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DIED. TOMMY FLANAGAN, 71, refined, influential jazz pianist who accompanied Ella Fitzgerald for more than a decade; of an arterial aneurysm; in New York City. Born in Detroit, Flanagan developed his signature fluid yet concise style in the house band of that city's storied Blue Bird Inn before playing with Fitzgerald for the first time in 1956. In the late '80s he formed his own trios, recording the acclaimed albums Let's and Jazz Poet...
...three calls in August, he talks of "cutting his old ties," claims to be "calmer psychologically" and says, "We have entered into the field of aviation and even cut the bird?s throat...
...Warner Books; 290 pages; $26.95), an astringently unsentimental memoir that may find its place on a shelf with such works as Angela's Ashes, George Orwell's autobiographical essay "Such, Such Were the Joys" and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life. There's a touch of The Painted Bird, of a Hungarian Huckleberry Finn...
...world Parisian charm in the heart of suburban Cambridge. With its oversized wall panel windows and mosaic tiled floors, Metro offers a wide variety of dining options. The fresh-baked pastries, cooked on-site every morning, and variety a of breakfast drinks will entice the early-bird looking for a quiet, not-Starbucks atmosphere to pour over the day’s reading. And the patio tables, tiny enough for two, provide a great open-air lunch option: salad, sandwich and smooch while the weather is still New England brisk...
...Real World, Tom Otterness? playfully satiric sculpture garden. The witty images - a fat cat borne on a huge coin by oppressed little men, the teetering Babel of a miniature skyscraper (protected by a moat where odd creatures lurk), the iron dog eyeing an iron cat eyeing an iron bird eyeing an iron worm - all testify to a Boschian view of predatory capitalism; and the kids love it. And walking through the Winter Garden plaza, we make sure our visitors read the legend, from poet Frank O?Hara, that snakes along a balustrade: ?One need never leave the confines...