By Steve
Wednesday June 24, 2009
- U2: Access all areas. On calling himself a Christian, Bono says, “Not a very good one. My thing is just struggling to approach that word. I don’t feel worthy to use the word Christian because I know too much about myself. I’d be more the one who’d just stick my hand out to grab at the hem of the robe. That’d be me. Because I feel like I’ve broken and entered heaven. I climbed up the drainpipe and got in the window. I can carry the cross but I can’t wear the badge.” (Independent)
- Indie music: For L.A.’s young and connected, a humbler rebellion: D.I.Y. music shows for $2. (NY Times)
- Heartbreak and promise: Isla Morley’s debut portrays the complexity of grief after a child’s death. Review by Cindy Crosby (Christianity Today)
- Hire a clown? Not this dad (NY Times)
- The Fray hatching plans for new music (Billboard)
- In Venice, bringing a painting to life. The filmmaker Peter Greenaway transforms a life-size digital replica of the Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese’s epic “Wedding at Cana” into a vivid theatric (NY Times)
- We Are The Fallen rises from Evanescence’s ashes (Billboard)
- Making movies that go for the gut (NY Times)
- Arrested Development super fans plan documentary (Paste)
- At Some Campgrounds, ‘Roughing It’ Means No Espresso (NY Times)
- Is Mike Judge’s The Goode Family proof that Liberal America can’t laugh at itself? (Paste)
- The last-minute guide to summer camping (NY Times)
- Spinal Tap isn’t tapped out yet (LA Times)
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Summer School: Jump Blues (NPR)
- Adele: The singer has moved into the fashion spotlight. “I’m not that fussed about fashion,” British singer Adele says. Confidence equals style for the Grammy-winner, and her voluptuous figure is now much in demand by the A-list labels (LA Times)
- The Fray’s Joe King got “good vibes” from Idol Kris Allen (Rolling Stone)
- Vintage Roadside gear brings lost landmarks to life: T-shirts sport images of bygone attractions — kitschy and cool — that flourished along the byways of yesteryear. (LA Times)
- High tech’s great leap backward: Will the world’s computer makers kowtow to the Thought Police in Beijing. (Wall Street Journal)
- Harmonic Convergence: On a night in Bel Air in 1965, the Beatles finally met their hero—Elvis (LA Times)
- Founding Fathers: Our revolutionary leaders wanted the best from their children by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Wall Street Journal)
- Surf wagons to haul in at Santa Cruz wharf: No toy story – these woodies are the real thing (SF Chronicle)
- Reading Twitter in Tehran? Why the real revolution is on the streets — and offline. (Washington Post)
- Iran and the tragedy of bad ideas: The lesson of ‘The Stoning of Soraya M’ by Andrew Klavan (Wall Street Journal)
- Obama says: We need fathers to step up (MomLogic)
- Realism on Iran? It’s Called Freedom by Michael Gerson (Washington Post)
- Cup by cup education: Counter Culture aims to change the way Americans think about coffee. (Washington Post)
- A Pop-Top in Paradise: A VW Camper Lets You See Hawaii From a Different Angle (Washington Post)
- First-time fathers eager for parenting: A nationwide survey found that while fathers still aren’t as involved as mothers, they are increasingly assuming more responsibility. (MIami Herald)
- Military unites with Hollywood on ‘Transformers’ (US Defense Department)
- What has 4 legs, in the round? The bill for U2’s latest gamble is the $150 million it will cost to keep the band’s 360° tour, which starts June 30 in Barcelona, on the road for 18 months. On past tours, U2 has adopted the conventional approach of building a stage at one end of the stadium. This time, the band will perform on a circular stage and runway in the middle. Perching above on four spindly legs will be a steel colossus bearing the lighting, speakers, cables and a giant conical video screen. Looking not unlike an alien sea monster, it is 50 meters high, or about 165 feet, weighs 390 tons and packs away into 180 trucks. (U2 is buying carbon offsets, but no one embarks on a rock tour with a clear eco-conscience.) (NY Times)
