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...ongoing effort to revitalize Loker Commons, members of the Memorial Hall advisory committee announce that they will replace Loker's flower shop and book swap with a television lounge. This decision woul would ultimately have little effect on the underground center's popularity...
...Sometimes--much like rappers' sampling old songs--they appropriate corporate logos with ironic visual twists. The MasterCard logo becomes "MasterRave," or Rice Krispies becomes "Rave Krisp E's." Other flyers employ 3-D images and wild metallic hues that draw inspiration from sci-fi films, anime, even the rounded, flower-power imagery of the Summer of Love. "In a lot of ways it's one of the most modern visual art forms you can see," says Eric Paxton Stauder, a member of Dots per Minute, a network of designers that focuses on rave flyers. "Stylistically, you see things in flyers...
...role in early '80s art rock, the youthful, clever, oh-so-postmodern Ackronites known as Devo, now pushing 40, have decided to release an anthology. Pioneers Who Got Scalped traces the de-evolution of Devo from 1977 to the present, following their glory days as the aforementioned innovative, inspiring, flower-potted musicians to their unfortunate experiments with melody and New Wave in the late '80s to their most recent material, namely an indifferent 1996 cover of Trent Reznor's "Head Like a Hole," which is disappointingly similar to the original, and a creation from this year, "The Words Get Stuck...
According to committee member Joseph G. Grassi, "there is a beautiful flower that is blooming in Area Four, and that is the Maynard school...
DIED. PENELOPE FITZGERALD, 83, late-blooming, prizewinning British author of The Bookshop, Offshore and The Blue Flower; in London. She was born into a literary family but didn't begin writing until her 60s. Her subtle, quasi-autobiographical novels often focused on people struggling to cope...