicotine and Gravy,” the harmonica hoedown of “One Foot...
...something stuffy about tea and its accouterments—high-backed chairs, Devonshire cream, porcelain saucers and ostentatious pinkie fingers. Owing to this imagined heritage, the advent of chains like Tealuxe and proliferation of trendy herbal tea-shops might seem a flourish of Anglophilia, as if the alterna-caffeine crowd were hankering to sip chamomile with the Queen Mother herself. A new teashop in Cambridge aims to shatter this image with a taste of original tea. Truth is, the British have only taken tea-time for 350 years. The Chinese, on the other hand, have been at it for five...
...trail blazed by Joe Sacco's "Palestine" and "Safe Area Gorazde." Unlike those carefully rendered books, however, Rall's has come out quick and dirty, like a dispatch from the front lines of an on-going war. Rall, a syndicated political cartoonist whose weekly "Search and Destroy" appears in alterna-papers, felt the only way to discover the truth of the conflict in Afghanistan was to go there himself. Made up of both text and comix, "Afghanistan" treats us to an inside look at the life the Afghani people and the journos living among them...