Contra, the second album from Vampire Weekend, is better than “Cousins,” its first single, would suggest.
In my time on staff at The Review, I’ve been lucky enough to experience a good deal of access. It’s one of my favorite perks of being an entertainment writer — flash a press badge, get backstage; drop your publication’s name and the red rope drops.
The best movies of 2009.
The best albums of 2009.
The year's biggest fashion trends.
The biggest technological gadgets of 2009.
The biggest TV moments of 2009.
The celebrity deaths that received the most media attention in 2009.
The most famous ladies of 2009.
Whose half-smile and ice-cold romantic touch can make a girl melt in less than four seconds? Who can hear trouble approaching a mile away? Whose skin glimmers in the sun like a Tiffany’s diamond and whose voice gets every mortal and non-mortal’s blood pumping? None other than the king of all vampires this year, Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson in the “Twilight” films.
The biggest political debates of 2009.
The media's notorious figures of 2009.