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...times, The IA’s full-bodied and soulful sound was reminiscent of classic fusion acts such as Medeski, Martin and Wood as well as more current genre-benders such as Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Galactic or Soulive. The Galactic comparison seems especially apt after hearing the band members stretch out on their 15-minute opening instrumental...
This somewhat unexpected classic recipe for Pudding success remains unchanged and uncompromised in Frontierment . But the show is never less tasty than its predecessors. After all, let’s face it: there is something rather appealing about being entirely too full...
...questions around the Lauren show don't so much concern whether an art museum is the right place to show classic cars. Automobiles have turned up in serious design exhibitions for decades. And wealthy art collectors have museum shows dedicated to their collections all the time. Why not offer one to a guy who collects cars--especially when the Boston museum is looking to bring more males into its visitor base...
...Thankfully for the reader, Clissold and Pat are anything but normal. They are present at the creation of China's economic miracle, and they intend to ride it to riches, baijiu and rabbit ears notwithstanding. Clissold's memoir of his years with Perkowski-- 1995 to 2002--is an instant classic. The best "business" book previously written about China is probably Jim Mann's Beijing Jeep, an account of the ill-fated auto joint venture in China's early days of experimenting with capitalism. Mr. China (Harper Business; 252 pages) joins it at the top. Clissold, despite being a banker...
...Western culture. Japanese men who studied by day and worked as house "boys" in the morning and evening were called "schoolboys," and this arc provides a fascinating glimpse at turn of the century domestic life. All of the guys try their hand at being a "schoolboy" but in classic comic style they all repeatedly get the "go home" treatment after screwing up through misunderstandings like removing the stove to clean it or accidentally teaching the parrot to swear in Japanese. The pleasures of the "Schoolboys" arc, and the entire book, come as much from its richly detailed minutiae...