Word: underground
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...Smithsonian’s recent request for rap artifacts to be featured in their upcoming exhibit, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop: The Beats, the Rhymes, the Life,” has been perceived both as a threat to the legitimacy of a once-underground movement, and as a victory for African-American culture. Those skeptical of the street cred of an organization that also manages the National Museum of American History should note the exhibit’s coy subtitle riff on the title of A Tribe Called Quest’s second-worst album...
...through inhumane practices.” In addition to human rights, the national LiNK group has made assisting refugees crossing the Korean-Chinese border one of its key issues. It claims that hundreds of thousands of North Korean refugees remain in hiding in China. “LiNK maintains underground orphanages for North Korean children in China and works closely with partners in supporting shelters for abandoned children and trafficked women,” Hong, now LiNK’s executive director, wrote in an e-mail. “Among those in our shelters include women who had been...
Perhaps the most remarkable discovery: Kennewick Man had been buried deliberately. By looking at concentrations of calcium carbonate left behind as underground water collected on the underside of the bones and then evaporated, scientists can tell that he was lying on his back with his feet rolled slightly outward and his arms at his side, the palms facing down - a position that could hardly have come about by accident. And there was no evidence that animal scavengers had been at the body...
...11th of September). It's more audacious still that the Wachowskis, rather than scrubbing their script clean of 9/11 references, would emphasize the connection, proposing a dapper quasi-hero who is part Zorro (with the fancy swordplay), part Phantom of the Opera (but with a jukebox in his underground lair instead of a pipe organ) and just a smidge of Osama bin Laden (but with tastes more aesthetic than ascetic...
...called humor magazine—Sylvester earned bylines in the Boston Phoenix and the online album-reviewing site Pitchforkmedia.com.Members of the Lampoon did not return repeated phone calls and e-mails requesting comment last night.A reviewer with a distinctive style, Sylvester was known and read widely in underground music circles. He also co-founded a record company, Beekeeper Records, and invited cult indie band Exploding Hearts to perform at the Spee, an all-male Mt. Auburn Street final club.“I’ve heard a lot of people had mixed feelings about him,” said...