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...song, which details the depths of Kerouac’s alcohol- and madness-induced depression, puts Farrar’s gritty, alt-country manner to good use. When he wails “I’m gonna die in full despair / and wake up where the atmosphere / is dearer and maybe closer to heaven,” one senses the raw desperation of a man on the edge of sanity...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...hand chopping kilos of coriander and ginger. Some initially promising ingredients-such as kaffir lime-produced undrinkable beer. But months of trial and error paid off, and you can now sample the results at the Archipelago pub near Boat Quay. At over $6 a pint, the new brews are dearer than standard lager, but they're undeniably tastier and more interesting. True to Teo's vision, they feature ingredients like tamarind, palm sugar, ginger, lemongrass and even wolfberries, which are normally used in traditional Chinese medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Waiter, There's a Herb in my Beer" | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...adore Arsenal too much to concoct reasons for turning against it. But Bara, as the team is known, is nearer and dearer to my heart, ever so slightly. My love for the team sprang from my love of the city. A cousin of mine had fought for the republic in the Spanish Civil War. Why would a Polish Jew, who had never before set foot in Spain, journey across Europe to take up arms with the Catalans? As a boy, I began reading about Barcelona's resistance to Franco and developed a romance with the city. During my teens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homage to Catalonia | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...dominated back line - once, Tony Adams and Martin Keown, now Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole. Barcelona fields true Catalan heroes such as Carles Puyol. I adore Arsenal too much to concoct reasons to turn against them for the sake of a match. But Barça is nearer and dearer to my heart, ever so slightly. My love for the team sprang from my love of the city. A cousin of mine had fought for the republic in the Spanish Civil War. Why would a Polish Jew, who had never before set foot in Spain, journey across Europe to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homage to Catalonia | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...their recent videos. For “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” the band took on war and lost innocence. With their most recent six-minute-plus epic, “Jesus of Suburbia,” they focus on a subject nearer and dearer to them: love and loss among the over-eyelinered. The video’s protagonist, who hubristically claims in subtitled dialogue to be “nailed to a couch, suffering for [his] sins,” is “St.” Jimmy. He has the classic underfed...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Henry M. Cowles, and Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

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