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...moguls are supposed to do: field phone calls. O.K., perhaps it isn't that grand a tradition, and maybe Kid Rock isn't exactly a hip-hop mogul yet--but he's certainly making a run at it. His new album, Devil Without a Cause (Atlantic/Lava), is in the Billboard Top 10. Alongside the messages on his refrigerator door about his six-year-old son Junior's field trips (Kid Rock is a single dad) are notes like FLY TO L.A. FOR LENO/MTV. Supermodels and limo companies are calling, offering their services. Right now he's talking to a recently...
...element, its countercultural defiance. It's now a genre up for grabs, a space for marketing frenzies. Consequently, its prominent products comprise not much more than mediocre commercial formulas devoid of the creative zeal of yesteryear, aimed instead at providing new images for advertising agencies or at escalating the Billboard mountain. According to my boy, the recent Time "Hip Hop Nation" cover and Eminem's success story are symptoms of the culture's sad commercial zenith, comparable to the beginnings of the demise of every other form of black music of this century. It's all downhill from here...
Dara Horn's most recent column (Opinion, April 29) was a biting critique of the Harvard billboard culture and delivered an honest statement about many Harvard personalities. Despite her candid arguments, I am disappointed with her forcing an unfounded marriage between the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club and pornography. Certainly, just as Horn would not--even in jest--draw any groundless association between blatantly sexual advertising and any other campus group, she should not have done so with the Kendo Club...
Dara Horn's most recent column (Opinion, April 29) was a biting critique of the Harvard billboard culture and delivered an honest statement about many Harvard personalities. Despite her candid arguments, I am disappointed with her forcing an unfounded marriage between the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club and pornography. Certainly, just as Horn would not--even in jest--draw any groundless association between blatantly sexual advertising and any other campus group, she should not have done so with the Kendo Club...
...case of ZapMe! Corp., which gives schools a free ride on the information superhighway, providing high-speed PCs, Internet access, laser printers and technical support. The catch? Students must use the computers for a minimum of four hours daily, while staring at a 2-in. x 4-in. billboard of rotating ads. Students earn "ZapPoints" that can be redeemed at an e-commerce mall. "There's a huge gap between what schools need and what they can afford," says Frank Vigil, president of the San Ramon-based company. "We want to provide the solution." He has signed...