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...Another band of Chinese artists has pushed boundaries by depicting the lost souls trying to find their place in a rapidly developing society. Surrounded by the capitalist trappings that China's leaders hope will sate a politically repressed populace - chic clothes, cell phones, fast-food wrappers - these lonely figures wear blank or artificially cheery expressions. "As a child, my classmates and I sang revolutionary songs, and we had to write Mao's expressions over and over," says 43-year-old Zeng Fanzhi, whose portrait of a masked man with a cauterized visage sold for $1.63 million in London last month...
...favorite Sox are the Dropkick Murphys, the Celtic punk band who played their ass-kicking anthem, "I'm Shipping Up to Boston," on the Fenway grass before Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, accompanied by teenaged Irish step dancers. After the Sox 11-2 annihilation of the Indians that night, Papelbon stripped down and did his own Irish step-dancing in the infield: Riverdance in underpants...
...ubiquitous as the plodding police horses. Mountain Dew set up an "Amp Lounge," where samples of its energy drink were passed out freely. City officials handed over much of the planning to Frank Productions, a large Midwest concert promoter that brought in, as the main act, the alt-rock band Lifehouse - whose music isn't exactly conducive to rioting. While passing out beaded necklaces in the lounge Saturday, Gary Wyspiszynski, a key account manager for Mountain Dew, says "It was either going to go this way or it was going to be forgotten...
...sort of reverse Manifest Destiny, American sports leagues are looking east to grow, and have zeroed in on Europe as a fertile frontier. "You can play the music and buy the CD, but the band has to tour occasionally," NBA Commissioner David Stern told TIME. "This is a way of cementing our connection with the fans...
...signature slider to strike out Seth Smith of the Colorado Rockies for the final out of the World Series last night, Harvard’s Red Sox faithful poured out of every crevice of the campus to join in on the festivities happening in the Square. With the Harvard Band leading the way, Sox fans cheered their second World Series title in four years, proudly chanting the names of their icons and providing perhaps the loudest rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” ever heard on the cobblestone sidewalks of the Square. After...