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This year sees both artists release what are possibly their finest albums ever. With Blowback, Tricky, recovered from his hormone disease, has released the album he has apparently avoided making since Maxinquaye. His latest is an instant classic that puts his previous few albums in the context they deserve, proving that all of Tricky’s experiments and claustrophobic introspection were deliberate choices, not the leavings of an artist who has lost his way. Interestingly, he has adopted a low profile on his own album, while reaping the benefits of a bizarre and fantastic series of collaborations, from various...
...Eric McCormack in his Broadway debut as The Music Man, Harold Hill. With tremendous charisma, a pleasant, if unspectacular voice, and a great deal of enthusiasm, he was a perfect complement to Rebecca Luker’s beautifully sung and just old-fashioned beautiful Marian in a classic show that Susan Stroman has lovingly restaged...
...Smith always seemed artificial and forced to sing in a register below his comfort level. The one bright spot was Chuck Wagner, a man with a long list of Broadway credits, who stole all his scenes as General Harrison Howell, thanks to his booming baritone, robust comic persona, and classic good looks (all of which suggest that the tour would be better served with him in the lead...
...have thousands of people on the phone. We have foot pollers. It’s classic Chicago-Boston politics happening right now in the suburbs!” said Toby Chaudhuri, Pacheco’s campaign manager...
...measure of the economy?s state going forward - recession-watch-wise - it?s pretty lousy. Unemployment is a classic lagging economic indicator; it tells us a little about happened in the economy in August - employers cut payrolls, mostly in manufacturing - and maybe a little more about what happened in the months before that; namely, that business was lousy and production lines were idle, so a lot of workers were neither useful nor affordable. (In the business world, of course, that?s the same thing.) But the only thing it tells us about September and the months ahead is that manufacturers...