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...major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour costs $5.95. Other notable offerings: the National Park Service's Revolutionary War tour at Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord, Massachusetts, for $5.99, tel: (1-978) 369 6993; and the Cell Phone Safari at the Sacramento Zoo in California...
...have the hits now," says Clayton--and he's right. How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the catchiest album U2 has ever made, though it is neither political--the titular bomb refers to Bono's tempestuous father, who died in 2001--nor, as Vertigo suggests, a garage rocker. Mostly it's perfectly rendered grandiose pop, enormous in sound and theme. Bono sings about salvation (Yahweh), love (A Man and a Woman), doubt (One Step Closer) and, on All Because of You, himself ("I like the sound of my own voice, I didn't give anyone else a choice...
BILLY CORGAN THE BOOK: Blinking with Fists, released Oct. 1 THE BUZZ: Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's publisher is pushing the collection by this alt rocker, who packed rage and rhythm into his lyrics for the Smashing Pumpkins CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: Atwixt the twine and flowers divine/ Devise the deign in this copper wane THE AUDIENCE: Art-school dropouts...
...most famous connection between pop music and ancient megaliths is Stonehenge, the heavy - metal ode to the Druids by the spoof band Spinal Tap. But in real life, the key connection is Julian Cope, the rocker turned author and mythographer who makes his home near the 5,000 - year - old circle of standing stones at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. "I've been traveling for 13 years just looking at stones," says Cope, once the frontman for postpunk stars the Teardrop Explodes. "To understand them is to understand a way of thinking that goes back at least 6,000 years. They...
...love is a battlefield, as eighties rocker Pat Benetar once noted, the struggle has only become more and more tactical in recent years, leaving Lou a little lost in the shuffle. But this year, single men have one more weapon in their pick-up arsenal, and it requires almost no work on their part: the wing woman...