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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ROOTS Things Fall Apart (MCA). This Philadelphia-based band named its CD after a novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe: very cool. And while other rap acts rely on canned beats, the Roots play instruments (guitars, drums, etc.), giving their work unique vibrancy and depth. Let the cartoon gangstas cater to suburban stereotypes--the Roots are keeping it real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Music Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

RETIRED. CHARLES BARKLEY, 36, NBA rebound king and quote machine, following a career-ending knee injury on his farewell tour; in Philadelphia. Barkley made the All-Stars 11 times in his 16-year career and has said he may run for Governor of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Prince said he will also be mounting a series of one-act musicals in Philadelphia--created by largely unknown artists--to encourage new talent...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Twenty-Time Tony Winner Bemoans State of Broadway | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

When Charles Barkley landed on his knee after a midair collision last Wednesday in Philadelphia, he knew his season, and career, were over...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Should We Remember Barkley Fondly? | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...which normally takes between seven and eight minutes, here is over in less than three. The sole exception is the uncut version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice extracted from the original Fantasia, in which Leopold Stokowski hypnotized an anonymous band of Hollywood studio musicians into sounding just like the Philadelphia Orchestra in its blazingly vital prewar prime. Even the ancient paleo-stereo sound track of that sequence has a raw, visceral impact missing from the glossy digital audio heard elsewhere in Fantasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playing It Safe--and Sorry | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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