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...offering up some terrific new choices. Among the better picks is Lonely Planet's new guide to the entire globe. Aptly titled The Travel Book, it skims over every country in the world - all 192 of them, plus a handful of territories - in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There is lots of local knowledge as well. "No es facil" (it's not easy) is, we are told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass...
...prove how much this album owes to MDMA; it comes off just as forcefully in the lush sound. Bouncy dance beats, sneering guitars and Ryder’s atonal sing-speak mingle in a chaotic and perplexing stew. On the surface is nothing but the smooth veneer of glorious production and funky beats, but just underneath is chaotic and threatening matter, a reflection of the dichotomy between the grimmer actualities of the band’s milieu and their perception of it. The pills ’n’ thrills never lack their corresponding bellyaches, and beneath the beats...
Jonathan B. Hall of New York gives a free lunch-time organ recital to the public. Bring a sandwich and listen to glorious organ music. Sponsored by the Harvard Organ Society, Harvard University Art Museums and Memorial Church. Free. Adolphus-Busch Hall...
Race is at the center of his story. Hip is partly a glorious defense mechanism, a residue of the continual attempts of African Americans to make their way through a sometimes menacing white world. It began, for instance, among slaves who developed coded languages to communicate secret meanings to one another under the very eyes of the slaveholders--which for one thing is how bad came to mean good in African-American slang. And though hip is often cool and evasive, it can also be angry and hot. In the late 1940s and the '50s, anger came back into...
When Saul Williams last graced us with his words, in the form of the glorious epic poem, “, said the shotgun to the head,” he gamely disproved the notion that black male artists are nothing without their masculinity...