![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spread across three volumes, each with two cds worth of material, this is as comprehensive as it gets. I tend to point people towards the compilations, commonly known as The Red Album and The Blue Album, as they cover a lot of the best stuff including singles that were never included on the albums.īut what if you want to go a little deeper? Or perhaps go on a magical mystery tour, starting with the group’s humble beginnings and finishing at The End? Well, perhaps The Beatles Anthology series is worth a try. With a new documentary movie, Eight Days A Week, coming to cinemas in September, it seems timely to take a look at a Beatles collection that serves as a fab introduction for newcomers, but also an intriguing look into what might have been, courtesy of alternative takes of familiar songs.Įveryone knows The Beatles, and everyone knows their albums, but which one do you point new listeners towards? Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band? A Hard Day’s Night? Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, The White Album? It can get really contentious because every album means something special to somebody. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Because this is a pivotal, purposeful moment and I don’t want you to miss one second of it. What you are internalizing, what messages are being sent and lost…and I worry. ![]() ![]() In the midst of all this good trouble, I think of you young folk, wondering what you’re possibly making of all this. As author Jason Reynolds wrote, “This is about a system that exists within this country that makes our lives seemingly a bit more expendable to the eyes of people in authoritative power who happen, most times, to be white.” This isn’t just about Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, or George Floyd. These protests that spread throughout the nation speak to the pain Black people have experienced. As my friend once put it, America is a pressure cooker set on high. Our nation has been creeping toward this inevitable explosion for over a century. A fire that should have taken no one by surprise. Now here I am, watching my own city on fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Doom, the Sub-Mariner’s return, the debut of the Mole Man and his many monsters, Miracle Man, the Puppet Master and more! Collecting THE FANTASTIC FOUR #1-10. So come join the Marvel Masterworks and witness the first appearance of such Marvel U. 1: With Great Power (Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man 1) by Stan Lee, Michael Cho(Cover Art), Steve Ditko(Artist), Jack Kirby(Artist) 4. With the space race, on Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm and Johnny Storm shoot for the stars, but after their craft is bombarded by cosmic rays, they return to Earth with the startling powers of the Fantastic Four! These weren’t just any super heroes, though, they were a realistic, relatable, bickering and loveable family that couldn’t float their rent and didn’t always enjoy their superpowers. Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. In 1961 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby lit the fuse on the greatest revolution in comic book history, the Marvel Age of Comics, and right here in the pages of The Fantastic Four, you can experience it from page one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Headed east, William visits Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina before turning southward into Georgia for a quick tour of the Southeast. William outfits his Ford van, which he calls Ghost Dancing, and set out on his journey from his Columbia, Missouri, home in March of 1978. Debating about what to do and what direction his life should take in light of these two events, William quietly decides to take a journey around the United States in hopes of discovering not only a little bit about his country but also about himself. William Least Heat Moon, whose given English name is William Trogdon, reaches a crisis point in his life when he loses his college teaching job and learns that his estranged wife is dating another man. Throughout his trip William encounters diverse people, explores natural wonders and finds out more about himself in the process. William sets out in his van to follow back roads of America, "blue highways" because they are colored blue on road maps. Blue Highways: A Journey into America is William Least Heat Moon's account of a three-month, 13,000-mile trip around the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He rose from hacker to scratch golfer to serious Pro Am competitor and on to his status today as one of the best celebrity golfers around - all while rising through the rock 'n' roll ranks, releasing platinum albums and selling out arenas with his legendary act.Īlice Cooper, Golf Monster is an unlikely and captivating tale full of wretched excess, life-saving redemption, ghoulish eye makeup, power chords, and five irons to the center of the green. This is the story of Cooper's life, and also a story about golf. In it, he talks candidly about his entire life and career, as well as his struggles with alcohol, how he fell in love with the game of golf, how he dried out at a sanitarium back in the late '70s, and how he put the last nails in his addiction's coffin by getting up daily at 7 a.m. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since.