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...City curb while wearing Tevas. Extreme-sports enthusiast Dave Lynford, 19, says baring your toes to the elements "is no big deal." Kathryn Smith, who sells shoes in New York, says summer footwear is selling way past the traditional season, and attributes the trend "partially to the extreme-sports craze--it's part of the uniform for these kids." Another lure may be TV shows like Ally McBeal, where the stars bare lots of skin even on cold Boston nights. (Never mind that the show is usually shot in sunny Southern California...
...younger South Koreans, the major catalyst for the Web craze was the proliferation of "PC rooms," Internet cafes offering high-speed access for as little as a dollar an hour. Three years ago, there was a handful of such cafes; today there are at least 20,000. At any hour of the day or night, people are playing games, sending e-mail, doing homework or looking for online love. Cho Jung Wan is spending up to 10 hours a day playing Lineage, killing a few weeks' time before he starts his military service. "After collecting weapons and stuff online...
Received the strangest single in the mail the other day. Universal Records is trying to promote a new dance craze, the "cha-cha slide." True, it's been a while since the last dance craze-was it the macarena? And before that, was it the lambada? But the song accompanying it is terrible, the schlockiest thing ever. But the accompanying instructions are hilarious to look at! Check out the "Turn it Out" step (right...
...they would make money from the soundtrack album. So unconvinced were they that the film itself would have merit that they ordered producer Walter Shenson and director Richard Lester to have the film written, shot, edited and released within 20 short weeks because they were certain that the Beatles craze wouldn't last beyond the summer...
Sure, Thanksgiving is supposed to be about carved-in-stone traditions-Detroit Lions NFL games, drippy cranberry sauce, the day after shopping craze, the nationwide massacre of an arbitrary bird, the token acknowledgement of Pilgrim-Indian relations-but where in the bylaws for Turkey Day does it demand that pop culture dissolve into templates...