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...Aesop Rock and Little Brother, that operate under the mainstream radar, are the kinds of acts we are going to feature,” he says. The main obstacle to reassembling WHRB’s hip-hop department was dismantling its original replacement: the moribund “Black Urban Contemporary” department. Felton explains, “When I began working at WHRB there was a shadow of a hip-hop department called ‘Black Urban Contemporary.’ But there was no new music coming into the department, and it wasn?...
...international businessmen keen to sell in one of the world's most important emerging markets. Multinational conglomerates eagerly seek local partners. And nearly every corporate head of consequence makes the now-obligatory pilgrimage to Bangalore to pay homage to the country's booming software industry. As far as the urban middle class is concerned, there has never been a better time to be Indian. After decades of being the only significant English-speaking market in the world to be ignored by nearly everybody else, India is suddenly the flavor of the new century. Vogue will launch an Indian edition next...
...classical and techno beats at the opening ceremony this Friday, the 2006 Winter Olympics will run through an 84-event schedule that concludes Feb. 26 in perhaps its most raucous moment, the men's hockey final. Through it all, the host city (pop. 900,000), the largest and most urban setting yet for a Winter Games, will sound its own vibrant notes as it shows off its unsung charms to an audience of 2 billion around the world. The gods of the Olympics might begin to get their bearings up at the Sacra di San Michele. Perched on a jagged...
...this new seminar course, but students can be sure to find plenty of other wholesome material that might draw them away from old “Sex and the City” reruns for a few hours. With the goal of understanding “interrelationships among architecture, urban space, the body, and gendered identities,” the course will draw upon an intellectually stimulating spectrum of research, ranging from film history to geography to queer theory...
...It’s easy to forget...but this is an urban area, and one has to be careful,” Conley said...