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...entire first half of Scissor Sisters is nearly flawless, and impressively diverse too. There's an exuberant dance cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb that sounds like New Order fronted by Andy Gibb. Tits on the Radio is a disco-funk rant about the cultural sterilization of New York City. What keeps the whole thing from turning into an orgy of deja vu is Shears. As he struts his way through the material, he radiates a completely original kind of magnetism. He's sexual, commanding and totally goofy--like a man who can't believe his hairbrush and mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Out on the Camp Trail | 8/2/2004 | See Source »

...young people of New Vegas mostly come from L.A., and they spend most of their time at the clubs, which have sprung up in the desert like stripper poles. Every hotel has at least one disco and an ultralounge, the Vegas term for a Eurotrash bar with overpriced drinks. The clubs are a big draw for women, who outnumber the men. "We give women some empowerment. Let them dance on a table and feel like a star for a minute," says Jennifer Worthington, 32, who co-owns Coyote Ugly, BiKiNiS and Tangerine. "You have people coming from all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strip Is Back! | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...says. "The trust-fund babies will do anything they can do to go to our clubs." The young people of New Vegas mostly come from L.A., and they spend most of their time at the clubs, which have sprung up like stripper poles. Every hotel has at least one disco and an ultralounge, the Vegas term for a Eurotrash bar with overpriced drinks. "The clubs are now carrying Vegas," says Cy Waits, vip manager at MGM's Tab? bar. "Young people are more reckless with their money." The clubs are a big draw for women, who outnumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lovin' Las Vegas | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

...blame the Muslim community." Michel Wieviorka, director of the Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention, a research lab in Paris, agrees that non-Jews suffer less dramatic but more common discrimination, encountering "overt racism as well as daily prejudice. Acts of discrimination - from being rejected entry to a disco to being passed over for a job - are so common they aren't even reported," Wieviorka says. Crimes that are reported - and draw media attention - are often on a par with some of the worst anti-Semitic attacks. Mosques as well as synagogues have repeatedly been wrecked by arson; Muslim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught Up In A Circle Of Hate | 7/18/2004 | See Source »

Diplomats at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta had front-row seats for COLIN POWELL'S rendition of the '70s disco hit YMCA. The Secretary of State honored the tradition of wrapping up Asia's largest security meeting with a night of entertainment by gyrating his hips and singing (off-key): "President Bush, he said to me: 'Colin, I need you to run the Department of State. We are between a rock and a hard place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance of the Week | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

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