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...NOTEBOOK For those of you who are wondering, the Jaspers are named after Brother Jasper. Manhattan College's first basketball coach and the man the Jaspers claim invented baseball's seventh inning stretch. The Crimson hosts Army Wednesday...
DIED. Tatyana Grosman, 78, enterprising print publisher whose enthusiasm and meticulous dedication to excellence raised lithography to a new level and attracted America's leading artists, including some (Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell) who had never worked in that medium; in New York City. Her company, Universal Limited Art Editions, was based at her West Islip, N.Y., garage, which she had turned into a lively atelier. She sometimes spent months foraging for exactly the right paper for artists. Often the size of her editions, perhaps no more than 25, was determined by the number of perfect...
Psycho is the link between Burma's two identities, and that may be part of the reason the band members let her hand around so much. The Saturday before the Jasper's show, Burma was at the Paradise--a far more prominent club on Commonwealth Ave.--and, of course, Somerville High's littlest punk was there, too. The show was a special all-aged performance; no alcohol was served. The ages that showed up were mostly pre-18, like wrecking machines...
...Burma men clearly enjoy playing to a friskier audience--even if these fans have to clear out of the club by 5 p.m. There's lot more sneering and growling on stage than at Jasper's--still posing, but with slightly more abandon. "Fame and fortune is a stupid game, I play," Miller bellows at the crowd...
...some, the genre means smooth pop, to others L.A. noise, ask, regae, whatever. Burma hates the New Wave label, but that's what sells in a lot of places today. Burma aspires to solvency, and the band members can adjust equally well to Jasper's and White Russians or to the Paradise and crazy kid punks, though it seems they might prefer a melding of the two: enthusiastic dancing-types who can afford to pay real cover charges. Capitalism doesn't pose problems for Burma, as it does for some hands they play with. At Jasper's the opening group...