The last time Sebadoh released an album the reaction was far from flattering. Critics who’d previously championed the band’s lo-fi aesthetic and the intensely personal songwriting of Lou Barlow and Jason Lowenstein chided the band for the perceived bloated production aesthetic of 1999’s
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Sam Neil’s vintage year
This year
Staying Sharp: Help! I’ve Lost My Focus
Spend a few hours with Hollywood producer Jennifer Klein, and you might want to pop a Valium.
Architecture: MOMA’s radical restraint
In 1997, the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City announced that Yoshio Taniguchi had won a 10-entrant competition against world-famous architects like Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas to design the museum’s $425 million overhaul. Around the world, art lovers and architecture mavens alike responded with a loud, bemused, “Who?” So unknown was the 67-year-old architect outside his native Japan that one confused well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA’s chief curator of architecture and design, on selecting “Tony Gucci,” a nonexistent Italian architect.
Sustainable Forests: Bolivia’s Pioneer Indigenous Plan
Deep in the Chiquitana tropical dry forest in southeast Bolivia, Noine Picanerai stands on a dirt road that cuts through lush woods. The 50,000-acre plot looks like a protected reserve
Is China’s Architectural Ambition Leaving Its Own Talent Behind?
These days, fanfare and trumpets typically accompany architects when they begin new projects in China — and with good reason. In recent years, China, along with a smattering of other regions including the Middle East and Russia, has become a global architectural frontier, with star architects like Rem Koolhaas, Paul Andreu and Norman Foster all leaving their mark on the nation’s rapidly expanding cities
China: Nuclear-Power Projects Move Ahead Amid Safety Fears
Even for a country known for completing massive infrastructure projects with frightening speed, China’s nuclear-power-plant building spree boggles the mind. China has 13 reactors in operation now and is currently building another 27 — nearly half of the total under construction worldwide
Haiti’s Long Drawn-Out Presidential Election
Sunday’s presidential run-off in Haiti had been billed as the most important in the country’s history. It came 14 months after the earthquake that devastated the capital Port-au-Prince, with international donors hesitating to fund crucial construction projects under the lame duck presidency of Ren Prval.
China cracks down on Chongqing’s gangsters
China’s long simmering battle against corruption has come to a boil, this time in Chongqing, the largest megalopolis in the world. A massive crackdown has implicated millionaires, gangsters, and even police officers
Post-mortem due on Boyzone’s Stephen Gately
A post-mortem examination will be carried out this week on the body of singer Stephen Gately, who died Saturday while vacationing on the Spanish island of Majorca.