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he's got that fatherly calming demeanor. senator(from hawaii) torre?

October 11, 2007 Dress Codes After Years of Being Out, the Necktie Is In By DAVID COLMAN GEORGE McCRACKEN doesn’t have to wear a tie. A 25-year-old painter in Manhattan who works in store design and display to pay the bills, Mr. McCracken is a member of that lucky group who can wear just about anything they please to work. But George McCracken does wear a tie. “I don’t ever wear a collared shirt without one,” he said. “It started when I had a job where I had to wear a jacket and tie, but after I left, I started wearing it anyway, out with friends, as an informal thing. It just felt comfortable.” And Mr. McCracken is not alone. Check out any art gallery, advertising agency or downtown bar where the cool kids hang. Look at Justin Timberlake, Adam Brody, Elijah Wood or any other young actor who presumably is not also holding down a desk job. Necktie sales may have foundered in the decade or more since the words “casual Friday” entered men’s vocabularies, but in the last year or two, stylish men in their 20s and early 30s have embraced the old four-in-hand as a style statement — that is, as long as it is an optional one. Even with tie sales among older age groups uniformly down, sales to men 18 to 34 were up more than 13 percent, to $343 million from $303 million, between March 2006 and March 2007, according to NPD Group, which tracks clothing sales and trends. “There’s no question that there has been a dramatic increase among younger guys, who are age 18 to 34, expressing themselves by dressing up,” said Marshal Cohen, the chief retail analyst at NPD. “He’s not hesitating, given the option, to grab a tie, and a fancy tie at that.” This is a news flash that will either amuse or dismay men in their 40s and 50s, who after years of wearing a tie to work, finally won the right to hang up the old choke chain. But this is no ordinary necktie. A far cry from the storied “power ties” in aggressively colored and printed silk twill that defined the power corridors of the 1980s, the defiantly low-key tie of today is destined for dress-up Thursday as well as casual Friday. It may be made of wool, cashmere, silk knit or glove leather; cut a pointedly skinny two-and-a-half inches wide; woven in plaid or printed with an unorthodox pattern of skulls with bunny ears. It may boast a trendy label like Alexander Olch or Band of Outsiders. Slightly offbeat in a laid-back way — the Wes Anderson of the accessory world — the youthful tie is giving the old dress code a much-needed shot in the neck. “It’s a uniform that doesn’t look like a uniform,” said Daniel Pipski, 31, a senior vice president at LivePlanet, the Los Angeles production company whose founders include Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. In Hollywood, where the open-collar dress shirt is king, the necktie is largely held to be a benighted relic of East Coast business style. But that has not deterred Mr. Pipski, who sees the tie as a kind of style passkey, especially the slender wool 1950s-style ties created by the Los Angeles label Band of Outsiders. (He owns about 60 of them.) To him, ties manage to be both a bit of self-expression and a concession to business dress. “Wearing a tie is a kind of style,” he said. “It’s a thing you’re doing. It’s seen as ‘creative.’ So you can go from meetings with the creative side and then go meet the head of a studio.” Labeling these ties creative may seem odd considering how restrained they are compared with the wincingly gimmicky “creative” ties of the mid-1990s, which were decked out with cartoon characters, beer logos and the like. Lighthearted as they were, they did little to keep the necktie close to any man’s heart. Then the combination of casual Friday and the dot-com explosion appeared to condemn the necktie to the style gallows. The number of ties sold in the United States, which reached a peak of 110 million in the early 1990s, fell to 60 million in 2001, according to Gerald Andersen, the director of the Men’s Dress Furnishings Association (which until 2001 was called the Neckwear Association of America). The change of name, and focus, makes some sense: NPD reports that for the year ending March 2007, tie sales were down to 44 million. The tie’s renaissance among the hipster set had its roots in fashion, sparked by designers like Thom Browne and Hedi Slimane, who made it a part of their collections. It was not long before bands like the Strokes were casting off that late-1990s frayed indie-rock look for sharp black suits and matching skinny ties. In keeping with the trend, sportswear lines like Theory and Club Monaco now offer ties, a break from the casual ethos on which they were founded. Tie sales have definitely edged up at Bloomingdale’s, and Kevin Harter, the men’s wear director, credits the increase to younger men. “They’re using them as fashion statements, with suits or with jeans,” he said. He added that he now displays ties with denim and sportswear instead of just in the tie department. At Saks Fifth Avenue, sales have increased in the low double digits in the last year, said Michael Macko, the men’s fashion director, who similarly attributes the rise to the young men buying ties from the likes of Alexander Olch or Jil Sander. Even a few men outside the 18-to-34-year-old demographic have taken a shine to the tie. “It’s been a while since I actually wanted to wear a tie,” said Trey Laird, 43, the president of Laird + Partners, a New York advertising firm. “But I’ve been feeling it myself as well as seeing it on a lot of the younger guys in the office. It wasn’t any one thing that did it. You get bored of the same look, and as much as I like jeans and a blazer, it gets boring after a few years.” Or as Mr. McCracken, the painter, put it: “Just like you could point to a time, like when Tom Ford was at Gucci, that it became uncool to wear a tie, now it just feels like wearing a tie is the more punk thing to do.” Indeed, with Mr. Ford up to his old chest-hair-baring tricks in the ad campaign for his new cologne, it does seem time for a new look. Would a necktie kill the guy? At least Mr. Ford, with his shirt unbuttoned down to the Netherlands, miraculously never suffers from the great blight that affects so many tieless men: collar wilt — that is, its gradual collapse (or migration underneath the jacket collar) as the day wears on. Any man who derides the necktie as solely a decorative accessory would do well to remember that it serves an important function in holding a look together. It’s too soon to tell if the tie will come back as a mandatory presence, or if its new allure will be transitory. But while it is a smart and easy way to look both cool and professional, there is at least one rub. Sean Safford, 34, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, has rediscovered the tie’s allure and has even mastered the Windsor knot. “The problem is that all the dress shirts I got over the years to wear without ties don’t really work with them,” he said. “Buying new shirts to go with the new ties gets expensive.” Welcome to the Fashion School of Economics, Mr. Safford.

