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With Toyota retiring the Celica and the MR2 Spyder, the company is banking on the tC to rev sales with hot-rod-minded kids. Scion offers a variety of accessories to customize the car with, such as an interior-light kit and satin silver shift knob. Add flame surfacing, and even a hipster might take notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scion Grows Up | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...called attention to the jazz-pop divas who came before her--Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall and Madeleine Peyroux. Most pop phenomena are lightning bolts, flashing quickly and dramatically across the zeitgeist. Jones is a light rain, touching everything and seeping permanently into the soil. In an age when knob-twiddling producers rule and lip-synching pop tarts stalk the stage, she has reintroduced the world to the human voice. Jones is rooted by that libidoless, timeless and peerless voice--a calm, blue-tinted murmur that shies away from American Idol--style showboating. I like her jazzy, soulful first album more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Norah Jones | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...Betak consists of a bookcase ($7,800) and a bench covered in supple black leather ($6,000). Both pieces demonstrate the same mischievous quality as Betak's notorious runway creations. A trichromatic lighting system makes it possible to change the color of each unit with the turn of a knob. And best of all, says Betak, "when the bookcase is full, you don't see the shelves anymore, and it seems like the books are floating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now You See it, Now You Don't | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

Smith waited in anticipation as the puck slid towards his tape—not Welch’s—and, leaving nothing to chance, zipped a slapshot through a screen and off the knob of Clarkson goalie Dustin Traylen’s stick, right under the junction of post and crossbar...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Second, One Goal, One Season | 3/24/2004 | See Source »

...meticulously beautiful. But over each unique instrumental backdrop comes that same mono-stylistic voice that Vanderslice can’t seem to outgrow. His intensely sincere, melodic moan pushes already overwrought lyrics to a point that will have many a cooler-than-thou music snob reaching for the volume knob. But truth is, Vanderslice cannot be faulted for over-dramatizing his material. With topics that include ground-level narratives from the War on Terror, the convoluted nightmare plot of Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and the singer’s own endless reserve of personal tragedies, it?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWMUSIC | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

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