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...event was organized by last year’s winner Athena L. Lao ’12 and former National Spelling Bee champion George A. Thampy...
...Hynes can best be described as a dabbler. His upbringing shows signs of it: Hynes was born in Texas, raised in England and now lives in New York City. Within his artistic career it’s even more apparent. Hynes, also known as “Lightspeed Champion,” a name culled from a series of comic strips he once drew, has performed in just about every genre of music imaginable. His last group, Test Icicles, performed a combination of dance and punk, but now he performs his own blend of folk and indie rock, along with...
This variety makes Hynes’ newest album, “Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You,” difficult to classify. It is too emotionally charged to be relaxed, but too relaxed to be emotionally moving. Hynes has settled down from the first Lightspeed Champion album, 2008’s “Falling off Lavender Bridge,” in which quiet and underwhelming music masked angry self-loathing lyrics. However, “Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You” is a confused record. It is comprised of angry break-up ballads...
...numbers—which comprize four out of the 15 tracks—are all lovely, and when Hynes focuses on this aspect of his music, the album is exceptional. Unfortunately, when the instrumental innovation falls away, the lyrics rarely have the depth or character to engage, and Lightspeed Champion sadly slips into the shadows...
Landis is likely to point to history to counter Bordry's evocation of judicial objectivity. In 2005, seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong attacked the credibility of Bordry's labs after an article in the French sports daily l'Equipe said preserved samples of his 1998 and 1999 races had tested positive for doping. "The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty," Armstrong said via his website - one of the many swipes at the lab he's taken over the years. Bordry proposed a second testing, but Armstrong dismissed...