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SOiL’s major label debut, Scars, explodes from the Windy City with a hard-rock radio blend of melodic hooks and crunching riffs. This nu-metal outfit manages to temper the simplicity of drop-d tuned chunk metal with alt-rock and cock-rock attitude. The band keeps it simple. They don’t blend hip-hop, they don’t dose tracks with techno-loops, but stick to simple meat and potatoes rock-metal power, with an occasional decrease in distortion for a few seconds of sensitivity. Catapulted by their debut single...
...environmentalist railing against big business, Matthiessen can sketch the fleeting sight of a rare blue crane beating its wings against the African sky in a few lithe words, then explain in detail the ecological effect of modern development. (Accompanying Matthiessen's descriptions are Robert Bateman's evocative illustrations, a blend of photographic naturalism and warm impressionism.) Although the writer's encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world occasionally makes the book slow going, he has an eye for essential details that cut through the nomenclature. For example: the crane has had the misfortune to live in areas that have been devastated...
...RIVER BLEND The stilt village of Bang Yai, 12 km to the northwest of Bangkok, may seem like a long way to travel for coffee but Poon, my taxi-boat driver, promised me it was worth the trip when I stepped into his boat nursing a cup of Starbucks, of which he clearly disapproved. That's how my erstwhile tour of the old klongs of Bangkok was transformed into a quest for authentic kafae thung, or Thai bag coffee. We took off from Nonthaburi, a small town just north of Bangkok. As we quietly chugged through the network of canals...
Lang said she is already working to blend hypnosis with some of today’s most complex and high-tech procedures...
...general exuberance and youthful sense of experimentation. Yet the general barrage of hip and trendy art devolved into a sensory overload where innovation and freshness in particular works merged into an indistinguishable muddle—a kind of visual white noise. In their seemingly desperate efforts not to blend in, many...