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...audience is thrust forward in time to 1985, where a middle-aged couple is enjoying the view from their hotel balcony in San Juan. This next skit, "A View from the Roof," revolves around Betty, an emotionally frustrated Jewish wife who is duped by a suave Puerto Rican artist. The third skit, entitled "My Mother's Luck," is essentially a long monologue spoken by a Jewish mother to her daughter Hannah, who is preparing to live with her wealthy father in pre-WWII Germany...
...sees as the cramped and critical next half-century. He cites familiar horrifying statistics: each year the nation paves over an area the size of Delaware; the average North American and his house and car emit 3.5 tons of carbon annually, 20 times the output of the average Costa Rican. Cut consumption instead of births? Hopeless; consumption "is deep in our bones, the way religion was deep in the bones of your average 14th century peasant...
...outfit will play Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who defected from Cuba in 1990, has a new album out titled Hot House (N2K). Cuba is also going Hollywood. In August, Columbia Pictures will release Dance with Me, a salsa-spiced love story about a Cuban immigrant (played by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne) who falls for an American dancer (Vanessa Williams); the lively Latin sound track features several Cuban artists, including the already mainstream emigres Jon Secada and Gloria Estefan. "On the album we have Vanessa and Chayanne both singing in Spanish and English," says Tammy Lester, the sound track...
...decade dominated by neotraditionalism, strings are back (the hipster vogue for lounge music probably hasn't hurt). The boomlet began with last year's McCoy Tyner recording of Burt Bacharach tunes--an appropriate enough context--and continues with new albums by Wynton Marsalis and the 29-year-old Puerto Rican-born tenor saxophonist David Sanchez, both on Columbia. Marsalis' record, The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Vol. 5, is his first standards album since 1991 (despite the title, it's only his fourth overall). After ambitious but sometimes strained projects like last year's 3-CD recording of his Pulitzer-prizewinning...
...listen to KISS-108 because whenever Hector Vargas the Freakin' Puerto Rican, the Latino on the Loose, the Hispanic Causin' Panic is not the DJ on my favorite radio station (94.5) I switch it to 107.9. It's actually number two on my radio buttons...