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In concert: The Avett Brothers at DAR Constitution Hall
Shortly after The Avett Brothers - the bluegrassy, folk-rock troupe from Concord, North Carolina - shuffled onstage at a packed DAR Constitution Hall on Friday night, it was easy to do the math.
There are two Avett brothers: singers Scott and Seth.
And there are two Avett Brothers bands: One that delivers achingly handsome acoustic ballads with a steady hand and one that performs with such hammy, hyperactive urgency, it appears that everyone onstage really needs to use the men's room.
The prior greeted fans first, with Seth and Scott crooning "Murder in the City," a lovely, unplugged pledge to family values. The melodies brought goosebumps and the lyrics brought Super Bowl-touchdown cheers: "There is nothing worth sharing/Like the love that let us share our name."
But when the brothers were joined by the Brothers - bassist Bob Crawford, cello player Joe Kwon and drummer Jacob Edwards - their tender sibling harmonies were scrapped for a night of screaming and shouting, hooting and hollering, romping and stomping.
This is how the Avetts built their cult over the course of the last decade - with a kinetic live show that values sweaty beards over sweet melodies.
But in 2008, famed rock producer Rick Rubin signed the group to his American Recordings label and reined them in. The result was 2009's Rubin-produced "I and Love and You," an album of simple, plainly-sung folk-rock songs that built a bridge between Appalachia and Laurel Canyon.
The disc's most gorgeous tune was Friday's surging highlight: "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise," a number you may have heard the Avetts perform on the Grammys last week before they teamed up with Bob Dylan for a 21st-century singalong of "Maggie's Farm."
"There was a kid with a head full of doubt," Scott roared during the emotive refrain. "So I'll scream 'til I die and the last of those bad thoughts are finally out."
After 23 songs, they still weren't out. His voice exploded into a shout or a scream on nearly every chorus (save for a two-song, catch-your-breath duet with Seth, mid-show), as he spent the night marching across the stage, banging his head, toting his banjo like Pete Townshend totes an electric guitar.
So why wasn't he playing one? Throughout the evening, the band pushed their acoustic instruments to their sonic limits, often turning resonant melodies into a crackly, sloppy din. It felt particularly noxious during "Go To Sleep," a sturdy campfire song that was rushed as if the band was speed-training for a summer on the Warped Tour.
If these songs were meant to be played with so much blood, sweat and gusto, why not pump up the volume and add some electricity? The banjo, cello and upright bass felt more like old-timey stage props than the tools required for the job.
If the Avetts had the opportunity to chat with Dylan after the Grammys, hopefully they asked him about going electric.
Chris Richards
| February 21, 2011; 10:19 AM ET
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Really? I'm pretty sure the Avett Brothers know what sound they're going for, and that includes the "old-timey stage props" they have on stage with them. Why would Scott switch to electric guitar if the song calls for banjo? The end of this review reads like a movie critic reviewing a play and suggesting the director change up the scenery more often.
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i tend to agree with chris' point, the manic strumming has always felt a little gimmicky to me. we get it, you play old timey instruments like rockers. that was fun and novel...3 years ago. the harmonies and simple singable melodies have always been the real draw. it doesnt have to be one or the other, banjo or strat, The Band did both and made it work.
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Okay, I'll admit it, I've never actually read J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, so I began reading this only knowing the Disney movie version of the story. This is Tiger Lily's story as told from Tinker Bell's point-of-view and it works marvelously! Folks expecting a nice, neat Disney tale are in for a rude awakening.
Sadie Turner is still reeling from a nasty divorce. She needs time away from her controlling mother and cheating ex-husband, so on a whim, she decides to pack up her kids and spend the summer at her eccentric Aunt Dody's beach cottage on Lake Michigan. Sadie had spent many wonderful summers there as a child and figures it may be just the place to get some peace and quiet. Little does she know that her two cousins are also living at Dody's cottage, one of which is flamboyant Fontaine, who can't wait to get his hands on Sadie's boring and mundane social life.
Sinister Scenes is the 3rd book of the series about the eerier town of Spooking. Joy Wells is the heroine of the book. When a movie company comes to Spooking to film a movie based on one of E. A. Pengeot's horror books, Joy is convinced that Spooking will be recognized as the hometown of her favorite author.
