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...whiz coolness of modern-day electronic devices - flat-screen high-def TVs, 2-lb. laptop computers, the iPhone - the national power grid we plug them into is almost as old and unchanged as Edison's lightbulb. We rely on the grid to juice everything from vacuum cleaners to dialysis machines, but it is a dinosaur, a leaky, money-wasting, carbon-dioxide-spewing system that remains shockingly vulnerable to accidents and terrorist attacks...
...Mike L. Charles is working, expect to hear some rap up in Quincy House. “That’s usually played on Saturday nights when you’re getting ready to go to the club,” explained Charles, who likes Jay-Z and Mos Def. Quincy is also known for techno night, complete with flashing lights. It’s dinner time at Currier and a Celine Dion remix is pumping at the grill, courtesy of d-hall manager Amy Lester. “She plays so much garbage,” complained cook Nick...
...blitz scheme bedevils opponents. St. John's book is not for those casual fans. The veteran sportswriter and Wall Street Journal columnist spent a year covering the foot soldiers who prep the gridiron for glory-and who ensure the event is delivered to an electrified crowd, in flawless high-def, and with proper acoustics. In meticulous detail, St. John takes readers into the Super Bowl's engine rooms with this series of profiles of the marketers and ad execs, party planners and TV producers, architects and gophers charged with buffing the game to its glossy shine. (See pictures of Super...
...cross over not just in terms of style, but in terms of color, from country-boy black to white radio. He finds Chuck Berry, the guitar-slinging, pioneering rocker of “Johnny B. Goode” fame with only one vice: women. Chuck Berry, played by Mos Def, is soon incarcerated for his antics and Chess sets off to uncover yet another star. This time, Chess’s salvation comes in the form of talented jazz/blues singer Etta James, played by Beyoncé Knowles. While Beyoncé’s voice doesn’t quite...
Coincidentally, I was watching the concert movie Dave Chappelle's Block Party the other night, in which he puts on a bunch of these alternative hip-hop artists that you talk about in your book - Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West. Other than Kanye, why don't these artists sell as well as the Jay-Zs or the 50 Cents...