Say It Ain't So, Joe
Watching an eclectic crew of young Republicans watch Palin’s debate performance at a Chelsea club.
10/06/2008 08:08 AMThis Week On TV
Blair's Last Stand
| Oct 03, 2008
We watch the shows so you don’t have to! What happened this week on SNL, Gossip Girl, Fringe and America’s Next Top Model.
This Week In Music
I Promise Somebody's Lover is Valerie Plame's Light
| Oct 03, 2008
For your weekend playlist: the best five songs we could find in the tubes this week.
On Film
'The Duchess'
| Oct 03, 2008
Keira Knightley plays pre-feminist sort-of-empowered woman: one learning to live with society’s rules and manipulate them to her benefit.
On Wall Street
The Bailout Burns
| Sep 30, 2008
The Bush Administration and Democrats in Congress were left palming their faces in frustrated defeat. But the crisis hasn’t disappeared yet, and neither has the bailout.
Reader Patrol
Patrol's Most-Read, September 2008
| Sep 30, 2008
The most-read articles, reviews, and blogs on Patrol for September 2008.
On Rhetoric
A Twist of Faith
| Sep 29, 2008
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s twisted faith language is a reminder that any of us can manipulate convenient definitions of powerful words for our own ends.
MORE FEATURES
Chairlift
Does You Inspire You
Does You Inspire You is a window-dressed shop of styles and ideas, the false starts and experiments of a band still deciding what exactly to wear.
Dance or Die
Dance or Die is more a foretaste of Family Force 5’s bright future than an entirely coherent album. But it is intermittently brilliant, which may be as good as saying it’s the best Christian album of the year.
New Surrender
Unlike Tooth & Nail graduates of the past, Anberlin’s major-label debut is as mature as it should be, and will provide their new acquaintances a respectable summary.
White Lights EP
Do not mess with Deas Vail. They are not here to spoon feed you candy-pop ditties. They’re here to kill you with their dark emotional feelings. Kill you to death.
Dear Science
There may be a “Golden Age coming around,” but for right now it’s a pretty dark place, and Dear Science is a lament for what could be.
MORE REVIEWS
The new video from Arcade Fire violinist Owen Pallett.
Radiohead, "Reckoner"
Sometimes you enter a contest to make a video for Radiohead and they like it so much that they make it the official video. Ha, yeah.
Copeland, "The Grey Man"The brand new video from their upcoming release “You Are My Sunshine”
Starflyer 59, "I Win"The best Christian band of all time (I dare you to disagree, I will fight you) and their brilliant video from 2006, which if you’re not sure why its brilliant, only makes it more brilliant.
MORE VIDEO
On Books
'Home'
| Sep 25, 2008
Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel is a powerful reflection on the priceless things in life that cost everything and yield little reward.
On Film
'The Duchess'
| Oct 03, 2008
Keira Knightley plays pre-feminist sort-of-empowered woman: one learning to live with society’s rules and manipulate them to her benefit.