"Think Fantastic by Molly Young Netherland by Joseph O’Neill 256 pages Pantheon Books A good novel and a good ping-pong match share many qualities: virtuosity, grace, unpredictability and wild maneuvering. They are also impossible to recount and boring to hear about. This is an apologia, by the way. I am..."

"Life-Altering by Lauren Bans The Wackness dir. Jonathan Levine 95 min. Jonathan Levine’s The Wackness is basically the Jewish version of Good Will Hunting. Luke Shapiro, a drug dealing, mildly unpopular Jewish kid pretending to be black befriends (and sells pot to) Dr. Squires, a crazy Jewish psychiatrist. A beautiful,..."

"Bring out the Tams!If instruments were people, tambourine would be the life of the party. He's the guy who's relentlessly happy and brings everyone else along for the ride. He sends text messages with multiple explanation points. When he plays DJ at the stereo in the corner, the whole mood..."

"? Daily Downloads (The Acorn covers Cyndi Lauper, Emerald Park, and more) | Main Largehearted Boy Page June 17, 2008 Shorties The 2008 Bonnaroo downloads page has been updated with mp3s of sets by Jack Johnson, Of a Revolution, and Broken Social Scene, and bittorrent lossless downloads of the Drive-By..."

""Hymn #101" - Joe Pug     Had the Bob Dylan haunting the Greenwich Village folk scene in 1961 and 1962 augmented his sociopolitical preoccupation with a wide-eyed spiritual awareness, he might have composed a spare, literate neo-folk marvel such as "Hymn #101." Carefully written and plainly presented (just guitar and voice, thank..."