Jul 25th, 2008 · The debut, self-titled album from Oklahoma City-based band The Uglysuit is refreshingly bright and cheery, replete with huge spirit-raising piano and guitar anthems. With a blend of spacey dream pop and a few alt-country flavors (lead singer Israel Hindman's voice mimicks Jeff Tweedy one minute, Conor Oberst the next), the group's sound draws comparisons to the Flaming Lips and the Shins, but the grandiosity of the music is that of space rock proportions.
Keywords: country · Chicago · music · Singer · album · Spirit · Oklahoma City · guitar · Jeff Tweedy · alt · Flaming Lips · spacey
Dec 11th, 2007 · The Sotheby's auctioneer had estimated that the statuette could fetch $1.2 million. A 1940 copy of Orson Welles's 156-page 'Citizen Kane'' script, replete with blue markings, fetched $97,000. We talk to director Peter Bogdanovich, a close friend of Welles.
Keywords: director · citizen · Oscar · Wells · friends · 1940 · auction · Sotheby · kane · Orson Welles · statuettes · replete
Mar 25th, 2005 · In Mexico's Sierra Madre range, the religious drama of Easter has been refashioned by indigenous groups into an expression of cultural solidarity, replete with barrels of corn beer called tesguino.
Keywords: religious · culture · Mexico · drama · expression · indigenous · sacred · beer · barrels · Easter · Solidarity · Tarahumara
