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For me, and for most of the audience it seemed, the awards presentations were just a means of killing time between performances. The speeches were uniformly bland and unexciting, as group after group engaged in a contest to see who could kiss more corporate butt. Perhaps this was necessary from...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Rock City | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

Theresa Collins lives next to a park, but her kids don't play there all that often. For one thing, all three of her children lead busy lives, what with school, piano lessons, soccer practice and the constant distraction of the home computer. What's more, she fears that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ever Happened To Play? | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

Three years later I was living in New York City, and everything was different. I came with all the other kids from all over the country who couldn't make it where they were. I was going to start an East Village band, I was going to play CBGB, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pal Joey | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

Harvard Square is a magnet for young people in boring suburbs. The Pit people are only the most colorful example-they’re the flock of pierced, dyed, leather-clad youths next to the T stop.

Author: By By: NICOLE B. usher and The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Making the Most of Pre-Frosh Weekend | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

Occasionally Lemon Jelly’s sound becomes too Muzak, too effortless—like their name, too cloyingly easy to swallow. “Nervous Tension,” in particular, with its ceaseless pounding bass, is just plain dull. There’s always a tendency to doze...

Author: By Thomas J. Clarke, Tiffany I. Hsieh, and Daniel M. Raper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Albums | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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