By: Brennan Carley
On Monday morning, the venerable New York Times food critic Sam Sifton, an elegant and gripping writer whose reviews quickly became a staple of my Wednesday mornings, traded his position for the more prestigious national editor.
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Finding A New ‘Friday Night Lights’
By: Brennan Carley
“Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose,” Jason Katim shouted with tears in his eyes from the stage of the Emmy’s last month. It was moments after accepting the award for Best Writing in a Drama Series for Friday Night Lights, his tearjerker of a drama that for five rewarding seasons maintained a small but devoted audience who knew the show as the best of the bunch. It was wildly entertaining and packed pointed writing into a show that was never really about football.
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A Donald In The Rough
By: Brennan Carley
Although actors who rap are not an anomaly in today’s multifaceted world of entertainment, Donald Glover has, in a seemingly swift amount of time, amassed both critical and mass adulation behind both of his careers.
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Independent Frame of Mind
By: Brennan Carley
After several minutes of uneasiness inside the closet, Saturday Night Live writer Mike O’Brien decided to just go for it, but Amy Poehler wasn’t messing around.
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Musicians ‘Mix’ It Up At Hatch Shell
By: Brennan Carley
“Who is that?” screamed the little boy from atop his father’s shoulders as the sun set over the audience at the DCR Memorial Hatch Shell late on Saturday afternoon. He, among countless other families, college students, and dogs were part of the thousands-large crowd watching Boston’s annual MIXFest, free for the first time this year.
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No Spare Parts
By: Darren Ranck, Brennan Carley, Charlotte Parish
With Ryan Gosling’s Drive opening this weekend, the car takes center stage once again. Recently, cars fulfill death defying stunts, but the car has filled many roles in pop culture history. buckle up for a crash course in vehicular media.
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Feats And Flights Light Up Cirque’s ‘Quidam’
By: Brennan Carley
The saying “a little goes a long way” is rarely adhered to anymore, in an age where bigger means better. On Friday night, however, Cirque du Soleil’s revamped revival of its famous Quidam allowed a sparse, minimalistic show to fill the cavernous Agganis Arena. It was an enjoyable departure from the bombastic troop, one that never sacrificed sheer delight while scaling down.
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The ‘Beat’ Flatlines Too Often On Guetta’s Newest Album
By: Brennan Carley
With David Guetta, what you see is what you get. His music professes to be nothing more than party anthems, wriggling, wormlike songs that will eventually find a home in the retirement community that is the Now That’s What I Call Music series.
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All Grown Up
By: Darren Ranck, Brennan Carley, Charlotte Parish
Williamsburg is not the only place where vintage and throwbacks are in vogue. This summer, Nickelodeon pulled out some of their television gems from the back shelf and dusted off six of their most popular shows from the ’90s. . to 4 a.m. time slot on July 18, pulling in about 555,000 viewers longing for a fix of their favorite childhood shows.
