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...album opens in medias res with “The Crane Wife #3,” the sensuous and sorrowful conclusion of a three-part epic based on a Japanese myth. Singer-songwriter Meloy’s repeated lament, “I will hang my head / hang my head low” sets the tone for album’s folk-rock journey through tales of calamity, personal loss, and unsavory deeds...
...hidden history” and “tell you things you didn’t know about the school you’re going to.” The Guide opens with an extraordinary vision of Harvard’s past, depicting it as an epic war between the College’s self-righteous left wing and the wicked tyranny of the Harvard administration.From its introduction, it would almost be easy to mistake the Guide for an odd exercise in irony—it is, after all, hosted at the site “badideafactory.com...
Hopefully the forthcoming British Broadcasting Corporation series tie-in with the book will lean more toward the reasoned analysis of the bulk of the book, emphasizing the motivations and ambiguities of all the actors in this transatlantic epic, rather than rely on the cheap “Americans are hypocrites” shot...
...brand of rock en espaol. The song El Fin de la Infancia puts brassy Mexican banda music to a ska beat. Eres is a pop ballad served straight. And Chilanga Banda is a nod to funk. It makes for manic concerts. This two-disc set captures Tacvba's epic 15th-anniversary blowout in Mexico City...
...ScorseseWarner Bros. Pictures5 starsMartin Scorsese returns to his old tricks in “The Departed,” a gangster pic with bullets and octane overflowing in spades. Long, bloody, complex, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the pair’s best collaboration by far, this modern mobster epic can only mean one thing: Marty’s back.When a movie is directed by Scorsese, stars DiCaprio and Matt Damon, and is produced by Brad Pitt, there are high expectations all around. “The Departed” meets them eye to eye.The past few years have been...