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...announcement of the Pavement reunion way back in September of 2009 understandably sent musically minded twentysomethings the world over into delighted shock. It was surreal and wonderful that the rumors were finally true, and the timing seemed perfect—announced 10 years after the band’s messy breakup, and 20 years after they recorded those fuzzy first singles at Louder Than You Think in Stockton, California. Since the news dropped, it’s been a bewildering experience for fans—buying tickets for shows over a year away, internalizing the band’s amusing...
...which (“Box Elder,” “Frontwards,” “Debris Slide”) provide undeniable signs of the band’s future greatness—others, like the screechy “Mellow Jazz Docent” seem completely out of left field. And second EP “Demolition Plot J-7” is completely neglected, despite containing the most flawless of their early love songs, the fuzzed-out, propeller-laden “Perfect Depth...
...work is an idiosyncratic mix of gloomy, meditative dramas and satirical comedies. “Five Finger Exercise,” which runs in the Loeb Experimental Theater through March 12, is the play that garnered him his first public acclaim in 1958, and it can’t seem to decide which side of that genre line it falls on. Despite a few missed notes, the cast very nearly reconciles these two disparate halves into a cohesive whole that entertains while confronting serious questions of family, responsibility, and class...
...plotlines involves the bullying of another student, who receives threatening text messages. “Njoy yor vzit 2 d hospital. I hOp dey mAk U beta so we cn fck U up agen,” reads a typical one. It seems that Lelic wants to prove that he understands the workings of cyber-bullying and all the newfangled technology kids use, but he doesn’t seem to realize that true texting-speak involves much more than the removal of as many letters as possible...
...shopping or do other vigorous activities when so covered. In a society where the superficial changes brought by the feminist revolution are highly resonant—fifties women were hemmed in by those tight circle skirts, but now we can all wear pantsuits!—the burqua can seem inherently opposed to "girl power...