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...shame. Instead, the greatest four-and-a-half minutes in crossover hip-hop since “Walk This Way” has been mutated into an alternate universe McDonald’s commercial. Now when Thicke wails his head off out of nowhere about a “shotgun surprise,” the raw impact is replaced with a soft shot of the singer looking introspective—as if there was anything subtle or sensitive or in the least bit unmanly about the song. Weezy’s breakthrough “oh snap, he?...
...Orleans will require not merely re-creating the French Quarter. It will involve nurturing back to health the genuine and distinctive neighborhoods that serve as an incubator for the city's music and food and funkiness. A friend of mine, Stephanie Bruno, has run an organization that restores old shotgun cottages, the long and narrow houses built of old barge planks that dominate in the older areas. A New Orleans rebuilt with tract homes rather than shotguns would no longer have the same soul...
...households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carr off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better than those in Port-au-Prince, Bangladesh or Baghdad...
...Guided by Editorial Director Mark Siegel, First Second's list is ambitious both in volume and content. Siegel seems to be taking something of a shotgun approach, simultaneously releasing clusters of books aimed at different demographics and interests. Six books are on shelves now, and this Fall will see the release of another half dozen, with plans to release up to 15 titles a year for at least another two years. They plan on establishing a brand through content, design and price. All the books will be paperbacks of a uniform "cargo-pocket" size. They all run at about...
...sent from Byerly Hall. As the world has seen with these recent scandals, we who have received the benefits of admittance to the Ivy Tower are not necessarily worthy of the special treatment or praise that parents, employers, and media outlets quickly assign to us Cantabrigians. I will not shotgun my own foot and write that Harvard students should not be trusted; that would be an unfair and untrue generalization. Nevertheless, I sincerely worry that Harvard’s current veneer—our superior reputation—is maintained more by prestige than by substance. Only time...