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Skwerl, 27, is in a punk band and used to work for Universal Music. Now he works for a Web marketing company. "Among my friends, I'm the guy known for getting things no one can get," he says. "I'm just that rabid for information." Skwerls are the people who make the Internet useful. To everyone but record companies...
...world's poorest countries. With its roots in Europe's churches, Jubilee 2000 brought together, in a great ring around the city, hymn-singing, sandal-wearing nuns, teenage kids and veterans of progressive politics. As Bono of the rock band U2 puts it, the movement saw "activists, punk rockers and priests marching in step...
...lexicon for their defiance of the cultural status quo. For stores like Newbury Comics, where independence has come first for so long, this collaboration is an ominous indication of their endangered state.Viglione waxed nostalgic about his musical awakening at Newbury Comics, saying, “All the punk records that I bought when I was in my teen years all came from here or stores like this, so it’s important.” Viglione is intimately aware of the store’s impact. “It’s a very important channel...
...Houston”) or guitar shredding (“Accelerate”)—and the effect is off-putting. When they hit the right notes, however, the succinctness of the songs demonstrates a maturity. Tracks like “Horse to Water” are perfect punk gems, sounding kind of pissed but joyful and anthemic at the same time. In that sense, “Accelerate” is like a better version of 1996’s “New Adventures in Hi-Fi,” which had a similar rocking feel (and perhaps...
That stance earned him death threats in punk rock songs and, if not pariah status in Hollywood, then the image of a cranky grandpa. Which hardly flustered Heston; he'd been playing the righteous loner for too long to lose sleep from exile by the reigning Hollywood Left. ("Political correctness," he said in a 1999 speech at the Harvard Law School, "is tyranny with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail...