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Lose the penthouse, with its buzzing juice machines? Condense the airy floors of stacks? Take down the hanging panels to which are very occasionally pinned art exhibits? It was this vision of a new, more efficient Hilles that has driven me up Garden Street night after night to the old, empty, water-stained Hilles, to wind my limbs around those unaccommodating chairs. Last week I ascended an echoing staircase to the penthouse. (I justified the excursion as a study break: Both of my legs, which I had draped over an arm of one of the chairs, had fallen asleep). There...
...perhaps I am being too harsh; for all its faults, the film is cheeky and rather fun. Some of the cinematography is amazing, capturing perfectly the barren beauty of the desert. But, in the end, the cliché-driven script is just too much, even for such accomplished and talented actors as Viggo Mortensen and Omar Sharif...
...exhausting and, ultimately, numbing. Blood streams off the screen far over the level I’ve ever previously seen in film. At one point, a strip of flesh is actually torn off. The crown of thorns is pressed directly into his forehead. During the crucifixion, the nails are driven through Jesus’ flesh. Each instance of Jesus’ pain is lovingly photographed to make sure the audience doesn’t miss any details. Although that might help accentuate the suffering and thus the holiness of Jesus’ experience, by the end, these shots begin...
John Darnielle, the man behind the Mountain Goats, performs from his enormous catalogue of emotional, acoustic guitar-driven songs. The Goats’ latest offering, We Shall All Be Healed, marks their twelfth album in less than ten years, and that’s not including EPs, singles and other releases. Come early for the local roots-oriented rock of Choo Choo Larouge and the reflective folk strumming of Manishevitz. Tickets $12. 9:30 p.m. T. T. the Bear’s Place...
...Abadgaran's foreign policy maxim is, "Honor, Wisdom, Prudence," which may remain far from an interest-driven realpolitik. "Relations with the U.S. are not as important as our prayers, nor as sinful as alcohol," says coalition leader Tavakoli. "For more than half a century, the American government has been oppressing us, so, unless they change their attitude, there's no basis for rapprochement...