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...concert by progressive rappers Atmosphere at the Roxy and a Jimmy Fund benefit, hosted by Tufts’ Theta Delta Chi fraternity, at the neighboring Matrix. Around 11:30 p.m., Frumin leaves HSU to meet briefly with managers at the Roxy. He confidently strides past lines and velvet ropes, receiving greetings from venue workers. An elegant juxtaposition of Greek-inspired decor and modern tribal designs, the Roxy comfortably hosts 1,400 fashionably urban concertgoers in its expansive floor and extensive balconies. Atmosphere’s punchy beats have the audience’s hands moving in unison. An ecstatic concertgoer...
...estate. I was ushered through the apartment door into a heaving jewel box of glitter and gold lam?. About 40 women filled the tiny room, spilling over sofas and sitting in one another's laps. Space for a dance floor had been cleared between sprawling limbs, and a corpulent, velvet-bedecked woman gyrated to a popular Bollywood tune. When she tired, she was replaced by a girl whose undulating hips and gaudy makeup would not have been amiss in a strip joint. These were not the demure, burqa'd women I'd expected to meet in Afghanistan...
...wandering under a showerhead since birth. Yet in photographs they never fail to appear devastatingly stylish, like a bunch of Bowery James Bonds. This poseurship is just one of the reasons it takes immense critical discipline not to hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art directed to achieve the look of not having been art directed. But when you hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with every passing guitar chord, and suddenly, just by listening, you're cool too. That's how good...
While the lead singer is emoting, or not, the band is grooving with a ruthless efficiency. Is This It was criticized for mining riffs from Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend; I told you there were many reasons to hate these guys) bangs out a snare fill that would make the Zeppelins' John Bonham bolt upright in his grave. But the Strokes don't agonize over their influences; they synthesize them. And songs like 12:51 and Between Love & Hate...
...velvet touch? Political analysts say China may have finally learned that its threatening behavior is counterproductive. In the 2000 Taiwanese elections, the vitriol from Beijing actually gave Chen a 5% boost in the polls, according to a survey consultant. "The Chinese government's confidence in dealing with diplomatic issues has increased and they don't haggle over every little issue," says Guo Dingping, a political science professor at Shanghai's Fudan University. "They're now focusing more on long-term interests instead of insignificant altercations across the strait." Still, politicians in Taiwan caution that subtlety doesn't mean China...