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...Astro Boy," by Osamu Tezuka, likewise transcends its natural audience of robot-obsessed boys. In fact, Boomers may pick it up to relive their memories of the '60s animated TV show based on these stories. First appearing in Japan in 1951, until now the original manga have never been published in the U.S. Dark Horse plans on putting out the complete multi-volume collection (printed left to right, by the way) on a monthly basis. It's about time. Astro Boy has become iconic in Japan. Considered the "God of Manga," Tezuka's work laid the foundation of manga style...
...mentally tiring; even at their best and most entertaining, Plaid almost sounded superfluous. And unlike Mira Calix, whose DJ set was alluring in its egoless focus on the music itself, Plaid themselves seemed extraneous. The most fascinating aspect of the artists’ presence onstage was the automated robot camera filming them as they twiddled knobs and rubbed their touchpads. Such is the dilemma of this music; with few exceptions, it still works best on record—whether in the comfort of a bedroom or the shuddering confines of a club...
Breakbeats is one of the oldest styles of dance music and is the genre that inspired the classic move, the robot. Hip hop can be classified under breakbeats, whose primary characteristic is, funnily enough, its broken beat. Most of the music under the Electronica section of your local record store is breakbeats: Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim and Prodigy, to name just a well-known...
Perhaps the principle explanation for our early entertainment was a cadre of Oscar-caliber supporting actors. Between sporadic appareances by the new principal owner of the BoSox John Henry (it was either him or an automatronic robot made to look just like him), a photo-op with Channel 4 sports reporter and local legend Bob Lobel, and musical accompaniment by the Hot Tamale Band, we somehow made it to our seats in time for the 1 p.m. start...
...first elected President of Singapore in 1993; in Singapore. Citing differences of opinion with the government over the role of the President, Cheong decided not to run for a second term three years ago. DIED. GEORGE NADER, 80, 1954 Golden Globe winner and star of 1953 cult-classic Robot Monster; in Los Angeles. Nader's soon-to-be-published book, The Perils of Paul, gives an inside look into Hollywood's gay community. DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, scientist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping out the molecular structure of human hemoglobin with colleague John Kendrew...