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...veteran of R&B and adult contemporary, Boz Scaggs is currently touring in support of his new album of jazz standards, But Beautiful. Scaggs started out as a member of the Steve Miller Band, but embarked on a solo career in the early 1970s. While commercial success only found him occasionally throughout the following decades, he remained an obscure critical darling throughout the 80s and 90s. On this tour, he’s been playing with a classic jazz quintet, and the understated, lonely songs on his new record will benefit from the Paradise’s intimacy...
Where this thing for thongs comes from is obvious: Britney, Beyonce, The Real World, even PG movies like Freaky Friday. When a 12-year-old wears a thong, "it's not about rebellion against adults," says child therapist Ron Taffel, author of The Second Family: How Adolescent Power Is Challenging the American Family (St. Martin's Press; 2001). In Taffel's view, the adult establishment has become too weak and weary to inspire rebellion. Getting thongs or tattoos or body piercings, he argues, is actually a "statement to other kids that they are part of this very, very intense, powerful...
...Adult forces--parents, schools, churches--find it hard to compete with pop culture. Some schools have dress codes that outlaw visible underwear, but enforcing a ban on something as subtle as a thong isn't easy, as a vice principal at a San Diego high school learned to the detriment of her career last year. Her methodology left something to be desired: she was demoted after she lifted skirts for an undies inspection before allowing girls into a school dance...
...their illnesses because they are uninsured. Another 13 million children are clinically overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control, in part because many of them are also poor and uninsured and can afford only cheap, unhealthy food. Childhood obesity increases the likelihood of being overweight as an adult and significantly shortens life expectancy. It also creates health problems that deprive children of the active, carefree youths that they all deserve...
...suppose Harvard students’ gravity shouldn’t surprise me. After all, most of us are here because of our studiousness, because we were good at aping adult mores, because our teenage disaffectedness was never fierce enough to prevent us from being our high school teachers’ darlings. Holden Caulfield doesn’t come to Harvard. (When I shared this theory with my father, he snorted and said, “Maybe he sneaks in the back door at Hampshire.”) What few of our rebellious impulses weren’t screened...