Smoke and Mirrors
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. In this week’s installment we explain why the objects in passenger-side mirrors are closer than they appear: It could be something you ate.
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25 July 2008: Morning
American embassy dusts off, expands program to help U.S.-employed Iraqis obtain visas, citizenship. Obama in Berlin: The police estimated that over 200,000 people...thronged the boulevard that stretches between the Prussian Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate. Brooks: Obama has one speech; he delivered it to cheers
24 July 2008: Afternoon
China has more smokers than the United States has people. The week in China facts and news. Rundown of presidential analogies from the press this year, and why they're all meaningless. How the candidates are nicknamed in the press (Mac vs. Bam). A free society would not shut
24 July 2008: Morning
Months after McCain, Obama visits the same rocket-destroyed house in Israel, enjoys their support. No reporters left behind: McCain camp appreciative for those not traveling with Obama. McCain makes historic "FIRST!" visit to the internet. American voters may be uninformed, but they're consistent--and that&
Antibodies
Thank God for dance music. And guitars. “Antibodies,” from Poni Hoax’s new album Images of Sigrid, is like that workout tune LCD Soundsystem penned for Nike. It pumps hard and wants to to motivate you, keeps you out when you are either out of it at 12 miles gone,
Stay Positive
One can’t help but get swept up by it all. This is a rock n’ roll life-affirmer that’ll last for months, way past the stadiums where we sang, past gutters that you fell you into. Things change, but we’ll keep singing, we’ll keep falling, and
The Old Days
This matinee performance relies on the stage disintegrating, tumbling, torn down by actors who demand something sleek and so un-Dr. Dog. From a just-out fifth album, the lament of “The Old Days” is the final protest in the final act, and it’s a damn rousing song. I
So Fast
“So Fast” is well-punctuated, well-announced, and sufficiently well-thought of that it is the first track on Julie Doiron’s reissued Loneliest in the Morning. Ten years after the release and much more than a decade since she left noise-pop outfit Eric’s Trip, Doiron’s subtle
Church Under the Stairs
Broken Social Scene don’t make albums anymore. No, that Canadian group hug now presents, or at least one of their members presents them—gives them a formation, arms them, and sends them out to battle. Last time out it was Col. Kevin Drew organizing the troops, but this week
23 July 2008: Afternoon
Obama visits Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel; view his guestbook entry. Op: At war, it's credible that we see our enemies' humanity; too bad we don't extend that to our leaders. The King of Jordan drives Obama to the airport. Rather than address the