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...door in Quincy, the antique Fender Mustang (my first guitar, and the one famously endorsed by Cobain) my guitar teacher found for me in a used guitar shop in Greenwich Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion sense, I wonder whether my refusal to consider any contemporary pop musician his equal is just a premature case of longing for the good old days, like a parent complaining about his kid’s music. A small dose of MTV or listening to the radio usually relieves such concerns pretty quickly, though, and I’m convinced that...
When he was a teenager, Cobain told friends, “I’m going to be a superstar musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory.” These words suggest that Cobain was not always the humble, reluctant star that the media portrayed. Yet, whatever narcissism may have driven his rise to stardom, and perhaps even the timing of his suicide, both Cobain and his music possessed a level of authenticity so rare in pop music that they overshadow such flaws...
...great game. For a 28-year-old, A-Rod comes off as a guy who's lying to impress a date's dad. He collects art (Chagall, Picasso, Monet and Renoir are favorites because "I don't like contemporary art"), can't dance, lists Frank Sinatra as his favorite musician and takes a break every night with friends and family for Breyers Cookies & Cream in the living room. Clay Aiken would get bored of this guy. Teammate Jason Giambi describes Rodriguez in a way that makes him seem programmed. "I've worked out with Tiger Woods in rehab...
University President Lawrence H. Summers will bestow the medal upon the famed musician on May 9 in a ceremony that will conclude the Arts First festival and include a discussion with Ma about his life experiences...
...been shown publicly since 1949. The portraits section features Botticelli's famous Portrait of Man with Medal of Cosimo the Elder and his Profile of a Young Woman, a virtually unknown work from a private collection in New York. It also boasts Filippino's naturalistic Portrait of a Musician, an intense and pensive study of an instrumentalist surrounded by the paraphernalia of his art. One of the most interesting sections of the exhibition examines the influence on the artists of Savonarola, the apocalyptic preacher of the 1490s who organized the Bonfires of the Vanities, in which many famous Renaissance works...