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Like its predecessors, Death Cab for Cutie’s new album Transatlanticism is a relaxed ode to disillusionment. Opening with the lines “So this is the New Year / and I don’t feel any different,” the album pulls no lyrical punches. Guitarist and lead singer Benjamin Gibbard delivers his vocals so tenderly and with such fragility that, along with the hook-laden accompaniment, one cannot help but feel cheered in spite of the lyrics’ gravity...
...ODE TO VIRGIL: Forty years ago this week Virgil Ware, 13, became the sixth black person killed one day in Birmingham, Ala., shot by a 16-year-old white boy. Time revisits his life and his killer and examines the ongoing role of his story and those like it in the city once called Bombingham...
...impressive €400,000 in Ireland alone (it's released in the U.K. on Aug. 1 and across Europe starting September) and kicked Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle out of the No. 1 spot. Veronica Guerin may blur the lines between fairy tale and fact, but as an ode to bravery and spirit, it's proving stronger than your average superhero...
...place to start your visit is the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, which is positioned at the entrance to the Franklin Institute fi.edu) the city's expansive science museum. The cavernous inner dome houses a big Ben statue built to the same scale as the Lincoln Memorial. The museum's ode to Ben, displaying some of his many inventions, is a permanent exhibit called "Franklin... He's Electric." You can see an electrostatic machine, a clever long-reach device and a pair of swim fins (yes, he invented those...
...idea we had for this year’s Class Ode...