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...ever really sinking in. By far the highlight of the album comes when the funk slows down to Marvin Gaye speed on “St. Exquisite’s Confessions.” With a beat that would make for some good low-rider music and vocals that warp and disintegrate under the weight of some cool effects, it’s easy to understand why Barnes has taken to performing this song live perched upon a white horse, wearing gold shorts, covered in red glitter body paint, and hanging from a noose.Yeah, their live shows...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Of Montreal | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...billion bbl. of oil lie beneath the waters off Cuba's northwest coast. Suddenly it seemed as though the hemisphere's sole communist nation might finally end its desperate dependence on oil-rich allies like the former Soviet Union and Venezuela - and perhaps even escape its impoverished economic time warp altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cuba's Oil Find Could Change the US Embargo | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Washington's own Cuba time warp got a jolt as well. The oil discovery has renewed debate over whether a crude-thirsty U.S. should loosen its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and let yanqui firms join the drilling, which is taking place fewer than 100 miles off U.S. shores. Despite the Bush Administration's hard line on Cuba, Republicans in Congress have proposed legislation to exempt Big Oil from the embargo. That clamor is sure to rise - especially if Barack Obama, who is more open to dialogue with Havana, becomes the next President - now that Cuba's state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cuba's Oil Find Could Change the US Embargo | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

That last part may well be true. But at the end of the day, U.S.-Cuba relations continue to exist in a Cold War time warp. As a result, in both Washington and Havana, 20 billion bbl. of oil might not be such a game changer after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Cuba's Oil Find Could Change the US Embargo | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...have turned out in record numbers to vote and canvass for him. Obama is the first national politician to reflect their widespread feeling that time is marching forward but politics is not, that the baby boomers in the interest groups and the media are indeed trapped in a time warp, replaying their stalemated arguments year after year. The theme recurs in conversations with Obama supporters: He just feels like something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Faces of Barack Obama | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

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