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Grab a stool at Barsie's or Atlantis

My first impression of Barsie’s is always that a cave troll should be quaffing a pint at the bar when I walk in. The lighting is dim. The walls are painted halfway up with dark colors. The tables are sticky. The air is on the stale side. And the

Recruited actors not quite enough

Colin Farrell plays James Clayton, an M.I.T. graduate with a penchant for drinking and not waking up on time. After nearly sleeping through a meeting with a Dell recruiter, Clayton is tending bar when Walter Burke (Pacino) approaches him. Burke is a gruff, aging CIA recruiter keen on

Destinations: Video To Go

It was a fine relationship in the beginning. Though I spent my first few shifts wearing holes into my sneakers, checking in videos, digging through drop-boxes until my fingers started to bleed and carrying stacks upon stacks of new releases to be shelved in behemoth sections advertising the “guaranteed” presence

Function gives way to form in Verbinsky's 'Ring'

This second viewing was a fruitful one. A renewed sense of clarity coursing through my veins, I felt ready as I shuffled through the ice to my car. So now, I’m going to tell you a little something about Gore Verbinsky’s “The Ring.” Introduced to the viewing public

Sigur Rós gently drones on to perfect the art of noise

I’d usually tell you within the first few lines, in fact. But I’m a bit confused as to how to start, because this particular album doesn’t so much have a name. I speak, of course, however obliquely, of the new Sigur Rós album. Most easily identified by

THE LIST

SELECT FLICKS Cinemark at Hampshire Mall (587-4233) “8 Mile” is reviewed in this issue. “Abandon” is the latest shark from Hollywood’s teen thriller pool. This time around, “Dawson’s Creek” darling Katie Holmes stars as Catherine Burke, a co-ed trying to wrap up a stressful year-completing her thesis, exams

Solid writing, acting elevates 'City'

Two lovers in 2011 A.D., Bastian (Tim Hahn ’06) and Renee (Hilary Lewis ’06), prepare to protect their unborn child, the prophesized savior of the human world. The only glitch is that Bastian has to train in an alternate dimension called Pastel City, where time has no measure. He