Articles by Michael Barclay

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  My Life Without Me

  Isabel Coixet

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  The problem with most melodrama is that when given the glossy Hollywood treatment, it always feels like cheap manipulation rather than genu...

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  Pieces of April

  Peter Hedges

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  On paper the premise sounds incredibly maudlin: the black sheep of the family (Katie Holmes) tries to cook a Thanksgiving dinner in her Low...

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  Diamanda Galás

  Diva of the Dispossessed

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  It's been said the voice of Diamanda Galás resurrects the dead inside the living. She is regularly accused of Satanism, has been denounced...

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  Rheostatics

  Maple Serum: Live at the Horseshoe

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Dave Bidini admits on stage that they wanted to make a modern version of Stompin' Tom's classic concert film Across This Land, which was sh...

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  Superchunk

  Crowding Up Your Visual Field

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  So many bands rush out their first DVD before they have much in their vaults, which is why this 15-year retrospective of America's longest-...

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  Sinéad O'Connor

  The Value of Ignorance/The Year of the Horse

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Now that she's announced her retirement (again) to a chorus of rousing apathy, it's interesting to revisit a time period when she was the m...

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  Bruce Springsteen

  Live in Barcelona

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Bruce Springsteen doesn't need Mike Patton to tell him that irony is a dead scene, because there isn't an ounce of irony in the man. Spring...

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  Le Tigre

  Club Soda, Montreal QC - November 18

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  It's inevitable, really. There's always "that song," the secret song a friend plays for you and you can't get enough of it. You now have a...