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Considering that the cable-TV industry is just emerging from an advertising slump and that only a few hundred thousand cable viewers tune in to HDTV, it's a risky bet. But it's the kind that Hendricks has always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first became interested in documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks...
Despite this shift to more universal themes, though, the style of music has essentially remained the same. Nearly all of the songs on Human Conditions are laid-back rock ballads supported by strings and brass, an approach that has become almost synonymous with Ashcroft’s name since his days as frontman for the Verve. In fact, there is only one track on the album, “Bright Lights”, that even comes close to being an upbeat rock n’ roll anthem...
...SUBJECT TO CHANGE. You’ve seen them at the Undergraduate Council Battle of the Bands. Now check them out at Club Passim as they headline Harvard Student Music Night. “Subject to Change” is a group of juniors and seniors with a laid-back acoustic rock sound, including Janet L. Kim ’04 on the violin. Saturday, Feb. 22 at 10 p.m. Tickets $7. Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge...
Even the first verse of Genesis finds its way into his music, supported by a laid-back, skeletal beat in “Lord Forgive Me” from his debut album U.S.S.R. Repertoire...
Razzle-dazzle is an important part of the UpStairs on the Square experience. Those who are in search of an oak-paneled dining room with a laid-back filet steak and a good bottle of red wine should look elsewhere. (Grill 23 in Back Bay, in fact.) An evening at UpStairs on the Square is an extravaganza and you will not be allowed to forget it. En route to your table, a helpful hostess shows you the entire restaurant—isn’t the location of the wine cellar the business of the restaurant’s staff...