- Jonny Lang concert review by Mary Colurso (AL)
- Report: Modern dads get cuddly with kids (Washington Times)
- Indie music: For L.A.’s young and connected, a humbler rebellion: D.I.Y. music shows for $2. (NY Times)
- Heartbreak and promise: Isla Morley’s debut portrays the complexity of grief after a child’s death. Review by Cindy Crosby (Christianity Today)
- Hire a clown? Not this dad (NY Times)
- The Fray hatching plans for new music (Billboard)
- In Venice, bringing a painting to life. The filmmaker Peter Greenaway transforms a life-size digital replica of the Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese’s epic “Wedding at Cana” into a vivid theatric (NY Times)
- We Are The Fallen rises from Evanescence’s ashes (Billboard)
- Making movies that go for the gut (NY Times)
- Arrested Development super fans plan documentary (Paste)
- At Some Campgrounds, ‘Roughing It’ Means No Espresso (NY Times)
- Is Mike Judge’s The Goode Family proof that Liberal America can’t laugh at itself? (Paste)
- The last-minute guide to summer camping (NY Times)
- Spinal Tap isn’t tapped out yet (LA Times)
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Summer School: Jump Blues (NPR)
- Adele: The singer has moved into the fashion spotlight. “I’m not that fussed about fashion,” British singer Adele says. Confidence equals style for the Grammy-winner, and her voluptuous figure is now much in demand by the A-list labels (LA Times)
- The Fray’s Joe King got “good vibes” from Idol Kris Allen (Rolling Stone)
- Vintage Roadside gear brings lost landmarks to life: T-shirts sport images of bygone attractions — kitschy and cool — that flourished along the byways of yesteryear. (LA Times)
- High tech’s great leap backward: Will the world’s computer makers kowtow to the Thought Police in Beijing. (Wall Street Journal)
- Harmonic Convergence: On a night in Bel Air in 1965, the Beatles finally met their hero—Elvis (LA Times)
- Founding Fathers: Our revolutionary leaders wanted the best from their children by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Wall Street Journal)
- Surf wagons to haul in at Santa Cruz wharf: No toy story – these woodies are the real thing (SF Chronicle)
- Reading Twitter in Tehran? Why the real revolution is on the streets — and offline. (Washington Post)
- Iran and the tragedy of bad ideas: The lesson of ‘The Stoning of Soraya M’ by Andrew Klavan (Wall Street Journal)
- Obama says: We need fathers to step up (MomLogic)
- Realism on Iran? It’s Called Freedom by Michael Gerson (Washington Post)
- Cup by cup education: Counter Culture aims to change the way Americans think about coffee. (Washington Post)
- A Pop-Top in Paradise: A VW Camper Lets You See Hawaii From a Different Angle (Washington Post)
- First-time fathers eager for parenting: A nationwide survey found that while fathers still aren’t as involved as mothers, they are increasingly assuming more responsibility. (MIami Herald)
- Military unites with Hollywood on ‘Transformers’ (US Defense Department)
- What has 4 legs, in the round? The bill for U2’s latest gamble is the $150 million it will cost to keep the band’s 360° tour, which starts June 30 in Barcelona, on the road for 18 months. On past tours, U2 has adopted the conventional approach of building a stage at one end of the stadium. This time, the band will perform on a circular stage and runway in the middle. Perching above on four spindly legs will be a steel colossus bearing the lighting, speakers, cables and a giant conical video screen. Looking not unlike an alien sea monster, it is 50 meters high, or about 165 feet, weighs 390 tons and packs away into 180 trucks. (U2 is buying carbon offsets, but no one embarks on a rock tour with a clear eco-conscience.) (NY Times)
- Jonny Lang concert review by Mary Colurso (AL)
- Report: Modern dads get cuddly with kids (Washington Times)
- Whose side are we on? You have to ask? With Twitter’s help, the youth of Iran take on the ayatollahs by Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal)
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