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...their ingredients (caffeine, fructose and taurine, a nonessential amino acid, are among the most common). They also share a penchant for aggressive, alpha-male names like Rockstar (which tastes like fizzy bubble gum), Venom (with a citrus bite), Blue Ox, Monster, Hype, "bone-crushing citrus" Piranha, Stinger and Whoop...
...thousand inmates whoop and whistle ... The prison whistle shrieks. Clang! go the steel cellblock doors. This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop albums of the year. Country singer Cash ... is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. 'We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dungeon,' he says, 'and they're not ashamed to respond' ... Cash ... sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck ... The Folsom album was made when Cash, after six years...
...story of Sims and Farley and their victim's family did not produce a clean, redemptive outcome for all. Told that this month marks the 40th anniversary of Virgil's death, Farley twirls his fingers sarcastically and says, "Whoop-de-do!" But Sims, who like Farley got no prison time for the killing, says his indifference about civil rights died that day too--and friends say he told them he decided to serve in the Vietnam War because he felt he still had a "debt" to pay. "Virgil knows in heaven that positive consequences came from this," Sims told TIME...
...KINGSBURY MANX. Grammy-winning songstress Norah Jones nabbed a slice of the spotlight from today’s pop divas by eschewing the theatrics and focusing on her unique, raspy vocals. The Kingsbury Manx already seem to have learned that a whisper can speak louder than a whoop when it comes to polishing their own low-key tunes. Taking its cue from Britpop, the North Carolina outfit casts a shadowy and intimate tone over its songs, leaving listeners rocking on their country porches and floating away on meditations about cabbages, kings and everything in between. Friday, August...
...that the world threw its hat in the air for Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, it said yes to Daniel Libeskind's angular plans for the World Trade Center site, so it is good and ready for her. To be precise, Gehry's museum, the war whoop of new architecture, readied us all for the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hadid's first project in the U.S. and one very suavely managed bundle of energy. "There was an idea that these were things that the general public would not want," she explains. "That...