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...Kanda claims to be baffled by all the attention his city is getting in the run-up to the expo. "We are just doing what we have always been doing," he says with the humility of a people known throughout Japan as kenjitsu (rock solid). Compared with residents of Osaka, where personal and corporate bankruptcy rates are among the highest in the nation, Nagoyans are frugal. Local companies resisted making foolish bets during the bubble years, hence avoiding most of the damage from the crash. To this day, Nagoya companies sport some of the lowest debt loads in the country...
...creator of some of the most deliciously gloomy tracks ever to chart. Yet, after 25 years as guitarist and front man for the band New Order, Sumner is entitled to kick back. Emerging in 1980 from Manchester's new-wave legends Joy Division, New Order pillaged and adapted rock and pop to revolutionize electronic dance music. Today, their synth-driven sound is aped by every group of serious-looking boys in eyeliner...
...Angeles has the Disney Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, and of course it's become a huge thing. But in smaller towns and a lot of them in the South--Little Rock, Huntsville, Baton Rouge--there are wonderful halls and great orchestras. It requires a huge investment for a community to say, We want a world-class orchestra, and we're willing to pay for it. And I particularly enjoy playing those places...
...always loved the outdoors—camping, hiking, rock climbing, skiing, biking,” Scherf said...
...listening to? What pop culture events will be jokingly referenced? Name one. Quick. No, Monica Lewinsky was in the ’90s. Our decade lacks the definition of the counterculture, the Disco Era, the ’80s (need I elaborate?), and the 10 years of grunge rock and boy bands. Are we in the process of becoming the next lost generation...