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Music review: Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
Feed the Animals By Girl Talk, 2008 3 stars Girl Talk, the DJ responsible for Feed the Animals, mashes current pop and hip hop with classic rock and 80s and 90s hits and more obscure tracks. Imagine...
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Music review: Covers – James Taylor
Covers by James Taylor, 2008 James Taylor’s most recent release, Covers, is a collection of songs originally performed by other artists. Among those artists are people like Glen Campbell, Eddie...
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Book review: The Planets
The Planets by Dava Sobel Normally, we consider the planets a facet of astronomy, but the author quickly redirects the discussion to history, geology, astrology, poetry and music. The Planets is a...
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Music review: Watina – Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective
Watina By Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective, 2007 I saw this by happenstance and what a great find. It was, as far as I am concerned, the best world music CD of 2007. Unfortunately it also...
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Music review: 4 Quick Picks
Mirrored by Battles, 2007 4 Stars, Ben . Up In Flames By Caribou, 2006 4 Stars, Ben . Made of Bricks By Kate Nash She’s British, she’s cheeky, she’s awesome! 5 stars, Kyle Kala by M.I.A., 2007...
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Music review: Break Up the Concrete – The Pretenders
Break up the Concrete By The Pretenders, 2008 4 1/2 stars I’ve been listening to The Pretenders since high school (Class of 81!) and it’s generally acknowledged that their debut and Pretenders II may...
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Music review: Kinky Friedman – Last of the Jewish Cowboys: The Best of Kinky...
Last of the Jewish Cowboys: The Best of Kinky Friedman By Kinky Friedman, 2006 Novelist Kinky Friedman is also a salsa maker, animal lover, humorist, independent candidate for the office of Governor of...
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Music review: Feed the Animals – Girl Talk
Feed the Animals By Girl Talk, 2008 3 stars Girl Talk, the DJ responsible for Feed the Animals, mashes current pop and hip hop with classic rock and 80s and 90s hits and more obscure tracks. Imagine...
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Music Reivew: Bebe, Pafuera telerañas
Pafuera telerañas By Bebe, 2005 3 stars Fun, smart, sexy pop along the lines of Ingrid Michaelson, Yael Naim, or Feist, but en español. Jessica at Bordeaux
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Movie Review: Cassandra’s Dream
Cassandra’s Dream The brothers, played by Ewan McGregor and Colin Ferrell, were my favorite part of this movie. It’s not Woody Allen’s greatest film, but if you enjoy old-fashioned thrillers in the...
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Book Review: Little Bee
Little Bee by Chris Cleave “And then the men came…” This is the recurrent opening to the story told by every traumatized refugee that Little Bee talks to while waiting in an immigration detention...
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Book Review: Homer and Langley
Homer and Langley By E.L. Doctorow So shoot me, I’ve never read E.L. Doctorow before now. Guess I was in my feminist science fiction phase when Ragtime came out. No matter. Homer and Langley is a...
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Book review: Anagrams
Anagrams By Lorrie Moore Moore explores thirtysomething angst while cleverly playing with language and conventions of plot, narrative, and character. This book will make you both laugh out loud and...
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Book review: The Lost Symbol
The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown I openly admit loving all of the Dan Brown books. There, I said it. Well, maybe Deception Point was a little weak; being saved after skidding at high speed across an...
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Book review: The Armchair Birder
The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds By John Yow The birds John Yow profiles are probably familiar to everyone: crows, bluejays, belted kingfishers, wrens, robins and the...
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Book review: 1491
1491 By Charles C. Mann Ancient histories rarely read like detective stories, but Charles Mann is travelling the globe investigating the origins of the Americas. In 1491, Mann hunts down the latest...
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Book Review: The Most They Ever Had
The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg No one in the world can break your heart as beautifully as Ricky Bragg. This slim volume by the author of All Over But the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man tells the story of...
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Staff Picks for African American History Month
African American History Month was the inspiration of Carter G. Woodson, a noted scholar and historian, who instituted Negro History Week in 1926. He chose the second week of February to coincide with...
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Book List: Lost Treasure
Who hasn’t daydreamed about fighting their way out of this economy by finding and hoarding large amounts of lost treasure? Anyone? Unfortunately, these books will mostly tell you about other people...
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Book Review: City of Silver by Annamaria Alfieri
City of Silver by Annamaria Alfieri I bumped into this book browsing the new books at the main library and loved the cover so much I had to check it out. Well, let me tell you, it was fascinating. So...
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