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...create. The album has been released on Kill Rock Stars sister label 5RC, home to noise-rock wunderkinds Deerhoof, Hella, Xiu Xiu, and others of their ilk. Many reviews of the album have looked to the band as a bridge between the avant-garde of rock and kitschy childhood regressions, but the stylistic resonances between Deerhoof and Double Dragon are deeper than cutesiness or coincidence. Most of the current cohort of rock musicians are products of the much-heralded "Nintendo generation." They heard the Zelda theme song long before they bought their first Black Flag album. The effect of countless...
...same, in his 60s, Hockney has been looking homeward. Since last spring, Yorkshire is exactly where he has been, living and painting in the rolling farmland he has known since childhood. And he has gone native again, just as much as he ever did in California, although this time it's in the place he's native to. In California Hockney was all about brightly striped shirts and mismatched pastel socks. Bridlington Hockney goes in for charcoal tweeds and plaid slippers. The blond hair has gone gray. The big round eyeglasses have been exchanged for wire ovals. His socks match...
...program from scratch, she’s learned that art is a task, first and foremost.With an elegance particular to matron dancers, Mallardi speaks of her life with a combination of grace and wry humor. Her stories flow from convivial to grave, from focused to tangential. She spent her childhood in the Bronx, learning tap and jazz by going to the cinema and imitating Fred Astaire and his ilk. Her first dance class was part of an after-school physical education program, and it was in this unlikely setting that she had her first creative breakthrough. When given an assignment...
...crime she has committed. It is her purgatory and almost—but not quite—her absolution. Set against the carnage and devastation of World War II, McEwan’s masterpiece is a tale of personal estrangement and shattered community, individual guilt and collective suffering, childhood, and war—and the survival of love in the midst...
Double Dare. Roundhouse. Clarissa Explains it All. If Nickelodeon didn’t actually raise a lot of today’s American college students, it certainly played the role of our zany uncle. Most of the live-action Nick shows of our childhood have one thing in common: they were filmed at Orlando’s Universal Studios—a crazy blue-and-orange building with a green-slime fountain. But thanks to the popularity of Nickelodeon’s cartoons and a shift to filming in smaller New York and Los Angeles studios, Nickelodeon closed the iconic...