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antiquity, including Peru, China, Mexico
and Japan.
Gallery Coordinator Caroline McCabe
calls Crabb adventurous.
“He’s that kind of guy that will get on
that horse to hike down that stream to a
weird trail that leads to an underground
cave with a pool that he dives into,” she
said. McCabe has worked with Crabb
since 1976.
He is down-to-earth when it comes to
his global fame.
“I’m overblown and shirk away from
being known as an international artist, I
don’t see myself as that, I am just very
fortunate,” said Crabb. “The year is not
here yet but its starting to fill in,” he said.
Crabb’s 60 solo and dual exhibits have
been hosted around the world, from
Laguna Beach Art Museum in California
to the Museum of Modern Ceramics in
Castelli, Italy – 24 countries in all. In 1992
Crabb was awarded a Fulbright Scholar
Travel Grant, and chose to go to Queen
Elizabeth II Fine Arts Council in New
Zealand.
—HAIDE HERNANDEZ
HOTLINE
DREAMLAND
OLD SCHOOL
GIRLFIGHT
REUNITED RUCKUS
Sleep Better
Runtastic
Shady XV
Eminem
The Ultimate Fighter
FX
A Better Tomorrow
Wu Tang Clan
Sleep Better is a free new app that
allows users to track their sleep efficiency for the night, analyze their sleeping
patterns and record dreams. By having
the phone, lying next to you near the
pillow, Sleep Better tracks the duration
of sleep sates and categorizes periods of
deep sleep, light sleep and being awake.
The app is offered on both Apple and
Android devices.
The self-proclaimed rap god is back
with a new album, Shady XV, released
Nov. 24. The album has many different
songs that show Slim Shady’s diverse
expertise. The track Twisted is a collaboration featuring Skylar Grey and Yelawolf.
Eminem sticks to singing the chorus
to highlight the underground rapper’s
rhymes. The album is a weighty two-CD
package with 12 new tracks on the first
disk and 16 older hits on the second.
Reality show The Ultimate Fighter has
started its 20th season with a twist. An
all-women cast will battle to become
the inaugural Ultimate Fighting
Championship Strawweight Champion
in the 115-pound weight class. Intense
mixed martial arts matches and
drama will play out with team coaches
Anthony Pettis and Gilbert Melendez
leading the action on Fox Sports 1 every
Wednesday at 7 p.m.
As Wu Tang Clan has gotten older, the
group’s style has matured and their new
album A Better Tomorrow shows it. It
only took 20 years.
Their latest songs have jazzy riffs and
drum beats complementing gritty social
commentary. Necklace is backed by
mellow piano riffs and Keep Watch has
a catchy singsong chorus and strong
drum beats. Surrounded by off-studio
drama, the Wu delivers.
—MATTHEW SALZER
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After four decades of shaping students,
professor Partrick Crabb, a world-class
ceramic artist whose works have been
displayed across the nation, is retiring at
the end of the year.
“I’m very fortunate to have the time to
work and play,” Crabb said.
Crabb describes his style as
deconstructionist, creating art inspired by
broken shards, fragments and incomplete
pieces that used to be part of a whole. His
style is derived from Santero pioneer Rick
Dillingham of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Treks to the Southwest desert, where
shards of broken pottery from ancient
North American tribes, as well as other
ancient art from around the globe,
continue to be sources of inspiration.
“I hope to convey a sense of mystery and
visual power to my viewers,” said Crabb.
“Ancient cultures with its historical
artifacts from many countries layer the
imagery, resulting in a multi-cultural
composition.”
A seasoned globe-trotter, Crabb has
organized 16 art tours to places known for
—KATIE PORTER
—JASMINE WILLIAMS
—SOULIMAN MAIDA
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