The News Review:
- Ski areas find niche markets
- Music – Books – Review – New York Times
- Blue yster Cult: Imaginos : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- Moby phones – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
Ski areas find niche markets
Traverse City Record Eagle – Dec 3, 2006
People are dropping out of the sport at an increasing rate. ” Echo Mountain has far less terrain than 5289-acre Vail Mountain for example but kids who spend all day on just a few jumps don't need thousands of acres Donovan said. While bigger resorts may embrace baggy pants and punk music they also must cater to owners of high-end condos families baby boomers and first-timers. Sparrow said smaller resorts have more flexibility to build a culture just for their core customers. At Echo Mountain one main building with corrugated metal walls is modeled like a teenage basement where kids can play Atari games. Graffiti art hangs from the wall. The kitchen eschews $12 burgers in favor of selling microwave meals from Hot Pocket or Jimmy Dean.
Music – Books – Review – New York Times
New York Times – Dec 3, 2006
Even after establishing herself as a singer McCorkle continued to find herself buffeted by the fickleness of the music industry; she also battled breast cancer and had an abortion at the age of 46. There’s a point at which even the most dedicated McCorkle fan may find it difficult to keep pace with the relentless suffering that’s imposed on her. But Dahl the author of a biography of Mary Lou Williams soldiers on with admirable objectivity doing her best to address a large looming “Why?” that can never be completely answered. RUTHLESS: A Memoir. By Jerry Heller with Gil Reavill… But Summers has his own stories to tell in this airy present-tense account of his life and career: a six-month stay in a British orphanage; a rock ‘n’ roll apprenticeship crossing paths with the likes of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix; and a tour of duty in the psychedelic act Dantalian’s Chariot whose single “Madman Running Through the Fields” is deservedly enshrined in the “Nuggets II” box set. When he turns his attention to the group that made him famous Summers is sufficiently impartial to recognize that the Police were beneficiaries of both talent and good timing: their polite punk rock arrived on the scene just as audiences and record labels were tiring of the aggressive posturings of acts like the Sex Pistols. Yet the bigger the Police grow the more disconnected Summers becomes; his portraits of his bandmates never snap into focus and his casual rejection of the self-indulgent lifestyle he cultivated for himself comes across as the unsympathetic protest of another disaffected rock star. LVE DN’T LIVE HERE N MRE: Book ne of Doggy Tales.
Blue yster Cult: Imaginos : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Dec 3, 2006
Love-craft-meets-A Clockwork range opera is only an illusionary re-creation of the way BÖC used to be. Still it’s a timely reminder of the band’s past greatness how it brought brains to metal and influenced future generations of punks and head bangers alike. With Imaginos Albert Bouchard lost a potentially great solo album. Instead the Öyster boys have left us one more shiny black pearl to remember them by. (RS 539)DAVID FRICKE.
Moby phones – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Dec 3, 2006
After spending the early ’80s playing guitar in punk band theVatican Commandos Moby made a gradual transition to dance music inthe second half of the decade and released his first technosingle the Twin Peaks-sampling Go in 1991. Fifteen years later Go is now the title for Moby’s firstgreatest hits CD – another defining item on his checklist forapproaching maturity. Go – The Very Best f Moby would seem a fairlyinevitable proposition but for Moby the hit collection still comesas a kind of surprise as major success did not land on hisdoorstep until he was well into his 30s after many years ofunrewarded toil. “Honestly I never expected to even have a career as a musician”Moby says during our strictly enforced 10-minute chat. “That I’vebeen able to make records and have a record deal and now have agreatest hits every aspect of it is a pleasant surprise forme.