You can feel the sand between your toes and the sunscreen on your nose when Bethany Cosentino sings any song off of Best Coast’s 2010 smash album Crazy for You. The surf sound melts into girl group giddiness with an unpretentious, garage-derived approach that is perfect spiritual uplift for this moment of economic downturn. (BC [...]
Archive for February, 2011
S.X. Rosenstock: Best Coast and Wavves Live: Let’s Go Trippin’
Posted by newsonline on February 28th, 2011
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Robert Lenzner: Life Is Rigged For Oligarchs As Well As Ordinary Russians
Posted by newsonline on February 28th, 2011
In 2004 Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia, according to Forbes, but Premier Vladimir Putin froze the shares of Yukos, his energy giant and drove his fortune down to a fraction of what it had been. Like all the oligarchs, who had more or less stolen their fortunes in assets once owned by [...]
Richard (RJ) Eskow: "Entitlement Reform" Is a Euphemism For Letting Old People Get Sick and Die
Posted by newsonline on February 28th, 2011
George Orwell would be proud. The latest Washington catchphrase deserves a place of honor in the 1984 lexicon, right between “War Is Peace” and “Love Is Hate.” It’s a virus of the language that’s spreading faster than the stomach flu. “The President’s budget punts on entitlement reform,” reads a statement by House Republicans. “Our budget [...]
James Campion: Anglo-America on Parade
Posted by newsonline on February 28th, 2011
The King’s Speech & The Social Network in Oscars Contrast One of these two films will likely win the Academy Award for Best Picture; The King’s Speech or The Social Network. Granted, many outside of Hollywood could not give a pack of flying farts, nor do we, particularly. Although the Oscars is the only award [...]
Dan Dorfman: Risky Roadmap to $7 a Gallon Gas
Posted by newsonline on February 28th, 2011
Like you, I have no idea how far the outbreak of the political unrest will spread. Not so the experts, who basically echo the signature line of the late comedian, Jimmy Durante, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” Simply put, that means, some Persian Gulf watchers say, more political uprisings, swelling strife throughout the Middle East, [...]
