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...Gran Torino...
Knoxville, Tenn. rock-jazz-funk band Gran Torino is an impressive musical collaboration of nine fine musicians. Together, they fuse the sounds of trumpet, guitar, keyboard, sax and other instruments into smooth music with groove. To their fans' delight, Gran Torino now has 11 new songs on their second album, Two. The new album follows their 1997 release, One. Two features more singing than its largely instrumental predecessor, but many of the new album's songs, like "Phyllis" and "Days of the Tested," have excellent solos generously mixed in. While lead singer Chris Ford's vocals often sound uncomfortably similar...
...strength of the instrumental solos on Two hints at the exciting live shows Gran Torino is known for throughout the south. Unfortunately, the band has already completed its most recent swing through the northeast. While waiting for its return, though, it would be worth your time to listen...
...there has been no voluntary papal abdication since Celestine V in 1294. And while Celestine was later canonized, Dante placed him in the Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...
Video games are for kids. Teenagers maybe. Right? But harried parents don't want to waste time sitting slack-jawed in front of Donkey Kong, Super Mario or even Gran Turismo. Wrong. After 20 minutes with NFL 2K, the premier game for Sega's new Dreamcast machine, I'm a convert. The football experience is totally realistic. It's almost like being there, right down to the touchdown two-steps and the frosty breath streaming from players' mouths (that is, if you've picked the Vikings and Rams to battle it out in a Minnesota blizzard). Uniforms get dirtier, players...