Word: 10th
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...this year's three-day festival are still being booked, but past acts included music greats Al Green, Diana Krall, Poncho Sanchez, George Benson and Pat Metheny--and promoters promise the roster will be a pull-out-the-stops blockbuster this year in honor of the festival's 10th anniversary and the city's 150th...
...their 10th album, garage rockers Yo La Tengo--married singer-songwriters Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan, plus bassist James McNew--turn down the amps, shut the garage door and head up to the living quarters. Fifteen remarkable tracks later, we've learned that the adult love song--gentle, small, intimate--is very much alive. Kaplan and Hubley sing about love imperfect, illuminating the tiny lies that keep couples apart and the humor and empathy that draw them back together...
...architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown say this is merely a return to the venerable practice of covering buildings with words and pictures. Egyptian temples were a billboard of hieroglyphics. Byzantine churches were spread over with huge gilded mosaics, the Jumbotrons of the 10th century. "Times Square is the place of now and the place of the future," says Venturi. "An environment that is sparkling, decorative and information-giving." They predict that such public buildings as schools and courthouses will increasingly borrow the features of commercial buildings, like neon signage and shop-window fronts...
When he had surgery on December 10th to repair a detached retina, Clemente once again faced the prospect of losing a season to injury. But just as in 1998-99, when he played most of the season with an ankle injury, Clemente returned to the court this weekend and went out and showed the fans at Lavietes Pavilion why he's "money...
...York, schools chief Rudy Crew was ousted in December, following a tussle with Mayor Rudy Giuliani over Crew's resistance to an experimental voucher plan and his public reluctance to commit quickly to a renewal of his contract. Hired in 1995 to run a system facing its 10th chancellor in 12 years, Crew says now, "I knew no one survives in this job very long." In his last year, his relationship with the mayor and the school board deteriorated. Giuliani's growing sense that Crew "should be more willing to destroy the system that he runs" and Crew's political...