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...Family Stone tribute album released last year under Starbucks? Hear Music label has introduced a new generation to Sly?s music. And a documentary, ?On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone,? about Sly?s reclusiveness, is under way. It seems the bizarre and iconic songwriter isn?t content just to hear remakes of his old tunes, however. ?Sly is very much interested in letting his friends, his loved ones, know that there is some evolution in his work going on,? says Freddie. ?There?s some stuff you ain?t heard...
...classic, dictating a spiced-up, CGI-ed kind of glory, with a wisecracking George hip to all sorts of slang. Fortunately, the creators of “Curious George” have gone old-school, deciding to return to 2-D, hand-drawn animation and kiddy-style content. While the plot is changed from the original H.A. and Margret Rey story—and given some modern spin, a camera phone is a key prop—the essence is the same. The Man in the Yellow Hat (now given a name: Ted) goes to Africa and later returns home...
...content and form of Kevin Huizenga's Ganges couldn't be further from The Fountain, though they share many of the same themes. Fifth in a line of upscale comic books that the co-publishers hope will fill the gap between more cheaply produced pamphlets and pricey full-length books, the other authors in this "Ignatz" series have all been Europeans until now. Huizenga hails from Illinois and creates the most suburban comix to be found in the alternative market. His regular series Or Else has been reviewed by TIME.comix, and he specializes in small-scale narratives of riding bikes...
...overloaded it in terms of content and work,” said Mills, who cut assignments by half when students complained about the heavy workload and the course’s emphasis on written work...
...arrested. Military police with machine guns watched as I set up my video camera. I had finally secured an interview with Zimbabwe’s Minister of Information for my thesis research on the country’s new cultural policy, which bans Western content and heavily funds local propaganda. For three hours, I listened as the minister explained that Zimbabwe is a nation at war against British and American neo-colonialism—the IMF, the World Bank, white farmers, and internal spies and saboteurs. When I asked the minister if his anti-colonial rhetoric masked the fact that...