Word: mainstreamers
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Although you stated that alternative rock is on its way to becoming extinct [MUSIC, Dec. 16], you failed to mention that this is in the context of the mainstream music industry. It is very sad to learn that MTV and record sales have become the only indicator of the popular-music scene. Believe it or not, alternative music is still out there and thriving in the subculture of youth. Stick your head out of the office and take a look around. Don't rely on the tube and a few statistics. NORA GRUBER San Diego
...while legendary films have landed on its screen (from “Casablanca” to “Jaws” through “The Godfather” and “Lolita”), its mission has always been one to show more than just mainstream Hollywood movies. How long may it be until that audience doesn’t have the Brattle Theater as choice for entertainment any more...
...past four or so years, been overtaken by a host of new practices: wheat-pasted posters, adhesive stickers with oddball images on them, elaborately stenciled images and even three-dimensional objects. And like many things that start below the Establishment's radar, it has caught the eye of the mainstream and is edging into the galleries...
...largely as a result of competition, Hinkle said. The Kendall Square Cinema is a multiplex with similar programming, and Internet-based companies like Netflix and VideoOnDemand.com give viewers one reason fewer to buy a ticket. And, for the Brattle, which acquires many of its reels outside the mainstream, rising prices place another straw on the camel’s back. “It’s getting costlier and costlier to do the kind of programming the Brattle does,” Hinkle said. As a result, he said he places a premium on the theater?...
...decade ago, Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan led the Million Man March on Washington, D.C., and seemed poised to become a mainstream African-American political leader. But in the ensuing years conditions for many African-Americans have worsened, and Farrakhan himself disappeared from the political stage while fighting cancer. This week he will try to resuscitate his influence by leading the Millions More Movement, a rally billed as being open to women, gays, Latinos and other ethnic minorities excluded from the first march. Farrakhan spoke to TIME's David E. Thigpen about the rise of the Christian Right, what...