As a fitting tribute to their new legal recognition, two law- yers became the first couple to tie the knot in a small City Hall ceremony March 16, according to Reuters. City leaders approved the civil-union law in November, causing heads to spin within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Mexico is one of the largest Catholic countries in the world. Ulises Ruiz, saying his election was fraudulent and that his government consistently retaliated against dis- senters.

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The veteran rep is serving his first term leading the budget charge, making the affable elfin Republican from the Panhandle the second most powerful leader in the House. At first glance, the spending proposal looks to be every- thing the budget writers say it is - a fine specimen of a bud- get that will add more money for education, beef up border security, shore up health and human services and the hob- bled parks system, and put Texas on the road to a cleaner, brighter future see box. Rest assured the Democrats are with them on that one.

Environment - Slim pickings. The same rule has applied in past sessions, but economic times were harder then. With the state a little more flush with cash, Democrats argue, now would be a good time to prop up schools and social services. If the less-government people have their way, and if the Republican leadership follows through on a campaign promise, homeowners could see another property-tax cut in Educators and their advocates The budget ruckus got an early start last week, with the adoption of a rule aimed at preventing Dems from putting more money into traditionally underfunded areas such as education and health care.

There is one bright spot, though. The state contribution rate to the Teacher Retirement System pension fund will jump to 6. From another perspective, the budget offers little financial support to help educators and students meet increased per- formance mandates. As a result, students end up ill-prepared for college and the job market, according to John Stevens, executive director of the Texas Business and Education Coalition, a public-education-friendly group.

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The program was designed by Sen. Whether the latest appropriation will attract any meaningful opposition should become clear today Thursday , as the state budget comes up for debate on the House floor. Dumas Republican David Swinford, chairman of the State Affairs Committee, had asked state Attorney General Greg Abbott to eyeball the proposed legislation to determine how the bills would square with federal law.

Some proposed immi- gration legislation could still be heard, nonetheless, including one that would require undocumented immigrants to pay out-of-state tuition prices at public colleges. The discussion - Watergate and the Media: Did the System Work? Bernstein was shocked when he discovered that Oppel runs the two most important sec- tions of his paper: Fie was amazed that Oppel did not see this as a dangerous conflict of interest. Oppel tried to defend his position by com- paring himself to legendary Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham. Fie said that she was ultimately in charge of both desks, but Bernstein was having none of it.

Oppel was then challenged by both Bernstein and Woodward when he said he thought confidential sources damaged jour- nalism. The giants of the printed word, who, as reporters for The Washington Post, helped legitimize the practice by using leaks from Felt, said they were essential for good journal- ism. And why, despite all, I still help people live pain free. Dear friend, Confessions are tough, real tough. But, sometimes a confession can set the record straight, and I want to give credit where credit is due.

Before I talk about my confession, though, let me say a few other things first. Let me start by explaining the photo in this letter. Something happened to my mother that changed my life forever. My mom was experiencing neck and shoulder pain. She tried medication, physical therapy and acupuncture without results. I was worried that she would have to live with this pain for the rest of her life. My mom realized that traditional medicine had nothing more to offer when her medical doctor said the pain was all in her head.

She finally made an appointment with a chiropractor. Within a short course of treatment, she was pain-free. I was so inspired and excited about the miracle that occurred, I decided to become a chiropractor. Can chiropractic help your children? The baby in the photo is Delia, my niece. At two weeks old, she spent most of her days with clenched fists and her knees to her chest.

My frightened sister and brother-in-law brought Delia to her pediatrician. He said she had heartburn and prescribed baby Zantac. She was then brought to a homeopathic doctor who confirmed she had colic. At eight weeks old, she received her first chiropractic adjustment. Instantly she had a bowel movement. After six more adjustments, her colic and constipation disappeared. The boy in the photo is Nick, my nephew. He started experiencing seizures a year ago. An EEG showed spiking brain waves.

My brother and his wife were scared that he would have to be on medication the rest of his life. I treated Nick for two months before his next EEG. The results were remarkable -no more spiking brain waves, which meant no more medicine! I recently returned to the work force. No more nausea, headaches, or abdominal pain.

Several times a day patients thank me for helping them with their health problems. What I do is perform a specific spinal adjustment to remove nerve pressure, and the body responds by healing itself. We get tremendous results. They tell people a lot of things that are just plain ridiculous about my profession. Forty-five million Americans no longer have health insurance, and those who do have found that their benefits are reduced. Many people find that they actually save money on their health care expenses by seeing a chiropractor.

