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Bon Iver, Bon Iver Review: Justin Vernon puts his Kanye West production lessons to good use with a new record of impressive textures
Every band has a story, but in the case of Bon Iver, it’s all but impossible to distinguish the notes from the narrative. Back in October 2007, the same month that Radiohead sent out its pay-whatever-you-please release In Rainbows, a shaggy-haired Midwesterner by the name of Justin Vernon was quietly self-releasing the moody, meditative record For Emma, Forever Ago
Starbucks Goes From Venti to Grande
In February 2006, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was asked on TV if opening 1,300 stores in the US in a single year was “too much too fast.” “Not at all,” the then-chairman said.
‘My sister! My daughter!’ and other tales of ‘Chinatown’
If you think you were confused and challenged by the famously labyrinthine plot of “Chinatown,” imagine how the screenwriter felt. “I did lose my way many times,” said Robert Towne in a recent interview.
Roman Polanski: A life on celluloid
“I did lose my way many times,” said Robert Towne in a recent interview. “It took an ungodly amount of time to work on it — it was 10 months of solid work, and before that, there were several months of letting it gel enough to write it.” The process was worth it to Towne, however — he walked away with an Oscar for best original screenplay, the only one the film received in a year mostly overrun by “The Godfather Part II.” Director Roman Polanski’s film, starring Jack Nicholson as a 1930s detective who gets in over his head with intertwined scandals of murder, sodomy and real estate development, has become a modern classic