   | Weekly Alibi ‹‹ V.15 No.50 | December 14 - 20, 2006
Quick! Wrap Something! On the Bright Side Behold—our Last-Minute Gift Guide! As if supplying you with dozens of last-minute gift ideas weren't enough, we've even supplied you with the wrapping paper. Now that's freakin' generous! Take 40 people from wildly different backgrounds and viewpoints, set them a killer deadline and give them the impossible job of designing a lifeboat for New Mexico. What do you get? Surprisingly, a damn fine lifeboat. Punch Line Can we trust Congress to crack down on the ethical violations of its members? Is the Easter Bunny visiting your house for Christmas? Holiday Sonic Reducer Toss another lump of coal onto the fire, Cratchit—it's time for the great 2006 Holiday Music Round-up.
Question: Is cooking salmon in tinfoil bad for you? Answer: Who cares? No one's cooked food in tinfoil in 50 years. American Hardcore Ah, to be young, angry and heavily tattooed. Thems was the days, weren't they? Book News Looking for the perfect book for your atheist uncle, who won’t be celebrating any goddamn holidays? We can help.   Raw posts and updates from our writers with info too timely or uncategorizable for print. What, we said something stupid? Chime in, buddy.Sonic reductions of Shining, Dew Scented and George Strait Alibi alum Michael Henningsen and Mark Lopez, our beloved copy editor and staff writer, listened to new releases from Shining, Dew Scented and George Strait. Read their micro reviews in this week’s Sonic Reducer. Peep related A/V below.
 Shining - “I Won’t Forget” Dew Scented - “Confronting Entropy” George Strait - “Give It All We Got Tonight” Add a Comment Post-rock Ritual: The Appleseed Cast • Hospital Ships • Ghost Circles • Bellemah • rock, indie Lawrence, Kan.-based post-rock foursome The Appleseed Cast is relentlessly touring in support of their latest full-length, Illumination Ritual. While the work produced by the group doesn't exactly break new ground, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Making music together since '97, the Appleseed boys have damn near perfected the experimental indie/post-rock formula. Judge for yourself tonight at Launchpad (618 Central SW). Fellow Kansas crew Hospital Ships (who are signed to Graveface Records), sci-fi riffin' foursome Ghost Circles and acoustic indie-rock outfit Bellemah open the 21-and-over gig starting at 9 p.m. Tickets are only $10. Launchpad • Tue May 21 • 9 pm • $10 • View on Alibi calendar | 
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