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...until 1996, when a group of herbal-product purveyors called the Kava General Committee decided to pool their resources and make kava America's herb du jour. That year, supported by a heavy promotional campaign, retailers moved $15 million worth of the stuff, elevating it to the pantheon of big-name herbal remedies like ginkgo biloba and St.-John's-wort. It wasn't long before kava vaulted out of the health-food ghetto and into the aisles of supermarkets and K Marts...
...Another Ivy Leaguer, Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School, knew that he was taking a chance by giving his book such a controversial title. But his gamble has paid off, says PW. There are over 70,000 copies of "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" (Pantheon) in print, and it has appeared on various best-seller lists, including the NYT nonfiction list at No. 8. The book is No. 18 on the extended 4/7 NYT nonfiction list...
...museum, and whose works they currently admire. The panel included Art Spiegelman ("Maus," winner of the Pulitzer Prize,) Kim Deitch ("The Mishkin File,") Charles Burns ("Black Hole,") Chris Ware ("Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth,") Richard McGuire ("Here,") and Kaz ("Underworld") and was moderated by Chip Kidd, editor of Pantheon's graphic novel division...
Baaba Maal, the Afro-pop superstar from Senegal, is not only the best-dressed musician in town, decked out in long, flowing robes that emphasised his spur-of-the-moment dancing, he is also entirely deserving of his place in the pantheon of African music. Playing to a highly appreciative audience in the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Maal performed selections from his latest, acoustically-flavored disc, Missing You…Mi Yeewnii. Rumor has it that the disc was recorded outside in a small village in Senegal after the sun had gone down, and the slow-burning grooves evoke...
...pantheon of great directors, Fritz Lang is a bit of an anomaly. Unlike his contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, who was canonized early on and remains a universally acknowledged god of cinema, Lang’s road to directorial fame was an oblique one. Although denounced by Siegfried Kracauer as a fascist in the forties, and then heralded by the French Cahiers du Cinema as an amateur in the sixties, his work has received a surprising dearth of critical attention. It has only been in the last few years that critics have begun to exhume many of his films and give...