Word: cred
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...nearly as many countries as you can fly to from Heathrow. The book's timely title, Londonstani, reflects the public concern - heightened by last July's London suicide bombings - over Britain's growing Muslim and South Asian character. The 29-year-old author, Gautam Malkani, is dripping with street cred, having grown up in Hounslow before moving on to a Cambridge degree and a senior job in journalism. The novel is written in an imaginative mix of English, Punjabi, Urdu, profanity, gangsta rap and mobile-phone texting. (As in, "Shudn't b callin us Pakis, innit, u dirrty gora...
...fact, the program’s got so much indie/hipster cred that the bookers must write for Pitchfork–past bands have included Belle Orchestre and the Mountain Goats. The calendar also boasts stellar jazz and classical offerings...
...Cowboy Cred...
...skate on one rear wheel, the company cherry-picks a handful of cool kids, "like school athletes," in selected schools to join Team Heelys. These paid performers demo the shoes at malls, concerts and sporting events, and they also chat up Team Heelys wannabes on the Heelys website, generating cred and buzz...
...upcoming exhibit, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop: The Beats, the Rhymes, the Life,” has been perceived both as a threat to the legitimacy of a once-underground movement, and as a victory for African-American culture. Those skeptical of the street cred of an organization that also manages the National Museum of American History should note the exhibit’s coy subtitle riff on the title of A Tribe Called Quest’s second-worst album. Despite this dubious pedigree—was there no room on exhibit posters...