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webRIOT (weekdays, 5 p.m. E.T./P.T.) is, frankly, a fairly unremarkable quiz show: four contestants watch videos and answer rapid-fire questions from the relentlessly mugging Ahmet Zappa, on a set that's a cross between Sprockets and a Sega video game. What is interesting about it is its viewers. In each of its daily airings (one for each coast), as many as 25,000 of them will compete simultaneously, online, to post the fastest correct answers in order to win prizes like MP3 players and plaster their names on TV on the high scorers' list...
...offered RollerJam, a venue for voluptuous women in Lycra to go at one another on Rollerblades. Dancing women without Rollerblades--or much clothing--are the main attraction on Happy Hour, a relatively innocuous, if boring, hourlong USA variety show that made its debut in April, with Frank Zappa's sons Dweezil and Ahmet as its hosts...
...album goes, mixing Frank Zappa into a black sheep cover of Frederick Knight's northern soul lament, "Lonely," taking a cool, excited, but never tense reigns over the popular arrangements and sound bites of Western culture. On "Marbles," Kermit's soft spoken rap pulls a danceable pulse out of the rambling cowboy melody that eventually surrenders to a rousing disco-esque horn section. Only the fifth track, "Rubber Band," goes too far. Where the rest of Stupid, Stupid, Stupid makes a cheerfully boisterous rewiring of the listener's head, "Rubber Band" pummels it with a crow...
...magazine, referred to informally as "the Weekly What" or "the What," provided an outlet for the creative and culture energy in the air. By the end of 1976, the magazine had even interviewed rock musician Frank Zappa...
...Cashman, who heads a large Boston local, and Ken Hall, a chief negotiator in the UPS strike last summer. Front runner Tom Leedham, who heads the Teamsters' warehouse division, has the backing of the influential Teamsters for a Democratic Union. But Hoffa charged last week that contributors like Gail Zappa--wife of rock singer Frank Zappa--had made contributions to the reform group that were arranged by the Democratic National Committee. That brought reports that the FBI was investigating. If it takes a Mr. Clean to run the Teamsters, the union may never get a new president...