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This funk-rap-rock band has long seemed an episode of VH1's Behind the Music waiting to happen. The group's original guitarist, Hillel Slovak, died of a heroin overdose; the replacement guitarist, John Frusciante, left the band and battled drug problems; a replacement replacement guitarist, Dave Navarro, departed too. Now, on the group's latest CD, Frusciante returns. Unfortunately, the ending to this story isn't a completely happy one. A couple of the songs here are entertainingly muscular, but others might have been best left as bonus tracks on CD singles. The album title is kind...
...went to school for five years in Bratislava, two years to the elementary school, and then for three years to the "Real-Schule." During that period, I did not earn a single A--except in singing and in German. Of course I had an alibi. These were all Slovak schools, and I started to learn this language only at 10. Unfortunately, it is hard to invoke this excuse for mathematics, and I certainly did not distinguish myself in this subject, either...My grades were C's and an occasional...
...planned for August, during a crew changeover. Baturin, a former staff member at Energiya, the Russian space corporation that made Mir, has been secretly taking lessons in zero-G flight at Star City, the cosmonaut-training center outside Moscow. The competition to join him aloft promises to be stiff. Slovak, French and Indonesian astronauts, as well as a CNN correspondent, have already put in bids. Why would Baturin risk his life in space? Simple: his sojourn is the best Mir advertisement the Kremlin could devise...
Wire, text by Suzanne Slesin and Daniel Rozensztroch (Abbeville; $29.95), traces the 300-year history of utilitarian and decorative wirework from that of 17th century Slovak tinkers to the factory-made implements of the early 20th century. Many of these varied and whimsical shapes, collected and attractively arranged by the editors, were last seen in Grandma's house. Singled out or clustered in more than 300 photos, these whisks, racks, beaters (egg and rug), cages, baskets, candelabrums and hand-held toasters are reminders of a stable domestic world now bent out of shape...
Musically, the performance at the Met is excellent. Possessing a voice that is lithe and ripe, mezzo-soprano Maria Ewing was born to sing the title role, and she delivers a performance of untamed carnality. Slovak bass Sergei Koptchak is outstanding as her lecherous father-in-law, and Russian tenor Vladimir Galouzine is appropriately ardent as the lover. In the pit, conductor James Conlon and the Met orchestra rejoice in the score's raw power...