Wacky, Wonderful 'Adaptation' Defies Conventional Movie Logic
"Adaptation" might be the worst adaptation of any book ever brought to the screen. That said, it's easily one of the best films of the year and surely the most deliriously clever.
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"Adaptation" might be the worst adaptation of any book ever brought to the screen. That said, it's easily one of the best films of the year and surely the most deliriously clever.
Joseph Arthur is one cool customer -- almost too cool.
Music with real character -- music that towers and stands apart from the run-of-the-mill soup that can dominate too many clubs and shows -- is hard to come by.
5 Stars
You've heard this one before.
Ryan Adams wants to make you mad.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In terms of music, Chapel Hill is as much adjective as noun. The city's music scene is nationally known, the name a veritable promise of quality.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>He'd been booked for months, the posters had been printed, and tickets had been sold -- but the show won't go on.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The murals around Chapel Hill have become veritable institutions over the years, as much Old Well as Van Gogh. But reverence for the walls doesn't stop at town residents -- vandals and the town caretakers respect them, as well.
Don't mistake the Apple Juice Orchestra for an opening act. The group is hardly background Muzak -- hardly that strumming sweet nothing that makes it hard to chat in the club's rear.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Patriotism was never cool.
2 Stars
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Sure, it's housed in University Mall, and its theater is the size of a boutique -- but the Deep Dish Theater Company's production of "A Lesson Before Dying" aims for the stars.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In terms of music, Chapel Hill is as much adjective as noun. The city's music scene is nationally known, the name a veritable promise of quality.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The mercury still climbs to 90, and the humidity is heavy in the air as ever, but summer is over.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It's easy to hate "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." It'd be convenient to dislike the literary phenomenon that's now become a movie giant. The bubble needs popping.
It's hard to take Stephen Malkmus too seriously. Heroin-thin and with hair in his eyes, the ex-Pavement frontman was the star of the show Sunday, but he never acted the part.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Shame on the Carolina Athletic Association and Coca-Cola Company.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>-Guided by Voices I don't think a much better or tighter rock band is out there today. Front man Robert Pollard used to teach fourth-grade English, and now he drinks himself off the stage every night. They have it all in spades: the lo-fi indie stage and the Cheap Trick-Weezer-Beatles phase.
Indie arena rock, were such a thing to exist, would start and end with Built to Spill.