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...raise spirit prior to the event, the CEB-sponsored “Pimp your Stein Club” events in each of the Houses since spring break, where students were able to win passes to meet Third Eye Blind band members after the show, said CEB Yardfest Coordinator Neesha...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Brave Rain for Third Eye Blind Concert | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...attraction. There's an ironic local expression that sums it up: Frankenstein. It describes an old object or concept injected with new life through fresh components-"antique" chairs bolstered by new arms and legs, jeepneys revamped with transplanted motors and fresh paint jobs (a new MTV program, Pimp My Jeepney, is in the works), to ukay-ukay, or rummage-sale, vintage clothes stitched together with modern materials and prints. To me, Frankenstein explains the city's visual style as well as its strength and resilience. Improvisation and cheerfully making do characterize the Filipino attitude toward poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold and the Beautiful | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...gets to say "ho," in an age when Pimp My Ride is an innocent car show and It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp is an Oscar-winning song? As even Essence Carlson, one of the Rutgers students Imus insulted, acknowledged at a press conference, black rap artists labeled young black women as "hos" long before Imus did. And while straight people may not be able to say "faggot," Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Will & Grace helped mainstream the nonhostile gay joke for straight people. But all this reappropriation and blurring - distinguishing a good-natured "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imus Fallout: Who Can Say What? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...marketing manager Alan Yang. "It's the most effective brand-building tool we've tried." To promote its bB minivan in Japan, Toyota offered concert tickets to those who took snapshots of the vehicle with camera phones. For the World Cup, Adidas fielded a game that allowed players to pimp digital sneakers on their handsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam, to Go | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...College Events Board (CEB) will be co-hosting special Stein Clubs in each of the Houses next month with the House Committees (HoCos), the College announced Wednesday. The 12-part “Pimp Yo’ Stein Club” series—featuring professional trivia, karaoke, “Dance Dance Revolution” (DDR), and food from Harvard Square restaurants—will culminate in Yardfest, an outdoor concert and carnival scheduled for April 28, Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 said. CEB President Adam Goldenberg ’08 added that...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stein Clubs Build Up to ’Fest | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

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