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Wiggles stage shows and videos (there are now 10 in the U.S.) don't seem to abide by the rules of entertainment either. Their dancing seems corny, their costumes loud and their sidekicks (including Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags the Dog and Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate) oafish. The way Fatt, 48, keeps falling asleep is just annoying. But Field attributes the group's success to its embrace of toddler notions of entertainment. "The language is very simple," he says. "The songs are unapologetically repetitive. Kids love to shout, 'Wake up, Jeff!' It empowers them...
SCHOOL MONSTER No one really looks forward to the first day of school, but at least the Fact Monster www.factmonster.com can ease the pain. It's a funky, cartoon-style website for kids, with features like the math-themed Bug Splat game, a dinosaur quiz and a learned essay on the history of the lunch box. Oh, and it also has an almanac, an atlas, a dictionary and an encyclopedia. It's so cool that kids will forget it's educational...
...perhaps, you detect the tramping of sour grapes. To read a piece about online reviewers by a critic who has done most of his work in print is to hear the roar of a dinosaur, noisy but anachronistic, trying to drown out a freeway full of SUV?s. And I admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many...
...many "indie" record labels at large in the '80s, but it had the foresight to sign Sonic Youth and Dinosaur, Jr., bands whose followings both eventually dwarfed that of Black Flag and those of their `80s punk contemporaries, like Boston's Mission of Burma and Washington D.C.'s Minor Threat. The shows they played were booked at venues older proto-alternative bands had already played, but they had their work cut out for them selling America and Europe on innovative, unpolished sounds...
...room: "You'd go to a party and Kim [Gordon, singer and bassist] would know who the Village Voice writer was in the corner of the room and she'd make sure she went over there." By 1991, that kind of fastidious networking had put Sonic Youth and Dinosaur, Jr. in the enviable position of being able to pack large fields full of muddy, hormonally unbalanced teenagers, and drag along an obscure opening act called Nirvana...