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...KINGSBURY MANX. Grammy-winning songstress Norah Jones nabbed a slice of the spotlight from today’s pop divas by eschewing the theatrics and focusing on her unique, raspy vocals. The Kingsbury Manx already seem to have learned that a whisper can speak louder than a whoop when it comes to polishing their own low-key tunes. Taking its cue from Britpop, the North Carolina outfit casts a shadowy and intimate tone over its songs, leaving listeners rocking on their country porches and floating away on meditations about cabbages, kings and everything in between. Friday, August...
SUNTAN. Boston’s own space rockers crank up effects-laden guitars supplemented with organ swells to forge a new path for psychedelia. What the group lacks in bass they compensate with effects and the occasional violin sample. Also performing are Victory at Sea, Kingsbury Manx, and Jeffery Simmons & The Symptoms. Friday, August 15, 9 p.m. $8. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...That independent spirit has kept the Isle of Man out of the European Union. Though it's a Crown dependency reliant on Britain for defense and foreign relations, it runs its own, near-autonomous 1,000-year-old system of government. (To the Manx, Britain is not the mainland; the island is the mainland, and Britain is obliquely referred to as "across," as in "What's the weather like across?") True, this separateness has encouraged only slow social change: birching, or beating with a birch rod, for crimes of violence against a person was still going strong in the 1970s...
...Concerned about possible OECD sanctions and mindful of how being on the list could hurt business, the Manx government offered some concessions on issues like transparency. To general relief, the island has just heard it will not appear on a new blacklist due in July. Just the same, says Cashen smoothly, "Our commitment is qualified. We are prepared to change certain of our regimes provided there is an international level playing field, but we're not going to proceed unless others do." Those others, he says, must include OECD members, particularly Switzerland and Luxembourg...
...Douglas, the capital, didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath. Transparency, lower tax rates and G3 phones may help, but when it comes to preserving their hard-won prosperity, the Manx aren't taking any chances...