Īlice Cooper, Golf Monster is Cooper's tell-all memoir. A friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. ![]() Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit. This information about Alice Cooper, Golf Monster was first featured in 'The BookBrowse Review' - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly 'Publishing This Week' newsletter. The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons with a golf club. ![]() ![]() Whites at the boundaries of white normativity-such as poor whites-are unable to fully lay claim to what David Roediger, after W.E.B Du Bois, calls the "wages" of whiteness, the tacit "status and privileges" of their racial identity. They regard themselves as a neutral or standard, without race or ethnicity, or as a member of the 'human race.'" "Moreover," Moya and Markus continue, "when experimental social psychologists ask people to describe themselves on open-ended questionnaires, white people tend not to mention the racial or ethnic aspects of their identity." 1 White racial identity, or "whiteness," is not always so invisible to white people, however. Moya and Hazel Rose Markus write in Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21 st Century (2010), "Many whites are quite comfortable with the idea that race (especially) and ethnicity are things that Asians, Latina/os, and blacks have to contend with, but that white people do not. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most white Americans tend not to distinguish race as an important or even identifiable part of their identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kal Penn does really well as the central character, Gogol. The cinematography, the editing (juxtaposing Calcutta and New York), and even the colours of the opening credits are all spot on. Cramming a story spanning three decades into two hours without making it feel rushed or contrived takes some doing, and Mira Nair paces it beautifully. Fortunately the film does full justice to Jhumpa Lahiri's novel. So the book has a lot of resonance for me. I also have the Bengali dilemma of having two names. As a second generation Bengali Brit who was born in India and went to university in the US, I know something about what it means to feel displaced, to be a stranger in a strange land, though I have never felt like an immigrant. I admit that I loved the book, and therefore have been looking forward to this film for a while. Mira Nair introduced the film, along with Nitin Sawhney, who wrote the score. I saw "The Namesake" at the 22nd October screening at the London Film Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention saving her naive brother, Rob, from the clutches of a con man who might steal the computer game he has invented. And to prevent a snooping reporter from publishing any stories about local scandals. And Michael himself will don the white-and-gold uniform of a French officer for the re-enactment-what actor could resist a role like that? Meg's also trying to keep her father from scaring too many tourists with his impersonation of an 18th century physician. She's only doing it to keep peace with the mother of the man she loves. Except, of course, for the pink-painted flamingos she reluctantly made for her mother's best friend-she's hoping to deliver them secretly, so she won't get a reputation as "the blacksmith who makes those cute wrought-iron flamingos." Besides, she has taken on another responsibility-making sure none of her fellow crafters ruin the historical authenticity of the fair with forbidden modern devices-like wrist watches, calculators, or cell phones. Meg Langslow has returned to her home town for the festivities-and to sell her wrought-iron works of art. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone knows a marriage between two alphas is a recipe for disaster. He isn’t supposed to bare his throat to an enemy alpha-and it isn’t supposed to feel so good. Prince Haydn has always tried to be the perfect alpha his father wants him to be. Royce likes omegas he isn’t into alphas, no matter how pretty their eyes are. More than anything, Royce hates what Haydn makes him become: a primitive alpha cliché who’ll do anything to mark his territory, even if that territory is his alpha husband. Peace isn’t popular, but the planet can’t survive without it.įorced to marry an enemy prince for the sake of peace, Senator Royce Cleghorn doesn’t like his husband, his alpha scent, or his damned pretty blue eyes. The Kingdom of Pelugia and the Republic of Kadar have been at war for decades. ![]() Attraction that defies all reason and logic… Or does it? Two alphas forced into a political marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() His current craze is his horse-drawn caravan. Toad is rich, jovial, friendly and kindhearted, but arrogant and rash he regularly becomes obsessed with current fads, only to abandon them abruptly. One summer day, Rat and Mole disembark near the grand Toad Hall and pay a visit to Toad. They get along well and spend many more days boating, with “Ratty” teaching Mole the ways of the river, with the two friends living together in Ratty's riverside home. Here he meets Rat, a water vole, who takes Mole for a ride in his rowing boat. He has fled his underground home and ends up at the river, which he has never seen before. With the arrival of spring and fine weather outside, the good-natured Mole loses patience with spring cleaning. There, he used the bedtime stories he had told Alastair as a basis for the manuscript of The Wind in the Willows. He moved with his wife and son to an old farmhouse in Blewbury, Berkshire. In 1908, Grahame took early retirement from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. When Alastair was about four years old, Grahame would tell him bedtime stories, some of which were about a toad, and on his frequent boating holidays without his family he would write further tales of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger in letters to Alastair. He was born premature, blind in one eye, and was plagued by health problems throughout his life. ![]() The next year they had their only child, a boy named Alastair (nicknamed "Mouse"). Kenneth Grahame married Elspeth Thomson, the daughter of Robert William Thomson in 1899, when he was 40. ![]() |