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...Raconteurs alongside Detroit singer-songwriter Brendan Benson and the rhythm section from Cincinnati garage trio the Greenhornes. “Broken Boy Soldiers,” their 2006 debut, was pretty much what you’d expect: simple riffs and a few catchy hooks punched up by White??s flare for bombast and the duo’s effusive excitement at the novelty of it all. Not exactly inspired, but not quite MOR either—the kind of one-off experiment meant to whet appetites in anticipation of the main vehicle.That being said, it?...
Folk duo the Dodos have always eschewed the Svengali approach to their partnership. Unlike the White Stripes, known for Jack White??s domination and Meg White??s half-hearted drum banging, each member of this guitar-and-drums duo contributes equally to the group’s mellow indie-folk sound. And presumably, the fact that neither claims to be the other’s ex-spouse makes things less complicated. The Dodos are singer and songwriter Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber. Unlike Meg White, Kroeber actually seems capable of keeping time and playing...
...impoverished areas in the Middle East. In addition, White is vicar of St. George’s Church in Baghdad, the only Anglican church in Iraq. Calling White “a real hero,” Leach said White will bring an interesting perspective on the Iraq war. White??s fellowship schedule was delayed because he had to negotiate with radicals after one of his bodyguards was kidnapped in Baghdad, Leach said. —Staff writer Chelsea L. Shover can be reached at clshover@fas.harvard.edu...
...mitigated by the uneasy sense that I should be doing something else, something more unambiguously productive,” photographer Moyra Davey writes in the introduction to the literary anthology “Mother Reader.” Davey, whose retrospective photographic exhibit “Long Life Cool White?? is currently on display at the Fogg Art Museum, sought to remedy her unease by combining productivity and pleasure.Davey’s beloved books are everywhere in her photographs. They appear first in four oversized photographs of books with their spines facing away from the camera...
...resounding theme in Davey’s work that manifests itself not only in each individual photograph—be it through the time it takes to amass a record collection, or to consume a bottle of liquor—but also in “Long Life Cool White?? as an exhibit. Organized by Helen Molesworth, the first Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, the retrospective examines the past 20 years of Davey’s career as a photographer. In the same way that Davey’s camera contemplates objects that are often overlooked, Molesworth sheds...