Another way to save. The immune system fights colds, flues, and other sicknesses. So you may not be running off to the doctor as much. This is especially important if you are self- employed. And, an entire week of care in my office may cost what you could pay for one visit elsewhere. Great care at a great fee Our main location has been helping people for the past 14 years, and we treat over people in the community.

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Further care is very important to consider when making your choice of doctor. High costs can add up very quickly. Our phone number in Austin is: When accompanied by the first, I am also offering the second family member this same examination at no charge. You will be seen within minutes of your appointment. Let's Hang the Artist! On March 12, freshman state Rep. He liked them so little that he took them down off the wall and hid them in his office.

Now no one knows where they are. Miles took down two paintings depicting executions because, he says, he found them offensive. It contained 11 pieces, including three by artists on death row. They were exhibited March - Texas Moratorium Week - in the main corridor on level E2 of the Capitol Extension the bottom underground level. The artwork was selected from a larger touring exhibition, "Justice for All?

The Widow Maker by Reinaldo A. Dennes currently imprisoned in the Polunsky Unit in Livingston shows two white men laughing and drinking at the feet of an old black man lynched from a tree. In the background, a second, chained black man looks despairingly out of a prison window. Cuban- born Dennes was found guilty of the murder of diamond merchant Janos Szucs and is awaiting execution. The second work, by professional artist Shanon Playford of Portland, Ore. Both pieces were on loan from the artists. Miles says he does not regret his actions and claims that more than 50 representatives have told him, either in person or by e-mail, that they support him.

Those were not appropriate. Instead, the art was allowed to speak for itself. Also under board rules, all exhibitions must be sponsored by either a member of the Legislature, the governor, or the lieutenant governor. Harold Dutton - a traditional foe of capi- tal punishment, who has again filed bills this session propos- ing a moratorium or abolition. That is, if the picture turns up. No one seems to know where either painting has gone.

Borris Miles, D-Houston, was walking through the Capitol with his two young children when he saw two works of art in a public corridor he didn't like. The two paintings were part of an exhibition intended to raise awareness of the death penalty in Texas. Gross Training Yoga A yoga based program to help reduce injury and increase physical strength and endurance in multi-sport athletes. This four week series begins Saturday, April 14th from Register soon as spaces will fill quickly!

For more details go to: Come visit our showroom. This after the cafe was found guilty in municipal court in October of of violating a deferred adjudication agreement it had made with the city to come into full code compliance by June of that year, while racking up an unofficial city record of four con- secutive stop work order violations. They just received another, fifth violation. Taube says the city has made an example of the cafe with punitive and selective enforce- ment.

He has also raised eyebrows by filing a motion to compel mediation on the case - something the city says it has repeatedly and unsuccessfully sought - as well as motions seeking depositions from two adjacent neighbor- hood association leaders and Assistant City Attorney Nancy Matchus, who has worked the case from the beginning. Cafe management recently demolished the portion of the deck originally built atop city right-of-way, but the eat- ery still lacks an approved parking arrangement, includ- ing the provision of at least one handicapped parking spot. Matchus says the city has targeted other businesses with enforcement actions over unpermitted decks, espe- cially since the smoking ban pushed smokers outdoors.

Anthony Graves Update A three-judge panel of the 10th Court of Appeals in Waco concluded on March 21 that if state district Judge Reva Towslee-Corbett fails to vacate the gag order that improperly curtails the free speech of Anthony Graves, who is awaiting a retrial for capital murder, the court will use its power to do so. Graves was convicted and condemned to die for the murder of six people inside a home that officials said was set ablaze to cover the crime. Graves has main- tained his innocence, and last year the 5th U.

Circuit Court of Appeals threw out his conviction and death sentence, ruling that Burleson Co. Neighbors, who initially reported the illegal decking, are also largely in disbelief this fracas has played out so long, consuming so many city resources. How exactly Batchelor intends to do that is unknown, since there appears to be some question about what evidence the state has to prove its case. For example, although the state has said that executed inmate Robert Carter implicated Graves as his accom- plice in the multiple murder, Carter more than once denied this claim - including shortly before his execu- tion.

