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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wonderful world of Beans, aka Mr. Ballbeam: Hip Hop rebel, wordsmith extraordinaire, sonic architect, fashion renegade and published poet. Raised in White Plains, NY, Beans first demanded attention in the mid-90's as part of the Soup / Boom Poetic collective, but achieved his widest acclaim as 1/3 of the legendary NYC progressive rap crew Anti Pop Consortium. With lyrical virtuosity, vanguard production, and one of the most unique and remarkable live performances around, Beans harkens back to the glory days when it was about skill, passion, and the desire to be really real. Having shared stages with Radiohead, Vernon Reid, Pharoahe Monch, Aesop Rock, DJ Shadow, Cannibal Ox, Attica Blues, and Terranova to name a few, Beans has also collaborated with Bill Laswell, Prefuse 73, Funkstorung, Mike Ladd, Techno Arrival, DJ Spooky, and Aceyalone. He also has credentials as having DJ'ed at The Guggenheim and being the DJ for Missy Elliott. Beans has displayed his multitudinous skills and the response has been overwhelming having first created a solo imprint with "Nude Paper" and then releasing a 12" single on Mo'wax in 2000. These gave us a taste of things to come. The future is now and Beans is ready to release his highly-anticipated new album, Thorns. Written during a tumultuous two year period between his last albums which scanned a combined 14,500 sales, Thorns is more straightforward and emotional in content yet more textured and dense in production. Guest producers include Dabrye, Tyler Bany, and three collaborations with Holy F*ck. Thorn is an album you don't have to cut yourself to enjoy.

The new edition of this favorite bean cookbook, Easy Beans, has been fully updated and revised. There are 20 new recipes and nutritional analysis for all of the over 100 fast, healthy and tasty bean, pea and lentil recipes. As North Americans continue to eat healthier by cutting fat, not flavor, there is an increasing emphasis on legumes as an essential part of today's healthy diet. In addition these recipes are easy on the budget. With this edition of Easy Beans, author Trish Ross has made bean cookery a tasty and healthy choice for today's busy cooks.

He captured the hearts of millions of viewers worldwide. His movie grossed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide. He's been called the most embarrassing man on the planet. Now the entire Mr. Bean series, the British comic phenomenon created by Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder, Four Weddings and a Funeral), is finally available in one complete package.

Bean, Bean, maniacal nut / The more you watch, you bust a gut! First unleashed in 1989, this sketch series was embraced by PBS viewers in the United States. In the tradition of the great silent clowns, Rowan Atkinson created a character with universal and multi-generational appeal (the sketches have little dialogue and are driven by often ingenious physical comedy). Like Bart Simpson, the resourceful, mischievous, and sometimes malevolent Bean is the inner child incarnate who acts on the impulses polite society normally represses. Atkinson has described Bean as "a 9-year-old boy, with an apparent lack of worldly experience, but an ingenuity that is quite clever in dealing with problems presented to him." These problems include not knowing a single answer on an exam, tactfully disposing of a revolting restaurant meal, changing into his swimsuit at the beach without first removing his pants, and, most hilariously, getting a turkey stuck on his head (a classic bit reprised in the ill-conceived 1997 feature film).

Atkinson has enjoyed some mainstream success stateside. He was the nervous minister ("...your awfully wedded wife") in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the voice of Zazu in The Lion King. But he mainly enjoys cult status among British comedy aficionados as a founding member of Not the Nine O'Clock News and the star of the Black Adder series. Bean is his crowning creation. In addition to all 14 episodes, this generous boxed set contains previously unaired sketches, Comic Relief appearances, and a segment about Bean's creation, which serves as a nifty introduction for the uninitiated. It also contains a preview for the new Mr. Bean animated series. This seems redundant. As this collection hilariously demonstrates, Bean is already animated enough. --Donald Liebenson

Your senses will be lit up by the powerfully juicy citrus taste. Brought to life with natural ingredients, Orange is brisk and invigorating, yet classically simple. This case contains 24 1-oz bags of juicy Orange flavor. New Sport Beans� offer portable power for competitive athletes, sports enthusiasts, fitness minded exercisers and anyone looking for a fast, refreshing energy source. Sport Beans are formulated with carbohydrates, electrolytes, and vitamins C and E. They're the ideal portable power for endurance athletes, weekend warriors, and sports enthusiasts of all types. In fact, Sport Beans fit the needs of anyone looking for a fast, great-tasting source of energy. Manufactured in a plant that also processes peanuts.

