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...Matador)3 starsIn the music nerd encyclopedia, “Wowee Zowee” has two listings. The first is “a 1995 album by Pavement”; the second is “a difficult, confusing album, released with the intent of scaring away potential pop success.” Example: “The new Arcade Fire album is totally gonna be their Wowee Zowee.”You might say that “Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition,” a two-disc expanded reissue, is the Wowee Zowee of Pavement reissues. Confusing...
...moment that it must be exhausting to keep up. Everything about them just begs for awkward worship from awkward fans. Doll-faced half-Japanese poster-girl singer? Check, and she goes by the name of “Lovefoxxx.” Debut on indie-darling label Sub Pop? Claro que sim. Lyrics with tongue-in-cheek references to Paris Hilton and Death from Above? Obvi. Friends with Diplo, the Svengali behind M.I.A.? That, too. Considering how tired of being sexy they are, it’s somehow fitting that the video for “Alala?...
...Hadfield ’08, relative newcomers to the UC at the time, this year’s predicted slate is comprised entirely of past and present UC members. Five even served as representatives during their freshman fall.Although some may ultimately not run and more candidates may pop up, this year’s predicted candidates boast long-standing familiarity with the UC and a track record of working with University Hall administrators. Because of the abundance of information available about candidates’ political pasts, UC treasurer Benjamin W. Milder ’08 says campaigns this year...
Massachusetts voters rejected a proposal yesterday that would have allowed food stores to sell wine, dealing a victory to law enforcement groups and mom and pop shops that opposed the measure. The proposed initiative, listed as Question 1, would have allowed licensing boards to issue as many as 2,800 additional wine permits to food stores. Under current state law, companies can hold a maximum of three liquor licenses—a rule that prevents many supermarket chains from selling beer, wine, and spirits. With 96 percent of precincts reporting early this morning, “no” votes...
...roughshod treatment of many in the military - fairly or unfairly - had many officers, especially in the Army, setting their bayonets into place by the middle of 2001. It was only the al-Qaeda attacks that saved Rumsfeld's job later that year, many Pentagon insiders believe. Overnight, he achieved pop-culture status, his stern countenance and parrying of press questions bringing him a peculiar kind of Washington fame in those scary weeks following 9/11. Yet it was the pair of wars launched in the wake of those terror strikes that, over time, highlighted on a far bigger stage his short...