Epinions Recent Reviews for ablukis

A Saddened Awakening...

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:00:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ablukis - The Background

In 1994, by most native accounts, up to 800,000 Rwandan citizens were massacred during a mass genocide of Tutsis by an opposing and recently-formed Hutu majority. Longtime friends and neighbors turned upon each other in a...

Love, Complacency, Indignity, & Squalor. Yes!

Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:07:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ablukis - The novella is an account of a colonial magistrate's fall from power in the garrison town of a nondescript empire. The specifics are elegantly omitted, much like Dostoevsky's towns of "N_____" or "Bishops of S______." The...

Orange!...Yeah, that's right.

Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:52:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ablukis - Boards of Canada is a duo (Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin) out of Scotland that has been around since the early eighties. Music has the Right to Children was put out on Matador Records (Modest Mouse, Pizzicato Five, Belle and Sebastian,...) in late...

A Coterie of Enophiles

Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:51:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ablukis - Situated in Santa Cruz, CA, the Bonny Doon Vineyard has always been known for its frivolity and deviance. The wines bear such highbrow names such as "The Critique of Pure Riesling," "Heart of Darkness," "Le Cigare...

Dining on the Avenue of the Fleas

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:33:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ablukis - Most of the people that dine at Flea St. Cafe are loyal customers who have been going there for years. The restaurant is in a humble looking building with green awnings in a more-or-less residential area of Menlo Park at the corner of Avy and Alameda...

Slugs, Fog, and Trustafarians

Fri, 28 Jan 2000 01:53:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ablukis - I chose to go to Santa Cruz for three reasons: 1)I wanted to study music (they have a new $30 million facility) and Russian Literature (a program for it exists still, remarkably, and is excellent); 2) friends going to other UC's I was considering...

Riga: A Tale of Two Cities.

Fri, 3 Dec 1999 01:20:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ablukis - Latvia may not be as abundant in architecture as Tallinn or Vilnius, but only if you are disturbed by seeing ten buildings first built in the 13th century, instead of fifteen. In addition to the gothic, there is some of Europe’s best Jugendstil...