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After identifying a suitable picture, Parkercopies it onto an overhead projector and explainsto the children the piece's contour and form. Thestudents trace the patterns onto a fiberglass orwooden billboard which often is larger than 200square feet. Then they begin painting, he says...
...burgeoning success seems to indicate that it's got far more fans than redneck detractors. The quartet's absorbing debut album, Cracked Rear View, has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. Hold My Hand, a catchy sing-along number from the album, is in Billboard's Top 10. The music-video channel VH-1-once seen as a kind of easy-listening, out-of-touch uncle of MTV-recently changed its format to feature contemporary "adult alternative" acts, and has virtually adopted Hootie as its house band, playing its videos more often than those...
Blending Southern rock and soulful blues, this absorbing debut album by South Carolina quartet Hootie & the Blowfish has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. It features the catchy, sing-along number "Hold My Hand," which has landed in Billboard's Top 10. "Hootie's music may be deeply personal, but it's not wimpy," says TIME pop music critic Christopher John Farley. "The band's sound is big and guitar stuffed, and lead singer Darius Rucker's voice is always bluesy and confident...
Fame came as a surprise for The Jerky Boys. Their first album stayed on the Billboard top-200 for two years, ya freak, but that was only the beginning. "The second album debuted at number 12 on the Billboard top-200," Brennan remembers. "I mean, what the hell is that...
...1938launching of the Skybar, "a candy box in a bar,"skywriters and low-flying planes with trailingbanner-advertisements circled most of theNortheast. Necco also erected an enormous Skybarbillboard in Times Square, complete with enoughflashing lights to rival the Coke sign. DuringWorld War II, energy restrictions prevented thelighting of the billboard, and it made New YorkTimes headlines the day it was turned back...