Word: legendizing
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...recent years, many underground rock legends have reunited for a shot at their former glory. Boston post-punk progenitors Mission of Burma are working on their second new album after a hiatus since the mid-’80s. Post-hardcore acts from Slint to Braid have reappeared for tours, only to fade back into legend. Even the Pixies are rumored to be in the studio again. These moves invariably beg the question of motive: music, money, or something entirely different? For Dinosaur Jr., the issue is much more complicated; few bands have as tumultuous a history. The band...
...honor of Larry Legend, a highly unsanitary game of Beirut involving chocolate-flavored coffee and paper cups commences in the fifth-floor bathroom. No one throws up?...
...SECESSIONIST When Ronald Lauder, son of beauty legend Estée Lauder, opened the Neue Galerie on New York City's Upper East Side, he knew he was sharing his love of Viennese art and design with the world, but he probably didn't think he would be setting a fashion trend. The Wiener Werkstätte and the Secessionist movement that came out of Vienna in the early 20th century are influencing fashion and home design. Fabric manufacturer Maharam has reissued the fabrics of Dagobert Peche, and young designers like Proenza Schouler are picking up on the colors and graphic detail...
...Manning boys grew up in a shadow of fame that would have been hard to escape even if they had become dentists. Archie is a Gulf Coast legend raised in Drew, Miss., who starred at Ole Miss, where the campus speed limit is still 18 m.p.h. in recognition of his jersey number. He also inspired a popular Dixie ditty, The Ballad of Archie Who. As a pro, he owned New Orleans, despite the awful team. As a father, he worried about heaping expectations on his kids, so he stayed on the sideline. "I was scared to get too involved," says...
...Legacy of a Legend At a school function, I learned of the death of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks from an eighth-grade student [Nov. 7]. I was struck by the complexity of God's will in our lives. Could Parks have dreamed, as she rode the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, that 50 years later a white boy in Texas would speak her name reverently and express regret at her passing? Regina Donnell Azle, Texas...