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This week's new album releases are musical diamonds-in-the-rough: you'd be hard-pressed to find their tracks on mainstream radio, but they're all incredibly good. Give them a listen! Mark Ronson & the Business Intl., Record Collection The lowdown: The hit-maker ropes in everyone from Ghostface Killah to Boy George on his third release, adapting his '60s sound for the electro '80s. Choice Read more
The description for An Education goes like this: "A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age." And the new trailer for the movie, written by Nick Hornby, shows just that. In fact, the whole movie seems to unfold within this trailer, and yet, I still really, really want to see the movie. In a Read more
Nick Hornby's gift for witty, cinematic prose lends itself to big-screen transformations, and A Long Way Down is no exception. Recently, Warner Brothers announced it would turn the 2005 novel into a movie produced by Johnny Depp. If you haven't had a chance to read this slightly sinister but hilarious novel, now's the perfect time, since the launching point for the whole sordid plot begins on New Read more
The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) announced the six winners of the 38th Annual Interior Design Competition this past week, and Tony Chi and Associates was noted as one of the winners for its design of the Andaz 5th Avenue Hotel in New York. This luxury hotel, whose interiors were inspired by the city itself, features high ceilings and open spaces as well as a facade of Read more