Listening to the first track of Beans's Shock City Maverick, "Light of the Damned," is like entering a vast city, an erotic, techno-fuelled city. Self-described as "the Ornette Coleman of this rap shit," Beans is the former MC/producer of the innovative and underappreciated '90s hip-hop group Anti-Pop Consortium. Shock City Maverick, his third and best solo project, finally--and so effortlessly--arrives at the icy techno state his previous projects struggled to reach. So thoroughly electric and synthetic are the tracks that when you hear the droning cello on the instrumental "A Force on Edge," it seems to be a 1000-year-old relic recovered by a team of urban archeologists. There are no trees in Beans's future city, and the sky is the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. --Charles Mudede

As an essential ingredient for making crème brûlée, vanilla ice cream, and many other dishes, nothing beats a quality vanilla bean. Some recipes call for splitting the bean and using only the tiny black vanilla seeds contained in the bean. Place used and dried vanilla beans in a few cupfuls of sugar. After a few days, you will have delicious vanilla sugar to use in your cookie and cake recipes.

Andrea Chesman presents 366 creative and flavorful "natural gourmet" recipes using a wide variety of beans and grains, like basmati and jasmine rice, adzuki beans, amaranth, and quinoa. Organized by course and main ingredient, these dishes range from light and lively starters to hearty and soul-satisfying foods that stick to your ribs but not to your waistline. American favorites are well represented here, but adventurous cooks will be pleased to find ethnic cuisines dominating this mouthwatering collection, including such recipes as:
* Spicy Vegetable Couscous
* Pesto Pasta with Cranberry Beans
* Smoky Black Bean Burritos
* Jamaican-Style Rice and Peas This wonderful addition to our 366 Ways series features foods that are among the most versatile and healthful in the human diet, not to mention absolutely delicious.
* Recipes are high in flavor, low in fat.
* Each recipe includes a detailed nutritional analysis, which counts calories, fat, percentage of calories from fat, protein, fiber, sodium, and calcium.
* Vegetarian dishes dominate the collection, but healthful variations include salmon, shrimp, and chicken.

Rowan Atkinson (Bean, Love Actually, Johnny English) returns to his iconic role as the comical and endearing Mr. Bean in this outrageous comedy adventure! Mr. Bean (Atkinson) can't believe his luck when he wins a camcorder and an all-expense-paid vacatio

Welcome back, Mr. Bean! After a too-long hiatus, it's a breath of fresh air to see you out and about, innocent as ever, unwitting in the havoc you wreak and clueless in the chaos you cause. In Mr. Bean's Holiday (the title echoes Jacques Tati's breezy 1953 classic Mr. Hulot's Holiday), the resourceful man-child Bean (Rowan Atkinson) wins a church raffle that packs him off to the beaches of the south of France. But getting there is all the funny, as he is detoured by one mishap after another. En route, he comes to the "aid" of a Cannes Film Festival judge's young son, who is separated (no thanks to Bean) from his father at the train station. Bean also stumbles upon a commercial shoot directed by a stereotypical egomaniacal American filmmaker (Willem Dafoe), and crosses paths with an aspiring actress (a charming Emma de Caunes) also on her way to Cannes. Mr. Bean's Holiday, an upgrade over the 1997 feature Bean, was a box-office smash around the world, but in the States, not so much. Here, the shock gag has replaced the sight gag, and this G-rated Holiday might be considered by more jaded viewers as out of step with contemporary tastes (unlike Borat, there is not a mean-spirited bone in Bean's gangly, malleable body). But in the classic tradition of the silent-movie clowns, Bean's visual comedy is universal and requires little translation (there are limited subtitles in this film). Younger children will find a kindred spirit in Bean, who exists in some kind of state of grace, whether trying to digest a disgusting seafood dinner or hilariously lip-syncing to an opera in a public square. --Donald Liebenson