Nassau Weekly

Tom Markham

  • Monkey Business

    Monkey Business

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    This is not the first time I’ve written about Arctic Monkeys. There’s a good chance that this will not be the last time I write about Arctic Monkeys. And there’s good reason for that.

  • Madness!

    Madness!

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    Summer cinema in summary.

  • They’re Just A Band

    They’re Just A Band

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    “Dude, I think I just saw Julian Casablancas.”

  • Tyler, the Creator

    Tyler, the Creator

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    I got 99 problems, and all of ’em’s being happy,” bursts out Tyler Okonma—better known by his stage name Tyler, the Creator—on “Pigs,” one of the many disturbing looks inside the mind of this 22 year-old rapper on his new album Wolf. The pop-culture riff with a demented personal twist is Tyler’s signature move, and…

  • The Grammys

    The Grammys

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    An award show becomes irrelevant.

  • No Shave November

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    As a man who is, how shall I say, genetically endowed with the gift of growing facial hair at a fast and heavy pace, I had always been a little curious about beard-growing.

  • In Memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman

    In Memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman

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    It happens more often than perhaps it should: a celebrity, be it rock star, movie icon, or stud athlete, is upheld on a pedestal for many years during his or her career, only to come crashing down at some shocking revelation that leaves fans disappointed and disenchanted. Sunday, February 4th left me with a similar…

  • Bye Bye Blumberg

    Bye Bye Blumberg

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    The first time I saw the band Yuck perform live, I had never heard of them. They were simply the group warming up for Smith Westerns on a Friday night at a hole in the wall in downtown Nashville. I saw their name on the marquee above the venue and thought “Yuck” sounded weird and…

  • The Web Generation’s Poet Laureate

    The Web Generation’s Poet Laureate

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    The Many Faces of Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner.

  • Macbook Virtuosos

    Macbook Virtuosos

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    First it was Guitar Hero. Then came Rock Band. They even had DJ Hero.

  • Fear and Loathing on Cable

    Fear and Loathing on Cable

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    This summer I have taken it upon myself to tackle John Steinbeck’s American epic East of Eden, a modern retelling of the biblical Cain and Abel story set to the backdrop of post-Gold Rush era Northern California—that is, Steinbeck’s own backyard. Summer is, for students at least, that blessed time of intellectual freedom during which…

  • Beyond the Pines

    Beyond the Pines

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    Blue Valentine writer and director Derek Cianfrance’s latest film The Place Beyond the Pines is, if anything, a study in what Robert Penn Warren, legendary 1940s author of All the King’s Men, calls “the awful responsibility of Time.” We begin with Ryan Gosling’s character Luke Glanton, a reckless circus-performing motorcyclist. Seemingly out of nowhere, Luke…