Album review: Evil Friends – Portual. The Man

EVIL FRIENDS Portugal. The Man (Warner) The punctuated psych-indie also-rans from Portland via Alaska have been prolific if not groundbreaking since their 2006 emergence – but the simple addition of producer Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton (so important to warrant a front-of-album sticker) elevates their ho-hum melodies to catchy toe-tappers.

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Hiker Rescued After Surviving More Than Three Weeks in Remote Utah Desert

   Too weak to stand or walk, William M. LaFever sat in a shallow river bed in the south Utah desert, awaiting rescue that came more than a month after his family last heard from him. Thursday afternoon, a helicopter flying in the Escalante River gorge spied the bearded LaFever, 28, who had lost 50 […]

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Great White Sharks Stalks Oblivious Kayaker as People Scream at Him From Shore

   kayaker Mr Szulc, 41, has a lot to be grateful for after a close encounter with a great white at a popular US Cape Cod resort. Walter Szulc was paddling near a Cape Cod beach at the weekend when he saw the shark’s dorsal fin just behind him. He said he said he “paddled very fast” to shore […]

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Airliner bomb plotters get life sentences

Three men convicted of plotting to bomb planes flying from London to North America with liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bottles were ordered imprisoned for life, a judge announced Monday. The men were arrested in August 2006 on suspicion of plotting to blow up planes with liquid explosives hidden in soft-drink bottles

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Would the World Cup miss Argentina?

They are football’s royalty, the marquee players whose almost super human ability on the ball wins cups and championships; their faces adorn billboards and magazine covers from China to Columbia. But, amazingly, the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry may all be absent from the World Cup finals in South Africa.

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