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...others, marked VICTIM and BYSTANDER, form the backdrop for the action onstage. Victor--with his black beret and long, stringy hair that scream "Victim!"--is enduring a stream of abuse from Brad. "I can call you anything I want because I'm a man and you're a punk sissy nerd!" Brad shouts after stealing Victor's hat. The audience laughs hysterically. "We don't want punk sissy nerds like you hanging around our school. Right?" asks Brad, prompting the watching kids to chant "Punk sissy nerd" in an unconscious display of bystander cravenness. But when the play is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Bullies Beware | 3/25/2001 | See Source »

...mechanic and a hospital aide, Künast overcame her parents' wish that she drop out of school in the ninth grade to learn a trade. Instead, she went to a technical high school and then to university, where she earned a law degree. With her punk hair style, she seems the embodiment of trendy Berlin, a world apart from the farms of rural Germany. The leftist taz newspaper described Künast as "a bigmouth from [Berlin's neighborhood of] Kreuzberg, who can hardly tell a Holstein cow from a Vietnamese water buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Greener Pastures | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Combining elements of post-1970s punk, synthesizer pop and neo-psychedelia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Albums | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

This type of praise for WHRB's unique classical, jazz, blues, punk and underground rock programming doesn't coming only from locals...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WHRB Harvard Radio Caters to its Own Crowd | 3/13/2001 | See Source »

...Little Teapot, thank you very much. Most programs that aim to introduce toddlers to music rely heavily on traditional folk songs, many of which have been around for centuries, but the music in Aardvarks classes (and sold on CDs) springs entirely from the brain of its punk-rocker founder and lead instructor, David Weinstone. With its topical song subjects and dizzying range of musical styles, Aardvarks has become something of a cult phenomenon among New York City hipsters. And the one-man operation, along with the 10 CDs of music it is based on, is gaining converts across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Radical Aardvark | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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