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Still, many people flocking into the megacounties consider them a close-to- ideal blend of city and suburb. "There are few things you can't do here within an hour," says Orange County Teacher Greg Hickman. "You can head to the mountains, the desert, the water or a shopping center." Agrees Gemma Turi, a public relations consultant who switched from commuting into Los Angeles to a new job in Irvine, near her home in Newport: "It's like being on vacation except you get to live here...
...road in a de-radicalized America seemed to have linked them deeper into the blues tradition than the abstractly felt social issues of their youth. And being the ones who led the '60s revival in the first place, they don't rely on anyone to revive them. Their rollicking blend of country-western and cajun blues stands on its own, without glitz...
...latest legends to resurrect themselves from the nether region of memory are Wire, four British lads who, as the legend goes, re-invented music at the end of the 1970s. Their blend of the visceral and the experimental, grinding guitars and synthesized textures, spawned an outrageous number of disciples in the American and British underground. Bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, 100 Flowers, Sorry, and R.E.M. all pay homage at the Wire altar. Brilliant albums such as The Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154, the holy trinity of progressive rock, forever ensured Wire's place at the pinnacle of modern...
...State politicos--including Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), two state representatives, the Massachusetts House Majority Leader and a Boston councilor-at-large--will get the chance to show off their particular blend of bureaucratic humor in what Charles Cohen of Nick's called the first event of its kind in Boston...
...Blake Babies led off the night with their blend of female vocals and R.E.M.-style guitars. The criteria for a band that makes this sort of pop is how well they distinguish themselves from any one of the millions of Athens, Ga. groups already on their road to stardom. The Blake Babies did a pretty good job of differentiation. Their guitar riffs, though familiar, did not sink into Southern cliches, and their lead vocalist managed to resist comparisons to the B-52's. It was a matter of no small consolation that, with songs titled "Boiled Potato" and "Cocaine Slut...