Thu, July 29, 2010

Requiem for a Bodega

Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago

My favorite neighborhood bodega burned down this week (well, not literally to the ground, but the place is totaled). I was puttering around in the morning and drinking coffee when I got a whiff of that unmistakable campfire smell, the one that seems cozy and comforting before you remember that…

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“American Idiot” Gave Me a Nostalgia Headache

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago

When I was in middle school, Green Day improved an otherwise boring class trip when our teacher let someone play their cassette of “Dookie” on the bus ride.  Later, I would come to love (and be fiercely protective of) the band’s early releases on Lookout! Records. By the time “American…

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The (Hot Tub) Time (Machine) of Our Lives

Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Reviews of “Hot Tub Time Machine” have been mixed, but those who love it really love it. The NY Times’s A.O. Scott went so far as to make the movie a “Critics’ Pick,” writing, “viewers of a certain age and background — let’s say those who know the lyrics to ‘Jessie’s Girl’…

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