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...discovered the La Brea tar pits, the world"s largest mastodon graveyard, which conatins what he calls a "cynical metaphor" for Los Angeles: the skeleton of a woman who died about 9,000 years ago."Her skull was bashed in by a blunt object: this first Angeleno, the wall label tells you, was also LA's first known homicide victim...
These are heady goals for even the most robust of classical labels, but though Virgin Classics may not occupy the uppermost rung in term of financial clout and big-name draws, it has championed several relatively unknown ensembles which can outplay the competition, big label or not. A good example is the Brahms piano quartet cycle recorded by Domus, which outshines Sony's offering with a super-powerhouse lineup of Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel...
...number of years, Eugene Cernan was a familiar face on ABC, interpreting the arcana of space flight for Peter Jennings. Today he is president of Cernan Corp., an aerospace consulting firm in Houston. "I carry the label of the last man to leave his footprints on the surface," he says. "I never thought I would carry that label for as long as I have -- and unfortunately I will probably carry it for another generation...
...Monster" Mike Welch took the stage a little later and showed us another side to Blues. At 15 years of age, and the first artist to be signed to the House of Blues label, this boy and his band bring in the country element to Blues. With supreme guitar picking (a turquoise electrical one, no less), he whined and whimpered and returned to the loud heaviness of metal and would then continue into a more mellow sound. His repertoire was wide and varied. While well on the way to becoming a stalwart of the Blues scene, his future looks golden...
...media may have performed a real service in their intoxicated obsession with the Simpson affair. Not exposing what they glibly call "the tragedy of" domestic violence," or farcically label "the reality of the American criminal justice system," they exposed themselves--what we mistakenly call "news", but should henceforth realize is merely entertainment...