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Music Review: Another portrait of Bob Dylan
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In the latest entry of his ongoing vault-diving releases, Bob Dylan revisits one of his least-heralded albums. “Self Portrait,” released in 1970, is remembered less today for its music than the classic first line of a Rolling Stone magazine review by Greil Marcus that greeted it: “What is this (expletive)?” It was hard not to see why. The cultural icon baffled his fans with a badly-produced collection of minor compositions, some live cuts, covers of traditional folk and blues songs a n d ev e n contemporary songs like “The Boxer.” Marcus, who writes the liner notes for this four-disc box set, wisely doesn’t step back from that assessment. He shouldn’t. Time doesn’t improve the work. It seems amazing four decades later that an artist of Dylan’s caliber would take such a hands-off attitude toward his art, packing up his basic tracks and sending them to a Nashville producer who adds some truly cringe-worthy arrangements. Maybe that was precisely the point. Two of the discs in this b o x a r e primarily
Dylan’s original recordings with several outtakes, most with minimal arrangements. They’re almost uniformly better than what was on the original “Self Portrait.” There are a handful of interesting curios: a version of “If Not for You” with a haunting violin accompaniment, an unreleased studio session with George Harrison and a full band version of “I Threw It All Away.” Disc three is a recording of the 1969 concert at the Isle of Wight festival, which interrupted a period of seclusion for Dylan. Hard to go wrong with a recording of Dylan performing with The Band, but the performance has a tentative, almost rushed feel to it. Although the “Self Portrait” sessions seemed strange at the time, Dylan’s subsequent work gives it more context. Still performing regularly at 72, Dylan’s concerts keep his formidable catalogue alive along with an American blues, rock and folk tradition that predates even him. These 1970 recordings make clear that even back then, Dylan was constantly inspired by it. Marcus has another theory to explain “Self Portrait,” suggesting it was Dylan’s attempt to step away from people who worshipped him as a musical genius, a voice of his generation. “He was trying to quit, but no one would accept his resignation,” he wrote. Fine. So why would anyone want to buy a four-disc resignation statement? Through the years, Dylan’s bootleg series has provided some real thrills, and interesting new perspectives on his work. This one doesn’t. Only completists will find something interesting.
Equity of tourism has not been realized
Damon, Panettiere get Environmental Media Awards Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — The Environmental Media Association is honoring Matt Damon and Hayden Panettiere for their dedication to ecological causes. The organization announced Monday that the two actors will be honored at its 23rd annual Environmental Media Awards this fall. Damon will receive the Ongoing Commitment Award for his work with Water.org, the organization he co-founded that aims to bring safe water and sanitation to people around the world. The 42-year-old actor says he hopes the award brings attention to Water.org’s efforts “to bring clean water to communities around the world and inspire new friends and partners to join the fight.” Panettiere will accept the Futures Award, which recognizes younger entertainers for their potential to be environmental activists. The “Nashville” star is active with the Whaleman Foundation, an oceanic research and conservation group. The 24-year-old actress said she’s excited to talk about her work with the Whaleman Foundation and “using my voice to protect our oceans and their amazing inhabitants.” The prizes will be presented at a ceremony on Oct. 19 at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California.
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FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2013 file photo, Matt Damon attends a photo call for “Elysium” at the Four Seasons, in Los Angeles.
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Tourists enjoying panorama at traditional harbor. The hotel and restaurant trade sector (PHR) poses the greatest contributor to the growth of tourism growth. Contribution of hotel and restaurant trade to the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up to the second quarter of this year reached 29.83 percent. Bali Post
DENPASAR - The hotel and restaurant trade sector (PHR) poses the greatest contributor to the growth of tourism growth. Contribution of hotel and restaurant trade to the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up to the second quarter of this year reached 29.83 percent. However, so far the equality of Bali tourism has not been achieved because the tourism activities remain to be concentrated on Southern Bali. Chairman of the Bali Regional Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD), Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, said that tourism growth in the future should be equitable and sustain the contributions to the development of Bali. On that account, it was required serious ef-
forts to fix the existing destinations by constantly featuring cultural tourism. “The tourism development in Bali still refers to cultural tourism. It’s the culture becoming the spirit of Bali tourism. When shifted, it will kindle complicated problems
later on,” said the man familiarly called Cok Ace, in Denpasar. He explained the total tourist arrivals to Indonesia through the Ngurah Rai Airport (Bali) had contributed 35.60 percent. Meanwhile, the result of survey made by Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali Nusra in May 2013 indicated there was tendency of increase in the foreign tourist arrival this year. Besides, the indicator of tourist spending was also higher than the same period in 2012 reaching USD 150.23 per person with the longer length of stay of foreign tourists this year than the same period the previous year, reaching 8.55 days.
The high interest of foreign tourist in visiting Bali should be poised by doing promotions. Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali, Ngurah Wijaya, said the BPPD Bali had an integrated promotional plan putting an emphasis on the five divisions, namely the sport division, MICE division, silver division, leisure division and creative division. “We will strive to jointly develop the tourism in Bali so that it can realize the even distribution in the future,” he said. Meanwhile, the Representative Head of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali Nusra, Dwi Pranoto,
said the survey conducted by Bank Indonesia Region III indicated that most foreign tourists (96.30 percent) visited Bali with a major purpose of spending holidays and came with family (54.17 percent) as well as with relations or friends (30.72 percent). By and large, they stayed at star hotel (70.11 percent), non-star hotel (30.72 percent) and villa or apartment (16.36 percent). “Hotel and restaurant trade sector has become the most widely worked on,” said Dwi Pranoto while adding that tourism industry was a major driving force for the economic performance of Bali. (kmb27)