Word: billboarded
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...Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, then went off in search of even sweeter harmonies and trickier licks. Now success is arriving faster than the Orange Blossom Special. Nickel Creek's video, When You Come Back Down, is in heavy rotation on CMT, and its eponymous debut album cracked the Billboard country Top 20 and earned two Grammy nominations. Says Alison Krauss, herself a former bluegrass prodigy, who produced the band's album: "I can't imagine what they'll be doing in a year." And that's just the point, for to hear Nickel Creek is to hear the vibrant...
...connection with Girl Bar. The outreach is a far cry from 1999, when GWENN A. BALDWIN of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center paid about $16,000 to sponsor the Sparks but withdrew after the team's marketing staff objected to the words GAY AND LESBIAN FAMILIES on a billboard. While the folks in Los Angeles are receiving all the attention, the Miami Sol are scratching their heads at the fuss. The Sol team often appears at lesbian bars and is helping sponsor a gay festival in South Beach--with nary a blip on the talk-back radar...
...World music" is the phrase du jour for exotic sounds from Africa, Asia, South America - what used to be called the Third World. Today world music is available everywhere; type the words into your Google search line and get about 3,070,000 websites. World music has its own Billboard chart, its own radio shows, if mostly on college stations. But it's a specialized, affirmative-action genre. Even if the definition is enlarged to include pop music from the Old World (from France, Italy, etc.), world music rarely catches the notice of the kids who dote on Destiny...
Overseeing our series will be Steve Koepp, who excels at pretty much everything around here. Steve grew up near Pewaukee, Wis., and lived on the site of an old lakeside amusement park that his grandfather had taken over and subdivided. His dad was in media too: he owned a billboard company. Steve attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Department of Serendipity: its motto is Excellence). In 1981, he became a reporter in the Business section, just in time to catch the din of the roaring '80s. He helped chronicle the rise of the business celebrity, writing covers on Michael...
...quickly learns, then he was automatically labeled another “Hitler.” While driving to work, Charlton Heston suddenly converts to Goldwaterism. Writes Perlstein, “Looking up at an ‘In Your Heart, You Know He’s Right’ billboard at a Sacramento intersection, road-to-Damascus-style, on the way to a movie shoot, he thought to himself, ‘Son of a bitch, he is right.’” After being called “a political hypocrite and a moral coward?...