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...must be more than a year since I've listened to music radio out of choice. In the age of digital downloads, it seems such an obsolete medium. Who wants to be forced into a cookie-cutter genre (college rock or classic rock or oldies) and asked to love everything in it? On the other hand, it must also be at least a year since I've had the thrill of discovering a toe-tapping tune from an unknown artist completely by accident. This is what happens when you enter the world of Napster and MP3s. You tend to play...
Most days, this critic is happy to be a man. But he wished he could switch genders for half an hour so as to be truly, properly insulted by this bogus female-bonding sitcom about a set of cookie-cutter sibs: a bitter careerist (Vicki Lewis), a pretty ditz (A.J. Langer) and a maternal yuppie (Katherine LaNasa). The Chekovian title and the creators' resumes (Roseanne, Murphy Brown) can't hide the cliches as the show daringly reveals that women obsess over carbs and tangle with clueless guys. Be it from Mars or Venus, let's hope that Sisters...
...Shelby Lynne, "I Am Shelby Lynne" After a slew of corporate efforts that I and most everyone else never heard, Lynne jettisoned the Nashville production line and the cookie-cutter country cutie bag and made an album of deeply sultry roots-pop music that touches on everything from Dusty Springfield soul to down-home slide guitar blues. Tapping the crucial lode where familiarity and freshness commingle, the whole thing was written and played by Lynne and Bill Bottrell, who demonstrates that his tenure in Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music clubhouse was no fluke...
...turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur; a realm both beautiful...
...Which Al Gore were you going to vote for, the environmentalist or the populist? Which George W. Bush, the tax-cutter or the anti-abortionist? Which Ralph Nader, the government reformer or the economic isolationist? Harry Browne makes it easy. A Libertarian government would hardly seem like government...