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What do overpriced Chinese food, expensive liquor stores, and George Daugherty, our familiar Spare Change newspaper vendor, have in common? They all find Cambridge to be a profitable spot for business. Renowned for being home to two of the most prestigious universities in the world, Cambridge can now also boast of being the 21st richest urban area in America...
Precautions such as these remind us why meteorologists are valuable. It may be easy to knock them, but they deserve our gratitude as well. When tornadoes are forming in Kansas or a blizzard is dropping down across Canada, they rarely miss it, and their expertise often spares lives. Hopefully, as yesterday’s widely predicted storm blankets the memories of last week, we can spare the meteorologists...
...warned, “Red Riding” is not a movie for the faint of heart, as there is some truly gratuitous violence, and the directors spare no detail of the gory deaths. The opening image of the first film, for example, is a dead child with swan wings stitched to her back. But this image, like the trilogy as a whole, is both horrifying and haunting, a combination that makes the endpoint well worth the five hours it takes to get there...
...this LP as elsewhere, Massive Attack’s music can tend towards the formulaic. Take a catchy beat, drench it in spare, sinister loops, mix in some guest vocals and voilá—the songs on “Heligoland” rarely deviate from the template. As a result, it’s sometimes easy for the tracks to fall into a lull or feel stagnant. “Girl I Love You” and “Flat of the Blade,” though solid tracks overall, are prime examples of this kind...
...river was dried up in San Antonio. We joked that maybe they turned it off on Tuesdays. Somehow it was better in dryness: the Alamo dusty and the cathedrals whitewashed and spare, the lights hanging over the riverbed, the mariachis on the cobblestones. Walking into the Catredal de San Fernando, a woman with many bags walked around me towards the altar, huffing and taking deep breaths...