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Just like real supranationalism, this would all be great fun if it actually produced satisfactory results, and occasionally it does. The skillet roasted skate with morels, fava beans and asparagus ($19) was a very nice rendition of a fish that seems to be turning up on more menus by the second. The ample portion of skate was perfectly cooked, with a nice crust on the outside, but still extremely tender inside. The dish did not need to be literally swimming in butter, but the morel mushrooms were also fresh and flavorful. In another entrée bright spot, the pork...
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Considering the low-profile release of his debut album, Richard Morel has surprisingly hefty credentials. A former engineer for U.S. house auteurs Deep Dish, he’s gone on to remix the likes of Depeche Mode and New Order. Queen of the Highway, then, is intended as his claim to fame, or at least musical autonomy. Apparently designed to showcase the breadth of his abilities, it sets mid-tempo guitar numbers and downtempo head-nodders next to the progressive house for which he’s best known...
Queen’s queasy moments come when Morel decides to pick up a microphone and jam with his band. The resulting pop tunes make a strong case for sticking to paths that are time-tested and crowd-approved, and leaving the funny experiments to the big boys. Morel’s pristine studio polish, which helps redeem the otherwise lifeless house music, only saps his guitar songs of immediacy and relevance. Besides not being able to sing, his lyrics can be cringe-worthy: “So carry these words inside of you / Love is really...
...fascinating aspect of Hochschild's story involves the sheer modernity of the crisis. Morel's constant coverage of the Congo in pamphlets, newspapers, mass meetings, novels and even church hymns amounted to a public relations campaign on an immense scale. And although Morel was successful, Leopold was his own best popularizer. He ordered that a copy of his propagandist pamphlet, The Truth about the Congo, be placed next to the Bible in the sleeping compartment of every luxury train in Europe...