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...season--and a classic of sketch comedy. The Ben Stiller Show was an attempt to reclaim Saturday Night Live's creaky format for the kids. But it reflected a Gen X ambivalence about youth culture as a marketing concept, as in "The Grungies," a sketch about a Seattle grunge band modeled on the prefab '60s act the Monkees. ("We're not trying to be friendly/We just want money and fame/We're the X Generation/We just like to complain.") Collecting all 13 episodes, including one never aired, the two-disc set reunites the original cast and writers to reminisce about...
...started out like so many others for U.S. counterinsurgency forces in Afghanistan: monitoring the airwaves for enemy communications. From the southeastern part of the country, the U.S. picked up a signal from the phone of a small-time Taliban commander, Mullah Wazir, whose band was suspected of ambushing road crews in an effort to halt reconstruction of the pitted Kabul-to-Kandahar highway. When Wazir's phone flickered to life, the U.S. traced it to a mud-walled fortress near the town of Ghazni. The U.S. command at Bagram air base outside Kabul quickly dispatched an A-10 Warthog fighter...
Visual and Environmental Sciences Visiting Professor Elisabeth Subrin, who arranged for Tracy and the Plastics to play at Harvard, first saw the band perform at New York City’s Knitting Factory two years...
Tracy and the Plastics, a riot-grrl band fronted by critically renowned visual artist Wynne Greenwood, WHEN performed at the Cabot House Underground Theatre—but the singer’s bandmates and instruments were nowhere to be found onstage, appearing only on the video screen behind...
Aside from the upcoming Tracy and the Plastics releases, Greenwood looks forward to trying new things, such as collaborating with other musicians and making videos that are not related to the band...