September 22, 2008
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How I Learned to DrivePaula VogelDir. Joanne FarrellChamplain CollegePaula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "How I Learned to Drive," premiered last Wednesday at the Champlain Alumni Auditorium. Directed by Joanne Farrell, a former teacher of dramatic texts at the University of Vermont, the play was put on primarily by Cham...
Julia Wejchert
September 22, 2008
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Do You Believe in Gosh?
Mitch Hedberg (Comedy Central Records)
4 Stars
Filling the void created by his untimely death in 2005, comedian Mitch Hedberg's recently released Do You Believe in Gosh has the bittersweetness of any posthumous release, that comes from the chance to revisit a missed artist, but only with the...
September 22, 2008
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Okkervil River
The Stand Ins (Jagjaguar Records)
3.5 StatsWhile the indie world is wrapped up in the nondescript jaunt of synth-pop and dance rock, Okkervil River has released another intricate, thinking-man's album.For the veteran indie folkers from Austin, Texas, The Stand-Ins represents the idea that music doesn't ha...
September 22, 2008
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Burn After Reading
Ethan & Joel Coen (Focus Features)
2 StarsThe new Coen brothers' farce "Burn After Reading" makes Shakespeare's famous line "Lord, what fools these mortals be" seem like icing on the cake.Set in a blanched and vast Washington, D.C. suburb, "Burn After Reading" is a cry against humanity as peevish as a ...
September 15, 2008
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TraitorDir. Jeffrey Nachmanoff(Overture Films)3.5 StarsDon Cheadle turns in an excellent performance in "Traitor," the most recent entry in what seems to be a perpetual train of spy thrillers going through theaters. However, Jeffery Nachmanoff's film distances itself from the slew of Bourne knock-offs through some solid performance...
September 15, 2008
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Brian Eno & David ByrneEverything that Happens will Happen Today4 StarsThe 60-year-old Father of Ambient Music Brian Eno has released his 40th musical masterpiece and his second collaborative album with David Byrne, the former lead man of Talking Heads in "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today." Not since 1981, with the release o...
September 15, 2008
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Vicky Cristina BarcelonaDir. Woody Allen(The Weinstein Company)4 StarsBull's eye. Wood Allen hit the mark with "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," a film about two American girls who take a trip to Spain and fall in love with freethinking Spanish artist Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem). The plot remains traditional in Allen's obsession with...
September 8, 2008
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The Block(Interscope Records)1 StarSounds like:New Kids On The BlockBackstreet BoysN'SYNCBoy Bands Past Their PrimeThere is an inherent absurdity to a boy band called New Kids On The Block reuniting after 14 years to put out a new album. The absurdity being, of course, that they're not so new.Yet this is exactly what they've d...
September 8, 2008
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Tropic ThunderDreamWorks PicturesRated R2 StarsBen Stiller, long-time actor and Hollywood success, directs "Tropic Thunder," a film that steps beyond a parody of the system of which he is a part. The film is about five Hollywood stars, each exemplifying their own cliché war films, who are cast in a war film based on a ...
September 8, 2008
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Flying LotusLos Angeles(Warp Records)4 StarsPrefuse 73Boards of CanadaALBUM REVIEWJohn McMillinMany readers might be unconsciously familiar with his work - he did the tunes in those trip-hoppy black and white house ads for Adult Swim. Those beats were loopy, reverb-tinged chunks of late-night reverie, and if you liked the space and v...
April 29, 2008
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The Roxy Cinema Why don't people go to the movies anymore? Films viewed on the silver screen are insurmountably better than on a dinky television screen and there's nothing like the collective experience of going to see a film where everyone hates it or loves it. The Roxy offers quality films for just $5 before 6 p.m. and $7...
April 29, 2008
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The smell of freshly baked pizza and the sound of avidly talking diners surrounds customers as they walk past Junior's.Located at 167 Main Street, the restaurant was constructed in an old Dunkin Donuts store, yet now, one could not imagine a donut store there instead of this little pizza joint.There are a few tables in the re...
