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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...aged, white] creators" and became a hit among "largely young, black and Hispanic" fans. The book examines how De Palma's work redefined the way films addressed on-screen violence and drug use and how the intensity of its misogyny, money worship and drug euphoria was embraced by hip-hop and gangsta rap. Scarface, Tucker claims, was more than just vulgar escapism. As the story caught on with urban audiences via home video, fans started filling in and expanding the story - going beyond the literal screenplay to construct alternate meanings and messages. Gradually it became a rallying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scarface Nation | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...event the whole school will be excited about coming to—like a new tradition.” Students paid $8 before the event and $10 at the door to gain admission to the gym and listen to DJ Long Ouyang ’10 who played hip hop, electronic, and international music. Throughout the night, several of Harvard’s dance groups, including the Harvard Ballet Company, Expressions, Candela Salsa, and South Asian Dance Company performed for the guests. Some of the groups even taught attendees some dance moves from their routines. Over the course...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Dance All Night for Cancer Research | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...passion for someone else." For some, record-breaking itself has become a consuming passion. Ashrita Furman, a health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched his first in 1979 by doing more than 27,000 jumping jacks, and has since hop-scotched the globe in search of new marks, tacking on records for rope-skipping (on a pogo stick) at Cambodia's Angkor Wat, hula-hooping at Australia's Ayers Rock, and traveling the entire 12-mile length of Paul Revere's Massachusetts ride in forward rolls. "I'm trying to show others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinness World Records | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...today’s rap world full of inflated egos, calling an album “The Renaissance” is still an eyebrow-raising move. It creates expectations. The artist better deliver an album with a rare vibrancy, creativity, and intelligence, if not a record that rejuvenates hip-hop from the underground to the Top-40, from the street corner to the dance floor. An album with longevity. Q-Tip is familiar with the great hip-hop album. Within the genre, the man is a legend. As a member of much-beloved A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip contributed...

Author: By Mark A. Fusunyan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Q-Tip | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Then, bring the liquid to a boil, adding hops gradually. Hops are the female flower cones of the hop plant that give beer its bitter flavor...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Spirit in Adams House | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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