'Quantum': Plenty Of Action, Just Not Bond's Kind
Nov 14th, 2008 · Critic David Edelstein says the new Bond film makes plenty of noise — just not the seductive kind. Actor Daniel Craig, though, holds things together nicely enough.
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Milosh: 'Awful Game'
Oct 24th, 2008 · On his third and latest album, iii, Canadian musician Michael Milosh serves up a collection of seductive, down-tempo electronica, inspired by his year living and recording on Thailand's tropical Koh Samui island. A classically trained cellist since the age of 3, Milosh writes on his MySpace page that he's "always had an intense attraction to songs that are sad, soft and beautiful" and that in his music, he attempts to "ride that thin line of mixing technology with some heart." On iii, he's succeeded in doing just that.
Femme Fatales **
Aug 21st, 2008 · She's trouble from the minute she appears on screen. She's seductive but dangerous. She reels the hero in with her feminine wiles then leads him straight into danger. Our summer movie series continues with a look at femme fatales.
Neko Case from Walt Disney Concert Hall *
Jun 6th, 2008 · As a singer for The New Pornographers, Case belts artful tunes with one of the most powerful and seductive voices in rock. Her solo work is steeped more in bittersweet country and gospel. Case brings the best of both in a full concert, webcast live on NPR.org from Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs for Chile's 'Cueca' *
Sep 20th, 2007 · As Chile resonates with Independence Day commemorations, the air is filled with the sounds of cueca music. The national dance makes elegant use of white handkerchiefs to tell a story of seduction.
Jonathan Lethem Reads 'You Don't Love Me Yet'
May 30th, 2007 · Jonathan Lethem's new book, You Don't Love Me Yet, is a spirited comedy about a struggling rock band in L.A. and its unlikely source of inspiration, the seductive ramblings of a complaint-hotline caller.
Jangly Rock with Frantic Intensity and Lusty Vocals **
May 18th, 2007 · On "The Plot," White Rabbits' members demonstrate a fondness for twinkling keyboards, room-filling rock and snarling but seductive vocals. Playing a kind of pitch-perfect indie-soul, they draw inspiration from disparate sources like calypso and ska along the way.
'Atlantis -- A Lost Sonnet' ****
Apr 11th, 2007 · For her tenth book, Domestic Violence, Irish poet Eavan Boland turns to "the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur."
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