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...that I read "religiously"; the few zines I'm going to talk about here are distinguished not so much for their slavish reflections of my particular taste, but for their widespread availability (i.e. you could walk into Newbury Comics or In Your Ear or even Tower Records and buy one); their breadth (i.e. there are lots of bands and records covered in each issue); and their high entertainment value...
...were in here early on; the latest issue has the most articulate, most convincing (pro-) "Riot Grrrl" think-piece/manifesto I've seen, plus interviews with Moonshake, Sugar, Tsunami, Nation of Ulysses, Huggy Bear, several unheard-of British bands, and that guy who used to sing for the Pixies. Tower and Newbury Comics stock it, or send f3.90 to Karren Ablaze! at 17 Wetherby Grove, Leeds LS4 2JH, England...
...worked on the compilation, there were serious discussions earlier this fall of cutting out every scene in the video that featured Michael playing around with little kids, but that never happened. Now it appears to be moving briskly. "We never doubted it would sell well," said a buyer at Tower Video in Los Angeles. "A lot of times, controversy just fuels the flame...
...fiery orange sun sets over the Everglades, Italian developer Ugo Colombo looks out from his 31st-floor office toward a distinctive circular white condominium tower, near completion, on Biscayne Bay. Developing real estate has made him a millionaire at 32. Half his buyers now, he says, are Latin Americans and Europeans willing to pay from $200,000 to $1.6 million for a condo in the hottest place to be at the moment: Miami...
...dangers this internationalism presents are evident: not for nothing did the Tower of Babel collapse. As national borders fall, tribal alliances, and new manmade divisions, rise up, and the world learns every day terrible new meanings of the word Balkanization. And while some places are wired for international transmission, others (think of Iran or North Korea or Burma) remain as isolated as ever, widening the gap between the haves and the have- nots, or what Alvin Toffler has called the "fast" and the "slow" worlds. Tokyo has more telephones than the whole continent of Africa...