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...ERNESTO LECUONA The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Bis). Everybody knows Lecuona's most famous composition, Malaguena. But there's much more than that to the prolific Cuban composer, who died in 1963. Fingers ablaze, pianist Thomas Tirino eloquently makes the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1995: MUSIC | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

Ptashne demonstrated his skill with the violin at a party he hosted two weeks ago in his Cambridge home to honor Jannic Nusslein-Vol-hard and Eric Wieschaus. The two German researchers will receive this year's Nobel Prize in medicine in December for their research on the development of fruit-fly embryos...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Professor Finds Beauty In Violins and Viruses | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

Ifirst came across David Sedaris' name in a collection of "alternative new queer writing" edited by novelist Dennis Cooper (he of the Jeffrey Daumer-like heroes and highly-theorized fascination with rimming). Sedaris' entry in this in-your-face collection was called "Glenn's Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2," a lampoon of self-righteous activism and P.C. paranoia. (Glenn indulges in frequent digressions about cruel ex-boyfriends and screams intolerance when a cornerstore cashier resists an inelegant, intrusive seduction). It was funny, a little off-color but not quite as deliberately smellyas some of the other offerings...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Sedaris' Barrel Overflows With Fun | 8/19/1994 | See Source »

...Interesting," said Blakey, tapping his toes. "But a total rip-off. That part in the beginning -- it's from A Night in Birdland, Vol. 1, by my own quintet. And then it flows into excerpts from Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rap's New Jazz Messengers Us | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...VOL. 5. Slivering back to Sly, bang pop bang boom sliver slide shake that shake that Loose Booty, and we know why, slivering sax lines 'n' lines falsettos deep growls and we do know why that Loose Booty there's a reason Sly is on top, loose loose booty cuz he knows how to drive...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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