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...knock you out with aesthetic overload. "Ergot" is not a book to take on a plane to lose yourself in a great story. Many of the contributions couldn't even be called comix and most of the rest have nonsensical, free-associative narratives. Collage and full-page illustration mix with the likes of Jeffrey Brown's "Don't Look Them in the Eye," a recollection of every encounter he's ever had with a vagrant. Of the 25 or so contributors, others include Renee French, and Marc Bell, author of "Shrimpy and Paul" (see review) whose sense of color...
...bunch of spoiled Orange County teens mix it up in Newport Beach, Calif. "One of the directors told me, 'We want teenage girls to get excited about what Marissa is wearing when she's onscreen,'" says costume designer Alexandra Welker. Bring on the Diane von Furstenberg! There's plenty of casual wear too--Juicy, Diesel, Theory--because, after all, this is the beach. Fashion forecast: status is back in a big way. --By Jeanne McDowell
...producers, the Neptunes remain hybrid people. A typical Neptunes track might mix classic rock riffs and hip-hop beats with '80s pop-culture remnants (like sound effects from Atari games or the rings from early mobile phones). For pop artists looking for urban credibility--your Timberlakes, Aguileras et al.--the Neptunes crank up the beat and the attitude. On the flip side, they imbue hard rappers with much needed emotional depth. "We want people to sound different," says Williams, who made the menacing Mystikal sound funky on Shake Ya Ass and Snoop Dogg almost tender on Beautiful. "Taking somebody from...
...looks cheap. Even after steep declines, many stocks remain expensive relative to earnings. Bonds are a death trap during periods of faster growth. Real estate never fell. Money-market yields barely cover a fund's expenses. So you have to look beyond the traditional stocks-bonds-cash-real estate mix to find any broad investment categories that are truly bargains...
...Ware may be our most committed creator of comix as art. For one thing, he demands high production values for his books. The "Quimby" book must be the most gorgeous graphic novel ever published. It has gold ink embossed in the hardcover, with thick paper and an exquisite mix of color and black and white strips. The "Date Book" likewise has come out as a hardcover with top-notch production, including a placeholder ribbon. A tantalizing sketchbook page from 1995 contains a quote attributed to Goethe, "Architecture is frozen music." Ware adds an addendum, writing, "This is, I think...