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...doors in anticipation of the first PS3 shipment by last evening, though its opening was scheduled for 8 a.m. today. “PlayStation appeals more to older gamers, because it has more mature games, while the Wii appeals more to a larger audience,” said Aaron Calloway, an employee in Best Buy’s games department. “PS3 would appeal more to college students.” While the American folklore textbook resting next to the empty bowl of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup on the Mower suite’s coffee...
Corrine and Russell Calloway live in TriBeCa, battling their precarious pecuniary situation and struggling to preserve a fragile marriage marred by suspicion and past infidelity. And when Corrine’s glamorous and prodigal younger sister returns from her latest escapade, her destabilizing presence threatens to expose a secret that Corrine has carefully hidden from her beloved twins for six years...
...Daniel Dumile, Brian Burton, Dennis Coles, Thomas Calloway, Talib Greene. Now if that isn’t an all-star line-up for a hip-hop album?...
They used to call it Black Broadway: the stretch of U Street in northwest Washington where the likes of Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane performed nightly. Then, in the 1960s, the neighborhood fell victim to urban blight as riots burned down much of the commercial district and affluent blacks moved to the suburbs. But these days efforts by local families to revive the area are taking hold. The result is a lively mix of recharged African-American culture and hip new shops and restaurants--less than 10 minutes from the National Mall...
Kelly isn't a deep thinker, but his Hemingway-style, run-on prose is powerfully effective in restoring to life the physical realities of an earlier age--real-life characters like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Cab Calloway practically jostle you as they shoulder their way through smoky speakeasies, and the constant banging of the riveters provides a percussive sound track that drives the book. By the end, labor itself is the only pure thing left in Manhattan. Empire Rising is everything a period novel should be, but it illustrates a paradox bigger than any period: if they work hard...