http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/2007-2008...0_Jazz.html#top

http://www.charlotte.com/109/story/314034.html

popopines (popular opinions)strongly favor retaining the joe.

just added chitown of recent. woon.......

brother theo and wkcr, all day. now playing a 1941 broadcast from minton's with monk.

Well, Miller does have Peroni and Pilsner Urquell. Peroni and Pilsner Urquell are both very good beers, but I don't think of them as Miller products at all. But that's like saying General Motors makes Saabs. Not quite the same as their domestic brands, in either case. I agree. to miller's credit, they bought the leinenkugel brewery and have apparently left it alone for years. leinenkugel is quite good for inexpensive beer.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/mill...p;dist=printTop

this one is especially beautiful.

started 340pm eastern on wkcr

say it aint so, joe: End of Torre era in New York? By MIKE FITZPATRICK, AP Baseball Writer 30 minutes ago Joe Torre and his Yankees players began the wait Tuesday for George Steinbrenner's decision: Will he keep the manager or let him go after 12 consecutive postseason appearances? Few players were at Yankee Stadium, a day after their season-ending 6-4 loss to Cleveland, the third straight year New York was eliminated in the first round. Chien-Ming Wang, Andy Phillips and Jose Molina packed their gear for the long winter. Don Mattingly, mentioned as a possible replacement along with Joe Girardi and Tony La Russa, said succeeding Torre would be difficult. "It's like following John Wooden or something," Mattingly said. "This guy wins championship after championship and we're in the playoffs in every year. You know, it's really — it's pretty much a no-win situation for someone coming in here to be able to live up to the expectations or live up to what he did. It's not going to happen. So as far someone coming in and taking over this job, it's not a good, you know — it's not necessarily a great situation." Steinbrenner said last weekend he didn't think he'd bring Torre back unless New York rallied to win the first-round series. The 77-year-old owner has not spoken publicly since the Game 4 defeat. "There's nothing decided yet," Hank Steinbrenner, a son of the owner and a team senior vice president, said Tuesday. The younger Steinbrenner praised Torre for the job he did this year, getting the Yankees into the playoffs after a slow start. "I really do like Joe a lot," he said. "I have a lot of admiration for him." General manager Brian Cashman said it was too early to make decisions. "It's a process. The process first and foremost is going to be sitting down with ownership and all the relevant people," he said. "Have some patience. Things take time. There will be a process and we'll work through that, and it will lead us where it leads us." Players have spoken out on Torre's behalf in recent days. "Everyone in this room unanimously feels the same way about Mr. Torre," Andy Phillips said. "We all love him. We all appreciate what he's given us. We appreciate the confidence he's had in us all year." After Monday night's loss, Torre's voice trembled a bit when he described how proud he was of his players for digging out of a 21-29 hole to reach the postseason. "We were dead to the water in a lot of people's eyes," Phillips said. "He kept telling us to keep just playing every day and don't look at numbers." Girardi, a former Yankees catcher, spent a season as Torre's bench coach before winning 2006 NL Manager of the Year for keeping the rookie-laden Florida Marlins in contention most of the way. Mattingly, a fan favorite and ex-Yankees captain, was Torre's bench coach this year after previously serving as the team's hitting instructor. "There is no fall guy. We win and lose as an organization," Cashman said, "There will be no scapegoats, There will be no finger pointing. Whatever we did, we did together." Phillips and other Yankees can't envision someone else taking over. "I refuse to think that way right now. I won't let that thought enter my mind," he said, praising Torre for a calm demeanor during turbulent times. "There's not a guy in here that's not dealing with something that he probably hasn't gone through," Phillips said. Torre was not at Yankee Stadium, and the team asked media to remove photographers outside his house in suburban Harrison. Cashman and Mattingly spoke with Torre by telephone. "I'd like to see him come back," Yankees pitching coach Ron Guidry said. "He understands the game, but he has an innate ability to keep a team together. Because where we were in May, a lot of teams might have quit." Guidry also could envision working for a replacement. "If someone else comes in here and we're asked to, if I'm asked to stay, yes, I'd love to come back next year," he said. Torre led New York to four World Series titles from 1996-00 in his first five years as manager but none since. The Yankees extended their season by overcoming a three-run deficit Sunday to win Game 3. But they couldn't do it again in Game 4, eliminated despite a $215 million payroll. "This has been a great 12 years. Whatever the hell happens from here on out, I'll look back on these 12 years with great, great pleasure," Torre said. "The 12 years just felt like they were 10 minutes long, to be honest with you." With Steinbrenner in attendance, a cheering crowd chanted "Joe Torre! Joe Torre!" as the manager went to the mound twice in the eighth inning. Second to Joe McCarthy on the club's career wins list with a 1,173-767 regular-season record as Yankees manager, Torre was almost always loyal, turning to his most trusted players in crucial situations. Those players might have just gotten him fired. "I couldn't imagine what he's going through right now, as far as emotions," Andy Pettitte said. Earning $7.5 million this year in the final season of his contract, the 67-year-old Torre hasn't decided whether he'd want to return. He seemed open to it in recent weeks. Now it looks as if he won't get that chance, even though he is 76-47 in the postseason with New York. "I've talked to Joe actually a lot this year, just never on the field because people don't want to see that," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "People who know me know the respect I have for Joe." The Yankees were the only first-round playoff loser that wasn't swept. Rest assured that's no consolation to Steinbrenner. "It's not Joe's fault," Alex Rodriguez said. "We've got the most prepared coaching staff and the best manager in the game. It's on us, the players." Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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let them all enjoy their moments in the spotlight. i noticed that the orioles a few days ago released ex-indian jaret wright, a playoff star and hope for the future from just a few years ago. 10/1/07 Baltimore Orioles Released RHP Jaret Wright and RHP Victor Zambrano.

