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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...would be easy to expect Barenaked Ladies to be somewhat down since the departure of their frontman and primary songwriter Steven Page last year. However, their new album, “All in Good Time” remains remarkably hopeful and upbeat. The album’s second track, “Summertime,” epitomizes this bright and hopeful feeling, acknowledging the struggles of the present, but promising better things to come: “How do we make it through the day / How do we not cave in and bottom out / Well, you have to understand that...

Author: By Chris A. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Barenaked Ladies | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...only somewhat less-frightening version of “2012” would involve the end of history arriving with no earthquakes, solar flares, or eruption of mountains in national parks. Instead, the end of history in this epic would arrive incrementally, as societal changes saturate the public sphere with freedom. In this apocalypse, heroism would arise not from a struggle to convince others that the world can be saved from external destruction, but instead that it could be safeguarded from disintegration from within...

Author: By Gregory A. Dibella | Title: The End of History Redux | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

When Don receives a phone call from the dead Dr. Pryce advising him to get out of town, he does so, despite Sonny’s pleas. But when she begs him to return a few months later, he somewhat inexplicably obliges, only to be further manipulated and taken advantage of. During this second visit, identities are divulged one after the other, allegiances between characters switch every five seconds, and the plot dissolves into a convoluted mess that comes to a head in the aforementioned steak murder scene...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Don McKay | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Moore’s message that spirituality is inherent in all living things is very powerful—somewhat similar to the message James Cameron was trying to portray in “Avatar” but without the commercial cheesiness...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret of Kells | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...falls in and out of love with his former lover. By specifying the name of this character and by including details throughout the poem, such as the specific kind of wines David discusses with his lover’s father, Hass brings to life what might otherwise be a somewhat mundane love story...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘The Apple Trees at Olema’ Displays Poet Hass’s Scientific Eye | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

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