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(03/02/12 2:38am)
Most people are familiar with the standard fantasy paperback: It appears to be a cheaply-printed book, with glossy covers featuring a scantily clad female barbarian felling dragons, or epic battles on the back of bear cavalry. Y’know, impossible things. That’s what makes it fantasy.
(02/24/12 3:34am)
I always cherished English classes in high school, especially since I usually ended up with good teachers. In 9th grade there was Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Dasovich. In 10th grade, Mrs. Labs. In 11th grade, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Hedstrom. And in 12th grade, there was Mrs. Sinkler and Mrs. Saunders again for AP Composition. I was lucky to have these women teach me English; I was lucky that they were good teachers as well. I would be lucky to have such good teachers for the rest of college.
(02/22/12 4:03am)
Ah, summer. In the midst of our lackluster winter, it is
probably normal to be languishing. But for those of you missing hot
sun, warm breezes, inviting beaches and the Frankie Avalon-style
escapades they entail, stop dreaming: Tennis is coming to town.
Though this band hails from the frosty heights of Denver, Tennis
brings a little slice of summer wherever they go with their surf
and ‘50s rock-n-roll-centered sound.
(02/17/12 3:40am)
Whether you like it or not, e-books are changing things. This
change is nothing new. It's easy enough to forget that books are an
innovation. Front cover, back cover, in-lain with paper, printed
with ink, tied up neatly with a spine-those are not age-old
technologies. Books outdate the printing press even-when they were
scribed by hand, usually by monks who had nothing better to do,
besides fasting and being all around holy.
(02/10/12 3:26am)
Generally, when I pick books to read for fun, I prefer older
books. I have nothing wrong with newer titles-I do not find them
puerile and immature, or anything silly like that-but I find, by
and large, that I gravitate towards the tried and true in
literature. Especially books from the 20s and 30s-Fitzgerald,
Hemingway, Faulkner, Joyce and Woolf, those sort of people.
(02/03/12 4:04am)
People throw around the idiom, "Never judge a book by its
cover," a lot when you are growing up. You probably heard your
parents use it when you started kindergarten, or middle school,
high school, college and beyond. It is sound social advice: don't
look at people's appearances and assume you know what a person is
like. But the issue with this idiom is that we, more often than
not, literally judge books by their cover.
(02/02/12 4:14am)
Quite paradoxically, Leonard Cohen is an ageless performer. With
a voice that has run from slight weariness to a decrepit husk, he
has followed his own path creatively. He was a poet and novelist
before he turned singer-songwriter, and his songs are peppered with
literary motifs and turns of phrase.
(01/24/12 4:16am)
Way back in the 1990s, in indie rock days of yore, few bands
commanded as much reverence and devotion as Guided By Voices.
Hailing from Dayton, Ohio, GBV were less a band than a collective,
purveyors and devotees to a genre of indie rock called lo-fi: Songs
were recorded cheaply-no studio gloss of which to speak-and with a
"do it and move on" attitude. Tape fuzz was omnipresent.
(01/23/12 5:46am)
It's hard to shake the sense that Craig Finn has been through
hell and back. And who wouldn't think so? The wigged out, bleary
voiced frontman of preeminent bar band The Hold Steady, Finn's
pieces are less songs than chronicles: lowlifes and down-and-outs
ambling in a druggy haze, often in the shadow of some looming
Catholic myth or profound literature, while the guitars roar and
rise like waves against a levee.
(12/06/11 4:29am)
The trouble with two-piece groups is ensuring that their sound
doesn't stagnate. The White Stripes learned this the hard way when
their career trailed off after 2007's Icky Thump. And for
a while, it seemed like The Black Keys (guitarist Dan Auerbach and
drummer Patrick Carney) were in a similar situation. Purveyors of a
ferocious brand of blues-rock, with 2006's Magic Potion,
they were at the end of their rope. Something needed to change.
(12/05/11 5:11pm)
One of the benefits of attending a university the size of
UW-Madison is the richness and diversity of culture available to
students. Orchestra concerts, live bands, plays, musicals, art
museums-the list is innumerable. Perhaps the best exemplification
of this spirit and commitment to culture is the Interdisciplinary
Arts Residency Program.
(11/18/11 5:56am)
In the midst of increased political activity around the state,
UW-Madison posted guidelines Wednesday reminding faculty, students
and staff of appropriate political activity on campus.
(11/17/11 7:16am)
Most people are familiar with pop artists like Andy Warhol, but
seldom few know about their Midwestern counterparts, the Chicago
Imagists.
(11/11/11 7:20am)
In a society of many mythologies, some times worlds come
together in a variety of interesting ways. Mary Dally-Muenzmaier's
first novel "Artifacts" is an example of such a convergence.
(11/09/11 10:55pm)
Even today, there is a feeling of novelty with electronica
music. Genres like techno and electropop have invaded clubs, and
today occupy the province of "party music," and it's very easy to
write off electronica as repetitious and mediocre, compared with
more traditional genres of music. A genre like dubstep or house
music can seem like a fad or a youthful phase to be looked back
upon or maligned by future generations.
(11/08/11 4:03am)
Anyone familiar with Haruki Murakami’s work knows his fiction
does not operate by the world’s logic, least ways not the world we
live in. In Murakami’s world, mystic sheep inhabit human beings and
bestow preternatural powers; voices speak from beyond death and
dreams; six-foot-tall frogs fight giant worms under Tokyo and the
line between realities is blurred. Characters are thrown into this
world befuddled, often just trying to live their own humdrum lives
while abnormal and sometimes horrifying forces play with and
implicate these characters in their own affairs against the
cultural backdrop of 20th-Century Japan. And his latest novel,
“1Q84,” has been hailed as his magnum opus.
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(10/14/11 6:00am)
Chris Taylor is a musical renaissance man: A serious musician since
age 11, he plays a variety of instruments (including bass, flute
and saxophone), produces records, manages his own label Terrible
Records and now is making his debut as a solo artist.