2008 Woodie Awards
(Editor's note: This is part two in a series about the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.) MANCHESTER, Tenn. - Even the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival headliners with their iconic stature felt the need to perform big. One such band with a chip on its shoulder was Metallica, whose new album "Death Magnetic" is being touted as a return to form from a band that has been inconsistent in recent years.
It's been 15 years since David Berman enrolled in a graduate-level writing program right here at the University of Massachusetts, but he'll be coming back to the Pioneer Valley this week. Berman's Silver Jews will play the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton Thursday night for the seventh show of their fall 2008 tour supporting their new record "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea.
(Editor's note: This is part two in a series about the Lollapalooza festival.) Amidst an absolute sea of people making their way towards the main stages of the the Lollapalooza festival, an ambient noise rose from the south side of the park. Rogue Wave, a quartet based out of San Francisco, had started the first day at Lollapalooza.
John Waters has Baltimore. Godard has Paris, the south of France. And Woody Allen has Manhattan. For decades, the former stand-up comedian anchored his films on the lives and travails of fellow New Yorkers. During that time, leading ladies came and went.
While everyone else was busy sunning themselves by their pools or jetting off to some fabulous summer destination, the perpetual wheels of fashion continued to turn as designers showed their couture collections for the autumn and winter 2008 season in Paris this past June.