Don't look now, but it's happening again.
The Beatles did it first with talent and charm, Oasis did it with less talent and more vulgarity, and now the invasion from across the Atlantic is continuing with another group of lads who are poised to follow in the hallowed footsteps of their fellow countrymen.
Kula Shaker makes waves in Detroit
Flannery O'Connor said that everyone who lives to the age of 10 has had enough experience to write about. Joshua Henkin, the author of "Swimming Across the Hudson," has taken those experiences of his own and put them into a fiction work that University Prof. Charles Baxter calls "consistently moving and wonderfully accomplished." Henkin will read his experiences from his first novel at Shaman Drum this evening.
Local author Henkin reads at Drum tonight
Imagine that you are a publisher studying a new manuscript. It's 600 pages long and strives to be simultaneously minimalist and vast, describing people's inner lives as adeptly as it describes Indian governmental policy. And it's not written by a trained writer, but by a math major. Mistry to read 'Fine' at Borders
The suspenseful music grows more ominous as the frightened on-screen characters get gruesomely picked off one-by-one by a monstrous man-eating snake. As the movie's images become more violent, and the snake continues to satiate its gory appetite, audience members are soon sent screaming out of the theater.
'Anaconda' slithers in stupidity
Richard James (Aphex Twin) is definitely a weird one. A couple of years ago, he finished his set in New York by playing a piece of sandpaper on his turntable for 40 minutes. When he returned, most everyone had left, and he proceeded to entrance a few hanger-ons with his "encore." Is this an example of misunderstood genius or plain stupidity? Not sure. Weird Aphex offers real emotion
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