I really loved this book! One of the blurbs on the back references Charles Portis, and the voice of this story's narrator, Eli Sisters, reminded me very much of the narrator of True Grit. I feel like I got to know Eli better, and liked this story better than True Grit, not that they need to be compared as they are both enjoyable stories. But, if I'm left with only the two books to read and have to choose one to read first, this would be the one.
Middle school student and troublemaker Donovan Curtis is well known for his pranks around school. Due to a big mistake and miscommunication, Donovan is transferred from his "normal" middle school to the "Academy for Scholastic Distinction" for highly gifted students. Multiple characters, including adults, take turns telling the story, and it becomes clear than Donovan doesn't belong at ASD due to his ungifted status, but could it be that the students at ASD need Donovan, as he slowly leads them to normalcy?
Logan suspects that missing pet dogs are being dognapped by invading aliens and forms the Intergalactic Canine Rescue Unit with his friends. He communicates with a female alien who speaks for the big Boss alien, is kidnapped himself, and through quick thinking and clever negotiating, Logan becomes a hero. Dognappers is a fast read appealing to middle-graders with its gross humor, surprising adventures with aliens and mysteries.
Another just plain fun read! If you like the Stephanie Plumb books, you'll like this series too. Diesel, one of Ranger's employees, breaks out on his own set of adventures. They are full of the same madcap mayhem we see with Stephanie, Morelli and Ranger, but these add a layer of magic and mystical powers. Lizzy is a pastry chef in Salem Massachusetts who also happens to be a "finder". Her talent is sensing special properties of inanimate objects. Lizzy and Diesel are off on a mission to find another one of a set of magical stones before Wulf or any other bad guys can get it.
Book 2 of the Keepers Trilogy In this second book, Goldie Roth is accompanied by her friends from the first book on another adventure. New characters are introduced and assist Goldie and Toadspit in their adventure. Goldie is reluctant to become the fifth Keeper of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. Even though she wants to be a keeper, she feels a duty to protect and take care of her sick parents.
Russian Winter is a novel about jewels, ballet, love, betrayal, and secrets. It centers on Russian ballerina Nina Revskaya, The Butterfly, a star of the Bolshoi Ballet in communist Russia. The tale weaves back and forth from her life in Russia to present day America, where she is auctioning all of her jewels.
Seventh grader, Marley Sidelski is a self-described geek and Star Trek fan. He gets a lot of practice running from school bullies. In fact, he's so good a running that he gets the attention of the gym teacher, who wants him on the track team. Finally, Marley gets a taste of popularity, in this less than believable but very funny book about surviving middle school. Recommended for grades 5-8.
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Roger, a long sausage dog, is looking for more meaning from life. When life hands him potatoes, he creates a French fry stand, and his French fries become famous around the world. But Roger worries that people only love him for his fries, and he looks for even more from his life. When Roger meets Charlotte the Corn Cob Queen, a whole new adventure begins. The illustrations are charming, and this book has been a hit with every school age group I've read it with. A recipe is included at the back of the book.
A hilarious take on a 7th grade boy's life from the pen of Tim Carvell, head writer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The book is in diary format and follows Tad on various adventures & life lessons throughout the year.
Welcome to Icicle Falls, home of the Sweet Dreams Chocolate Company, which has been run by the Sterling Family for generations. Samantha Sterling has just been given a heavy burden. Her recently deceased step-father, Waldo, has left the company near ruin and it is up to her as the eldest daughter and newly appointed CEO, to save the family business. To make things worse, there's a new bank manager in town, the handsome Blake Preston who has given Samantha less than two months to repay the company's debt. Can Samantha and her family save the chocolate factory in time?
Dodger is a tosher, a cheeky, enterprising young man who knows the sewers of London like the back of his hand. He searches in tunnels below ground to find lost treasures like coins or rings, always hoping to find the mystical Tosharoon—a conglomeration of treasures wrapped up in mud, and worse.
This easy to read mystery takes place in an unusual setting. The story depicts the legends centering on Iowa City's Oakland Cemetery's Black Angel monument. Linc (Lincoln Raintree Crenshaw), 12-years-old, and his mother, Lottie Landers, an absent-minded professor who studies burial customs, live in a house bordering the cemetery. Linc's struggle in starting public school and leaving his private Home-Away-From-Home School, known as the Ho-Hos brings many challenges.
Maria Semple relates the tale of where Bernadette went and why using emails, letters, reports, articles, and other short pieces created by or relating to the characters. Interspersed are passages of Bernadette's daughter Bee's narration. With all the variation in modes of writing, I was surprised at how smoothly this story read.
