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...Darker Side (TDS), WHRB’s hip-hop department—wanted to make sure I was aware that Felton is the man to know when it comes to independent hip-hop, citing the fact that Felton’s cell phone contains the contact numbers of several Boston-area hip-hop artists...
...possible, barely, to reduce the novel to a finite plot description. Hal Incandenza is a gifted, troubled student at a high-level Boston-area tennis academy founded by his late father. Down the road is a drug-rehab center inhabited by an assortment of seedy and desperate characters, notably one Don Gately, a cheerful Demerol addict "with a massive and almost perfectly square head he used to amuse his friends when drunk by letting them open and close elevator doors on." Then there's a film clip so entertaining you die if you watch it, and a cell of wheelchair...
...Dazed and Confused,” “School of Rock,” “Before Sunset,” “Waking Life,” and most recently, “Fast Food Nation.” At a recent roundtable discussion with Boston-area reporters, Linklater didn’t shy away from political statements about American consumerism.“Fast Food Nation” is a fictionalized film version of Eric Schlosser’s 2001 nonfiction book of the same name. Written in conjunction with Schlosser, the film makes...
...Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday about the WTO and accountability. Demonstrators, including representatives from the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), also protested outside the IOP using various percussive instruments, while displaying signs calling for the abolition of the WTO. One Boston-area demonstrator held up a sign that read “WTO loves Malthus,” referring to an 18th and 19th century economist, who said that resources could not keep up with population growth. At five different moments during Lamy’s speech, protesters interrupted the director-general...
...reaching even deeper into the pockets of its faithful riders. Given the large number of students living and traveling in and around Boston, it is unclear exactly who the MBTA thinks is in a position to help solve its financial problems by paying increased fares. Here’s a hint: It’s not students. We have even less money than they do, and it is unfair to expect us and other Boston-area residents to pick up the tab for poorly conceived expansion projects that were often opposed in the first place...