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...editor at large who designed our new sister publication eCompany Now, paid a visit to typeface designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, who take classical styles and put electricity into them to create the hieroglyphics of the cyber-era. Staff writer Joel Stein writes about industrial designer Ben Beck, whose back-to-basics approach brings a magical simplicity to everything from snowboards to bird feeders...
...traps on Beale Street, the brothers lost their first bass player, recruited their huge, beatific friend Chris Chew and hit the road again, becoming mainstays of the Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia alt-rock circuit. They radiated so much talent, innocence and enthusiasm that an impressive roster of stars--Lucinda Williams, Beck, Warren Haynes, Al Kooper, Widespread Panic--have asked one or both to sit in. And as they developed a following and played longer sets as headliners, they found themselves opening up the hill-country sound with long, Allman Brothers-style jams. "It happened by accident," says Luther. "The music just...
...those Beck fans among you, he has an eight-track B-sides album (see picture on right) out in full release in Japan. If you want a copy without having to leave the country, you can get it by mail order on his website (http://www.beckdirect.com), but it's going to cost you $31. Ouch. Wasn't the Internet supposed to save us money...
...sounds like Utopia, like Oz's Munchkinland after Dorothy squashed the wicked witch and everyone jumped up from hiding to do a dance. "People are turning out because of the Internet--they don't have to be mobilized," says Beck. One motivator, oddly, is nostalgia, an emotion that the Internet accelerates. Events in Seattle cast an afterglow that continues to spread in the retelling. Kelly Vaughan, 20, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University, recalls sitting at her computer last November poring over e-mail accounts of the frontline action. She instantly relayed the news to a list of about...
...wanting things to exist is not a platform; it's an attitude. But it will do, at least until something more positive comes along. Beck, who's already thinking beyond Washington, has her eye on this summer's political conventions. "We need a plurality of ideas. More parties," she says. "We need to break up the two-party system...