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...major-label recording artist is well known to her fans and filled with twists and turns that will one day make for a fine “Behind The Music.” The underground Boston music scene brought Lord into the path of a woman named Tinuviel, a punk rocker based in Olympia, Wash., who was spending her summer in Boston. They became close friends and several months later Lord moved to Olympia to join Tinuviel and Slim Moon, the man who ran Kill Rock Stars, an acclaimed small record label that housed Tinuviel and other Northwest punk acts...
...Ryou is head of marketing for popular Korean Internet portal www.freechal.com, and one of her jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit your avatar in a range of styles: punk rocker, gangster, curvy superhero. To do so, though, you have to pay real-world cash. Says Ryou: "Romantic is going to be big this spring...
...Joes is a bit of a loser while a twentysomething with a full Crazychildren set is, you know, way datable. The artist is coy about his yearly earnings, but reiterates that fun, not money, gets him off. Many of his figures?like Maxx and the 100 other handmade street-punk dolls in his Gardener series?are unique. Even the factory-produced pieces of the 10 series he's designed so far have limited-edition runs of 500 to 1,000. That's part of their attraction and accounts for their soaring value as collectibles. When Lau released a punkish...
...Other designers and toy companies around the globe might mimic Lau's street-punk flair. But he remains the dude to match in the action-toy world. Rather than gloat over his global following though, he would much prefer to talk about soccer, traveling or snowboarding. It's not that he doesn't care; it's just that he's very chilled out?like Maxx, the plastic epitome of cool...
Whatever praise New York City's Ramones deserved for more or less inventing punk rock, they could never be accused of versatility. The band found its groove--fast, heavy, black-humored three-chord assaults--and luxuriated in it for almost a quarter century. But before his death last year, the singer, Joey, got relatively experimental on his first and last solo album. Relatively is the key word here: he fits five, sometimes six chords into a single song, and (gasp) evinces a heartfelt concern for social issues. But the first track, a cover of What a Wonderful World, makes...