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Perhaps Wall Street rejects will channel their energy and anger into more artistic pursuits. If rock and roll is indeed dead, perhaps hundreds of unemployed college kids can revive it. Here’s the kicker: more artsy people means more body piercing. Fortunately, there has never been a better time to go into the piercing industry, thanks to the October 2000 repeal of the anti-tattooing and piercing laws in Massachusetts...
...assault when real life is already dealing us blow after blow? But distractions do have their place. During World War II, trombonist, arranger and band leader Glenn Miller toured around England entertaining the troops - and ultimately gave his life for it when his plane was lost over the English Channel in 1944. His contributions were seen as an important part of the war effort; the support of contemporary entertainers may come to be viewed in the same light. So don?t look for pure entertainment to fade away. Though specific artists may become afterthoughts, music will not. Eric...
...artists and entertainment companies aim to be tasteful, the danger is that relevant work will suffer too. In the 1,213-station Clear Channel Communications radio network, an internal e-mail circulated last week listing more than 150 songs deemed possibly too sensitive to be played during this period, among them Peter, Paul and Mary's Leaving on a Jet Plane. (Clear Channel contends the list was unofficial and did not ban any songs outright.) USA Network canceled an airing of the 1998 movie The Siege, a serious look at anti-Arab bigotry and paranoia after terrorist attacks...
Inside the sunny flat where Attiya Dawood lives with her family in Karachi's trendy Zamzama district, the TV is on full blast. Her two young daughters are engrossed in a children's show on an Indian channel, giggling and bouncing to the thumping beat of Who Let the Dogs Out. The walls are filled with miniature art by Attiya's husband, colorful paintings that comment on the role of women in Pakistani society. Attiya, 43, is busy cooking lunch in the kitchen. Shelves are cluttered with family photos, art books, novels. It is a joyful home, bustling and alive...
Several television news agencies, including WCVB Channel 5, were present at the arraignment of more than 30 students in the Brighton Municipal Courthouse on Sept. 10. A staffer at WCVB’s assignment desk said they picked up the story after receiving a BPD release...