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...Place. 10:50 p.m. Tickets available at the door. $8. (JDMC)Monday, Dec. 5 Sinead O’Connor with Sly & Robbie. O’Connor will perform selections from her latest CD “Throw Down Your Arms”, a collection of covers of classic reggae songs. The duo of drummer Lowell “Sly” Dunbar and bass player Robbie Shakespeare will accompany. Avalon. 8 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $35. (MEE)Dinosaur, Jr. This two-night live performance features native Massachusetts band Dinosaur, Jr., best known for returning the use of a lead...
...cancelled because singer/song-writer Jeff Tweedy deemed the footage too “claustrophobic”—the double disc album contains 23 songs, mostly culled from the band’s recent studio effort “A Ghost is Born,” but their 2001 classic “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” is also well-represented. The band appointed well-respected sound engineer Jim Scott (Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Red Hot Chili Peppers) to cull material from four nights of shows at Chicago’s Vic Theatre. Scott does not disappoint, faithfully capturing...
...ones in which I’ve witnessed an artist either screaming or whispering his or her way through the Earth’s crust, drilling into the magma that flows in the subconscious. I remember seeing Beck do a solo acoustic show, playing Big Star’s classic “Kanga-Roo,” and his eyes glazed over. He saw all his lovers, past and future. He was exorcising demons. Similarly, I remember seeing Frank Black of the Pixies, monstrously obese, bleating out how much he still wanted to be a “Debaser...
...wondering what has become of children's books with the sweeping, mythic dimension of classic folktales, here is proof that the genre still has life in it. Gerstein's stirring story covers hundreds of thousands of years and a vast landscape; his illustrations rise to the realm of Chagall-like lyric fantasy. He tells of the earth's last giant, who, exhausted by his unrequited love for the moon, falls asleep and over the centuries becomes a mountain. In a town (Pupickton--from the Yiddish for belly button) built on his belly, the residents live in fear of waking...
...ZEISEL A sensuous, multifunctional shape with a pedigreed past is reborn. Originally created in 1952 by the world-renowned Hungarian ceramics designer Eva Zeisel, the Classic Century teapot makes a comeback in a creamy neutral. Zeisel, considered one of the foremost designers of the 20th century, created sculptural pieces with rounded curves, arches, teardrops and wave motifs. Out of production for many years, during which it became a collector's item, this timeless piece of high-fired earthenware was resurrected exclusively for Crate & Barrel...