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Given that it's crowded with surfers and home to the Ford Ironman Triathlon World Championship, it's safe to assume that there are lots of hungry folk in the town of Kailua-Kona, on the island of Hawaii. But you don't have to swim across 3.8 km of ocean, cycle for another 180 km and then run a marathon-like the triathletes do-in order to work up an appetite. Merely spending a day on the beach or doing a spot of fishing will suffice. And when the hunger pangs strike, there are lots of friendly eateries...
...awkward applause for the big deaths, and the silence for the obscure ones. This year?s show had some high quality deaths-Shirley Horn, Robert Moog, Wilson Pickett, Eugene Record of Chi-Lites and Luther Vandross-and the audience came through with socially inapropriate clapping for their favorite folk in the great beyond...
Given that it's crowded with surfers and home to the Ford Ironman Triathlon World Championship, it's safe to assume that there are lots of hungry folk in the town of Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii. But you don't have to swim across 3.8 km of ocean, cycle for another 180 km and then run a marathon - like the triathletes do - in order to work up an appetite. Merely spending a day on the beach or doing a spot of fishing will suffice. And when the hunger pangs strike, there are lots of friendly eateries...
...sound, missing out instead on the studio experimentation that brings computerized complexity to their deft instrumentation. It would be hard to satisfy traditional fans (if any exist) of either of these bands, as they hail from opposite sides of the indie-musical spectrum. Oldham, who often relies on bare, folk-like musical backing for his back-country confessions, is here nudged towards the technologically deviant complexity of Tortoise, who are in turn obliged to accommodate Oldham’s tendency for a quieter style of shoe-gazing. Still, both groups are accomplished and thoughtful, and when both make concessions, they...
...Although they possess the same shape-shifting charm, Jungen's masks are much more than art-world variations on TransFormer toys. What they are is a kind of penetrating, wise-guy folk art. They reach into realms that have to do with magic and the objects that presume to have it, with power and the gaudy ways it announces itself, with the degradation of native art into gift-shop kitsch and the elevation of celebrity sports gear into sacred bling. By conflating tribal fetish and consumer trophy, Jungen has managed to tie any number of cultural assumptions and anxieties into...