Word: artiste
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...50th annual Grammy nominations, announced this morning, prove it. Herbie Hancock and Vince Gill for album of the year? A record of the year nod for Corrine Bailey Rae's Like a Star, which isn't just aggressively dull, but was first released in 2005? A best new artist nomination for veteran singer Leslie Feist? As pop cultural statements go, these are the equivalent of "Who stole my glasses...
...despite the hurdles, the musicians go from gig to gig because they see they are having an effect. "Artists make political statements subtly and not so subtly and those statements have an impact on the audience," said Bakari Kitwana, who serves as Artist in Residence at the Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. "This is what hip-hop does at its best, so we we see young people gravitating toward hip hop, seeing their own conditions and have hip-hop giving them a voice...
...period (250 million years ago) when saber-toothed, tiger-sized lizards called gorgonopsians preyed on herds of herbivorous dicynodonts, which had tusks and tortoise-like beaks. Nieu Bethesda has other attractions. The Owl House, decorated with finely ground multicolored glass, was the home and life's work of "outsider" artist Helen Martins, and it's now a museum. Around it has grown a small community of artists and other refugees from modern living, including André Cilliers, who moved to Nieu Bethesda from Cape Town when even that laid-back city became too much, and now serves up home-made...
Champagne rained on Saturday night in Pforzheimer House, as its latest bash sought to embody the spirit of hip-hop artist Fat Joe’s song “Make It Rain.” Fliers told prospective party-goers that Pfoho would be “the picture of extravagance,” complete with a red carpet, velvet ropes, a free bottle of champagne for legal-age guests, and stacks of cash—purportedly 180,000 individual bills—with which to “make it rain...
...death was reported by Butte architect and Knievel's graphic design artist Bob Corbett, who said Knievel's wife, Krystal Kennedy, rushed him to the hospital earlier today...