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...Next Wave is also getting screen time. Q-Tip is set to star in a film for New Line, which he co-wrote, titled Prison Song. He describes it as a "hip-hop opera" that explores the pressures of the penal system. Mos Def and the Roots' Thompson have roles in Spike Lee's Bamboozled, a film that satirizes television. The Roots' Black Thought has a starring role in Brooklyn Babylon, the forthcoming film by Marc Levin, director of the edgy Slam...
...element of the social contract is more fundamental to our way of life than the sacred covenant between the TV set and our butts. We secure the latter firmly to the couch; the former vouchsafes to deliver a stream of car chases and oh-no-they-locked-themselves-in-the-walk-in-freezer episodes. This arrangement has seen us through the cold war, presidential scandals, even the final season of Roseanne. But this week a new interactive music-trivia show on MTV aims to upset that tradition by introducing a third party: the keyboard...
webRIOT (weekdays, 5 p.m. E.T./P.T.) is, frankly, a fairly unremarkable quiz show: four contestants watch videos and answer rapid-fire questions from the relentlessly mugging Ahmet Zappa, on a set that's a cross between Sprockets and a Sega video game. What is interesting about it is its viewers. In each of its daily airings (one for each coast), as many as 25,000 of them will compete simultaneously, online, to post the fastest correct answers in order to win prizes like MP3 players and plaster their names on TV on the high scorers' list...
Among critics and curators, the Rockwell show is now an occasion to announce themselves as Rockwell converts or as closet fans all along. Anytime the higher echelons of the culture industry set out to show how they're in touch with ordinary folks, they risk sounding like George Will when he writes about baseball. But this exhibit is an indicator of a real impulse in the art world lately to find vitality wherever it's to be found, now that the energies that moved modernism have long ago run aground. Perhaps for the first time in history, it's truly...
Then I tried to set up the system and entered AirPort hell--the Mac equivalent of spending the night on a plastic seat at J.F.K. The AirPort software made both the iBook and my brand-new iMac crash repeatedly. On the rare occasions they recognized the presence of the base station, both machines obstinately refused to connect...