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...town near Salt Lake City, the land of Latter-Day Saints has provided a curious backdrop for a latter-day carnival. The Lollapalooza tour -- a festival of determinedly edgy alternative music featuring ethnic food, political forums and 12 bands, including rappers Arrested Development and female grunge rockers Babes in Toyland -- has pulled into clean-living Utah...
...movie can basically be divided into two parts: concert footage and goofing off. The concert footage consists of approximately eight songs by Sonic Youth, four by Nirvana, two each by Dinosaur Jr. and Babes in Toyland and one each from Gumball and the Ramones...
...Nightmare on Elm Street horror movies, no one has ever succeeded in killing off the fiendish Freddy Krueger, who mutilates and murders teenagers in their sleep. But in toyland, Freddy has been given the ax. Last week Matchbox Toys acknowledged that it had halted production of its 17-in. talking Freddy doll. The company was bowing to pressure from the archconservative Rev. Donald Wildmon, who called for a boycott of stores selling...
...thousands more are injured. Many of the toys are cheap imports that do not meet U.S. safety standards. In an unusual effort to keep hazardous playthings out of stores, the U.S. Customs Service has joined forces with the Consumer Product Safety Commission in what they are calling Operation Toyland. Inspectors have seized more than 157,630 toys worth some $550,000 in California during the past two weeks. As the Christmas season approaches, Operation Toyland will be expanded to other U.S. ports...
...their blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections from Herbert's forgotten 1911 grand opera Natoma: light Wagner set in Southern California with an Indian maiden for a heroine, if such a thing...