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...inevitable DVD), Young strikes up a string of older classics, starting with 1968's I Am a Child. When Young & Co. later groove into Comes a Time with eight guitars in a line pumping like a row of pistons, Young fanatics and other assorted baby boomers might well descend into tearful raptures. Every viewer, though, will be impressed by the mysterious way the new songs written by an old man take on fresh meaning when sung alongside old songs penned when he was younger. "There's something going on in there that I can't really explain," Young told...
...feed their e-mail addicitions on the way back to their dorms from Lamont. By the summer of 2006, even scholars sans Blackberry can reach the Secure CRT nirvana of perpetual e-mail checking. Harvardians, MITechies—nay, all Cantabrigians—shall rejoice: a wireless blanket will descend on Cambridge. As a result of collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and the City of Cambridge, students and citizens alike will be able to reap the benefits of free wireless Internet access throughout the entire city. Harvard and MIT have aided Cambridge in its planning...
...impulses competing for those hard-earned dollars: a deep love of one's own family and a desire to show up everyone else's. Everyone buys Mom a house. Everyone buys a truck. Many buy subwoofers and chrome packages for their truck. When the returning workers descend on Tuxpan for the holidays in December, the local Yamaha motorcycle dealer has a field day. Rents in Tuxpan now average around $250 a month; completed houses can cost well over $100,000. Nike shoes cost up to $200 a pair. Seafood restaurants in town charge $10 a plate. "In America, we could...
...POWER THE GREATEST Typically, Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, creates a few bars of something gorgeous and then lets her songs descend into frustrating torpor. But here music's reigning masochist drifts into Memphis and finds some much needed structure. The title track opens with a fleeting musical quote of Moon River and proceeds to tell the riveting--and neatly resolved--tale of a boxer. Empty Shell, a title that once might have been descriptive of her style, has a jaunty, optimistic streak. And it doesn't hurt that the album is full of great playing from River City legends...
...what are coal miners? People who descend into hell. People who dig into the devil's backyard, where nothing lives, and bring forth something that burns as hot as Satan's fire. One of the miners who died at Sago, Martin Toler Jr., wrote a note in his last hours: "Tell all I see them on the other side." It was the last sentiment of a man whom family described as deeply religious. But it was also a simple metaphor for the daily hope of every worker who delves in those deep reaches: to rise again and see the faces...