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...life that included a five-year prison sentence for assault; of undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. His infectious 1981 single Super Freak launched him to superstardom, but his career was soon derailed by a decade-long cocaine addiction. Comeback efforts in the '90s were sidelined by a stroke and hip-replacement surgery...
...TOKYO The city is in the grip of a vinyl revival, so you'll find it easy to satisfy your wax-cravings here. Head to Udagawa-cho, a five-minute walk from Shibuya train station. The area is crammed with dozens of vinyl stores, ranging from hip-hop specialists like Dance Music Record to purveyors of the unusual such as Yellow Pop, whose stocks include decades-old Japanese Rakugo-spoken-comedy records-and pressings of sporting events...
Graphic novels used to be viewed as comic books--only bigger and more pretentious. Now that sales are booming, the medium is being embraced by artists as a hip way to tell challenging stories. The just released Birth of a Nation (Crown; 140 pages) by Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial comic strip The Boondocks, and Reginald Hudlin, director of the 1990 movie House Party, began as a movie script that used race as the centerpiece of a political satire. "By the time we realized how difficult that would be to sell in Hollywood, we had already fallen in love...
...clubs are now carrying Vegas," says Cy Waits, the bar's VIP manager. "The casinos want us to bring in quality. Young people are more reckless with their money." Along with clubs, arenas and music venues have sprouted up in the hotels, replacing the crooners with major pop and hip-hop acts. "For years people thought it was where acts go to retire," says Russell Jones, general manager of House of Blues Las Vegas, where Prince, Snoop Dogg and James Brown have played this year. "That image has really changed. Now a lot of the acts come through three times...
...over the next 10 years. Kim is recruiting engineers at a furious pace, aiming to increase research-and-development teams to 60% of LG's total payroll by 2005, from 40% today. One recent afternoon at the LG Electronics Corporate Design Center in Seoul, young Koreans in jeans and hip black sweaters were packing up plastic models of computer monitors and microwaves to move to new offices. With the number of designers up 15% in the past year, to 390, the center has added an entire new floor. "As we emphasize our brand, design becomes more critical," says the center...