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...Gavin Bryars Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Point Music). Take one old derelict singing a strophe of a religious anthem in a raspy voice. Add one avant-garde composer (Bryars) accompanying an hour-long loop of the man's song with a kaleidoscopic underpinning of strings, winds and horns. Mix in Tom Waits for a closing 10-minute duet of almost mystic poignancy. The new-music album of the year...
...Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom quickly decided that the shocking scenes of Katrina provided a teachable moment. Newsom unveiled a long-planned public-service advertising campaign last week that will amplify what may be Katrina's most important take-home message: survivors of a major emergency will probably need to fend for themselves for the first few days after calamity strikes. The goal is to get as many San Franciscans as possible to assemble--and keep current--a basic emergency kit, including a flashlight, a transistor radio, spare batteries, canned goods and, above all, enough water to last at least three...
...many times must you hear lyrics about your hot car, how you degrade your (black) women, how you will mess someone up if he comes at you and your bling-bling a certain way? Sad to say, those repetitive strains are in R&B and rap music. I love Gavin DeGraw's I Don't Want To Be, Nickelback's How You Remind Me and Green Day's Time of Your Life. The lyrics of those songs hit home with anyone--black or white...
...There'll be several thousand pagans in Melbourne celebrating this news under the full moon tonight." GAVIN ANDREW, Pagan Awareness Network spokesman, after the Australian state of Victoria introduced legislation to repeal a 200-year-old anti-witchcraft...
...DIED. GAVIN LAMBERT, 80, keenly observant critic, screenwriter and chronicler of Hollywood; in Los Angeles. An ex-assistant to director Nicholas Ray, he became editor of the influential British film journal Sight & Sound before turning out such screenplays as The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and writing biographies of such Hollywood stars as Norma Shearer and Natalie Wood...