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Ryan J. Meehan

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Duran Duran

Those who remember Duran Duran usually remember the hair, frosted to 1980s-excess perfection. Or maybe the videos, replete with scantily-clad,


BOTH SIDES NOW

No, your TiVo is not broken. Fans of primetime programming tuning in to the latest episodes of shows like “24,”


Margot at the Wedding

Noah Baumbach is no stranger to the strained family dynamic. In his 2005 directorial debut, “The Squid and the Whale,”


No Country For Old Men

Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s greatest storytellers. No author since Steinbeck has been able to illuminate the vast and


POPSCREEN: !!!

The latest video from inscrutably-named indie-dance combo !!! is for the song “Yadnus,” an unearthly blues-funk groove with nonsensical lyrics,


Concerts Hit the Pub

When the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub opened last semester, Harvard students gained a campus watering hole and an agreeable alternative


Sorrows of the Young and Worthless

When Douglas Coupland popularized the phrase “Generation X” in his 1991 debut novel of the same name, he cast himself


Jimmy Eat World

Jimmy Eat World “Chase This Light” (Reprise) 0 Stars To say that Jimmy Eat World’s new album, “Chase This Light,”