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...Vinyl and high grade-plastic gloves, which the USPS encourages but does not require, effectively prevent the spores from invading sores, cuts or tiny abrasions on workers' hands. But postal workers complain that they can't wear them all the time--the gloves make their hands...
Halloween comes once a year for most. But to Hootenanny shoppers, Harvard Square’s premier source of pleather and vinyl, ghoulish dress is an everyday get-up. In the scrounge for outlandish costumes, FM suspects that many a lazy Harvard student will head to this freak mecca. Have sales gone up during the month of October? Manager Staci Fick reports that volume has definately increased in October in order to serve Hootenanny’s diverse clientele. Indeed, this store claims to provide “New Fashion for the Freak Generation...
...freak generation is certainly a nebulous term. Fick ellaborates, “We get all kinds of people in here, crazy people who wear vinyl and leather all the time, and then sort of 30-something business people who want something fun to wear on weekends.” Fick believes that Hootenanny’s edge comes from opening this niche of fun, racy clothing to a wider base of potential costumers. Unlike stores who cater exclusively to a goth or punk audience, Hootenanny brings rock, punk, goth and club apparel together in an atmosphere that is intriguing rather...
...reason to be afraid." People here also feel enormous frustration at being so far from the tragedies of Sept. 11. They're constantly inventing ways to connect to it. On Sept. 20, the city council passed a resolution honoring the victims. A carpet-store sign advertises a sale on vinyl, followed by the now universal GOD BLESS AMERICA. Locals have donated $17,200 to the Red Cross in three weeks, a huge pile of money in a county where the average income is $23,000. At the town's historic armory, someone has taped up the list of victims, printed...
...tastes that range from Rush to Herbie Hancock. After meeting in 1998, they decided to record together--Ali spinning and mixing, Sriram laying down bass lines and melodies--and within a month they had finished Dancing Drums. "Shri became my human sampler," Ali says. "Instead of sampling from vinyl, I sampled from...