The News Review:
- ‘REILLY SLAMS SCARS
- ne Nation Under Hip-Hop
- Lysacek nails quad in US championship; world spotlight awaits.
‘REILLY SLAMS SCARS
pEdNews – Jan 28, 2007
” I guess that’ll put you SP naysayers who don’t think Bill isn’t hip to today’s jive. Gore’s warning about global warming and the consequences thereof is in competition with four other films: ne about wild and crazy Christian kids at ‘Jesus Camp’ another dealing with the Catholic church-pedophilia scandal and two more about the chaos in Iraq. Gore wins without breaking a sweat no pun intended. ” “Gore wins without breaking a sweat no pun intended.
ne Nation Under Hip-Hop
Washington Post – Jan 28, 2007
Tanz contends that hip-hop is the continuation of America’s longstanding racial drama by other means coded in beats and rhymes. He describes his book as "an outsider’s history a look at how and why white people and white culture at large have consumed interacted with and used the narratives of young African American men. "Tanz travels across hip-hop’s white American landscape from a guided bus tour of hip-hop’s birthplace in the South Bronx to a break-dancing class at a tony suburban dance academy to a convention of white "nerdcore" rappers who rhyme about Microsoft and "Star Wars" recording these interactions with acuity. And while he calls attention to his subjects’ idiosyncrasies he is unfailingly empathetic in describing their attraction to hip-hop be it as a passing fad or as a way of life. Hip-hop’s transformative capacity is the book’s most powerful theme particularly when Tanz turns to his own experience as a white hip-hop fan. With often excruciating frankness he recounts "the palpable anxiety and self-doubt I felt so many times when I had to interact with a black person and I couldn’t help but think Is this working? Are they buying it? Am I a poser?" In these moments of racial anxiety Tanz looks to hip-hop not only to escape the humdrum reality of white suburban life but more tantalizingly to experience blackness and all it has come to represent to him: passion danger and a certain kind of freedom. "Blackness" Tanz writes "provided the purest form of escape from mainstream society.
Lysacek nails quad in US championship; world spotlight awaits.
Free with registration – Detroit Free Press – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 28, 2007
championship; world spotlight awaits. _ Even during the years when he fell short of his goals Evan Lysacek was a dutiful student observing the world’s top men’s figure skaters while working on his.