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...skirmishes galvanized inner-city outrage toward target marketing. In New York City the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church has led whitewashing expeditions through the streets of Harlem to cover up billboards promoting such products. In Chicago a mysterious crusader who calls himself Mandrake has been painting over similar billboards in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Several billboard companies have responded by voluntarily limiting the placement of certain ads. Since January the Patrick Media Group of Scranton, Pa., has eliminated its ads for cigarettes and liquor near schools and churches in 15 major cities...
...just released second album debuted in one trade publication at the very top of the charts. Her first single, a rhapsodic rendering of Prince's ballad Nothing Compares 2 U, is also a runaway hit, currently No. 4 on the Billboard Top 100 and threatening to scale the peak. No wonder she can title her album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. Easy for her to say. It looks very much like Sinead (say it Shin-aid) O'Connor will have...
...anymore. Mood Indigo has been on the Billboard jazz chart for the past 15 weeks and is currently perched at No. 5. Lyrical in mood, it recalls John Coltrane's great 1962 Ballads album as it rephrases hardy perennials by Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Coltrane (with an assist on two tracks from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis). Although Morgan was tutored in the dizzying strictures of bebop by Charlie Parker, his recent playing has become less slashing, his tone more glowing, his lines more feelingly supple. The new sound is certainly enticing, and has helped Morgan get some of the attention...
...billboard on a road six miles north of Sinai's Monastery of St. Catherine says, "At this site will be 500 villas, a tourist village with 250 rooms, two hotels with 400 rooms, shopping center, school and hospital, supplied by all facilities." The "great and terrible wilderness" described by Deuteronomy is on its way to becoming a tourist trap...
...imagined that Chapman would be so big a success so soon. In 1988 Elektra Records released Tracy Chapman, eleven spare, well-crafted folk songs by a 24-year-old Tufts University graduate. Some were about unrequited love, yes, but others spoke of homelessness, racism and revolution. The album became Billboard's No. 1 pop album and sold 10 million copies. Chapman won three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. Last year, on the Amnesty International tour, she crisscrossed the globe with Sting, Bruce Springsteen and Peter Gabriel, performing before stadiums of cheering fans on five continents. In May she will...