Blame Canada for new, innovative Fader
Granted, there are many who berate the magazine industry, saying that it attempts to package and generalize every aspect of our culture. Vogue covers fashion trends that are too expensive and YM covers trends that are too trendy. Maxim is mostly about women but Cosmopolitan is all about men. Rolling Stone is too mainstream, but SPIN also seems to have a fairly narrow (albeit alternative) readership. Fight if you must, but magazines have an eerie ability to chronicle and distill that which is important to at least a large cross section of our culture at any time.
Mainstage teaches 'Lesson' on family values
Haven't had enough school work to do? There's always a new lesson to be learned, and this weekend you can get your fill by seeing "The Piano Lesson," a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson. Directed by Professor Jasmin L. Lambert, "The Piano Lesson" is the story of the Charles family and the turmoil found within their ties.
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Pulses race in too timely thriller
Let's establish something up-front: "Phone Booth" is pretty damn entertaining. There's nary a moment in the film's blessedly brief 82-minute running when the viewer will feel restless, disinterested or even fractionally narcoleptic. Director Joel Schumacher, helm behind not one, but two, "Batman" flicks as well as the grisly "8MM," won't let that happen.
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