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...lower- and middle-class Shanghai residents whose housing woes these satellite towns were originally intended to address. More than 3 million migrant workers have flooded into Shanghai, and as the city center is torn up for office high-rises, 226,000 people were forced to relocate to suburbia in 2003. But a property bubble has prevented many citizens from finding affordable housing near Shanghai. "Of course, the developers of these satellite towns want to build luxury homes that they can make a lot of money on," says Mao Qizhi, deputy director of the Institute of Architectural and Urban Studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ye Olde Shanghai | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...American Idiot/ Don't want a nation under the new mania." Then Dirnt composed a strange 30-sec. cabaret ditty, which Armstrong and Cool liked so much that they wrote their own 30-sec. additions. Soon they had the beginnings of the 9-min., five-part Jesus of Suburbia, which introduced both Jesus, a character struggling against the country's "red-neck agenda," and the possibility of a full punk-rock opera. "At first, we wondered if we should even call it something like that," says Armstrong, "but, hell, why not make it as grand as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Party | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...used everything I've ever learned or liked in music," he says. It shows. A significant part of American Idiot's charm is that for an album that bemoans the state of the union, it is irresistibly buoyant. Listen closely, and you will hear a story about Jesus of Suburbia, his dangerous friend St. Jimmy and a heroic girl called Whatshername, who are struggling to express their individuality in a mass-media culture. Listen less closely, and you will still nod your head a lot and remember most of the melodies, which veer from surf rock to Motown to Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Party | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...Jesus of Suburbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Party | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

...HAVEN By Dan Clowes The book-length, expanded version of Eightball #22 takes an Altman-esque look at the residents of Suburbia. (June) See TIME.comix review of Eightball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telescoping | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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