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- Street: Radio-free North Park (PDF)
- POP MUSIC
Mission: Get 'em pumping their arms in the air
The economy's in a death spiral. Even more reason for you to walk it out at the club, or hole up in imaginary, recession-proof Nintendo worlds. Really. Main Streeters are slurping up Kool-Aid, Campbell's Soup and Spam to scrimp, but they simply refuse to cut back on entertainment.
- Film openings
- NORTH COUNTY N&D
Once upon a dare . . .
On one late night in Manhattan, Joan Osborne visited the Abilene Cafe on Second Avenue and took a dare that changed her life.
- POP MUSIC
'Music was a part of my health and happiness'
When new artists enter the studio to record their debut album, they often morph from human beings into taffy. They are pushed and pulled by their record company's marketing and A&R departments, their management teams and, of course, their own creative impulses.
- EVENTOS LATINOS
Best bet • Double your pleasure, double your fun
Two of the most important singer-songwriters in Spanish-language music will visit the San Diego-Tijuana region. Julieta Venegas, performing Sunday at Spreckels Theatre in San Diego, and Joan Manuel Serrat, who'll be at the Centro Cultural Tijuana on Wednesday and Thursday represent two generations of singer-songwriters in Latin music.
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Living on borrowed time
Imagine the Spike Lee movie “The 25th Hour.” Only instead of Edward Norton as a pensive drug dealer on his last day before going to prison after getting caught with cocaine under his couch, it's Clifford “Tip” Harris rapping and doing community service before a 12-month sentence after getting caught with army guns in a parking lot.
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Dem Franchize Boyz: “Our World, Our Way”
A quick look at the titles on “Our World, Our Way” – “Get Cha Hustle On,” “Turn Heads,” “The Killers, the Dealers” – shows that Dem Franchize Boyz don't shy away from rap cliches.
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Charlie Haden Family and Friends: “Rambling Boy”
Rooted in bluegrass, “Rambling Boy” is an all-star revue reminiscent of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” a generation ago, with an impressive parade of talent, a joyful jam-session ambiance and the 81-year-old Haden as bandleader.
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Hal Ketchum: “Father Time”
The self-produced album's 14 songs were recorded in just two days with few overdubs to the largely acoustic arrangements. In other words, it's the antithesis of assembly-line slickness.
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Morello's solo work, like this album and its 2007 predecessor “One Man Revolution,” is primarily acoustic based and politically laced, and his deep voice is at times reminiscent of Dave Alvin – particularly on “The King of Hell” and the harmonica-and organ-backed “Gone Like the Rain.”
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Oasis: “Dig Out Your Soul”
Powered by the ever-battling brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, these British rockers' seventh studio album is full of Beatles echoes, from the dreamy “I'm Outta Time,” which even features a snippet of John Lennon's final interview, to the “Give Peace a Chance” meets “High Heeled Sneakers” approach of “(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady.”
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Sarah McLachlan: “Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan”
If you listened to the early tracks on this new career overview, McLachlan obviously had a whole lot of talent, but there wasn't a lot to differentiate her from a lot of other female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s.
- ALBUM REVIEWS
Solas: “For Love and Laughter”
Founded in New York, the Celtic band Solas has prospered by somehow perfectly balancing its act between sounds from the British Isles and echoes from Appalachia (Seamus Egan's banjo does the trick).
- VISUAL ARTS
Night watchmen
Would anyone dispute the notion that we live in a color-saturated world when it comes to images, still or moving? Unless you're a avid follower of old films, you probably haven't seen a black-and-white movie in some time.
- AT THE MOVIES
It's a family affair
Jonathan Demme is a director of tolerance.
That's not just a description of him politically (although it's hard to imagine another white director so interested in the problems of Haiti, or so at ease directing “Beloved”). It's really a description of him aesthetically.
- AT THE MOVIES
'Trouble the Water' packs raw power
By now almost everyone knows that the U.S. government monumentally failed the citizens of New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. Is there more to be said about this national catastrophe? Yes, definitely, as the engrossing documentary “Trouble the Water” shows in just about every frame.
- AT THE MOVIES
'My Father' a sensitive look at family, heritage
Gong-hyeok Hwang's “My Father,” which screens Saturday at 5:05 p.m. as part of the San Diego Asian Film Festival, is not another film about father-son reconciliation. Based on a true story, it's a masterful sentimental drama that asks the question: How important is family in times of personal revelation?
- DINING GUIDE
One-hit wonder
La Jolla restaurateurs Luca Mazzolani and Deborah Odle wanted to branch out. So, they decided to hone in. When the partners of Barolo Ristorante Italiano opened their quick-casual eatery in a Poway strip mall this summer, they credited their inspiration to a single dish: the popular pear ravioli from their La Jolla restaurant.
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