Now, of course, Carter would be unavailable to testi- fy. Indeed, late last year, Chief Texas Ranger Ray Coff- man told the court - no fewer than five times, reports the Houston Chronicle - that Carter repeatedly told him that Graves was not involved in the murder. But at a pre- trial hearing earlier this month, Coffman changed his tes- timony, reportedly saying that Carter never made any such statement. In short, what evidence there is to con- clusively support any of the accusations against Graves is still very much a mystery.

Guzman is a real estate investor and mortgage loan officer, a former president of the Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce, and has a long record of public service, including citizen committee work with AISD. He was introduced by for- mer state Sen. The special election is to replace Rudy Montoya Jr. The other candidates are Fred L. For Now The AISD board of trustees resolved a split between district administration and faculty over middle-school math textbooks Monday, voting to select Holt, the text favored by a majority of middle school teachers.

In a six-to-one vote, the board selected Holt over Connected Mathematics Project, which was originally recommended by administration officials and the textbook committee. The adoption will be in effect anywhere from five years to a decade. The policy states that a textbook-adoption committee must contain a majority of classroom teachers, but the five-person committee only con- tained two teachers, both high school math teachers. The structure of the process was incohesive, teachers said.

Instead of creating one large committee with teacher representatives from each grade level, the district formed three subcommittees, each of which selected different texts. The selections were narrowed to two, and the administration chose Connected, citing data showing success with an earlier version currently in use by the district. An informal survey later done by Education Austin, the union repre- senting district employees, found that roughly two-thirds of Austin teachers chose Holt over Connected. Administration officials Darlene Westbrook and Ann Smisko, who favored Connected, point- ed to its orientation toward discovery and conceptual learning.

Cathy Franke, who teaches sixth-grade math, said AISD teachers have always been creative in their approaches, using various methods. Utah Bl, laze game. CALL To purckase tickets or visit austinwranglers. Judge Bill Ale- shire and Williamson Co. Filed in by Williamson Co. The county maintains the lawsuit is both moot and inconsequential.

Aleshire and his co-counsel, former Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, argue that the case could set a statewide precedent, either permitting or precluding commissioners from using purse strings to punish other elect- ed officials any time they want. He testified in district court that he even feared a removal suit over the issue. As it turned out, the redeployment lasted only a single day. Nevertheless, the next day, Oct. At its most basic level, the lawsuit argues that commissioners legally have just one chance each year to use the budget process to set county priorities.

Justice Henson asked whether Griffin had issued orders for his deputies to refuse all mental-health calls, citing a transcript to that effect.

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Aleshire pointed out that Griffin was not the speaker in the call and that his actual orders were to evaluate calls on a case-by-case, triage basis, as document- ed by a later transcript; moreover, Griffin had reinstated his earlier standing orders well before the budget meeting, missing not one mental-health call that day.

Beginning with the argument, accepted by Judge Clawson, that the district court cannot interfere in county business, attorneys for Williamson Co. Via e-mail, Williamson Co. Ackley both did a tre- mendous job arguing the case, and I am confident that the Court will make the right decision. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, has offered a modest proposal to downgrade the criminal penalties associated with possession of small amounts of pot.

Currently, pos- session of up to 1 ounce of marijuana is a class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to days in jail, meaning get- ting popped with even a single joint - or, worse, mere seeds and stems - could net a six-month stay in the county lockup. With criminal justice costs spi- raling and the jail and prison population bulging, this possible punishment seems, even on its face, a tad crazy. It frees up law enforcement to deal with more serious crimes, as well as eas- ing jail congestion while still providing a significant criminal penalty.

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But what about those pesky Democrats who won control of Congress and are making nois- es about a staged withdrawal and threatening to investigate war profiteering? Corporate lobbyists note that Democrats, like Republicans, take campaign funds from these same contractors and that such presidential hopefuls as Sen. As one industry analyst smugly puts it: It imposed a one-week ban on any stories about Paris Hilton.

Could AP stick with it? Would the Earth wobble on its axis if this party-going heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune did not get her daily dose of glamour cover- age? She had a fab birthday bash in Las Vegas, but, uh-uh, not one word about it issued from this brave news source. Then she had a second birthday blowout at a Beverly Hills res- taurant, where one of her friends got ejected for insulting Paula Abdul and Courtney Love - yet AP stoically let it pass, refusing to rise to the bait of this delicious celebrity gossip.

