Prick Up Your Ears Prick Up Your Ears
How does a fiercely anticorporate musician feel about participating in a corporate entertainment system?
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / The Editors
The Power of Music The Power of Music
Talking With Eddie Vedder, Boots Riley, Amy Ray, Carrie Brownstein, Tom Morello
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ann Powers
Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs
Picture this: you're stranded on a desert island with nothing to comfort you but sand, sun and, miraculously, the solar-powered sound system that washed up with you.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
‘Stakes Is High’ ‘Stakes Is High’
Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jeff Chang
Russell Simmons’s Rap Russell Simmons’s Rap
Russell Simmons, known for decades as Rush to his friends, is of average height and build for a man his age (45), with a cleanshaven face, bald dome and light complexion.
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Miles Marshall Lewis
Holy Rock ‘n’ Rollers Holy Rock ‘n’ Rollers
In Hicksville, Long Island, on any given Sunday afternoon, pierced and tattooed teenagers in black clothing gather to listen and watch as groups of kids like themselves tear th...
Dec 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Lauren Sandler
The ‘Public Interest’ The ‘Public Interest’
For years Pittsburghers have witnessed the low regard in which public television station WQED holds its second channel, WQEX.
Dec 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Bill O’Driscoll
Polanski’s Holocaust Polanski’s Holocaust
I can think of no picture of recent years, other than Roman Polanski's The Pianist, that has won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and yet stirred neither controversy nor excitement.
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
New York, New York New York, New York
The economy of New York City still reels from the attack on September 11, to which has been added the economic effect of global recession and Wall Street's sharp decline.
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mary Campbell Gallagher
Apocalypse Now? Apocalypse Now?
Judgment Day is everyday with Mike Davis.
Dec 17, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jane Holtz Kay