While promoting her new movie, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," the talented, beautiful and witty Emily Blunt thrilled fans at an early screening by coming out after the show for a question-and-answer session.
When artists put out a new album, they often change their musical style. Sometimes, this change is rewarding, as it allows a musician to evolve and build upon his or her foundation. Other times, such change can lead to a failed attempt at assimilating a genre the artist clearly cannot handle. In the case of singer/songwriter Tyrone Wells and his newest release, "Where We Meet," the change in style falls somewhere in between. Regrettably, Wells' latest album leaves behind the folky energy that dominated his early work. While he manages to offer listeners a different vibe, his old flair is sorely missed.
Expectations are an odd thing. Despite its actual quality, if the expectations for a film are especially high and it falls below them, the film disappoints the viewer. But, if expectations are low and a film surpasses them, it might delightfully surprise the viewer. For the little−known romantic comedy, "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," expectations haven't really existed at all and, for this reason, a fairly average film turned out to be quite an enjoyable experience.
Known for playing tormented youngsters, Ezra Miller discussed his latest, most challenging role as a murderous teenager in "We Need To Talk About Kevin" (2011).
Even with the extremely low bar set by other rappers, Gucci Mane's lyrics are just plain absurd. On his latest mixtape, "Trap Back," he talks about how he lives on the North Pole (on the aptly titled track, "North Pole"), how he wants to move his bed to his kitchen, and how he is going to start using a "Facecard" instead of his bankcard. Sadly, these gleefully weird details are too few and far between to support this overlong and disappointing mixtape.
For all the pride Bostonians take in the North End, the culinary offerings of most kitschy fixtures in this area leave a lot to be desired. Every place seems to have its drawbacks — too loud, too proud, too expensive. In fact, it seems that the only universally respected nosh is the cannoli at Mike's Pastry.
Hollywood's favorite mullet is back and more heinous than ever. Kenny Powers, the larger−than−life character assumed by Danny McBride, has returned for the third and final season of the HBO series "Eastbound & Down."
Grimes is not, in fact, an anarchic sludge metal band. No, Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, is a petite madam from Canada who makes ethereal dream pop ... On GarageBand.
In a recent interview with several journalists in Paris, Bruce Springsteen explained how he has always viewed his work as being about "judging the distance between American reality and the American dream — how far it is at any given moment." Throughout his 40−year career, Springsteen has been lauded as a workingman's hero, but many critics doubted that a multi−millionaire rocker could accurately capture working−class sentiments at this late of a stage in his career. The resilient Springsteen succeeds in this mission with his 17th studio album "Wrecking Ball," delivering one of his most musically adventurous works in decades while at the same time offering a pointed social commentary on the economic inequality in the current American landscape.
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World," by Stephen R. Bown, is an interesting hybrid of history and biography in which Bown tells the story of the golden age of European venture capitalism through the lives of six of the most influential businessmen between 1600 to 1900. These six men — Jan PieterszoonCoen of the Dutch East India Company, Peter Stuyvesant of the Dutch West India Company, Robert Clive of the British East India Company, George Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company, AlexandrBaranov of the Russian American Company and Cecil Rhodes of Cape Colony — lived in an "Age of Heroic Commerce."
Movie music has shown us "A Whole New World," taken us "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and offered us a bit of that well-needed "Razzle Dazzle" in a humdrum world. For everything that cinematic soundtracks have given us, we'd like to take this column to celebrate songs in film.
Recently Rick Ross has become one of the top rappers in music. Between his powerhouse guest appearances on stellar tracks like, "I'm on One" (2011) "Lord Knows" (2011) and "Monster" (2010) and being declared MTV's hottest MC earlier this week, Ross is finally delivering on his early promise and potential.
A storyline that concerns itself with unemployment, suicide, child benefit issues, marital problems and self-esteem issues seems like it could never be funny. But the Boston Conservatory Theater cast has proven otherwise. Their performance of the 2000 adaptation of the 1997 film, "The Full Monty," was a mix of touching moments and side-splitting hilarity.
For many college-age people, there exists an innate, irrepressible desire to participate in raucous merrymaking and debauchery. Individuals come together in droves to mingle, boogie and gorge themselves on copious amounts of alcohol, attempting to wash away the weighing quandaries of the concrete world if only for a few hours. But what happens when the masses become hordes that would have instilled fear into the great Greek armies of antiquity and the substances run the gamut from cheap beer to ecstasy?
After an early screening of their new film, "Project X," co-stars Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown stuck around for a question-and-answer session with some newfound fans.
Though singer/songwriters have existed for some time, it is only recently that the term "singer/songwriter" has come into fashion as a specific genre of music. Detailing a sort of folk−alternative fusion, modern singer/songwriters often produce some of the most innovative and refreshing melodies out there. Championing the singer/songwriter name is Andrew Belle, an up−and−coming artist out of Nashville who, through his unique, echoing vocals and sincere lyrics, exemplifies why this genre is one worth listening to.
When was the last time you really thought about where your food came from? Where was it, before it got to your home, the restaurant or the cafeteria? How did it get to you? How was it grown? We may try to customize our diets by "eating right" and incorporating a wide variety of foods into our meals, but that does not change the fact that our food often remains shrouded in mystery. The worrying realization that we know little about a fundamental part of our lives has many Americans frustrated and ready for a change.
