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...Choosing George W. Bush is like writing a restaurant review after you've ordered your meal but before it has been served." SUSAN J. BERLIN Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 22, 2001 | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

First there's the attitude. The members of Chicks on Speed brazenly admit they're not skilled musicians ("There are too many musicians already in music") and that producers help them compose their songs. Then there's the unabashed entrepreneurship. The rock/techno trio, based in Berlin, wears bizarre homemade clothes, which are sold on its website for DKNY prices (cut-up shirt with detachable arms: 100 Euro; that's about $95 to those of you outside the E.U.). But these Chicks have created a sensation among hip young Europeans, and they're setting out to win the hearts of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicks, Not From Dixie | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...different things and do them really fast. You don't have to practice your guitar or practice the drums." Instead, the group maintains its online fashion boutique, creates installation pieces for galleries around the world and makes plans for a building it hopes to erect in Berlin. As Logan puts it, "We want to do everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicks, Not From Dixie | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Last summer, after a stint learning his new craft at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, Mitchell headed to Toronto and directed while wearing Hedwig's heels. ("It was like torture," he says.) He opened up the material by adding flashbacks of Hedwig's bleak Berlin childhood, her rocky romantic history and even her botched sex-change operation (which explains the "angry inch"). "We kept the dramatic structure of the show," says Mitchell, who also kept its heady themes (borrowed from Plato and Ibsen), as well as Trask's irresistible score of country, rock and '70s-style ballads. And Hedwig still bears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sundance's Newest Kids | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1961 THEME "World Peace Through New Frontiers" REALITY Cuban missile crisis; Berlin Wall built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theme Dreams | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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