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...waves for years, TV writers are starting to learn from reality's success. The sitcom The Office uses reality-TV techniques (jerky, handheld camera work, "confessional" interviews) to explore the petty politics of white-collar workers. Now airing on BBC America, it's the best comedy to debut here this season, because its characters are the kind of hard-to-pigeonhole folks you find in life--or on reality TV. On Survivor and The Amazing Race, the gay men don't drop Judy Garland references in every scene. MTV's Making the Band 2--a kind of hip-hop American...
...done his share of shooting back, though he won't say if he's hit anyone. He has also been stabbed, done time and sold crack. It's no wonder his debut album, Get Rich or Die Trying, out last week, is expected to sell 500,000 copies and enter the Billboard Top 200 at No. 1 in its first five days of release. A decade after Snoop Dogg put out an album while prepping for a murder trial, blending gunplay and wordplay remains rap's most potent marketing strategy. But what makes 50 rap's hottest...
...enough to have a shot. The bright-eyed, lush-voiced woman known as Ms. Dynamite led the urban charge in 2002. The eldest of 11 kids, 21-year-old Niomi McLean-Daley was raised in a North London housing project and broke through emceeing at "open mic" nights. Her debut album, A Little Deeper, mixing U.K. garage and R. and B., was a crossover smash, wowing critics and beating the Streets to the highly respected Mercury Music Prize. Her lyrics denounce the macho posturing and gun culture often associated with the rap scene. Last month she played at an anti...
...Going mike-to-Mike with Ms. Dynamite for best album is another act that came from nowhere last year: the Streets. Skinner, a 23-year-old from Birmingham by way of Brixton, made his debut album, Original Pirate Material, in his bedroom with his earnings from a job at Burger King. Skinner blends dance beats, garage and hip-hop, but also fronts socially aware lyrics. His album tells of a day in the life of a "geezer" - an ordinary bloke whose existence is an endless run of cafés, strong lager, drugs, raving, failure with women, and kebab shops...
...abusive song about the mayor. But it is a testament to how desperate traffic conditions have become that Livingstone is pushing ahead with the plan anyway. "It's not something we would do if we could avoid it," he said last week on the eve of the scheme's debut. As most Londoners are by now keenly aware, Livingstone does not drive. So he did not seem too distraught when he conceded that the first days of the congestion charge "will clearly be bloody." If it works, London could pave the road to the future of cities everywhere. The rationalist...