I first read this book when it was hot off the press in 1977. I finished it one morning right before going in to work at an Owensboro, KY department store. It was hard to get my mind on work after experiencing the traumatic events at the Overlook Hotel.
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The short version: This collection of the compelling first 12 issues of the mystery-horror comic book series set in a twisted boarding school is a satisfying hook that will make fans of readers who enjoy grim graphic stories with a dash of the fantastic, like The Walking Dead or The Unwritten. Enticed? Read on.
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Adults who love Alexander McCall Smith's Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series will be thrilled to introduce their children to Botswana's Precious Ramotswe. When items start to disappear from students' lunches, Precious is on the case, even defending the boy who everyone at first assumes to be the culprit. Unfamiliar words are defined and pronunciation guides are given. Illustrations only add to the charm of the story.
May Elizabeth Bitterly lives on the Kansas frontier with her family. May wants to study and become a teacher, but her father needs her to earn some money for the familiy by living and working on the neighboring Oblinger homestead, but just until Christmas. Mr. Oblinger has made a rustic sod house for his new young bride, who is not use to the roughness of life on the frontier. May cooks, washes and offers Mrs. Oblinger lessons of life on the frontier. Mrs. Oblinger does not return May's kindness.
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The main character of this novel is one of the most despised people in America: he's a lobbyist for the smoking industry. He's not friendless, however. His frequent lunch companions include the chief representatives for the gun industry and the alcohol lobby. They privately refer to themselves as "The MOD Squad" (as in Merchants of Death). In this hilarious novel, Buckley not only skewers the tobacco industry, but Washington, Hollywood, the press, and modern society in general. The book is also the source of an excellent movie of the same name.
Fourteen-year-old Mike, a mathematically-challenged young man with dyscalculia, unfortunately has a brilliant engineer/professor father. Mike is forced to live with relatives he has never met for six weeks in summer while his father teaches in Romania. Mike's father hopes that his son will improve his math and engineering skills by working on a local project.
The story is a typical who-done-it mystery. The story begins with 13 year-old, Oz Keiller opening the refrigerator door at his family's restaurant and discovering the body of Aaron Sneider, a journalist. He discovers that Sneider was a reporter who had accused his deceased father of being a spy and a traitor. His father was accused of stealing nuclear secrets from the company he had worked for. If this isn't bad enough his older brother is arrested for the murder and Oz jumps into action to save him.
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Oluwalase Babatunde Benson is the Number One car spotter in his tiny African village, hence his nickname, No. 1. (In his free time, No. 1 and his grandfather like to identify cars by their sounds before they drive past). While he knows that things like skyscrapers, tap water, and electricity exists, in his village they can only dream of such luxuries. When the village's market cart breaks down, No. 1 comes up with a plan that saves the village and allows them to get to the market to sell their goods, involving an old broken-down Toyota Camry.
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Bad Glass has a great premise, especially if you are a fan of "what if" science fiction. The science here is physics, or perhaps metaphysics. We never find out. But weird things are happening in Spokane, WA. The military has separated the phenomena into 4 categories: things that appear that should not be there, things that disappear that should be there, voices/noises that have no apparent origin and "all else". Most fall into the "all else" category; especially the human body parts that meld into inanimate materials, or that become part of other bodies.
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Life wasn't easy for anyone during the Great Depression, but it could be even harder if you were African American. In this work of historical fiction, Hibernia a preacher's daughter, dreams of becoming a singer. Willie is recovering from a burn that will keep him from fulfilling his dream of becoming a boxer. Otis, an orphan, is struggling to find happiness but finds comfort in his family's radio and the sense of humor that was passed down to him from his father.
In 1923 two sisters set off on a mission to Kashgar, located on the Silk Road, though they speak little or none of the languages in the region. Lizzie is on fire with religious conviction instilled by Millicent, who is in charge of the mission. Evangeline is not convinced of the value of their work, but is coming along to protect her sister as well as to travel and experience the world, riding her green bicycle for hundreds of miles as they travel through deathly heat in the desert, and extreme cold in the passes of the Celestial Mountains.
A delightful tale of life within the walls of the Tower of London including nuggets of Tower history.
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John Green's Paper Towns imagines a unique high school queen bee named Margo Roth Spiegelman and the mystery of finding her. Quentin Jacobsen narrates the story, beginning with a childhood memory of finding a dead body in the neighborhood park with Margo. While Quentin and Margo grew apart over the years, he holds a flame for her and she holds the high school's ruling class back from bullying Quentin too much.
