As usual our variety is hard to beat as our intrepid editors read it all and bring you the very best. We've got live music, we've got interviews, we've got books, we've got a head start on the holiday movie season, we've got it all — and now you do, too.

MUSIC

Mark Saleski has a way of taking music and wrapping it around his memories, in turn evoking all sorts of recollections and emotions from the reader. His recent review of J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton: The Road to Escondido is no exception.

Someone else with a style all their own is Aaron Fleming. To say he reviewed the concert doesn't quite seem to do his article justice, as this week he took us with him to a show he recently attended in Concert Review: Opeth, London, UK, 9 November 2006, allowing us to experience it all.

Ed Driscoll did more than give us the facts about an important tool of the recording industry; he shared some examples of it doing its best work in his Product Review: The Harmonizer - Messing With The Fabric Of Time And Harmony.

For DJRadiohead Christmas comes too early this year, as the album on the top of his wish list won't hit stores until late January. Read Confessions of a Fanboy 010: Two Albums From Norah Jones - One Real, One Imagined and impatiently wait along with him.

From Asst. Music Editor A.L. Harper:

DJRadiohead waxes lyrical about two of music's most angelic voices in Confessions of a Fanboy 010: Two Albums From Norah Jones - One Real, One Imagined. This one you must read!

Sleeveless Sundays sums up The Blow in the music review The Blow - "Fists Up!". An interesting and brief read.

BOOKS

From Books Editor Natalie Bennett:

So how's your particle physics? If it is like mine, i.e. almost non-existent, then I recommend you read Nick Schweitzer's review of Not Even Wrong. It will set you straight on the great controversy about String Theory, Super String Theory, or M-Theory. So is it a great idea, or dead end? Well, even Nick can't tell you that, but he can offer you a guide to the debate.

From one set of challenging ideas to another: Ambrose Musiyiwa interviews novelist Emily Maguire, who aims to "challenge people's moral assumptions". Ambrose extracts from her a tight, lively account of her life as a writer.

From Asst. Books Editor Gordon Hauptfleisch:

I didn't think we needed a heavy-handed leftist response to the Left Behind books, but then I didn't think we needed the original Left Behind books either. But how can you resist, as described by Glen Boyd in his inspired review of The Saved - a graphic novel in which survivors-turned-stuporous Stepford shoppers are huddled in a post-apocalyptic Supermall in Kansas waiting for the rapture? Or disregard a story that features, among other delights, namesakes Bowie and Slade — the skate-punk sons of former confetti-king, now military big-wig (!) Rip Taylor?