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.Arts
Jan 8, 1998
Got the Milkman?
FROM BOTH aesthetic and economic standpoints, comics are in bad shape these days. Several years ago, the largest companies--Marvel and DC--set up exclusive arrangements...
.Arts
Dec 4, 1997
The Beat Master
BEFORE Jack Kerouac, before Allen Ginsberg, there was ... Herbert Huncke? Though born a year after William Burroughs, Huncke (1915-1996) had been living an underground life...
.Arts
Oct 30, 1997
A View of Debut
DEBUT RECORDS was one of the first record labels owned by musicians--and not just any musicians, but jazz legends bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer...
.Arts
Aug 14, 1997
Joyce on a Mission
IF ANYONE remembers Samuel Ornitz at all today, it's as a screenwriter who was one of the Hollywood 10; his reputation as a novelist...
.Arts
Mar 13, 1997
Taking Flight
Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, slide guitarist David Tronzo and tubaist Marcus Rojas--collectively known as Spanish Fly--are among the most in-demand musicians today on their respective...
.Arts
Jan 2, 1997
Clear as a Clarinet
DURING THE heyday of big bands (193545), top jazz clarinetists abounded. Several--Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman--led highly popular outfits. For some...
.Arts
Dec 5, 1996
Twinned Vision
THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Miles Davis and Gil Evans rank with those of Louis Armstrong/Earl Hines and Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie as among the most noteworthy two-man efforts...
.Arts
Nov 27, 1996
Magical Mexican
MANY READERS will find Fernando del Paso's great novel Palinuro of Mexico--at long last available in an American edition nearly 20 years after its creation--daunting...
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