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...sister's death, has dampened her enthusiasm for life and work. Evans, who lives with her partner of eight years and their 12-week-old daughter, is back to juggling journalism with the beginnings of her second novel. If she can reproduce the frank, bittersweet voice of her debut, then her writing career, too, may end up being magical...
...Rings already provided? And Hollywood apparently missed the joke of Team America: World Police’s hilarious spoof of the Broadway musical Rent (“Everyone has AIDS! My father…AIDS! My sister…AIDS!”) because the movie version will debut this year, helmed by none other than Home Alone director Chris Columbus...
Joining the ranks of pseudo-literary quasi-luminaries who have passed through the Signet’s hallowed halls, visiting lecturer Elvis Mitchell made his debut at the tea-totin’, art-appreciatin’ private club two Thursdays ago. Our spy reports that Elvis showed up around 10:30 to a cocktail hour, went unrecognized by most of the wannabe hipsters in attendance, and handed out his digits to perplexed partygoers. Or tried to, at least. While we doubt Elvis will be put up, we do wonder whether any fame-seeking Signette...
...will be interesting to see where they go from here, especially since the last three songs on their debut CD actually show a lot of promise. The aforementioned “this song about arms” shines with emotional fervency and openness (“maybe someday things won’t be so bad…”), and “fast times at right now” deftly combines their powerful guitar skills with fiery vocals that fiercely question the lifestyle choices of the addressed (“You wake up in the morning...
...titanic waves of hype cresting over M.I.A.’s long-awaited debut album have created one of the finer ironies in recent memory: So much music-crit ink and bloggy bits have been lavished on Maya Arulpragasam—an artist who studiously, hyperactively, sublimely avoids cliché—that it’s nearly impossible to write about her without indulging in a few already-saids...