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...shopping period gets underway this week, some professors say they find the Harvard tradition to be a nuisance because they have to sell their classes to students in jam-packed, frenzied conditions...
...Chicago. Playing the blues came naturally to a youth angling for tips in the streets of West Memphis, Ark. But he hit his groove in the Windy City as one-third of the Little Chicago Devils and later on tour with Muddy Waters. Hoodoo Man Blues, his classic jam session with guitarist Buddy Guy, was Wells at his finest--fiery, raw, defiant...
...best barometers of mainstream America, Japanese junior high students, are buying the look almost exclusively, dragging their wide-bottom jeans through the streets of Kyoto and Tokyo. Phat Farm, the cartoonishly rural-themed stores selling the hip-hop label started by Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam Records, says one-third of its customer base is in Asia...
...Dense as hell and strangely unsatisfying--Deconstructing Harry is a long 89 minutes. Jam-packed with tons of characters, more vignettes than Short Cuts and loads of references to Allen's previous movies, the film never sits still-but it never really goes anywhere, either. For all of its stylistic variety and experimentation--the Peter Greenaway-esque Hell sets, jarring time shifts, jump cuts and film loops--the film leaves the viewer with a feeling of emptiness. It touches upon all of the classic Allen themes, but in its hurry to make an all-emcompassing (and, in the end, annoyingly...
Moby has always been profoundly out of sync with what's going on in the music world--and that's a good thing. The massively eclectic Everything is Wrong, moving easily from reggae chants to diva vocals to galloping jungle, came out when everyone was looking for Pearl Jam derivatives. Animal Rights, Moby's follow up, disappointed newly techno-hungry critics by being an almost frightening marriage of ambient and punk. While releasing excellent remixes of Brian Eno, Jam and Spoon and Orbital, he's been sneered for remixing Ozzy Ozbourne, Soundgarden and Metallica. Moby plays on all levels...