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...Songwriting still counts for a lot, and "Title TK" is a good album even though it's the worst Breeders album. There are worse revivals afoot, one of the most unfortunate being that of Gary Wilson, who recorded an album of eccentric funk tunes in his parents' basement in the '70s called "You Think You Really Know Me" that attracted a cult following. Wilson is now back on stage doing an imitation of his old self. At his sold-out show in Manhattan last week, Wilson sang the songs from that record with a well-oiled back-up band, dropped...
Guitar manufacturers have long used women to hawk their wares--but often as bosomy ad models clutching Flying V's in manicured hands. Now there's a slow change afoot, even though female buyers still account for only about 5% of guitar sales. Last year Tish Ciravalo, a bass guitar-playing mother of two girls, founded DAISY ROCK GIRL GUITARS, a company that designs instruments for the female player. The Daisy Rock axes have thinner necks and smaller, easy-to-hold bodies in such unapologetically girlie shapes as hearts and daisies--see left. Starting at $239 (including purple...
Criticism Afoot...
...making that case is the problem of whoever replaces Warrington. There are already plans afoot to privatize Amtrak, sell off its most popular routes to the highest bidder and let truly private companies do their best to make a profit. There are plenty of potential buyers, especially along the densely populated corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. Privatization of some sort is probably where the future of rail travel lies. "Over time," says John Collura, a professor of civil engineering at Virginia Tech, "inter-city rail will evolve into a private service, although it may still receive some public support...
...there's change afoot, and that was signaled this week by no less than the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which presented its annual Excellence in Design award to J Mays, the 48 year old (CHK) Oklahoman who has been in charge of car design at Ford since 1997. This is mainly a school of architecture, and they've been trying to get away from the stodgy Harvard image for years (previous award winners include product wiz Phillipe Starck and conceptual artist and theatre designer extraordinaire Robert Wilson). Mays is a guy whose world is actively about more than cars...