Where the party starts. The developer, to its credit: Someone they could trust as a translator. What would the huge development inside the black box be like? No one really knew. After the cliffhanger, the emergency motion passed calmly Monday on third reading, , with Jennifer Kim and Betty Dunkerley absent. While it seemed unlikely that any- one on the dais could know precisely what the documents said, if the parties were happy, council was happy. Private Agreements The difficulties at Concordia mirror those of other recent controversies involving massive inner-city redevelopments using PUD planned unit development zoning - including the St.

Related neighborhood battles have brought into high relief the flaws with PUDs. While PUDs are intended as a tool to create better projects on large tracts, in fact developers have been seek- ing PUD zoning to neatly avoid all restrictions on height and neighborhood compatibility, without doing superior urban planning. For the neighborhoods, this diagram from the project architect still left too many critical questions unanswered - such interstate 35 as whether tall new buildings could shoot up directly behind existing homes - and it showed too few roads.

As a PUD, the project could ignore the usual restrictions on height and setbacks that ensure compatibility with exist- ing neighborhoods - creating even greater distrust of the plan. At Concordia, the city was conservative about the requirements it would write into city ordinance. But for a number of matters in the public interest, the city could not - or would not - write the requirements into the PUD.

This left the neighborhood asso- ciation holding the bag; to get these conces- sions, it had to enter into a private restrictive covenant with developer East Avenue IG. Should problems arise, it will be HNA and its private citizen members who must enforce the cove- nants - and pay for legal costs - to protect the public interest. We need to rewrite the code, to make it clear that along with PUD zoning, council can ask for enhancements like afford- able housing and green space and parkland dedication.

McCracken emphasized on the dais that the city needs to shift its policy toward land- use planning for its long-term future, rather than just the next budget cycle. Others were writ- ten into a private covenant with the Hancock Neighborhood Association. Youths Encouraged to Attend. Theoretically, avoiding that finding could later increase his chance to earn parole.

With that understanding, Gross offered him- self up to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for incarceration. By all publicly available accounts, Gross has kept up his end of the bargain. In just three years Gross accumulat- ed 22 years of good- time credits and, as a result, first became eligible for parole in Given his stellar record behind bars, Medlock says, Gross felt confident he would earn release.

In fact, Gross has been denied parole six times - and he has no idea why. In actual practice, each member reviews dozens or hundreds of inmate files with little or no opportunity to confirm their contents, mean- ing their decisions are often arbitrary at best, and at worst, inaccurate and unjust. Overall in the most recent year avail- able , the Board of Pardons and Paroles reviewed 71, offender files and approved 19, inmates for parole.

Frustrated, Gross filed suit against the parole board and TDCJ for violating his right to due pro- cess under law. Now, with the help of the TCRk Gross is set to present his case in federal district court in Houston, arguing that the parole board has violated his Gross' lawyer, Texas Civil Rights Project attorney Robert Gross civil rights by denying him a fair opportunity to be granted parole.

Fast month, during a joint session of the House Corrections Committee and the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, for exam- ple, Owens caught some serious lip. In contrast, the rate of approval for the least violent offend- ers fell far below the minimum rate. Among its many recommen- dations, the Sunset Commission called on the board to update its guidelines, to regularly update law- makers on board activities, and to actually follow the parole guidelines. That pattern has contributed to a bulging prison population, in part because many low-level nonviolent offend- ers - inmates like Robert Gross - have been denied release, seemingly for no justifiable reason.

The parole board is allowed to deviate from the guidelines, but the commission found that it often does so without citing any specific reason beyond those factors already used to calculate the basic risk factor. Representing himself, Gross first filed suit in , and his case was unceremoniously dis- missed by the courts several times until , when his second appeal to the U.

Supreme Amur's crJy dfcilc sJnc-a But, the way the system is cur- rently configured, Gross is not allowed to see the contents of the file and thus has no mvw. It was pretty amaz- ing: Incarcerated and without legal representa- tion, Gross took his case all the way to the U. Supreme Court and won the right to argue that the state has subverted his attempt to secure a fair and thorough parole hearing. Although many states do acknowledge that an inmate has a right to a due process interest in parole determinations, Habem says the Texas statutes do not specifically acknowl- edge that right.

