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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just released, marks her graphic novel debut. As is the DIY style, the author focuses on her own life and relationships, putting it onto paper with a beguiling simplicity. Set during a summer between semesters in Providence, Rhode Island, Allison works at a comic store and collects LPs. Asher, her boyfriend, has left for a two-week trip. Suddenly she gets a phone call. He wants to go back to Australia for the rest of the summer - where his old girlfriend lives. Uh oh. The rest of the book follows Allison's melancholy struggles with an increasingly irrevocable breakup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Comix in the Big Leagues | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

...Raised in a lower middle-class family in Madras, Rahman (whose real name is A.S. Dileep Kumar) grew up listening to his father's tiny but unusually diverse record collection, consisting of just three, wholly different LPs?one from China, one from Latin America, and the third by American country balladeer Jim Reeves. Rahman's Hindu family was also devoted to a local Muslim pir, or saint, who was a Sufi dervish. Sufis share the same devotion to Allah as other strands of Islam, but none of the rigid stoicism. Instead, Sufis believe the way to God is through vehement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Music | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...curse. It’s a neurosis. It’s actually a problem,” he says of his insatiable ambition a few days after his Feb. 10 concert at the Roxy in Boston. At 22 years old, he’s still diseased. With three LPs and dozens of awards to his name (or rather to his apt stage alias, Eyedea) the Minnesotan lyricist has become a symbol for a burgeoning underground hip hop movement that places improvisation over production and references old school rap with a lively philosophical twist. The future, according to these hip hoppers...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eyedea Rebuilds Underground Hip-hop from the Beat Up | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

...Woody Allen, Bruce McCall and Steve Martin. But I had a fondness for Playboy?s comedy stars - Jean Shepherd, Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Feiffer, Lenny Bruce, Arnold Roth, Shel Silverstein - in part because I?d followed and loved their earlier work from, respectively, WOR radio, Mad, the Village Voice, Fantasy LPs, Humbug and Look. They were the guys I?d have chosen if I were Playboy?s humor editor. (In which case, I?d have dropped the designation of ?humor? heading each piece; making readers guess if a story was supposed to be funny was part of the fun.) Into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Your Grandfather?s Playboy | 1/3/2004 | See Source »

...money we make is just going towards the next project, so it’s really just about keeping things going,” says Zaccagnino. “We’ve already started talking to a couple of groups about doing full EPs or LPs, and I think our general plan is that we’d like to have, every year, a compilation disc of different bands and a big CD release party in the spring...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Veritas Records Plans a Debut CD | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

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