Some 130 indie acts and old favorites like Patti Smith crowded the three-day Chicago festival’s nine stages, playing to as many as 160,000 people. Johnny Marr, former guitarist for the Smiths, performs with Modest Mouse at Lollapalooza Britain’s Times and Independent spill the beans on Bebo’s money chase. Kate’s a lonely British art student, but the show seems to be all about product placement.
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It was through Lonelygirl15, in part, that we explored the question: What’s ‘real’ on the Web and does it even matter to those watching?” Fans can follow actress Jessica Lee Rose to her new gigs in TV and film the series itself will continue in a second season, beginning Monday, following other characters. And the producers have rolled out a new Web program, KateModern, hosted on the social-networking site.
The New York Times’ Virginia Heffernan, long captivated by the character, sighs, “The first full-fledged online-video series moved fast, and worked well, and it was the beginning of something.” The Washington Post elaborates: “Her digital life was proof that Internet audiences hunger for more than unscripted animal tricks, comedy shorts and music videos. Religious cultists killed Bree, the star of the YouTube hoax-turned-Web soap, in its 12-part season finale, which posted Friday.
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A New Yorker squib captures the major narrative threads as well as anyone: “ The convoluted and politically insistent plot involves a missing shipping container, a former rock star, a Cuban-Chinese crime-facilitating family, and an Ativan addict coerced into domestic espionage.” But as Bill Sheehan writes in the Washington Post, “Despite a full complement of thieves, pushers and pirates, Spook Country is less a conventional thriller than a devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist, and it bears comparison to the best work of Don DeLillo.” And the Los Angeles Times praises Gibson’s craft: “ ew authors equal Gibson’s gift for the terse yet poetic description, the quotable simile-people and products are nailed down with a beautiful precision approximating the platonic ideal of the catalog.” Bonus: Britain’s Times has a dispatch from a Gibson book reading in … Second Life. Art, commerce, and surveillance converge in this dark novel about our paranoid post-9/11 times, which critics are praising highly in-alas-largely incoherent reviews. Spook Country, by William Gibson (Putnam). But, as the Christian Science Monitor writes, “Sofer paints a complicated picture of postrevolutionary Iran: The Amins (and especially their relatives) aren’t entirely innocent, having shut their eyes to brutality and corruption under the shah.” ( Buy The Septembers of Shiraz. The action centers around the imprisonment and torture of the family’s father, an innocent man. If it can be said to be about anything, it is about tenderness within families: its preciousness, its fragility and its persistence.” Nor are its politics simple. Novelist Claire Messud praises the book highly in the New York Times Book Review, calling it “miraculously light in its touch, as beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can be.” The Wall Street Journal emphasizes that “ the novel is political only in part. Don’t be fooled by the godawful title early critics are rooting for this serious debut novel about the trials of a wealthy family following the Iranian Revolution. Image shows from L to R: Tim (Tim Brooke-Taylor), Bill (Bill Oddie), Graeme (Graeme Garden).The Septembers of Shiraz, by Dalia Sofer (Ecco).
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