Every so often, I'll try a manga. As the young adult librarian, I feel like that's something I should do. I'll hear from teen patrons that they love a title more than life itself and give it a try. Then, often, I'll miss whatever it was that made the manga so great--it's okay, I'm at a different place in life than the teens I work with, but I'd prefer to relate to them through shared love of a story.
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Ready Player One takes place in a stark, near future where people hide from their dark reality in the OASIS, a virtual world created by James Halliday. As the story takes off lifelong gamer and game creator Halliday has just died and left behind one last game for the ages.
Budo is six years old, but he looks like an adult. To the people who can see him, that is--he is an imaginary friend, visible only to his human imaginer Max and to other imaginary friends. Imaginary friends are born from people's, pimarily chilrden's, minds and come out looking like pretty much anything--a fully formed person like Budo, a spot on a wall, a robot, whatever. One day, they're imagined and exist, knowing what their humans think they know.
Loved this book! A BBC British comedy in print. The main character is drawn to perfection; Constance Harding is a totally clueless but well meaning, well-bred, English lady. Her home is "a comfortable five-bedroom Georgian house located on the outskirts of a pleasant village in Surrey." She defines herself as wife to Jeffrey, mother to Rupert (a 25 year old IT consultant) and Sophie (a slightly directionless adolescent); she dotes on her Eclectus parrot Darcy. This book is a year in her life, told through her blog entries.
Mac Barnett, author of the Brixton Brothers chapter book series, offers up an unusual look into how a book is written and illustrated. He writes about a girl named Chloe who is wandering through the forest. When illustrator Adam Rex decides to draw a dragon instead of the lion Mac has written about, Mac calls him out and fires him. He hires a new illustrator, Hank, who draws a lion which promptly eats Adam.
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Frances Nelson Regenfuss, 97, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, in Richland, Wash.
She was born Jan. 30, 1916, in Hiawatha to Ray and Ruby Nelson. She was a high school graduate in Baldwin City and a 1937 graduate of Baker University with a bachelor's degree.
She married James Willard Regenfuss on April 1, 1950. He preceded her in death in 2007. She began her teaching career in Wathena in 1939. In 1941, she supported the war effort first by working for Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, Calif., and in 1943 joined the Marine Corps with the rank of first lieutenant and later captain in the Reserves. She was stationed at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, N.C. After the war, she came to California and attended the University of Redlands, earning a master's degree in 1948. She then moved to Visalia, Calif., to resume her teaching career. In 1956, she resumed her teaching career, teaching history and government at Fleming Junior High School in Lomita for 20 years. After spending 23 of her retirement years in Torrance, she moved to Kennewick in 1999 to be near the rest of her family. She later resided at Canyon Lakes Manor and finally at Quail Hollow in Richland.
Survivors include a son, Larry Regenfuss and wife, Glenda; a granddaughter, Christy Brooks and husband, Josh; a grandson, David Regenfuss and wife, Andie; a great-grandson; Landen Brooks; and many nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Desert Lawn Memorial Park, with military honors. This will be open to the public.
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Bright lights, late nights too much for some
PUBLISHED: 11 Jul 2012 00:02:18 | UPDATED: 12 Jul 2012 00:50:02PUBLISHED: 11 Jul 2012 PRINT EDITION: 11 Jul 2012Jill Margo
When Simon Sheikh fainted on national television recently, he joined a growing list of prominent men who have inexplicably collapsed in public view.
Sheikh, national director of GetUp, was struggling from the moment he sat down on the panel of the Q&A show on the ABC, but he didn't want to walk away.
"I was sick in the stomach and I managed to get through my first answer, although my brain and mouth couldn't quite connect. I could not think straight and I am told about 10 minutes before the event, the oxygen to the brain starts depleting.
"My brain was not functioning and just before it happened it started getting really bad. All of a sudden my energy levels dropped. I couldn't concentrate and stopped being able to hear what the other panellists were saying. I thought perhaps if I have a big glass of water I'll be able to get out of this."
Sheikh recovered in a few seconds and was taken to Liverpool Hospital in Sydney where nursing staff attended to him. "The hospital was under-resourced so I actually left after six hours without seeing a doctor, " he says.
