Beauty Geek Jenny Nate

Count pianist Bobby Few as one of those jazz artists deserving more recognition. Chalk his low profile up to expatriation—he's lived in Paris since 1969. Unless you've followed the career of Albert Ayler—Few played on Ayler's Music is the Healing Force of the Universe (Impulse!, 1969)—or soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy (Few was the pianist in Lacy's sextet from 1982-92), chances are that this distinctive stylist hasn't cascaded, with his lush and tumultuous approach, onto your listening radar.

Though appearing on numerous records on small European labels over the years, it has been, until recently, difficult to find Bobby Few on CD in the U.S. His teaming with reedman Avram Fefer on Kindred Spirits and Heavenly Places (both discs from Boxholder Records, 2005) and Sanctuary (CIMP Records, 2006) is beginning to rectify the “hard-to-find” aspect of Bobby Few on CD.

September 2007

Alice L. Baumann, 86, of Watertown, died Thursday afternoon, Sept. 27, 2007, at the Watertown Memorial Hospital, from pneumonia, following a major stroke. She was proud to have survived two courageous bouts with cancer.Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Hafemeister Funeral Home in Watertown with the Rev. Ray Bezanson of the Advent Christian Church of Watertown, presiding. Burial will be at the River Road Cemetery in Ixonia.Family and friends may call to pay their respects on Monday at the Hafemeister Funeral Home in Watertown from 5 to 8 p.m. and on Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service. Memorials may be given to the Advent Christian Church or to the charity of choice.Alice was born in Watertown on June 13, 1921, daughter of the late John and Edna (Schroeder) Fredrich.

Passion for bodybuilding

AT first glance, Kimberley Chai Wan Xian looks just like any other college girl with her bubbly smile and waist-length hair. But her broad build, narrowing into a 25'' waist, and the veins that run up her forearms, are indications that she is the rare female bodybuilder.

The Taylor's University College student, who is also a freelance personal trainer, talks about her passion for bodybuilding.

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FINE ARTS CALENDAR

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7-9 p.m. Mondays, Tattnall Square Academy, Trojan Way. Open to anyone with at least four years of experience with an instrument.

Coming full circle: insight into the work of Hassib Mroue

"Home I said to the man my passport wet in his hands, I want to go home." Such is the poignant imagery infused throughout the poetry of Hassib Mroue, an accomplished Lebanese-American poet and travel writer who, were it not for his untimely death last month, would have celebrated his birthday on Monday. Known to most as Haas, Mroue was the author of "Beirut Seizures," one of the most powerful English-language collections of war-related poetry to come out of Lebanon in the early 1990s. Mroue published "Beirut Seizures," from which the above lines are taken, when he was 28. The sensibilities evident in his writings are a reflection of who he was as a world citizen. "The authority of [Mroue's] detailed witness stands, irrefutable, and profoundly persuasive," noted the late American poet June Jordan.

Going Hollywood with Posh and Zoe

Style advice books are piling up this fall like bargain hunters at a sample sale.

If you don't mind fashion help filtered through the lens of celebrity, there are tips and tricks spilling out of the closets and onto the pages. The new guides are by Victoria Beckham, England's "poshest" expatriate, style icon and wife of soccer superstar David Beckham; and Rachel Zoe, a Hollywood stylist with a client list that includes Demi Moore and Mischa Barton.

The authors share an affinity for glamour and toupee tape, shopping at vintage stores and wearing 5-inch heels, as well as other trappings of the high life. Here's a look. .

HOROSCOPE

ARIES (March 20-April 18): Who likes being criticized? Speak to a loved one the way you�d like to be spoken to and that confrontation turns into a meaningful exchange.

TAURUS (April 19-May 19): Pursuing a topic when told to back off is no way to win trust. Let this person come to you when s/he feels ready. It shows sensitivity and you earn respect.

GEMINI (May 20-June 19): Once again a capricious client or customer changes his mind�but this time it benefits you.

CANCER (June 20-July 21): You sympathize with a friend�s travails, but he can still return a phone call. Tell him to shape up or your emotional support will be shipping out.

LEO (July 22-August 21): Don�t respond to hysterics with hysterics because it would be like pouring gasoline on a fire. You need to be the cool voice of reason.