In fact, says Habern, parole-file errors are incredibly common. Without the possibility of a reward for inmates that avail themselves of reha- bilitative opportunities - like education and work programs - what motivation is there to do anything more than mark time? Indeed, says Medlock, one way or another the majority of inmates will eventually be released back into the community. Gross took his case all the way to the U. Supreme Court and won the right to argue his case.

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The flatness and the sky distort space. Then you come upon an almost ghost town, one of hundreds across the West and Midwest. Just a few homes, and some are empty. Engraved in stone over the front doors: They expected something here that never happened: Floydada, the county seat, is a few miles north of Cone. Like most county seats in such places, a proud, well-built courthouse in the center of town marks where the action used Blues to be.

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Driving the four streets that branch off from the old courthouse, I counted 55 defunct stores. Try and find them. The people who built this place did not expect this to happen. Continue north on State Road Up the road is what used to be a farmhouse. Just its corner remains, gray bent wood, beside a tilting gray privy. You see a lot of that in the middle of nowhere, all over the West and Midwest. Down in Terlingua on the Rio Grande, Spider Johnson and I sat on an old porch from which we could see what was left of several long-abandoned homes.

Another county seat, founded in , the time when Dixie and I would drive ish its proud and all-but-empty courthouse was miles from Clarendon, across the Red River built in A Web site reports that in , and up the Caprock to a cafe in Silverton that Silverton had 27 businesses. That was around baked terrific pies. Austin is our city. It smiles when we do. That cafe still stands, empty, like most of Silverton, where there are no longer 27 businesses. More like seven, if that. Clarendon sits on four lanes of U. The road and a junior college keep the town alive, but I counted 33 empty store- fronts.

They left no ruins, just graves. This road follows the route of the cattle drives on their way to Dodge City, Kan. In Paducah, miles south of Clarendon, I counted again: Drive any direction for hundreds and hundreds of miles and you see the same thing. The archi- tecture is different but always the beautifully built and long-abandoned county courthouse and dozens of empty stores. Instead, you see mostly large white people of a certain ilk, the great- and great-great- and great-great- great-grandchildren of those who pioneered these plains.

And many of these folks disliked me on sight. I forget the name of the Kansas town where we stopped for lunch. It was like a scene in an old Western: We walk in; everybody looks; everybody stares as we take our seats. Dave, he could be a businessman from down the road as, in fact, he is - distinguished looking, tall, gray hair, casual clothes. But the people in that Kansas diner, in particular - they looked at me with naked, livid hatred. So did old women in Nebraska the next day.

Sitting with his friends at lunch, he stopped eating and stared at me. His face was trembling - trembling! I expected something nasty to go down, but all he did was stare. Perhaps this is why: These people are watching their towns die. Watching their way of life die. Giant agribusiness, globalization, politicians sell- ing them out, a tidal wave of history sweep- ing them away.

Republicans and right-wing demagogues play to them, so they vote for Republicans. Liberals and Democrats rarely come to talk to them, and still more rarely talk with them - why, then, would they vote for liberals and Democrats? They want somebody to blame - a useless but human need. They expected to live prosperously in these places for centuries - their courthouses were built to last centuries. Austin's largest spiritual and metaphysical bookstore. A non -profit organization founded by Austinites in A Spiritual "filling station.

Please apply in person. The money raised with your tax deductible donation will support Literacy Austins adult educational programs. Austin For more info, call or visit www. Passes are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Passes do not guarantee admission. For more info, please call 1. Patterson, a principal dancer with Ballet Austin, is making her fourth appearance.

For more information, call or visit www. Eastside resident Klinefelter spent a year and a half carving the work, which is now the largest carved granite sculpture in Central Texas. The work, consisting of 11 bent pine sculptural forms, will be installed above the window wall in the library reading room. Its creator, Wimberley artist Heather Carter, calculated how much carbon was emitted during the creation of the work and planted three trees out- side the library to absorb this carbon dioxide.

For more information, visit www. Vox Americana redux American cho- ral music, which tends to get lost in the shadow of its older sibling across the Atlantic, took center stage in a big way earlier this year when Conspirare host- ed a major regional confer- ence on the sub- ject.

This weekend sees not one but two concerts by local ensembles spotlighting cho- ral works from the land of the free and home of the brave. James Morrow con- ducts. These are concerts that will have you wanting to hear America singing all year long! For more information , call or visit www. The stars at night are big and bright You can see a ton of stars in the Lone Star State and not just by looking up at the night sky.

