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...project, Straight Outta Ca$hville, is a throwback to 1989's Straight Outta Compton, the classic gang life manifesto from N.W.A. (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E, M.C. Ren and D.J. Yella). N.W.A.'s depictions of violence, often directed against the police, put Los Angeles on the hip hop map. Hailing from Nashville, Buck hopes to do for the Dirty South with Ca$hville what Compton did for the Wild West...
...inclusive guided Alfa tours that start around 32,000. "With cars today you're shut off from the surrounding environment," says Laimer. "You lose the real sense of driving." Their German-based company, Nostalgic, simply drops the key in the client's palm and hands over a map and guidebook. "There are people who have the money and the desire but not the knowledge or the time to own a classic car," notes Pichler. "Now a businessman in London gets on a plane and three hours later he is driving a vintage Alfa Romeo through the hills of Chianti...
...16th-century map of Spain floats in a tub of deionized water, while a damaged Russian poem is repaired nearby using starch paste and Japanese Tanguzo strips...
Juan Valdez, the fictitious coffee grower created in 1959 to help put Colombian coffee on the map, is trying to spiff up his image. In the face of dirt-cheap international wholesale prices and consumers' increasingly gourmet taste, the National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia is hoping to cash in on the Starbucks phenomenon with a five-year, $75 million marketing campaign to reposition its coffee as an upscale brand. While still supplying such supermarket stalwarts as Maxwell House and Folgers, the Colombian coffee industry is struggling to make itself relevant to younger generations of consumers who pooh-pooh...
...defined a new sound for kids and clubbers alike. In 1999 an American critic, stunned by the ecstatic crowd at one of his New Jersey concerts, declared Mehndi "bigger than the Beatles." Today hot London producer and fellow bhangra artist Rishi Rich says Mehndi "put Asian music on the map." Or as Mehndi himself says: "Daler Mehndi was different from anybody. That's why people like Daler Mehndi...