Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While single-sex institutions in higher education, like the Citadel (and, closer to home, Radcliffe) are on their way out, single-sex schools are experiencing a revival in primary and secondary schools. Five years ago, the debate in my local newspapers was over the formation of the Malcolm X Academy, one of three alternative public schools for black boys in Detroit. Supporters saw the schools as a potential solution to the social problems that disproportionately affect young black men such as dropout, unemployment and crime...
...Richmond-based Pat McGee Band (PMB) started out playing local clubs and college frats in March '96 but has since grown increasingly well-known along the Atlantic coast for their vitality and artistry. "We have probably had 90 shows this tour," Pat explained before his concert a week ago Wednesday at the Paradise...
...love with an Ass (played by an eager Kevin Kline)--a revelation that never quite came off in the written version. Perfect casting decisions and scanty strands of well-placed opalescence turn the scripts' confusing jumble of characters into a fay beauty pageant (fragrances soon available at your local department store...
...music may be undergoing just such a transformation. In truth, hip hop has certainly had constitutive elements: emceeing, deejaying, breakdancing and grafitti art. Yet as a movement, hip hop has traversed more than 20 years since a particular voiceless community became local cultural creators. At the end of the '90s the industry of hip hop is a multi-billion dollar venture, one that reaches countless individuals in communites all over the place through a diversity of media. The stereotype of an East/West coast dichotomy is not only misplaced, it is further subverted by the fact that there...
...topics all surrounding a musical genre. The interaction among panelists and audience members was astoundingly high; on this level the conference was nothing but a sucess. More than 300 participants took part in the conference. With a powerful publicity campaign, the NextLevel seems especially relevent in regards to the local turnout of curious individuals...