Friday, September 17, 2004
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Pygmalion'
playwright
5 Indian title of
respect
10 Travel document
14 elephantine
15 Dodge
16 N ce girllriend 7
1 / Skip
18 Sing Sing
quarters
19 Involved in
20 NYC financial
district
22 Wide smile
23 Deceitful person
24 Draws off. as
iquid
26 Peachy keen 1
30 Wander about
31 Very ary
34 Plant anchor
36 Release a catch
39 Moving true*
40 Diva's room
42 Shoe part
43 Profoundly
disturbing
45 Spi t apart
46 Frank Herbert
sci-fi classic
47 Freshly
49 Fu'lough
51 Unidentified
woman
54 Sanms and
Lazarus
58 Washington Sq
Theater
59 Sun too long
63 BTU part
64 Navy SEAL, e g
65 Setting
66 Cairo's river
67 Take ihe wheel
68 the Red
69 Young adu t
70 Sites for some
sales
/l Yearnings
DOWN
1 Exhibits
? Mortal
3 Quick on one s
feet
4 Marsh
5 Offshoot group
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6 Maintain Solutions
7 Hearty male 9
8 Marks time
9 Rouse to action
10 Singer Sarah
11 Off the cuff
12 Passive protest
13 Geological
periods
21 Word before
bool or |ump
25 Officiate at tea
2 / To and
28 _ de foice
29 Alpine warble
3i Gardner of
‘Moyamtx)'
32 Unrefined
33 Chi dish
35 Sound properly
37 Charged
particle 48 Full o‘ trees 56 Sean of 'The
38 Bom in France 50 Irritate Lord of the
40 Ran in the wash 51 Outing H ngs'
41 Nev neighbor 52 Comic-strip 57 Searches tor
44 Left on the orphan 60 For al time
plate 53 Madonna f ole 61 Woodwinc
46 Jack or Patrick 55 Watered taboc 62 Blunders
ST'UIDSEftHI'T 1 Jr =
Healthly foods are
affordable (almost)
By Marilynn Marter
Knight Ridder Newspapers
You've decided to start eating more organically grown
foods, especially fresh produce.
Join the crowd. Sales of organics have been climb
ing about 20 percent a year in the United States and 25
percent in Europe for the last decade, according to the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2002 National Or
ganic Program Report. That makes organics the fast
est-growing segment in the food industry, the agency
said.
Bui aren't organics harder to find and a lot more ex
pensive than conventional foods?
Forget the I%()s image of ferreting out a few pale,
wilted greens on a dusty health-foods-store shelf. To
day, more than halt of the nation's organic-food sales
come from supermarkets, including Whole Foods
Markets' 153 U.S. stores, and mass retailers such as
Super Target (which sells organic beef and chicken),
Wal-Mart and Costco.
Though nationwide sales topped $lO billion last year,
organics still represented barely 2 percent of total food
purchases. The USDA expects that share to triple,
climbing past $3O billion, by 2<X)7. Yet the debate con
tinues over whether organic foods are really better for
health.
Recently, we shopped at 10 markets in and around
Nelly s two sides would play better as one
By Tom Moon
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Throughout a four-year career that's rocketed straight
upward, the inega-platinum-selling St. Louis rapper,
Nelly, has dominated urban music with two distinct
styles—hard-cranking, instantly infectious party an
thems (most notably "Hot in Herre") and more tender
introspections on the order of the current "My Place,"
whose hook is sung by Jaheim.
On Sept. 14, Cornell Haynes, the smart business
man, sets out to exploit the dual "dimensions" of his
art more aggressively with the simultaneous release
of two seriously hyped, full-length discs.
"Sweat." Nelly’s allegedly "street" offering
chronicles the world of a hip-hop star whose high-roll
ing posse lives to "let a grand hang out." And right
next to it on the CD rack there's "Suit," which invites
listeners to relax, kick back, and experience the softer
side of Nelly.
On paper, the double dose is a stroke of demo
graphic-savvy genius: "Sweat" caters to the largely
male rowdy crowd; "Suit" appeals to the sizable pool
of female hip-hop lovers who seek something mel
lower than gangsta's tiresome gunplay and confronta
tion.
But in pop/hip-hop, circa 2004, more isn't necessar
ily better. Separating things by tone and style, Nelly
has created solid, but samey and long-winded docu
ments reminiscent of R. Kelly's current double-disc
set. Happy People/U Saved Me, 1 ' that only the most
devoted of his core audience w ill devour cover to cover.
