Our beautiful August issue features reports from the 2007 Home Entertainment Show held in New York City this past May. My favorite pages are those drawn by our friend, Jeff Wong.
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John Flahive answered the phone one evening. On the other end of the line was a stranger, George Martorano calling from prison. That call changed both their lives.
Personally, I've enjoyed the Potter books finding the themes more archetypal than "derivative," but chacun á son goût, ya know? What I found interesting about Ron Charles' rant was this pithy argument: "We're experiencing the literary equivalent of a loss of biodiversity." In 1994, according to a Stanford survey, over 70% of fiction sales were from just five authors.
Jason Moran finished a week at the Jazz Standard in New York City last night and confirmed his standing, at age 32, as the jazz pianist of our times. A few years ago, I saw Moran playing in duet at Merkin Hall with Andrew Hill, one of his mentors, more than twice his age. Afterward, a friend of mine, a trumpeter just a little older than Moran, made a sharp observation about their respective generations: Hill, a leading avant-gardist from the ‘60s then undergoing a renaissance, played in one style, his style; Moran played in many styles, all styles. Though he didn’t put it in these terms, Hill…
Eugene Starostin and Gert van der Heijde have solved a 75-year-old conundrum by developing tools to predict the three dimensional form a Möbius strip will take.
Don't pick up that dictionary! You're smart enough to figure out what that new word means.
Ariel's journey ends with the discovery that Geddy Lee is not the woman he once was.
But it's more than just that. It's life and music and clips of monkeys running around. It's a rock concert!
—SM
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The commuter rail rolls away, and finally, I have a chance to rest. But I don't. Instead, I panic even more.
"We missed our stop!" I yell to my companions. We take another look at the commuter rail map and realize I had the map upside down. Right after our realization, the conductor calls out, "Mansfield!"
After hopping off the train, we…