Word: grownups
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...hour of the morning when many rock 'n' rollers are hitting the sack, the members of a hard-driving band from New Jersey are just unzipping their gig bags. "We rock at 7:30 sharp," says David Wish, the band's leader, founder and token grownup. Wish's group has a lot on its schedule: a run-through of a Carlos Santana tune, some funk and blues improvisation and a tutorial in stage presence. "Make a face like you're mad, like you mean it," Wish hollers over the din of nine acoustic guitars while windmilling his arm Pete Townshend...
...this sounds like a grownup version of schoolkids connecting tin cans with string for a science fair and dreaming of putting the phone company out of business, well, that's because it is. Proponents of free wi-fi like Pozar believe that paying for Internet access is as dumb as paying for a radio signal (which is, of course, exactly what wi-fi is). Already their tin cans and string have scored successes from Manhattan to Milwaukee. Small retail outlets such as bookstores and coffee shops are starting to get with the program too. They find that giving away bandwidth...
...ignore musical genres--made Cash's death last week, at 71, an event that provoked a serious sense of loss among people of all ages. Children of the '50s remember the startle of his first eminence: the one Southern star who was not a rebellious kid but a grownup with cavernous eyes and a voice to match. Kids of the '60s recall his pop hits, the TV show he was host of for two years and the easy alliances he formed with musicians beyond country's borders. The X and next generations know his old songs as if they were...
...answer to the question "Got milk?" is getting complicated. Milk consumption is going up among people of all ages, and producers are capitalizing on this by launching new formulations and flavors that go way beyond traditional chocolate and strawberry. Promised Land Dairy offers a grownup caramel Dulce de Leche, along with rich vanilla, amaretto, strawberry, banana, peach and seasonal flavors like blueberry. Kreider Farms in Pennsylvania makes a fruity Strawberry Banana and Orange Cream milk (which tastes just like a melted Creamsicle, in a good way). One of Ronnybrook Farm Dairy's best-selling products is its coffee-flavored milk...
...Flying Circus television show - and knew their parents would never get the joke. The Pythons were rock 'n' roll. So writing a definitive, collective autobiography to set the record straight - just as the Beatles did in their Anthology - is no act of hubris. And for all those now-grownup kids who still beg them to re-form and do the dead-parrot sketch one more time, The Pythons Autobiography (Orion Books; 360 pages), serves up a hefty slab of nostalgia. Time is tougher on jokes than on melodies, but it's hard now to explain precisely why Monty Python...