Word: neos
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Seger is part of a new sisterhood of soul. In recent months, a wave of promising R.-and-B. divas has hit the radio and video airwaves, including big-voiced newcomer Alicia Keys (Songs in A Minor), neo-soul singer Res (How I Do) and soul-rock crooner Nikka Costa (Like a Feather, the single from her recently released album Everybody Got Their Something, is one of the year's catchiest songs). All these young soul crooners make music that's tinged with rap rhythms: the hip-hop gives their work an edge, while the soul makes...
...diabolical genius (of the Hollywood variety), nothing came close to the reports that European security services are preparing to counter a Bin Laden attempt to assassinate President Bush at next month's G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. According to German intelligence sources, the plot involved Bin Laden paying German neo-Nazis to fly remote controlled-model aircraft packed with Semtex into the conference hall and blow the leaders of the industrialized world to smithereens. (Paging Jerry Bruckheimer?) The Russians, who believe a Bin Laden attack in Genoa is more likely to be carried out by their old enemy, the Chechens...
...North Korea and deepening links with Iran. Western criticism of this infuriates the Kremlin--but emboldens Putin's policy planners as well. These are, after all, countries that enjoyed good relations with the old Soviet Union, and all keep their own people under varying degrees of control. For the neo-Soviets who run Russia these days, this is reassuring. But like their Soviet predecessors, they also want major world powers to consult them, include them, respect them. This is what they miss and what, for a weekend in Slovenia at least, they will get. Too bad they have...
...comfort to realize that even in the Internet age, rock 'n' roll still knows how to keep a secret. To most of the media (The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and The New Yorker, for example), Detroit's neo-garage rock duo, The White Stripes, are siblings. After all, singer/guitarist Jack White, 25, and drummer Meg White, 26, have the same jet black hair and pale complexion, often perform in matching red and white outfits, and introduce themselves as brother and sister. But to Detroit, and to knowledgeable fans across the nation, the White Stripes are, first, a band...
...Orwell's "1984," Ted Rall's ambitious new graphic novel, "2024" (NBM Publishing; 96 pages; $16.95), imagines the near future as controlled by a corporate totalitarianism rather than a socialist one. Like its precursor, "2024" means to evoke an entire parodistic culture, including social structure, language, art, and philosophy ( "Neo-postmodernism," in Rall's case) by gently exaggerating the current culture of its core audience...