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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHRB's top officers took the alumni warnings to heart, consolidating the station's folk, rap and alternative rhythm and blues departments in order to bring the station's programming in line with what they think is its core audience: white, affluent Cantabrigians. Last spring, WHRB started a $1.2 million drive to fund its move to new offices in Pennypacker Hall...

Author: By Nan Zheng, | Title: WHRB Changes Program; Some Staffers Angered | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

...seat up front -- and the evening is worth every precious penny. Say, if you will, that it's five $20 shows in one, and count the ways. Bette the incendiary torch singer, in fine voice at 47; her '70s classic Stay with Me is still a rhythm-and-blues catharsis. Bette the jaunty favorite of the dear departed bathhouse set, making Long Island jokes ("Hell's little theme park") and addressing her earlier fans: "I see we have our quorum of leather queens here tonight." Bette the Broadway star, fronting campy production numbers and performing the stark Rose's Turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette, Better, Best | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...problems, Davis' once assertive, quicksilver trumpet tone flickers and flares like an oxygen-starved flame. On Miles Ahead he sits out long passages, but with trumpeter Wallace Roney backing him up, Davis' pride and defiance burn through as he suddenly leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Great Set | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...Rhythm 95 on WHRB 95.3 FM plays hip-hop, dancehall, and related music each Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB'S Underground Rock Top 20 | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...relief. First because O'Brien, a little-known writer for The Simpsons picked to replace David Letterman, didn't wet his pants, spill coffee on a guest or otherwise embarrass himself in his long-awaited debut. And second because viewers can finally get back to the ordinary, relaxed rhythm of watching late- night TV, rather than being jarred awake every night by another Television Event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. O'Brien's Neighborhood | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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