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...Finally exposing the work of a nearly forgotten master cartoonist, Walt & Skeezix reprints the first two years of Frank King's deeply American comic strip "Gasoline Alley" in the debut of what will (hopefully) be an annual reprint series for the next twenty years or so. Famous for characters who age in real time, like Walt, the dedicated bachelor and his adopted son Skeezix, the strip amounts to a daily diary of an American family as it goes through the depression, WWII, the post-war boom and beyond. This first volume features many car gags, but they soon give...
...stunning debut by an unpublished author who mailed his manuscript in on spec, Night Fisher candidly exposes the lives of the young and bored in Hawaii. Going to a prep school his single father can't really afford, the lonely Loren Foster tries to keep up with his AP classes but becomes more interested in hanging out with his ne'r-do-well pal and tweaking on crystal meth. While filling the story with atmospheric details like Hawaiian slang ("baku" for meth; "haole" for a non-native), Johnson's remarkably confident artwork drains the lush world of its color, leaving...
...West Late Registration; $13.98 West's second great album in 18 months has nothing so shocking as his Katrina-inspired "George Bush doesn't care about black people" moment during a TV fund raiser for hurricane victims or so original as the self-love/self-hate tightrope walk of his debut The College Dropout. But if you think you're invulnerable to an atmospheric ballad with Maroon 5's chirpy Adam Levine (Heard 'Em Say) or a song called Roses about a sick grandma, you will be shocked at the stealthy power of West's storytelling. As for the music...
...supremely confident delivery on such songs as Galang (now the sound track to a Honda commercial) matches her ear for those small production details that turn songs into bustling streets in foreign capitals. That's the combination, instead of her blend of ethnicities, that makes this the most compelling debut of the year. Best Tracks: Galang, Bucky Done...
...credited with bridging the gap between classical and popular music for the general public. “It’s the New York Bernstein that people know, and we want to know the Boston Bernstein,” Shelemay said. Bernstein, a Boston native, made his unofficial conducting debut in a performance of “The Birds” while still an undergraduate. After Harvard, he found enormous success both as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic and as a composer. The course will get at the Boston Bernstein through interviewing people who knew him during...