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...exception. A bona fide off-Broadway smash and soon-to-be-movie, Hedwig also makes a captivating rock-'n'-roll album. The tale of a transsexual trailer-park denizen, Hedwig echoes the gender-blending audacity of late 1970s David Bowie and the hormone-stoked feverishness of early Meat Loaf. But John Cameron Mitchell's vocals and Stephen Trask's music have their own raw poetry. The spirit of Hedwig shines through: cheeky, resilient, wounded but triumphant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hedwig and The Angry Inch | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Last week, opening their mail boxes to find an ominous beige envelope from University Hall, several hundred seniors no doubt thought they had been Ad Boarded. Panic-stricken, they wondered, was it that fake e-mail I sent to my friend? The loaf of bread I took from the dining hall? Or--gasp!--have they found out about that paragraph on the next-to-last page of my second expos paper my first year...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Think Twice Before Giving | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

...contrast, the French Club's modern French rap performance at this year's show was particularly refreshing. One club member began the performance by coming on stage wearing a beret and carrying a loaf of bread. He immediately dashed both to the ground, grabbing instead a microphone and starting to rap. His implicit statement: yes, berets and French bread define one part of my heritage, but don't think that you completely "understand" my sense of identity or me. Rather, he chose to show us the influence that hip-hop music and culture have had on his identity. If other...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Kamil E. Redmond, S | Title: The Miseducation of Cultural Rhythms | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...contrast, the French Club's modern French rap performance at this year's show was particularly refreshing. One club member began the performance by coming on stage wearing a beret and carrying a loaf of bread. He immediately dashed both to the ground, grabbing instead a microphone and starting to rap. His implicit statement: yes, berets and French bread define one part of my heritage, but don't think that you completely "understand" my sense of identity or me. Rather, he chose to show us the influence that hip-hop music and culture have had on his identity. If other...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, | Title: The Mis-Education of Cultural Rhythms | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

SPAM A leading source of nutritional humor since 1937, Spam is a mixture of pork shoulder, ham and spices. Spam has been a soldier's staple in too many wars. On a more peaceful front SPAM Ku: Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf, includes 162 odes to the luncheon meat by more than 40 writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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