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...Zippy." Residents of cities without a newspaper smart enough to run "Zippy" - such as, incredibly, New York - can catch up using the "Zippy Annual," (Fantagraphics Books; 144pp.; $19.95). The 2001 edition appeared late last year and includes over three hundred daily and Sunday color strips. Most feature Zippy, a polka-dotted-muu-muu-wearing jester with a head in the shape of a soft-serve ice-cream cone. Having his brain squeezed into such a tiny space grants Zippy a kind of American culture satori - he exists entirely in the moment - instantly obsessed with whatever trend or object passes...
...undergrads at Emerson get to work in professional-level surroundings, though. The station itself is located in the basement of 180 Tremont St., where WERS’ offices and production rooms take up two floors. The reception area, with its polka-dot carpet and mod design, feels like a design or architectural firm. It is obvious that much time and money were spent making the place look as slick as the station sounds. But the postal service bins of records and CDs let you know that this is a place of music. Downstairs are multiple student offices and the WERS...
...Brazil's Max de Castro (son of Wilson Simonal), are the children of musical pioneers. Now, around the world, old traditions are being revived, remolded and returned to prominence by a new generation and new technology. In Tijuana, Mexico, young DJs are crossing traditional norteno (a polka-like music) with not-at-all-traditional techno to create a fresh genre, Nortec. In Bogota, Colombia, the rock duo Aterciopelados is mixing old-time accordion-driven vallenato with clubland drum-'n'-bass beats. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the great chanteuse Marisa Monte is smoothly blending samba...
...classes and cramped apartments. The vehicle they believe will help them achieve this temporary expansion of their consciousness: majikku masshurumu?magic mushrooms?shriveled bits of psilocybin-filled fungi that will first make them a little nauseous and then incredibly stoned, their world melting into a visual cacophony of whirls, polka-dots and pixels...
...kimonos paired with platforms and body piercings. The kids tote tom-toms, shopping bags, vinyl purses shaped like lips. The kids don't know it, but many of their looks are '60s People's Park through a rave-culture hula hoop. The army jackets, the boots, the far out polka-dots, it all represents more than sartorial preference. This is the fashion statement of a certain neurological perspective?even if they aren't 'shrooming themselves, they are channeling the subculture. The lucky ones might have their pictures snapped by a roving photographer for a magazine like Fruits or Kera...