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...death last year hold him back. You can still hear him in the mellow sounds of the Furthur Festival, a touring concert extravaganza that will visit 31 cities this summer. Furthur--a reference to the destination posted on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus--features former Dead guitarist Bob Weir's countrified-blues group Ratdog as well as former Dead drummer Mickey Hart's percussive world-beat ensemble Mystery Box. (The lineup also includes Hot Tuna and Los Lobos.) Crowds at the shows range from teens to 60-year-olds, but most are under 30. Weir makes clear...
Buffalo is hardly unique in this respect. In suburbs across the U.S., "there is a tendency to want to form separate localities so you can regulate who lives there and who shops there," says Margaret Weir, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "Communities can't do it by racial restrictions because that's illegal. But they can do it through other rules and regulations." Says Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "Success and prestige today means not having to look at people who are poor. That's what that bus stop at the mall said...
...time for Chili to free Harry from the toils of some menacing drug dealers who own a piece of a film he has neglected to produce, fall into a rewarding relationship with Karen and, yes, get Shorty. That is to say, get a major movie star--diminutive, egomaniacal Martin Weir (Danny DeVito, whose company produced this film)--to commit to their project...
...bother finishing high school, enlisting in the Army at 17. Eight AWOLs and two courts-martial later, he was back on the San Francisco streets and hooked up with Robert Hunter, a coffeehouse habitua and, within a few years, the lyricist for Garcia's songs. He also met Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann, who would become the Dead stalwarts on rhythm guitar and drums. They formed a jug band, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, and when they went electric in 1965--Bob Dylan having proved it was permissible for folkies to get plugged--they changed their name...
...mundane task of the living to bury and praise the dead, and to keep on living. Weir, the Dead's pro tem leader, has not said whether the band will tour as scheduled this fall. Their fans hope they do, if only as the best of all possible wakes...