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...been efforts to do so as recently as last year through acquisitions of international media outlets and distributors, but the efforts have been halfhearted. Our brothers in the United Kingdom—so loyal in times of war—still cannot watch the most recent episode of 30 Rock without breaking...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 4 | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...into this base - which the company says it has lost over the past decade - Denny's has created something called the Allnighter program. From 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the chain has started playing alternative-rock music. It has sponsored more than 30 emerging bands - they get free meals while on tour - and organized late-night meet and greets, and occasional jam sessions, with the musicians in the restaurants. The servers wear casual black T shirts instead of buttoned-up uniforms. Denny's has also just introduced four new late-night menu items, each priced between $3 and $4. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denny's: Where the Food Is Free and Drunks Can Pee | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...sprints down an exposed trail interspersed with a quick breather behind a hesco barrier - something like a six-cubic foot sandbag - put up for that purpose. Then we hit a creek, and followed it down about 500 meters through holly, oak and cedar forest. The creek bed was solid rock in places, smoothed by water into a taffy ribbon of undulating striped granite. We passed stone houses tucked into the riverine curves, their stilt-supported balconies jutting into the void. We glimpsed flashes of bright pink as the women ducked into doorways when we passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambushed in Afghanistan: A Reporter Under Fire | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...plates. It had taken little more than an hour to move from Loi Kolay back to Restrepo, but it felt like days. Within an hour, though, we were back on the move. One of the soldiers, Private first class Matthew Fowler, 24, had ripped open his knee on a rock while sprinting from the humvee to the outpost and he needed medical attention unavailable at Restrepo. We climbed back down the hill to the road that just a few hours before had been filled with terror, to meet the humvees that would take us to the main Korengal Outpost. Fowler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambushed in Afghanistan: A Reporter Under Fire | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

Since it first reared its head in 1977, punk rock hasn’t come in waves so much as infesations, swarms, plagues of cockroaches. When their way of life destabilized (post-punk, new wave, etc.), the faithful foraged underground to found hardcore—itself the ancestor of pop music’s most violent and dissonant iterations. The lineup and the skulls shaking in the crowd may change, but, beyond all hope and all disaster, punk rock survives.Its survival derives from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Thermals | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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