Archive for June 1995
Jewel To Sparkle At Lena Show
Perhaps I was dizzy from the gratis Sprite and the blueberry muffins that Atlantic Records plied me with at their New York City headquarters last week, but I’ll admit it straight out: I was completely enamoured with Jewel Kilcher. The vocally soaring, angelic 22-year-old singer/songwriter with a neo-hippie past too Tom Robbins to believe looked…
Read MoreWeezer Barely Gets Feedback-Spewing Alterna-Rock Spaceship Off Ground
Weezer’s Central Park Summerstage benefit Saturday looked like the MTV Beach House: Kennedy threatened to drop in at any minute on the frolicking throngs of baby-dolled and beatnicked kids at Rumsey Playfield. Little wonder Rivers Cuomo almost failed to get his feedback-spewing alterna-rock spaceship off the ground. Plodding lethargically through “In The Garage,” “Say It…
Read MoreLines in the Sand: Young Biologists Save the Threatened Desert Tortoise
The sun creeps over the jagged Coxcomb Mountains, Joshua Tree National Park’s eastern-most border, and falls lightly onto the valley floor ahead. Chris Collins steers a battered Marine van down a narrow, bumpy gravel road. The vastness and seclusion of the surrounding Colorado Desert is breathtaking. But Collins and his five post-graduate volunteers are silent…
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