Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bronson wants you to feel Silicon Valley's heartbeat. He wants you to know why people pour in from around the globe to struggle at no-name start-ups and fight for $1,200 studios next to strip malls. The valley is the epicenter of the digital revolution, the soul of change. Its lure must be more than a crass grab for cash, right...
...much feeling, so much chills. We wanted to get that across." To bring back the chills, the group brought in veteran producer Don Was (a respected studio vet who has worked with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones) to help it capture the essence of the music, to strip away studio trickery and pop excess. The group has worked with outside producers before--Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the rock group Talking Heads produced its 1988 album, Conscious Party--but the result this time is the most focused and mature of the band's career...
...other parts of LA. Another reminder that entertainment doesn't come cheap, even on a National Holiday. Maybe Los Angeles is America though, and the archetypes are just that--out-dated non-existent memories of things past. Los Angeles is, after all, one great big suburb dotted with strip malls and fast food chains--the rapidly evolving face of our country. Even those landmarks of luxury, Malibu, Santa Monica and Hollywood, are merely high class shopping centers with franchises that cater to the very rich. Restoration Hardware, Anthropologie, Pottery Barn and French Connection are just fancified version of their originals...
Newspapers see The Boondocks as a way to attract younger readers turned off by the blandness of most comics pages. With its hip-hop references, its Japanese manga-style drawings and its candid discussion of race, "the strip speaks to Aaron's generation the way Doonesbury speaks to boomers," says syndicate executive Lee Salem. Perhaps for that reason, the strip has drawn complaints on more than just racial grounds. In one strip Riley whacks Cindy with a toy light saber. "See?!!! You're still alive!!" he complains. "This thing is worthless!!" McGruder was stunned by the howls of outrage from...
...most newspaper editors are rallying behind The Boondocks. Readers who don't appreciate it suffer from "irony deficiency," wrote columnist Kristin Tillotson in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, where letters at first ran 8 to 1 against the strip: "The Boondocks exposes racial issues alive and festering under the rug of polite society." McGruder says he's exploring "those murky depths where you're trying to figure out what's racism, what's ignorance, what's naivete." When an old white lady pats Riley on the head and calls him "cutie pie," the boy responds angrily that he's "nobody...