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...Wars may provide the muse, but the band insists that they try to make the songs stand up on their own. That means fans needn’t be at all familiar with any galaxies far, far away. Those Jedi that can make out Dern’s lyrics beneath the muffled fuzz of their often-bootleg audio equipment, however, will appreciate the band’s witty homage to the stellar series. Playing at 4 p.m. on Saturday in Loker Commons will represent a whole new world for these Quincy Cage stalwarts, but, with their legion of faithful knights...
With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel newmajestichotel.com makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional notions of [an error occurred while processing this directive] innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms...
...lighthouse keepers and a married couple who have lived and fished there for more than three decades. The economic significance of the islands is no less marginal: the surrounding fishing waters are healthy but unexceptional, and there are no known stores of oil or natural gas beneath the seabed in this isolated area...
...finds her balance: all the elements—vocal lines, guitar riffs, minimal percussion, and electronic textures—intertwine in complementary fashion. Molina sings with a beautiful, breathy tone, and her airy Spanish lyrics meld seamlessly with the soft musical underpinnings beneath. On the album’s opener, “Rio Seco,” Molina demonstrates her vocal abilities to great effect. She displays a wonderfully free sense of rhythm—sometimes drawing her vowels out languidly, and sometimes chopping her words short—creating a gentle sense of syncopation above the simple pulse...
...secret police officers from Saddam's regime, had been trumpeted by the U.S. military as a former insurgent hot spot brought under control - a success story in the effort to hand over more of the responsibilities for keeping order to the Iraqis. Yet most on the ground knew that beneath the suburb's surface, trouble still brewed. U.S. military intelligence believed the town was still being used by the Ba'ath insurgents as a command headquarters and logistics base, and American officers suspected that Iraqi commanders they're allied with had struck an accord with the guerrilla leadership, promising...