Ellen Cushing

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Get Bourgie on a Budget With These 20 East Bay Happy Hours

Oakland's roots are blue collar, and in turn its bars and restaurants once swung to the working-class end of the socioeconomic pendulum....

The Best Fiction of 2014

We Were Liars By E. Lockhart $17.99 We Were Liars begins with the bones of a pulpy television drama, or maybe a trashy beach read — well-heeled...

Un-Guilty Pleasures

Frog Music By Emma Donaghue In 2010, Emma Donoghue rocketed to the top of local and national bestseller lists with Room, a haunting, taut, utterly unforgettable...

St. Vincent

In an interview published last week in the Boston Globe, Annie Clark — aka St. Vincent — revealed that while writing and recording her...

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

The album title speaks volumes: First, there's the reference, to the summer-of-'75 O'Jays hit of the same name, part of a lineage of black...

Angel Haze

Dirty Gold entered the world auspiciously: In late December, after what were apparently a series of frustrating label negotiations and release-date delays for her...

Beyoncé

Mostly I'm writing this as penance for not including Beyoncé's fantastic, self-titled new record on my top albums of the year list. It wasn't...

Ellen Cushing’s Top Five Albums of 2013

Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City Fuck the haters, though Vampire Weekend's are legion and somewhat legitimate: The band's 2008 self-titled debut was smug...
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