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Julio ("Chino") Mercado, the narrator of Ernesto Quinonez's fine debut novel, Bodega Dreams (Vintage Books; 213 pages, $12), knows the projects of Spanish Harlem in New York City. So he also knows that the best way to survive them is to get out. He and his pregnant wife Blanca are putting themselves through college at night. Their goals are the usual ones: to get nice jobs, to buy a house...
Some performers struggle for years before making it big. SAMMIE BUSH knows that pain all too well. He's pined for pop success since kindergarten, and finally, at 13, his moment has arrived. I Like It, the first single of his debut album, From the Bottom to the Top, is the No. 1-selling R.-and-B. track in the U.S. Sammie doesn't plan on being a one-hit wonder. "I want to win Grammys," says the Miami tyke, who phoned in at noon on a school day ("I'm just missing one day," he assured). Comparisons to Michael...
...suspect that Jasmin Dizdar's low-budget debut feature has sold out to sentimentality. But that reckons without Dizdar's gift for kinetics. He's all intensity. And control. There's not a wasted word or an extraneous shot in his film. And his way with coincidence is often very funny...
...This debut CD crackles and sparks like diary pages set on fire. Naess is a 24-year-old British-born singer-songwriter who now lives in New York City. Her music draws on folk and rock, and some of her songs are subtly propelled by tape loops. Her voice has an evanescent grace that will remind some of Beth Orton; her lyrics, in contrast, often have the confessional bluntness of Liz Phair. The best songs on this album--the sweetly numb title track, the jangling All I Want--are dreamlike but not soporific, confident yet not overpowering...
...took 2 1/2 months to prepare the financial and legal requirements for the Growth Enterprise Market listing. Cheng and his team had envisioned a grander debut. They wanted to be on NASDAQ from the outset. But a plea from GEM's chairman, they say, persuaded them to list locally. Timeless had secured $13 million in capital from Taipei-based angel/investor Crimson Asia Capita; the GEM listing raised an additional $58 million...