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Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...
...BIZ COMM. (MASTER'S) For life experience--balancing work and family with a "passion for lifelong learning...
...fended off plenty of acting offers ("I could have done a million cheesy teen movies by now"), but was persuaded by producer Gregory Mosher to try theater, which he hadn't done since some child roles in the 1980s. Now he's willing to see where his second show-biz career takes him. "When I stopped, I just thought it was over and I was never, ever going to do it again...I was just hoping to disappear off the face of the earth. It took me about six years to figure out you can't back out of this...
...country for less than $200 and jet off to Europe for less than $360. With losses piling up--$825 million in the first quarter--airlines need to fill seats and are trying the best way they know how. "They'll offer the kitchen sink," says Tom Parsons of Bestfares.com Biz flyers, too, are sitting pretty, with some European fares down...
Where there's a yoga blitz, there must be yoga biz. To dress for a class, you need only some old, loose-fitting clothes--and since you perform barefoot, no fancy footwear. Yet Nike and J.Crew have developed exercise apparel, as has Turlington. For those who prefer stay-at-home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's VHS best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff...