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Sometimes, it helps to roll into the Olympics utterly oblivious to the Games' gravitas, a weight largely manufactured by sponsors and NBC. Sometimes, it helps to just chill. And have a wicked good time. Case in point: the U.S. Olympic snowboarding team, rad and rippin', which bagged three titles last week in the pristine Alpine town of Bardonecchia, 60 miles northwest of Torino. It was a dominating performance that accounted for nearly half the country's total golden hardware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2006 Olympics: You're Golden, Dude! | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...sparsely attended—invites were mostly sent to the society’s members—and the band opted not to play the Blanks.’ record for those in attendance. Early on, Drake discovered a CD compilation of 50’s rock-n-roll classics: “Screw Blanks. let’s hear some Buddy Holly,” he exclaimed as he switched “Infinite Lives” out of the stereo. Blanks. usually pride themselves on not being stingy about their music. Anyone anxious to hear their work...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fill in the Blanks. | 2/17/2006 | See Source »

...then why do we need someone who’s also going to offend people?” said psychologist Steven Pinker, who was one of Summers’ most prominent supporters last year.“If all he’s going to do is roll over and let the Faculty do business as usual,” Pinker continued, “then let’s just get a namby-pamby like all the other university presidents.”In the meantime, the six people who hold the key to Summers’ fate have...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers' Backers Worry He May Leave | 2/17/2006 | See Source »

...offer than drinking and hooking up. Perhaps the best thing about it is that it has no interest in speaking to anyone over 30. It's great for family dynamics that parents and kids can listen to Coldplay together, but it's a terrible thing for rock 'n' roll, which needs rebellion to survive. (Ever wonder why hip-hop is doing so well?) Parents will be freaked by Turner's wry narration of a life that could go either way, but kids will hear someone speaking their language, if not their dialect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Barrel of Monkeys | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...rock-'n'-roll type that lives in dark sunglasses, you'll probably hail the Oakley Thump 2 (oakley.com) as the best thing since blue jeans. Weighing just 60 grams, the Thump 2 is a pair of shades with a difference: it features a built-in MP3 player with enough capacity for about 240 songs. Style-wise, the latest Thump is a sleeker version of its predecessor: it takes inspiration from Oakley's Gascan range of sunglasses, and features a graphics-free, black iridium finish that will look as good on the street as it does on the ski slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch: Sound and Vision | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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