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MUSIC

By PW Staff

ALBUM REVIEWS IN 30 SECONDS OR LESS.

Jupiter Rising The Quiet Hype (Chime) As vapid as a marathon of The Hills, but not as...

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Posted Mar. 24, 2009 | Comments: 0

ARTS AND CULTURE

By Becca Trabin

What to Read When Smoking Weed

It’s springtime and the world is blossoming. What better way to celebrate the renewal of life than with some fresh greens and some mind expansion? Here’s a list of books that have been known to maximize the feeling of getting jazzed.

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Posted Mar. 24, 2009 | Comments: 0

ARTS AND CULTURE

By Liz Spikol

Spring Books Roundup

This weekend Slate’s editor Jacob Weisberg wrote an ode to his new Kindle, saying its existence “marks a cultural revolution” and “tells us that printed books, the most important artifacts of human civilization, are going to join newspapers and magazines on the road to obsolescence.” Dude. Harsh.

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Posted Mar. 24, 2009 | Comments: 1

MUSIC

By David R. Adler

The Bad Plus

The Bad Plus—pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, drummer David King—have gained an adoring following, and even won over some skeptical critics: by taking original pieces, deconstructed pop and rock numbers, and daunting 20th-century classical works and somehow forging an instantly identifiable band sound.

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Posted Mar. 24, 2009 | Comments: 0