Posts Tagged ‘love’
Wailing Wall
Chow, BabyPraying before the Wall seemed an appropriate first step in preparing for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement (this year beginning at sunset Sunday), which Chow, Baby has turned into its own ritual of revisiting restaurants...
Our Land
KENDALL ANDERSONLocal teacher and writer Kendall McCook went to Washington, D.C., for Barack Obama’s inauguration, with sons Jake and Clayton. The following is excerpted from his longer article about that experience.
For Film’s Sake
KulturAs he prepares to shoot his second feature film, writer-director Tom Huckabee is drawing inspiration from two very different sources: legendary auteur Francis Ford Coppola and environmental installation artist Christo, the guy ...
Two Juans Make It Right
LAURIE BARKER JAMESCan you name the current executive chef at Reata Restaurant, probably the most well known purveyor of cowboy cuisine in Sundance Square? It’s not co-founder Grady Spears, whose tenure ended in 2000. Tim Love? Never was an...
Love Bites
Of all people, Mike Myers has lost his mojo.Steve Steward
About halfway through The Love Guru, you might ask yourself a question: Is that the aunt from Family Matters?
Hebrew Hammer
Adam Sandler plays an Israeli superhero, with good and really bad results.Kristian Lin
In Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, the main character and his Jewish friends are huge fans of Steven Spielberg’s Munich: “Every movie with Jews, we’re the ones getting killed.
Fat Pegg
This British romantic sports slacker comedy runs pretty smoothly.Kristian Lin
I wrote the headline on this story because I’m helpless in the face of an easy pun, but seriously, Simon Pegg isn’t fat.
Randy Thompson
Listen UpFurther On is an often dreary, often satisfying mix of traditional and modern country with deep folk influences, despite the grunge-tinged electric guitar that thunders through most of the songs. Here on his third release since...
Slowly But Surely
New muddy-rock trio Vincent’s got a lot of buzz — and promise.JIMMY FOWLER
Here’s a timeless image of a twentysomething bassist in a new band: Coby Queen answers his cell phone for a 1 p.m. interview, then asks for a few minutes’ reprieve.
Malcolm Holcombe
Listen UpMalcolm Holcombe sounds like a hillbilly sort of Tom Waits as he delivers keeping-a-used-car-on-the road sort of greasy Appalachian-based folk-blues on his excellent new Gamblin’ House.