Do you find yourself getting sad and hungry during the week-long wait for Burrito Bike Saturdays? Stop pouting and get online. New business Vegan to Go is fixing to fill your belly with homemade vegan eats every weekday evening except Friday, from 6-8pm. (On Fridays, youll have to forage for yourself. Might I suggest toast […]
Lindsay McCarney
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Remedy Facial Bar
After seven-and-a-half years in one spot, The Remedy Facial Bar & Spa (formerly of 1701 Barrington) has moved to bigger and better environs. The spa closed up shop in its old digs on Saturday and re-opened in its new home, at 1546 Granville (above Curiosities Antiques & Collectibles), on Tuesday morning. “We need to better […]
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Foggy Goggle
Looking for more info about the intriguingly named pub Foggy Goggle, the new tenant at the former Soho Bar & Grill stomping grounds (1667 Argyle)? Well, for starters, the new pub is in no way affiliated with the similarly named Foggy Goggle bar in Boston (which means the smiling scantily clad ladies and fishbowl drinks […]
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Falling special guest star
For better or worse, and for more than 10 years, the creators of TV-obsessed website jumptheshark.com have devoted themselves to cataloguing the moments when previously decent television shows go south. The site lists common ways a show can lose its way. Among the categories discussed is a practice that most shows use at some point […]
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Justice League: The New Frontier
Justice League: The New FrontierDirected by: Dave Bullock(Warner Home Video)Mainstream superhero comics tend to exist in a bubble. While the form uses metaphors to comment on current events, superheroes and real-world politics are generally kept separate. (Superman villain Lex Luthor was once elected US president; Bush is nowhere to be found.) But in his critically […]
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The Mountain Goats
The Mountain GoatsHeretic Pride (4AD)Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle is known for his inventive, imagery-laden lyrics. On Heretic Pride, the Goats’ latest, Darnielle’s got a pile of odd, compelling stories to tell you—tales of lake monsters (“Tianchi Lake”), martyrs (the album’s titular track) and sad bathroom hook-ups (“Marduk T-shirt Men’s Room Incident”). But Pride’s “Lovecraft […]
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Margot at the Wedding
Margot at the WeddingDirected by: Noah Baumbach(Paramount)In Noah Baumbachs The Squid and the Whale, there were many laughs (like when pretentious teen Walt called a story by Kafka Kafkaesque). In Margot at the Wedding, Baumbachs latest, the laughs are fewer, which makes the hurt the films characters inflict on each other harder to watch. When […]
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Romance & Cigarettes
[image-4]Published February 21, 2008.Romance & CigarettesDirected by: John Turturro(Sony Pictures)In Romance & Cigarettes Bo (Christopher Walken) tells his story of life with his ex, Roe, by belting out and pantomiming Tom Jones’s “Delilah.” “I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more,” sings Bo, stabbing Roe. As a standalone number, it works: […]
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Golden Raspberry stains
Dakota Moss is a stripper mysteriously losing appendages and limbs. How mysteriously? While stripping, Dakota looks up, to discover her pole covered in blood—and her finger missing! Dakota thinks she’s the victim of “twin stigmata”—that she’s losing limbs because her twin’s appendages are being hacked off. But Dakota has no twin. Or does she? This […]
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2 Days in Paris
[image-4]Published February 07, 2008.2 Days in ParisDirected by: Julie Delpy(20th Century Fox)Jack (Adam Goldberg) and Marion (Julie Delpy) have been together two years. On their way back to New York from a Venice getaway, they stop in Paris to visit Marion’s parents and pick up their cat. Since deep down, nobody (except my grandma) wants […]
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Published January 31, 2008. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Directed by: Seth Gordon (New Line Home Video) The strains of Leonard Cohens Everybody Knows are used, appropriately and more than once, in documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. As Cohen sings about fights being fixed, the film chronicles nice-guy […]
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Helvetica
HelveticaDirected by: Gary HustwitPlexi Productions LLCWhat do American Apparel, the British version of The Office, the movie Jackass, Tupperware and government forms have in common? More than it first appears, posits Gary Hustwit’s documentary, Helvetica. (The answer is not “they all star Steve-O.”) Font enthusiasts (you’re out there) have probably guessed the connection, simply by […]
