Word: billboards
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Along East Sprague, where the clamor of freight trains punctuates the night and the Rainbow Tavern advertises "cold beer and hot women," a giant billboard remains standing. In large black letters it demands HELP US FIND OUR KILLER! above photographs--some smiling, some sullen--of Sherry, Shannon and Shawn, of Melody, Melinda and Michelyn, of Sunny, Heather, Laurie and Linda. The first three bodies turned up in 1990 along forested roadsides outside Spokane. Another was found two years later, then another...
Shifrin sees a day when thousands of drivers get car insurance in exchange for a wrap. Others see the end of the world. "It's the same as putting a billboard in your front yard. The public realm is being visually polluted," says Jim Chappell, president of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a Washington watchdog group, wonders if auto ads can be outlawed as a traffic hazard. "The advertising industry is in our face at every turn, and many of us feel assaulted...
...electronic billboard was posted along Mass. Ave. warning of delays from Tuesday through Friday as Cambridge Police Department officers helped direct traffic...
...appealing new CD, Invincible Summer (Warner Bros.), slides easily into the groove that has proved to be the most comfortable fit between lang and her audience: the smoothly upbeat pop romanticism at which she excels. The theme of Summer, she told Billboard, is "Brazilian surf-pop" and is a by-product of her newfound infatuation with tropical music and the sun-kissed sounds of Southern California, where she recently relocated after living for several years on a farm outside Vancouver. Lang has said she owes much of the inspiration for Summer to several weeks spent listening to old Mamas...
Pearl Jam was one of the best bands of the past decade; Binaural shows that it's still a force to be reckoned with (the album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts). The songs--such as the muted but passionate Light Years--are less impatient and rage filled than much of Pearl Jam's earlier work. Lead singer Eddie Vedder, married and mature, seems more focused on emotional detail than moshing. If you're looking for the answer to Who's Next, Pearl Jam, rather quietly, is building a long-term career to rival the rock legends...