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...miles southeast of Los Angeles, to a mere appendage. He also granted the Angels the dubious distinction of being the only major pro-sports franchise identified by two cities. Yet tonight awestruck fans greet him like a savior. A man in a WE ARE NOT LA Angels T shirt praises him. "It means so much to have a Mexican-American owner," a Hispanic fan tells Moreno, the first Latino team owner in major U.S. sports. "As long as we win," says another, "I don't care if you call them the Schenectady Mud Hens...
...world but the French were rapidly losing market share to Australia and Italy. Why? The answer had less to do with anti-French sentiment than with France's wine-classification system, which Americans find too intimidating with its hard-to-decipher appellations, châteaux and mis en bouteille ŕ la propriété. If the wines could be made more approachable, Joe concluded, Americans just might snap them...
...Problems” producer Rick Rubin to lay the beats down on his hip-hop records. DJ Spooky, a Bowdoin graduate with a double major in French and philosophy, who performed at Sanders Theatre in March, weaves webs of aural, visual, and textual references ranging from Derrida to De La Soul...
...mainstream and underground rap that Kanye West claims to have transcended seem to have been greatly exaggerated. Hip-hop legends like Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. have been weaving abstract rhymes into their oeuvres for years (albeit less pretentiously), along with left-field heroes like De La Soul, 3rd Bass and the Native Tongues Posse (Q-Tip’s nickname is even “the Abstract?...
...sold-out evening performance, which Tewes writes in an e-mail was “aimed at a more adult audience,” La Piñata’s two pieces were replaced by a documentary and a “multi-media modern dance and art piece...