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...office on the Republican Party ticket—there were a few blacks there, but they seemed outnumbered and out of place. First opener Pigeon John is about as annoying as an actual pigeon, and was followed by Omni, who is inoffensive and interchangeable with hundreds of other underground hip-hop artists. Fatlip, one of the founders of playful West Coast hip-hop group The Pharcyde, followed by demonstrating his spectacularly unique flow, intermixing classics from his Pharcyde days with tracks from his recent solo effort, “The Loneliest Punk.” No one else...
...years later, Luny’s mother left Peabody and moved to Puerto Rico—where, it just so happened, an underground reggaeton scene was in full swing. For Luny, equally family-oriented and ambitious, a game plan began to come into focus...
...chase a pastry-bedecked socialite, would you do it? (Yeah yeah yeah). Presiding over the madness is singer Wayne Coyne, sporting an appropriately megalomaniacal fur coat and hat and tauntingly waving hamburgers under the noses of his soon-to-be captors. He is dragged into the girls’ underground room and departs stapled with raw meat, a werewolf on his scent. The creature takes the meat but leaves the singer intact to keep making outlandishly entertaining videos. —Elisabeth J. Bloomberg
...minutes or hours later. The ones who make it are on their way to jobs as meat packers in Iowa and carpetmakers in Georgia and gardeners in Pennsylvania. They want to be in the U.S. so badly they will risk the scorpions and the rattlesnakes, the surveillance cameras and underground sensors; they will fold into hidden compartments behind the dashboard of a car or in the belly of a tanker truck. They know they can get a job no one else wants, save some money, send some home, maybe find a way to bring their family--because someday this border...
...spark such a negative reaction. The country tried one with the 1986 law. Nearly 3 million people took advantage of it, and the amnesty was followed by an explosion in illegal immigration. But not to offer some process by which illegal immigrants gain legitimacy is to keep them permanently underground. "To me, it goes to the core of your view and recognition of human dignity for everybody," says Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, another of the Judiciary Committee Republicans who voted for legalization. But to do it is to reward lawbreaking, says Texas Senator John Cornyn, who voted against the bill...