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Agree all the way. accordiing to the yankee broadcasters, the yankee locker room was full of tears as torre addressed the group. this was the end of an era. parity, more or less, has enveloped baseball. there will be a new champion this year, as well. i think, now, that makes seven different champions in 7 years.

i seem to recail that moss took a $6 million pay cut to join a winner. given the lack of loyalty of nfl teams to their players, i hope the decision serves him well.

the met's collapse wasnt oring.

several months ago, several writers, considering the state of the illini facilities, couldnt imagine how they managed to get such an awesome recruiting class. .......scandal just over the horizon? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/stor...&id=3051881

thanks

london jazz composers orchestra was one of my favs, and they were all soloists.

serious serious music. that last hour of piano music was incredible. you apparently only play music of the very highest order. thanks.

has the kazoo been used in any jazz recordings in the last 50 years, other than the AEC recordings? the kazoo adds class and elegance to any setting.

as i recall stanford beat usc with a third string quarterback.

Embrace digital or die, EMI told By Juliette Garside Last Updated: 12:45pm BST 08/10/2007 The new owner of EMI, Britain's largest music group, has warned that the industry will not survive if it continues to rely on CD sales alone. # Radiohead generation believes music is free Guy Hands, the financier whose private equity group, Terra Firma, bought EMI in August, told staff in a confidential e-mail last week that the industry had been too slow to embrace the digital revolution. Hands' letter was in response to the decision by Radiohead, one of the biggest bands nurtured by EMI but now out of contract with the label, to release their latest album via the internet and at a price decided by fans. In the e-mail, sent to staff on Friday, Hands described Radiohead's action as "a wake-up call which we should all welcome and respond to with creativity and energy". "The recorded music industry... has for too long been dependent on how many CDs can be sold," he wrote. "Rather than embracing digitalisation and the opportunities it brings for promotion of product and distribution through multiple channels, the industry has stuck its head in the sand." Many record label bosses believe it is the duty of successful bands to stick with the companies that nurtured them so that their earnings can subsidise new talent. However, bands complain that too much of their money is used to subsidise lavish lifestyles for label bosses. Hands is understood to have been surprised at the size of salaries paid to second-tier executives. On Friday he warned that unless there was a major cultural change, more established bands could follow Radiohead's lead, choosing to cut the label out of the loop and distribute their music directly to consumers. EMI's biggest names include Robbie Williams, Joss Stone and David Bowie, all of whom are established enough to adopt the Radiohead model. With bands' revenues from playing concerts and festivals overtaking their income from CD sales, the decision to break free has become less risky. "Why should they subsidise their label's new talent roster – or for that matter their record company's excessive expenditures and advances?" asks Hands. Radiohead's decision came in the same week that indy -legends The Charlatans decided to give away their new album over the web, also without help from a record label. Tim Burgess, the Charlatans' lead signer, told The Sunday Telegraph: "I want the people to own the music and the artists to own the copyright. Why let a record company get in the way of the music?" Hands suggests moving away from the model of paying large advances – Robbie Williams signed an £80m deal with EMI in 2002 – in exchange for the label's right to keep the majority of the takings from new releases. Instead, labels could simply subsidise the making of an album or the beginning of a tour in exchange for a share in the profits – or losses. Hands is understood to have been impressed by the inventiveness of EMI's music publishing division, which owns the copyright to songs, in making money from new sources. It has licensed lyrics to be printed on jeans and posters and music videos to be played on YouTube. Information appearing on telegraph.co.uk is the copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited and must not be reproduced in any medium without licence. For the full copyright statement see Copyright