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...ignore the fact that Spoon is now more than a decade into a career that's as deep in critical praise as commercial shrugs. Ignore it not simply because critical unanimity is a turnoff but because it tends to be conferred on the educational or exotic. Spoon's sixth album, unfortunately titled Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (out July 10), has no sitars or harps, no qawwali singing or convoluted metanarratives. It's just 36 minutes of taut, minimalist rock played mostly on guitar and piano and sung by Britt Daniel, a reedy Texan with a dry, been-around...
Still, I have to admit that when it's lunchtime, I usually head for Lucille's, a humble American-style greasy spoon in the Maadi district of Cairo that may serve the tastiest burger in the world. Don't let me distract you from your Fourth of July barbecue; but yes, a family restaurant in Egypt dishes up the best burger I've ever eaten, and I'm not the only one who thinks that way. One of owner Lucille Crooks's thrills came the day she witnessed a young American backpacker talking and smiling to his burger...
...Harvard student band, The Sinister Turns. Mates of State is a Connecticut-based husband-wife duo whose music is marked by “quirky, rhythmic music and their male/female vocal harmony,” according to the press release. The group spent last summer touring with Spoon and Death Cab for Cutie. “I’ve been dropping the name for a couple days now, and either people haven’t heard of them or they’re extremely excited,” Goldenberg said. “That’s the reaction...
...Fork (Phaidon Press) Following the success of Spoon, 10 renowned design-world figures, including I.D. Magazine editor Julie Lasky, curate a book showcasing 100 cutting-edge product designers...
...doing one in depth. (If we do only one, people might think we actually care about it, and God forbid that might happen.) Irony is the easiest way of doing something without fear of being judged. Irony is safe, and we like safe.Consider the Frat Pack comedies, which regularly spoon-feed ’80s rock songs to young moviegoers. “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” had Asia’s “Heat of the Moment,” “Old School” had Whitesnake?...