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The Music of Politics

April 15, 2008 11:24 AM by Lauren Iannotti |  COMMENTS

Politicians and musicians aren’t so different. Both are putting on a show, creating a spectacle, entertaining/selling their vision. But when musicians get political, it can come off as preachy and annoying. As was the case at the Afro-beat show I caught in my neighborhood this week.

The band was Antibalas, a multi-culti, world-music mini-orchestra—which would generally horrify me, all that patchouli and hemp clothing. But this one was full of horns and merengue rhythms and spanish singing, like a funkified Buena Vista Social Club. Their sound was great.

Their politics were boring. They’re a protest group, griping about the usual military-industrial complex stuff. At one point they took a poll to see whom their audience would be voting for, as if it was any great mystery in that mostly twentysomething crowd—but I was the one of perhaps three lonely souls to give a “woo” for Hillary! And the trumpeter (who bore a striking resemblance to Borat as my friend Andy pointed out), beseeched the “change”-loving crowd that should “Hillary be the nominee, God forbid, please vote for her” because McCain would be much, much worse. Even worse than that was when the magnificent tenor sax player announced that in the case of Eliot Spitzer, the media made a huge deal out of something that so small... Two glasses of Sancerre and one Jameson’s into my evening I could not abide his ignorance, so I hollered, “IT WASN’T SMALL!!” Saxman responded over the crowd of three hundred in the little club, “Okay, right it wasn’t small, but nowhere near as big as what we're doing in Iraq...”

This horn-tooter’s moral relativism—well, yes, I like to curb-stomp homeless people for fun but at least I didn’t start a unilateral war that left an ancient country on the verge of anarchy—got me to thinking of other rockstars who’ve use the stadium stage as soapbox and looked great, or absurd, doing it.

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Book Club: The Septembers of Shiraz

April 13, 2008 1:52 PM by Lauren Iannotti |  COMMENTS

This month, the MC book club gets into The Septembers of Shiraz, about one family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution. Time to crack the crisp, new paperback edition? First, see what we had to say about it. READ MORE

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Roadtrip Fever

April 1, 2008 3:31 PM by Lauren Iannotti |  COMMENTS

I just got back from a weeklong New England roadtrip:

1. People in Maine are really nice. No, really, really nice. You think they’re putting you on, because why would anyone bother being that genial? In New York, we pay people to be, but you can always sense the tension underneath, that perpetual, low-grade resentment. I looked for this with the salesguy at L.L. Bean, the sharply turned out—but sweet(!)—woman at the Burberry outlet, the guy selling Maine State prison goods at his woodworks shop, the woman slinging haddock ‘n’ chips and pints of bitter beer, without bitterness, at the brew pub. They want to talk to you at length about how Shawshank was not a real place but the film was set in Maine and how people come in all the time asking for directions to it and isn’t that a laugh, and where are you from? Well, New York City of all places, amazing so many people on that little island. People in Maine just love their lot. Which is impressive because it’s f-ing cold there.

2. Boston is unnavigable. Try it. Just try to get from your brother’s place on the North Shore to your friend’s apartment in Somerville. (Okay, that’s not quite Boston, but it bumps up against the city and they use the same braindead civic planning.) Cross reference Mapquest, Google Maps, and the directions dictated to you by folks at both ends of your trip. You will still find yourself stopping seven times to ask how to find completely unmarked streets, and you will witness heated debates at the delis, coffee shops, and gas stations you pull into over on Highland Ave. and how to get there on the countless one-way, no-left-turn mini-highways, surrounded by maniacal Boston drivers who, in spite of your New York plates, hate you for not knowing that you’re in the right-turn-only lane. I’m from New England and I love the Red Sox. But, man, do I hate Boston.

3. I say this without irony: A good lobster roll is worth $15, even if it comes on a paper plate at a roadside shack. READ MORE

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McCain Cleans Up?

March 21, 2008 1:49 PM by Lauren Iannotti |  COMMENTS

The latest Gallup poll, conducted in advance of Obama’s great race speech, shows Clinton ahead of Obama for the first time since before Super Tuesday.

But CNN's burying the big story: While the dems beat the crap out of each other, McCain is gaining—the same poll finds him ahead of both candidates by a hair for the general election. READ MORE

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The Smartest Woman in America?

March 7, 2008 5:46 PM by Lauren Iannotti |  COMMENTS

In our March issue, MC profiled Samantha Power, Barack Obama's Pulitzer-winning Harvard professor of a foreign policy adviser, or, as we called her, "The Smartest Woman in America." As the editor of the section (and a Clinton supporter), I’m chafing at that headline today.

Power was quoted in a Scottish paper — and subsequently every other news outlet on the planet — as calling Hillary a "monster" for her campaign's attacks on Barack. Today, while the blogosphere debated whether the reporter should have published comments that were arguably off the record, the campaign announced Power’s resignation.

Those of us who are paid to choose our words carefully — be they politicians’ advisers or the writers who entrap them — know that “monster” is about a hair away from “bitch.” READ MORE

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Keeping It Real with Tina Fey

September 26, 2007 10:00 AM by Lauren Iannotti |  COMMENTS

Like us, she's funny on purpose and only fabulous by accident. READ MORE

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Julie Delpy on Bad Relationships

August 28, 2007 10:00 AM by Lauren Iannotti |  COMMENTS

Actress Julie Delpy talks about her new romantic comedy. READ MORE

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