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Call the new sound coffeehouse pop. It has a comforting warmth, a topping of sugary froth, and it provides a kind of buzz, like sipping a cappuccino in a corner cafe. It is led, mostly, by female singer-songwriters, writing primarily from a feminist point of view. On her hit song Bitch, Meredith Brooks declares that she wants to "reclaim a word that had taken on a really derogatory meaning." But ideology or no, these women are unafraid to celebrate their own sensuality. On the inside flap of her album, Jewel poses in a sexy yellow swimsuit...
...troupe of self-described "environmental experts and old farts" are at their regular table at Skaets Steak Shop, the tiny cafe where they meet at the beginning of each day for breakfast and banter. The coming of spring has brought to the table a new topic to replace, for a moment, the wheat and the weather: the fate of a colony of prairie dogs that has taken up residence in the Kansas State Fairgrounds, right where the town of Hutchinson intends to build a couple of new baseball fields...
...Joan Baez, Sheryl Crow, James Brown, Earth, Wind and Fire. Music stores sell and play American tunes. On Vorosmarty Ter, the main square downtown, tourists sit and soak in the "authentic" Hungarian atmosphere with Toni Braxton's "Another Sad Love Song" in their ears, piped in by an outdoor cafe. Television is a hodgepodge of local programming, English-language shows on The Cartoon Network and CNN, and a host of American programs, from "Saved by the Bell" to "Married With Children," dubbed in Hungarian...
...restructured Coop will be fronted by a trade bookseller similar in format to Barnes and Noble, complete with couches and a "Coop Cafe...
Sitting at a sun-drenched sidewalk table outside the Cezanne Cafe, Idi, a 25-year-old short-order cook of North African origin, talks about the change that has come over Vitrolles. "There are fewer young people in the streets. We're afraid to go out at night. The cops have become cowboys." Nadia Salsedo, 55, a Tunisian-born immigrant, lost her job as a city hall secretary after the Front took over. "When the cops go after someone," she says, "it's the dark-skinned kids, not the blonds...