Posted on Monday, 9th January 2012 by Declan Palazzi
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Posted on Sunday, 8th January 2012 by Aidan Bayly
The latest mixtape from The Weeknd is beautiful music written from some low places. It’s drunk, high, a little manic depressive, and really wants to get in your pants. The first track sets the tone — a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana” (titled “D.D.”) in which Abel Tesfaye nails the tension in M.J.’s voice while bringing a much heavier hand to the production. That vocal quality holds up through the whole mixtape, with the exception of “Initiation,” where he’s artificially messing with the speed and making the pitch slide around in an unsettling way. Everything keeps getting woozier from there, as if Tesfaye is getting more messed up, the whole time menacing and seducing. The nominal, final track “Echoes Of Silence” is particularly gorgeous and sad. Tesfaye pleads not to be left tonight over somber chords from the piano. The whole thing Read full text…
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Posted on Thursday, 5th January 2012 by Sean Permewan
Bil Keane, whose Family Circus cartoon about a family with four cute little kids is carried in nearly 1,500 newspapers, has died at age 89.
According to the Los Angeles Times’ obit, Keane mined his own family for material. He admitted to modeling the bespectacled and often befuddled Daddy on himself. His wife, Thelma, was the inspiration for the always-loving and ever-patient mother, also named Thel.
“I don’t just try to be funny,” Keane told The Times in 1990. “Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.”
The Philadelphia-born Keane was a self-taught artist, and had his first cartoon published in the Philadelphia Daily News in 1936, earning a dollar, according to his website.
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Posted on Wednesday, 4th January 2012 by Declan Palazzi
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Enlarge Oven-roasted Half Chicken tops a bed of butternut squash made with apples, bacon chunks, cumin, and rosemary at Georgetown in Lakewood. Georgetown in Lakewood gallery (6 photos) When it comes to food presentation, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Posted on Tuesday, 3rd January 2012 by Aidan Bayly
Lucky Hartford County dwellers: According to Connecticut Magazine readers, the state’s best Italian, Asian, Mexican, sushi, lunch and steak are all found here.
The magazine’s annual Best Restaurants list, published in the January 2012 issue, names readers’ favorites in 27 categories. Winners are listed in each county, along with statewide victors and runners-up.
Hartford proper was represented by Carbone’s Feng Asian Bistro and a statewide runner-up nod for Max Downtown in the Best American category. Readers also tapped two other Max restaurants for Hartford County wins: Max Downtown for Best Desserts and Glastonbury’s Max Fish for Best Restaurant Bar.