STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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The Communists Have the Music and other Giant gems sparkle
Giant talent: John Flansburgh
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TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
They Might Be Giants
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THEY might be responsible for influencing some of the most excruciatingly whiny pop-punk purveyors of the 1990s — Green Day, the Offspring, Blink 182 and Barenaked Ladies — but some groups of that ilk are just about good enough to get away with it. Weezer are one and They Might Be Giants are another.
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