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...misery of poverty.Like all oppositional subcultures, however, hip-hop was eventually faced with incorporation by the mainstream. Recognizing the potential profit, corporate America and hip-hop performers formed a relationship that would result in the near-total commodification of hip-hop. Some performers, like the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff, accepted this incorporation outright; others, like Public Enemy and the gangsta rap collective NWA (or Niggaz Wit Attitude), saw hip-hop’s expansion as an opportunity to vent their frustrations with the social order in America...
...Calif., and Mimi Chen, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles, who just cannot get enough of the Governator. The women graduated from Princeton in 1979 and went on to have careers well suited to championing a cause: Morgenthaler-Jones was a money manager and Chen was a DJ. When Schwarzenegger ran for Governor, both women, who by then had left their jobs, volunteered to help. In August they launched AmendforArnold.com The battle has been joined. After seeing the ads, Alex Jones, a Texas-based radio-talk-show host, launched ArnoldExposed.com His group--Americans Against Arnold--alleges that...
Mass Hysteria returns to The Middle East after a show there to accompany the release of their CD Mistress and Men last June. The Harmonics will also be there in preparation for the release of their new EP, as well as King Django, Ricky Rocksteady and DJ Selector Travis. $8. 18+. 9 p.m. Upstairs at the Middle East...
Huyghe’s project details the events in a 24-minute short film, “Huyghe + Corbusier: Harvard Project.” The puppet opera, with its soundtrack of DJ scratches, depicts both the major players behind the creation of the Carpenter Center and contemporary art connoisseurs. Harvard is represented in a catch-all character named Harvard Dean of Deans, who physically mirrors both Darth Vader and a flying beetle. Linda Norden, associate curator at the Fogg Art Museum, describes the puppet opera as illustrating “Harvard’s relationships to living...
...serious competition. Virgin's new Player 5 GB ($250; virginelectronics.com has smart playlists, an FM tuner and twin headphone jacks. Creative's 5-GB Zen Micro ($280; creative.com) with its radical touch-pad face, comes in 10 colors, twice as many as the Mini. The 5-GB Dell Pocket DJ ($200; dell.com may have fewer frills, but it also costs fewer dollars...