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There's nothing flashy about Lyudinovo (pop. 47,000), whose name translates roughly as People's Town. The central square is a traffic island with a Soviet T-34 tank on a pedestal, a World War II memorial. Next to it is a farmers' market, where local babushkas with woolly hats and dodgy teeth sell homegrown carrots and potatoes for 10˘ a kilo. But look closer and it's clear that even Lyudinovo isn't frozen in time. An emporium that opened a year ago sells South Korean refrigerators, French yogurt and fake Italian pumps. Several houses are being built...
...Pop Goes Washington," James Poniewozik refers to companies that "showed off a new advertising campaign that audaciously hopes to benefit from [Obama's] buzz" [Feb. 2]. But let's be honest: TIME has used Obama's image as a moneymaker as well. During the past year, he appeared on one-fifth of your covers. Yes, he is a big seller during these times because he epitomizes change. But, hey, when it works, so be it! Cord Peters, NEW SMYRNA BEACH...
...that or David Bowie. It could go either way.Eight in the BoxBy Raffi YessayanThe book focuses on a handsome, intelligent, witty college student who falls victim to a diabolical price gouging scheme. After years of paying the reasonable rate of 85 cents for his two-packs of brown sugar Pop Tarts, he one day discovers that the vending machine deities have betrayed this long-standing tradition, raising the fee to an outrageous price of one American dollar. Our hero falls to his knees in front of the behemoth nutrient dispenser, crying and salivating as his desired snack taunts him from...
...Newman has been one of the most consistently inventive and thrilling songwriters of this decade. However, the peak of his career so far may well be his lesser-known 2004 solo record, “The Slow Wonder.” Featuring supremely catchy indie-pop stomps alongside more introspective tracks, it proved that Newman could write personal and meaningful music that didn’t simply fulfill the power-pop template so successfully adopted by The New Pornographers. The triumph of “The Slow Wonder,” then, could only arouse high hopes for Newman?...
...press photos—the band’s approach to music-making has remained consistently innovative and their output stubbornly unique.For six years and as many albums, Animal Collective narrated a sort of ongoing insane, half-perfect sonic collage of genre, building structurally damaged and occasionally brilliant pop songs out of hastily-rendered foundations of rock, folk, trance and psychedelic music. Oscillating between the creative controls of the respective halves of its founding duo, David “Avey Tare” Portner and Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, the band matured from a cabal...