The discs are less cohesive conceptual statements than
strings of singles aimed at subsets of the Nelly con
stituency.
The tactic quickly reveals itself to be a trap: After
six sensitivo tracks on "Suit," Nelly uncorks an ode to
a car called "Woodgrain and Leather Wit a Hole." that
suggests he s exhausted his lover man repertoire and
is casting desperately for another lust object.
It's the peril of outsized ambition: Moments of spar
kling, sure-to-be-everywhere party music on "Sweat"
(Universal, 3 out of four stars) sit next to dim exer
cises that wouldn t have merited inclusion on a tightly
edited, more diverse disc. Likewise, after a few rounds
of the plush, bedroom chatter that defines "Suit (Uni
versal, 2 1/2 stars), Nelly's empathetic rhymes over
pitter-pattering rhythms seem forced, willfully soft.
Had Nelly plucked the best of each, he'd have one
relentless, 45-minute blast of hookcraft.
Releasing twin discs was a miscalculation. Yet the
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Philadelphia (both conventional and organic/natural
foods stores, including supermarkets, co-ops and even
a farm stand) to compare the selection and prices of
their organic produce.
On the plus side, we found supplies were good and
quality excellent. And prices, while high, were rarely
outrageous. There were even a few bargains.
On the downside, finding what you want at the best
price may take some searching.
We compared prices for six of the most widely avail
able types of organic produce (bell peppers, green seed
less grapes, hearts of romaine, peaches, red potatoes,
and tomatoes) at the five local stores with the most
variety.
Co-ops had some of the best prices. But co-ops' in
ventories can be small and sell out quickly. And many
require members to contribute some "sweat equity" to
the enterprise.
for the rest of us, the convenience at Whole Foods
and other chains is probably worth the higher prices.
We also made some price comparisons between
Whole Foods and the other stores for larger imaginary
market baskets of a wider variety of identical items.
The selection and number of items for each compari
son v ary, since no store surveyed stocked organic ver
sions ol all ol the foods we looked for.
trie \ local Whole Foods Cooperative is located at 1134
West 26th Street.
sparks on each suggest that Nelly has hit stride. He's
progressed tar from "Country Grammar," his nine
million-selling 2900 debut that introduced the world
to St. Louis' slurred r's ("everybody becomes
em body) atul now sounds like a novelty record. These
days, the 29-year-old exudes calm as a rapper, and in
several spots, including "Suit's reflective "N Dey Say,"
built on Spandau Ballet's "True," strives to be the voice
ol reason. Talking to a single mother raising two kids
while her man is behind bars, he urges her to keep her
head up: "Please don't despise and go against all broth
ers. and have a hatred in your heart and take it out on
another."
More important, he's evolved into a highly efficient
melody machine with an unerring sense of balance
(between breathless raps and grabby song refrains,
between harsh rhetoric and party music) and that rare
ability, most recently displayed by Outkast, to gener
ate catchphrases that hang around long after the song
ends.
"Sweat "offers a string of these in a row: the insinu
ating chant Na-NaNa-Na'; the salacious, Neptunes
produced Hap Your Wings"; an unexpectedly heart
felt foray into consciousness reggae, "River Don't
Runnn," that features Murphy Lee and Stephen
Marley; and an addictive, wound-tight James Brown
groove. Tilt Ya Head Back," that's the best thing Chris
tina Aguilera has sung on in ages.
Each of these tracks has its own message and at
least several clever Nelly lines, but what makes them
soar are the musical touches on the fringes, the slash
ing horns that punctuate "Tilt Ya Head Back," the la
menting, old-school harmony Ronald Isley brings to
the Big Boi-produced "She Don't Know My Name,"
the highlight of "Suit." Some rappers treat these ear
candy elements as afterthoughts. They’re Nelly's pri
mary preoccupation, and a reason why even his light
weight material (see "Suit’s" ode to foot fetishism,
"Pretty Toes") is compelling: He's making grabby,
accessible hip-hop for the masses. The tracks of
"Sweat" and, to a lesser extent "Suit," are almost over
loaded, roaring with sound and in constant motion in
the over-the-top revue style of Outkast and Missy
Elliott. It s hard not to be drawn into the relentless
stomping grcxives and grinding backbeats.
That energy, which steamrolls through both discs,
is ultimately the best argument for a single-disc pack
age. It turns out there isn’t all that much artistic dis
tance between the club-going Nelly and the homebody
Nelly. A carefully culled, and considerably shorter.
Sweatsuit would have said much more than a
"Sweat" and a "Suit."