The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant
Amidst the plethora of angsty, depressing books on mental disorders and troubled adolescents that fill the shelves of any bookstore today, The Passion of Alice by Stephanie Grant (Bantam) stands out from the rest.
I found this book to be an interesting take on anorexia and other eating disorders. Its focus isn’t so much on the actual disorders—it dwells mainly on the thought processes that Alice Forrester, an anorexia patient goes through as she recovers: socially and mentally. That’s just as well, since after all, anorexia is, at its roots, a psychological disease. Read more…
Generally speaking, an alternative rock band that has already established its style gets a bad rap when it tries to broaden its musical horizons. Much worse is it when that band decides to make the bold crossing into the mainstream, catering their music to a broader audience and understanding that, sometimes, music may be a matter of practicality. Such is the case with L.A.-based Rilo Kiley, a band that has undergone a good amount of scrutiny for conforming to more typical musical conventions while thinly shedding off their indie roots with the release of their new album, Under the Blacklight. Read more…
So it’s time for all those shows to come back and here’s whats on and what’s worthy to watch, sema style.
CW
Sunday(all these comin Sept 23)
6PM-CW Now- Show about fashion/hair and makeup/music that kinda stuff like cosmo girl in a show
6:30PM- Online Nation-It’s showing weird videos of the internet basically like Me-TV on Nick Read more…
Critics have called Superbad the definitive teen raunch comedy of our time, doing for teens today what Fast Times at Ridgemont High did in the eighties and American Pie did in the nineties. It doesn’t hurt that the movie was co-written by Judd Apatow, the comedy auteur who has charmed audiences by infusing his sweet coming of age stories with gross-out gags to great success in The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Sounds like a guaranteed hit – but does it work?
These dog days of summer are notorious for their usually thin slate of releases. Is it because August is the month that all the music moguls are off vacationing on their yachts or is it just because the industry is lying in wait for all the big fall releases? Who knows? But before all those autumn records hit shelves—and this year we’ve got PJ Harvey, Jimmy Eat World, Alicia Keys, Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band and much, much more coming up—why not spend your last month of vacation cooling down from the blistering summer temperatures with the following tunes? After all, if those back-to-school commercials are any indication, it’ll be over before you know it.
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