The next morning he sought help himself, had a battery of tests and emerged in good health. He attributes the faint to the tail end of influenza, not having slept the night before and the heat of the lights.
At 26, he is considerably younger than the prominent men who have publicly passed out before him, such as Greece's new Finance Minister, Vassilis Rapanos, who fainted last month as euro-zone leaders agreed to push for a large growth package. He was reportedly kept under observation in hospital for two days.
United States General David Petraeus passed out while testifying during a congressional hearing into the situation in Afghanistan in June 2010. He was back 20 minutes later, attributing the faint to jet lag, not having eaten that morning and dehydration.
Former US attorney-general Michael Mukasey began to slur his words and then slumped on the podium while defending the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies in Washington in November 2008. Mukasey was back at work the next day, and said that his fainting was caused by giving a late night speech under hot lighting.
In November 2006, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi fainted while addressing a rally in Tuscany. He came round quickly but spent 24 hours under observation. A heart irregularity was reportedly found and consequently his tax fraud trial was postponed.
In January 2002, US president George W Bush fainted and fell off the couch while watching football. He choked on a pretzel. The world learned of this when he explained his facial injuries. He had been unwell for a couple of days before.
In January 1992, his father, president George H. W. Bush, threw up and collapsed at a state dinner held at the home of the Japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa.
He was reportedly suffering "intestinal flu" and resumed work the following afternoon.
The Australian Financial Review
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The Heart of Darkness Came to Nevada, And So Did the Croc Hunters
Sarah Palin came to Nevada and Stacy McCain was there to document the angry mobs full of angry spitting racists whom she led in various anti-gay chants against Manly-Man Barney Frank. To read some of the commentary, you'd think the authors were sailing down a gloomy river in search of an ivory trader named Kurtz and cursing the misbegotten savages who dared to attack them from shore.
In reality, though, the MSM's self-appointed task in Nevada was less Heart of Darkness and more Animal Planet. They were there to film and catalog the various species of right-wing menace, Crocodile Hunter-style, then weave a cautionary narrative about how the crocs have learned to fashion rudimentary protest signs and organize themselves into marches. Crikey! Don't get too close! That plumber will snap your hand right off! And watch out for the Spitting Shouter over there. His spittle can burn through a lead sheet!
The only problem was, the violent mouth-breathing horde wasn't much in a mood to oblige. Where the MSM sought to identify the violent fringe of a violent mob, there were only…well, normal people. That's not nearly as exciting a narrative, so the MSM, deprived of a chance to pull on the slouch hat and short pants, pouted.
Like Stacy said, "Actually meeting and talking to people is so much more productive than treating them as superficial stereotypes. It's also a lot more fun." Perhaps the MSM should start acting like human beings who happen to be reporters instead of zoologists describing a strange and dangerous breed of animal. Not only would their reporting improve by several orders of magnitude, but they'd enjoy life a whole lot more.
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Convertible Range Rover Evoque follows in ill-conceived footsteps
Land Rover debuts a convertible variant of the Range Rover Evoque at the Geneva Auto Show. Fortunately, it's only a concept.
It wasn't the first convertible crossover to reach production, but I was hoping that the Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet would be the last. Unfortunately, Land Rover will also be peeling back the top of its own Range Rover Evoque crossover at the 2012 Geneva Auto Show next week.
The Range Rover Evoque Convertible will feature a power retractable cloth top with a glass rear window pane. A Roll Over Protection System (ROPS) protects passengers in the event of a rollover by instantaneously popping up roll hoops behind the rear passengers when the vehicle senses that it's about to roll.
Aside from the roof, the Evoque Convertible is essentially identical to the hard-topped 2012 Range Rover Evoque that we tested not too long ago. It's got the same power train, similar styling, and the same suite of cabin technology.
Now, before you grab your torches and pitchforks, I should let on that the Evoque Convertible is still a concept at this point. However, Range Rover is closely watching the convertible crossover niche to gauge whether or not building this abomination oddball form-factor would be a lucrative endeavor.


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Over the last little while, I've noticed that Bizlof War is seldom hosted, and also seldom played. Part of this (I think) is because I am unable to update the game currently (because of somekind of unresolved bug in my hub).
Anyway, I'd like to hear some suggestions as to how I can improve Bizlof War. I know that most of the more well-known BYOND'ers refrain from playing it (most likely because I haven't yet created any form of reputation for myself), so I'd like to know how I can make the game enjoyable for them, too.
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