Happy Birthday Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969)
Yes, yes!
John Hoyer Updike March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009
I’m sorry, could you say that again? I couldn’t hear you. Updike’s pants were too loud.
So many amazing concerts in February! Just announced, tickets on sale now: LIVE FROM HOME WITH AMY RAY
Monday, February 27 at 8:00pm
An intimate benefit evening with Amy Ray.
For over 25 years, Amy Ray has been renowned as one half of Grammy-award winning folk duo the Indigo Girls. She’s also an activist, label owner (her label, Daemon Records, has been going now for two decades) and a tireless innovator, challenging herself and continuing to grow as an artist. With her debut solo album, Stag (2001), Ray turned in her acoustic guitar for a Les Paul and delivered a critically acclaimed album that showed her love of punk and rock and roll. With her succeeding solo albums, Prom and Didn’t It Feel Kinder, Ray continued to explore her voice and stretch herself as an artist; she collaborated with such kindred spirits as members of the Butchies (who are currently part of her recording and touring band), Brandi Carlile, and many others. Lung of Love, out on February 28 on Daemon Records, is a milestone for Ray – it’s her most accessible, universal album to date. And catchy to boot. It’s also the first time in her career that she’s ever co-written with anyone — her producer Greg Griffith. (In the Indigo Girls, she and Emily Saliers write separately and bring their songs to the studio.) From her great power pop single, “Glow,” to a come-to-Jesus throwdown, “The Rock is My Foundation,” Ray and her guests, including Carlile, Jim James and Lindsay Fuller, deliver a batch of songs that sound like an instant classic.
Lindsay Fuller opens. Lindsay Fuller’s haunting Southern Gothic songwriting is unlike any other in her genre. Born in Alabama, the Seattle-based artist is the antithesis of the typical ethereal songstress. Her storytelling has been compared to Flannery O’Connor’s, while her voice to Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch – delicate and dark, “a burnished, soulful trill that sounds like the frame of a beautiful old church that’s about to collapse on itself” (The Examiner).
$25 tickets guarantee admission but not seating. Standing room is on a first come, first served basis.
$35 tickets guarantee seating. Seats will be assigned in order of purchase, startling front and center and working out and back.
Doors will open at 7:30PM.
All ticket sales benefit the Housing Works mission of fighting to end AIDS and homelessness.
The Live From Home concert series in generously sponsored by Whole Foods.Buy Tickets
Via Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
James Barr has written a history of the rivalry between France and Britain for dominance in the Middle East as framed by the First and the Second World Wars…
And there he keeps us for the next 30 years, not hovering with the historians in high Olympic judgement on the fates of nations, but with the journalists and spies at the very grubby coalface of foreign policy, made up of threat and counter-threat, hidden dreams, desire for revenge, inter-departmental rivalry and the jealousy of the bureaucratic chiefs in the capitals for their men on the ground. I found the entire book most horribly addictive, even if the ultimate picture it paints of the actions of the two Western powers is sordid, muddled and hypocritical
– From the Independent’s review of James Barr’s A Line In the Sand (via wwnorton)(Source: independent.co.uk)
Via W. W. NortonLewis, SMILE, it’s your BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll!
Now, let’s PARTAY!!!
All Cry Chaos
Author: Leonard Rosen
All Cry Chaos is Leonard Rosen’s gripping thriller debut. “It promises to become a critical success that garners a broad readership throughout the nation and across the globe.”
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