Richardson Foundation Foundation Arts Patron. For information, call or visit www. One of the most prestigious anywhere is the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, which has about as royal a rock pedigree as one can get: He and Mark Featherstone-Witty, who saw the film Fame and was inspired to develop a similar training academy in England, opened the performing-arts college to provide broad-based training for young artists aspiring to professional careers in theatre, dance, and popular music.

The pair launched the venture in in the same old building where McCartney had gone to school, and in its first decade, LIPA grew from students to students from 40 countries, about 40 of whom come from the States. The local auditions are for the three-year degree pro- grams in theatre, music, and entertainment management; theatre and performance design; theatre and performance technology; music; per- forming-arts music; and sound technology and for the one-year diploma programs in song and in popular music and sound technology.

For information about LIPA, visit www. In the spirit of this program, the Chronicle offers its own introduction to this creative giant. He came into the world midway through and deep into an El Paso summer so you can just imagine what that labor was like. That was where the young Luis, who worked in the shop from the time he was 6 years old all the way through high school, learned to paint and fashion large works out of metal, and the imag- ery he saw there - the Hispanic cowboys and Mexican calendar maidens and such - came to inform his own artistic work.

Despite his early leanings toward art, Jimenez majored in architecture when he enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin in a decision influenced by his business- minded father. That time at UT constituted a true turning point for Jimenez. He suffered through lean years there as well, supporting himself for much of the time by working in a federal program for minority youth, but he did land a job as studio assistant to sculptor Seymour Lipton and eventually secured a solo show at the Graham Gallery. The El Paso native created art on a grand scale, constructing vibrantly colored fiberglass sculptures of Aztec warriors and working-class immigrants, vaqueros and wild horses, which were truly monumental feet tall, 25 feet, more.

The Mustang that he was working on at the time of his death in June of - that literally killed him, tragically enough - was 32 feet tall. And the outsized generosity and good cheer - to fellow artists, to students, to neighbors, to nonprofits - as for his artwork. The unexpected death of sculptor Luis Jimenez shocked those who knew him.

But the giant footprints he left behind are still clear. Throughout his four-decade career, Jimenez was embroiled in extremely heated wrangles over his choice of materials fiberglass being too lowbrow for high art , his choice of sub- jects poor immigrants and Aztecs not being Western enough for Western art , and his depic- tion of his own people reinforcing negative stereotypes of Latinos. The artist was able not only to defend himself against such charges but frequently to win over his critics because he had a smile and a heart at least as big as his sculptures.

Self-proclaimed "complete package" Craig Charles actor, poet, DJ, radio host, stand-up seems to be enjoying life as Britain's most famous funk and soul fan. As with its predecessor, this sixth volume does a good job in showcasing the best in modern funk, soul, Afrobeat and heavy Latin jams, with a few stone cold classics thrown in see the Mighty Ryeders' peerless "Evil Vibrations". Look out for deep and heavy funk gems from the Bamboos, the New Mastersounds and Lance Ferguson's Rare Groove Spectrum, some suitably smooth fare from Courtney Pine and Omar, a scintillating, salsa-focused cover of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by Scotland's Grupo Magnetico, and a dash of dancefloor goodness from funk breaks scene stalwarts Smoove and Turrell.


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As part of their ongoing 50th birthday celebrations, German jazz label MPS asked Italian musician and crate digger Nicola Conte to trawl through their archives for spiritual gold. The result is "Cosmic Forest", an eye-opening set of largely obscure and little known tracks originally recorded between and There is much "straight-up" spiritual jazz to enjoy Nathan Davis' "Evolution" being a prime example , but it's the cuts that draw on a wider palette of influences that really stand out. The Cuban Brothers drop some heat of their own with this surprising compilation that blurs the lines between original music and DJ composition.

La Familia does have some odd their sounds on it, namely the opening "I Hate Hate", a funky-ass pop tune that kicks this thing off on the right foot, but the majority of it is made from the very artists who launched funk and pop onto the world stage. During the British jazz-dance scene's late '70s and early '80s boom, there were few DJs that the dancers loved more than Colin Curtis. Still DJing today after 50 years behind the decks, Curtis was a natural choice to put together Z Records' first compilation dedicated to jazz-dance, jazz-funk and fusion sounds.

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