Word: caking
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...Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Dying for a brandy-laced Christmas pudding? How about a raisin-packed Cornish saffron bun or cake? Warrens of St. Just will ship them worldwide. www.warrensbakery.co.uk Luxuriate in sweet but alcoholic Cumberland Brandy Butter to go with your Xmas pudding. Peppermint candy slab Kendal Mint Cake will keep you going on hiking expeditions in the Lake District or the Himalayas. Delivery worldwide. www.edirectory.co.uk Smoking gives the humble...
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...trademark mordant social rants. “No Phone,” along with various other tracks off the new album, denounce technology and urban culture with a blander-than-usual strain of Cake’s signature social criticism. The tracks make use of the cultural consciousness that Cake fans crave, and that McCrea obviously still has, although their delivery on the CD pales in comparison to the caustic tunes of Cake’s earlier days...
While in concept the new album is worthy of the Cake name, the songs themselves have lost the power of past albums. The band has adopted a more pop sound that makes the fith track, “Carbon Monoxide,” written about public transportation in L.A., sound like a Green Day creation. Against a setlist of old and new from Cake, their newest tracks brought out power chords that only add to the band’s changing face. The new sound is not only the fault of a bassline-in-hiding and weak hooks...
...presidential connections don’t stop there—Maggie’s Sweets, the umbrella store under which Kilvert & Forbes now runs, also made Bill Clinton’s 48th-birthday ice cream cake. Though the lactose-intolerant former president wasn’t able to enjoy the creation, the Clinton White House staff now knows what it means to eat dessert Kerry-style...