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...gone. A generation after Stokes' breakthrough, black mayors are no longer a novelty, and the high hopes that their arrival would usher in a new era of urban revival have long since faded. Hobbled by age, ill health and ! frustration, three of the longest-serving black mayors -- L.A.'s Tom Bradley, Detroit's Coleman Young and Atlanta's Maynard Jackson -- have declined to seek re-election. Several cities where black mayors once reigned -- Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles -- have reverted to white control, and New York City may be about to join them. But the big turnover at city hall...
...Blaze of Glory, the longest, oldest and most dated-sounding of the three records here, covers Miller's collegiate and post-collegiate life ("Bad Year at UCLA" would have been "Bad Year at U.C. Davis," but he couldn't find a rhyme for "Davis"). Pointed Accounts of People You Know (1983) and Distortion (1984) are shorter and easier to dig, with delights to be found not only in the multiple melodies and the self-conscious wit, but in the sheer breadth of brightly muddy synth sound in, say, "Metal and Glass Exact...
SMALL FACTORY I Do Not Love You CD/LP (spinArt) Small Factory are on America's longest-running sugar high. The Providence, R.I., trio used to bounce onstage with what looked like a miked acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass guitar, perfectly suited to the clean sound, rapid strum and deliberately amateurish vocal harmonies that dominate their speedy indie-pop. Alex now plays an ordinary electric bass, but the unpretentious spirit has stayed the same: "Come Back Down," or anything else from the second half of this album, will have anyone remotely tune-sensitive bobbing her head up and down...
42nd Street. Touring production of the Tony Award-winning musical, which is the third-longest running show on Broadway. Through Oct. 10. Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston St., Boston. Call 426-9366 for more information...
...sophisticated entertainment. Linklater follows various groups of classmates around on the afternoon, evening and night of the last day of high school, accompanied by a nostalgic '70s soundtrack of ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, etc. There aren't main characters in the traditional sense, but the camera rests longest on the high school quarterback Pink (Jason London), and on soon-to-be-first-year Mitch (Wiley Wiggins). If Pink wants to stay on the football team, he has to sign a new anti-drug and alcohol agreement; all of his teammates have signed already with every intention of disregarding...