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...Real World” has become progressively more plastic and prefab. These days, it’s impossible to watch it without experiencing deja vu. To be sure, individuals once roamed free around the outrageously outfitted “Real World” pads—Puck in San Francisco, for example. But now, even the Individual is an established role (see: Teck from Hawaii and Irene from Seattle). And the same personae keep reappearing in younger incarnations—Coral in New York carried the superbitch torch that Flora abandoned, while Matt in New Orleans filled the religious vacuum...
...formal music curriculum three years ago. Now it hosts a small but rollicking before-school guitar class run by Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that doles out free instruments and lessons in popular music in more than 120 public schools in Newark, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tenn. At a time when already anemic school arts budgets are dwindling, the unconventional program is thriving and enjoying a bit of fortuitous buzz. One of the fall's hottest movies, School of Rock, starring Jack Black as a head-banging substitute teacher, is spreading the mantra...
When Steve Jobs holds forth in public, it's usually to a mob of fawning Apple-ites--the true believers who still develop software and accessories for Apple products. Not so last month at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This crowd was more mack daddy than Macworld. Bono, Mick Jagger and Dr. Dre made video appearances. Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart was in the audience. Sarah McLachlan sang her latest hits live. What was pulling these musical supernovas into Jobs' magnetic field? A software product that just might save their free-falling industry: the iTunes Music Store...
This funky boutique based in San Francisco has urban-hipster appeal. The clothes and accessories come from independent designers; find this Starlet Top under New at Finery. Another kicky site: karmaloop.com
...Across the Pacific in San Francisco, Urban Diversions, tel: (1-415) 776 7455, arranges events such as a games night, river rafting and skydiving. According to spokeswoman Kumiko Yoshida, people sign up because "they're busy, active professionals who don't have time to plan social events." To participate, they pay a nominal membership...