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...films. Radcliffe College Room, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. 6 p.m. Free. (AMF)Iron and Wine and Calexico with Tim Fite. The bands Iron & Wine and Calexico perform songs from their new collaborative, seven-song EP “In the Reins” and from past individual albums. Singer Tim Fite will open with songs from his recently released album “Gone Ain’t Gone.” Avalon. 8 p.m.. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $20. (MEE)The Lovemakers with Rock Kills Kid and She Wants Revenge. The Lovemakers, who self-professedly...
...stream-of-conscious verses are dutifully translated into cartoon vignettes, but the gonzo flourishes that characterize Plympton’s style are lamentably absent. Adding insult to injury, the animated portions of the video are interspersed with even blander live-action footage of Kanye and accompanying singer Adam Levine (of Maroon 5 infamy) delivering lackluster vocal performances before a bare white background. The most likely source of the video’s mediocrity is a creative power struggle between Plympton and West. When Kanye debuted the video on BET’s taste-making music video program...
Playwright, singer, songwriter, cartoonist, Shel Silverstein was a jack-of-all-trades and the master of one--and the one was writing children's books. His freewheeling, provocative stories (The Giving Tree) and books of poetry (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic), illustrated with his quirky line drawings, have sold more than 25 million copies. Thus a new Silverstein title is a signal event, especially if it comes six years after his death...
...True to form, the star arrived in Littauer wearing corduroy cargo pants, a Polo shirt, and boating shoes, said students who attended the off-the-record study group. In his speech, he likened an “egocentric band”—with a lead singer who cares only about himself—to an authoritarian regime, the students said. The study group ended on an amusing but sour note when a Parrot Head from the audience requested that Buffett play a song. When Buffett tried to tune the fan’s child-sized guitar...
DIED. CHRIS WHITLEY, 45, innovative singer-songwriter best known for his 1991 debut album, Living with the Law, and its radio hit, Big Sky Country; of lung cancer; in Houston. With its fresh, electrified take on country-blues, Law inspired glowing reviews and a cult following. Yet Whitley avoided formulas, going on to record 11 albums that touched on a range of styles, from grunge to jazz...