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...Bazooka Tooth tour came to the Middle East downstairs in Central Square on November 2. Not one to hog the spotlight, Aesop shared the stage with Boston icon Mr. Lif, who backed him on a selection of songs from Bazooka Tooth, including “Easy” and “No Jumper Cables...
...Johnny Cash, the lyrics easily fit Strummer’s own life when he concludes, “somewhere in my soul / there’s always rock and roll.” Like Cash, Strummer will live on forever in his rightful place as a rock and roll icon...
...mood shifted. "But should I be hounded because I don't see it's my gig to live up to what I do on the screen? I mean, that's what a lot of people hound me for, right? Because I won't become an icon or a block of wood and behave at all times like a movie star." Then: "I think the most interesting thing about Daniel Day-Lewis is that he's strong enough as a man to say, 'Uh, I'm not going to make a movie for a few years. Let all this die away...
...Antipodean fashion circles as synonymous with only the most slothful and sloppy of lazy layabouts. Banned from public places—either through cold stares or more formal door policies—the Ugg was the ultimate in fashion faux pas. That was, at least, until unlikely style icon Pamela Anderson was spotted sporting a pair of the yeti-esque boots on the streets of LA. Suddenly the trend went ballistic trans-pacific. Fashion victims on the west coast paired with Juicy Couture trackpants for lounging about the house; across the country in colder climes, however, they?...
...oligarchs will play out even better in the hinterland than going to war in Chechnya. Ordinary Russians shed no tears for the oligarchs, although in some quarters Khodorkovsky's arrest could turn him into a martyr. But unlike in the West, in Russia he's not seen as an icon of the new breed of businessman. For common Russians he's an icon of all the sins of the last ten years. That's to the extent that anyone in the hinterland is paying much attention to this. It's not foremost on their minds, even if it will almost...