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...professional troublemaker by nature and a haberdasher, boutique owner and rock-'n'-roll manager by trade, Malcolm lived life more as a "glorious accident" (a term he used to describe Sid Vicious) than as a strategic campaign. While McLaren was portrayed in the film Sid and Nancy as a cunning calculator who cons the media into giving the Sex Pistols publicity, Malcolm was more bewildered by the monster he created and more naive than he was ever credited for--except when it came to realizing how much money there was to be made. Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten...
...Pistols were his master's thesis in rock 'n' roll, then the New York Dolls, one of New York City's first punk bands, were McLaren's boot camp. He began as an unofficial manager of the Dolls in 1975, when the band was in its death throes, dressing them in bizarrely unfashionable red patent leather in a crapshoot to revive the Dolls' career. On Malcolm McLaren's tombstone should be the epitaph his grandmother left to him: "To be bad is good ... to be good is simply boring...
...senior thesis film directed by Andrew N. Wesman ’10 has been chosen as an official selection by the Festival de Cannes, one of the oldest and most prestigious film festivals in the world...
...TAPS pride was palpable as soon as the company stepped—or rather, tapped—onto the stage to rehearse. Jennifer N. Kurdyla ’11, another officer who has danced with TAPS for three years, entered the room wearing a black sweatshirt with “TAPS” on the back in large white letters. But by the end of the first strenuous run-through, her sweatshirt lay strewn on the edge of the stage. At a quarter past 10, the room was already crackling with energy. Lowell Lecture Hall was finally awake...
...throw everything in the middle and reshuffle it, people are going to end up with stuff that they really like simply because it is new to them,” he said. In addition to adult clothing, ThredUP also has a kid’s section, and Carly N. Fauth, the official “Chief Mom” at ThredUP, emphasizes how this might soon become one of the strongest elements of ThredUP. “It is a great idea because kids outgrow their clothes so fast and it can get really expensive,” she said...