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...songs from her latest CD, “Tchamantché,” which is her first release in five years and has received much critical acclaim. “Tchamantche” marks a shift in style for Traoré, who based her new sound around the classic Gretsch electric guitar popular in the 50s and 60s. With music that fits into neither Western nor Malian categories, Traoré’s varied choice of instruments was fitting. Two guitars and a traditional drum set gave the music a more Western feel, while the n’goni...
...cable last year, and a surprise hit from Australia to the U.K., the show introduced agent Skouris exercising on a treadmill - which was just as well since over 4,000 alien-abducted "returnees" were about to land on her doorstep; she and her offsider agent Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) would be put in charge of unraveling their back-stories. Now with the coming of a new series, McKenzie's eyes narrow on to the role like someone at target practice. She has always been one of the hardest-working actresses around, but she's traveling lighter these days. "I think...
Researchers from India to Massachusetts are exploring digital smell technology, add-ons that make your computer into a perfume factory. But the current atmosphere for virtual scents pretty much, well, smells. Greg Gretsch, a Silicon Valley veteran at blue-chip venture capital firm Sigma Partners, says, "Someone talks about digital scent technology and my bulls___ meter goes...
...would Gretsch, who concedes he has yet to test smell technology, react to a business plan from a smelly start-up? "In this market it would end up in the circular file," he says. Or, depending on the level of technobabble, it might have a more dignified end. "We save some business plans just because they're funny," says Gretsch...
What set the Beatles apart, amid all those fabled acts, was their dazzling interpersonal chemistry (showcased to irresistible effect in the 1964 feature film A Hard Day's Night, which critic Andrew Sarris called "the Citizen Kane of jukebox movies"), their novel sound (produced on offbeat--to most Americans--Gretsch, Rickenbacker and Hofner guitars and cranked out through snarly little Vox amplifiers brought over from England) and of course their awesome facility for making ravishing hit records...