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Michele L. Woodbury '00 had modeled at hair shows, wine conventions, and even for Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink. Posing topless for the April 1998 "Women of the Ivy League" issue of Playboy magazine, then, was simply just another gig...
Anyway! Lewis explained to Dr. K why he loves the all-silk academic gown he wears at Commencement. For one thing, his wife gave it him. So cute! And fashion-wise, he's nutso about the fabric. (It's so light and airy!) Lewis has been doing this gig for a number of years now so he knows that the synthetic rental stuff is crap--it's too damn hot. But he didn't use that language. Anyway, thanks for the tips, Dean Lewis...
...markup for record company and retailer. That's why CDs that each cost 50? to make retail for $15. As long as the only way to get that music was through those channels, then Metallica and its label, Electra (owned by Time Warner, TIME's publisher), had a great gig. Last week a Federal Trade Commission settlement with major record companies put a crimp in that business. It said consumers may have overpaid $480 million in the past three years and that the companies would change their pricing policies...
...available information prior to the event, the show at the Middle East's downstairs space should have been Mix Master Mike's gig. He was headlining, after all, coming to the stage at 11:30p.m. After the event's undercards, Rahzel and Choclair, had rhymed the crowd to a fevered pitch. He also has a new album out on Asphodel Records, Eye of the Cyklops. Add to that the fact that a good part of the audience had turned out to see the Beastie Boy's DJ on the basis of association alone. Maybe 60 percent of the audience comprised...
CHARLES RAMSEY D.C. police boss gets kudos for handling IMF protests. Should get consulting gig with Reno...