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...along the Yorkshire coast in the 1700s, the novel depicts an evil cleric’s quest for world domination and the efforts of its three teen heroes to stop him. Taylor’s wicked paralysis-inducing beasts, called Varrigals, come at Taylor’s boy hero like the Death Eaters that attack Potter from Azkaban. And the underground caves, which set the scene for many of the battles, are reminiscent of the tunnels beneath Hogwarts, Potter’s boarding school. But though Taylor rolls out a host of fantastic and terrifying enemies, his inability to ground...
...DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing?an arcane art that involves the production of more than one note at the same time?became the subject of an Academy Award-nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the early 1990s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing--an arcane art from a region in Central Asia that involves producing more than one note at the same time--became the subject of an Academy Award--nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the 1980s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
Well, for starters, the movie never tries to shove a lesson down your throat, and is driven not by characters’ quest to attain a moral high ground, but simply works as a nicely warped whodunit. Cinephiles will appreciate the homages to classic horror flicks sprinkled throughout the script. And if for no other reason, keep in mind that as hand-drawn animation quickly disappearing from screens, Wallace and Gromit may be the final vestiges of a manifestly man-made medium all too quickly succumbing to machinery...
...glare of constant attention faded as the pop-spheres began to accommodate their sound and the constant buzz faded. With a new CD and a tour, Hanson is reconnecting with the pop mainstream. As part of that quest, Hanson talked to the Crimson about their determination to move musically forward, getting “Underneath,” and growing...