For C.J., Shortal's "hipness" was disrespectful to Wetterling's grieving family.
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So I know all about Target's hipness and everything else. Yeah.
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But outside of the suburbs, their hipness looked like something else entirely.
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Pollan's initial skepticism and general lack of hipness work wonders for the material.
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It's hot and new, so you can show off your hipness to the kids.
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"Not being on social media raises questions about legitimacy, popularity and hipness," he said.
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Danny Goldberg: Steve and I wanted to create a patina of hipness around a pop record.
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Enjoy the hipness of Denver and Boulder; then take in the majestic beauty of the Colorado Rockies.
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Over time, however, even the nudity gets old, with conventional guy-gaze voyeurism re-branded as liberatory hipness.
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And this is where we find the novel's 40-something friends, past millennial hipness and on into hot flashes.
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But they did add a hipness factor that smoothed the pathway to quick exposure in all aspects of the business.
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And setting a higher bar for hipness can lead to results that fall short and come across as tragically strained.
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I put on my Nars Sheer Glow Foundation (Caracas), Mac blush (Hipness), and Anastasia Beverley Hills brow Wiz pencil (Ebony).
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I would sweat and curse the simultaneous hipness and impermeability of shipping container shacks until the roosters roused me at dawn.
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I had, for example, "Lutz" for AXEL and "hit song" for HIPNESS; the cluing was perfect to send us down those paths.
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Perhaps the only hope to end the teenagers' winking love of the Juul is to expand the demographic out of its hipness.
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Instead of walking away from your fashionable fad at its peak hipness, you've let it linger long enough to become a consumer commodity.
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It was about three young, edgy and impossibly beautiful outsiders who exuded hipness while they solved crimes as undercover officers in Los Angeles.
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To raise the chain's hipness quotient, a video and marketing campaign includes the rock-surf band the Atomics (Lucky Blue Smith and siblings).
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Lewis: I feel like I brought a lot of "hipness" to the show, because I was closer to the characters's ages at that time.
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The potential triteness of all this is partially offset by the hipness of the music, an original score by the jazz drummer Ali Jackson.
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""Given the hipness of transsexualism with people like Caitlyn Jenner and Jazz Jennings, there might be a third category, especially among children, and that is fashion.
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Aside from the occasional story about the hipness of Queen West, Toronto was either seen as a poor man's New York or culturally deficient compared to Montreal.
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Christopher Nicolson, managing winemaker at Red Hook Winery in Brooklyn, said the wines hit their "crest of hipness" a couple of years ago, though they remain popular.
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When comic irony is synonymous with hipness, any other sensibility, whether it's religious solemnity or emo-style earnestness, just seems stodgy and out of touch by comparison.
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Including his 2016 "Duck Walk" signals little more than a desire for hipness; putting it next to a big Clyfford Still is not going to reshape any canon.
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His performances are legendary: off-the-cuff, spontaneous, sometimes insane, and (naturally) they became an insider calling card of hipness within an informed urban audience both black and white.
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A theater review on Friday about "His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley," at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan, misidentified the nationality of Buckley, a stage performer prominent in the 1940s and 50s.
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It was an incubator of talent, an arbiter of a certain definition of downtown hipness and a subscriber to the editorial philosophy of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
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And for a show so clearly infatuated with irreverence and intrigued by hipness, it's surprising that it isn't more self-aware of its nihilistic protagonist's self-importance and self-seriousness.
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WEEKEND A theater review on Friday about "His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley," at 2698E24637 Theaters in Manhattan, misidentified the nationality of Buckley, a stage performer prominent in the 1940s and 50s.
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The simple fact that it's used by 1.71 billion people negates any sense of exclusivity or ahead-of-the-curve hipness that users might get from newer social apps like Snapchat, Musical.
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LOFTOPERA (Friday through Sunday) "Così Fan Tutte," Mozart's sardonic comedy, gets an infusion of hipness in this latest production by LoftOpera, the company dedicated to bring opera to unusual spaces in Brooklyn.
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Hipness aside, startups are often at the forefront of innovation in product and technology and have an advantage over more established companies in the sense that they operate in a dynamic, non-traditional way.
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"We started the rooftop bar craze," Mr. Stein said, referring to the 2003 opening of the former Ava Lounge at the Dream Midtown that brought a certain hipness to the usual outdoor drinks scene.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose personality and politics draws many comparisons to Trump, stands in stark contrast to the youthful hipness of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the former duke and duchess of Sussex.
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In Tarantino's still-dazzling breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Mia (Uma Thurman) — the failed actor turned spouse of gang boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) — shares a vague aura of retro hipness with Alabama, while being significantly more interesting.
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With her signifiers of millennial hipness and downplaying of carnality in favor of blank-faced ritual, Imhof has given this generation exactly what they deserve, which is also exactly what they want: a picture of themselves.
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Because of the dominance of residential space in Yanjiao, its atmosphere differs markedly from the gritty industrial hipness of Caochangdi or the more touristic 798, where cafes, boutiques and galleries have sprung up alongside artists' studios.
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According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, annual adoption rates have risen nearly 20 percent since 2011 — a period during which owning a "rescue dog" acquired something of a righteous hipness.
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However, in case it wasn't clear enough by this point, sources that spoke to TechCrunch said the whole app still feels "cringey" thanks to a combination of stale, weeks-old memes and a whiff of tryhard hipness.
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The result was a weird mix of songs that either tried to overcompensate for whatever they felt Britney lacks — whether that be vocal talents (fair) or hipness with the young people (Who, by the way, worship Britney.
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If Paul McCartney's work with Kanye West and Rihanna didn't prove his hipness for you, perhaps this will: The original Beatle has officially cosigned the self-proclaimed Black Beatles in the most fitting of ways—the #MannequinChallenge.
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Despite its current status as a peppy young cousin to New Orleans's famed arcade of hipness, Magazine Street, Birmingham's Woodlawn neighborhood wasn't much of anything when Duquette Johnston and his wife, Morgan, moved there 10 years ago.
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At least it could bank on familiarity, which is not the case with "His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley," a show built on the half-forgotten verbal quirks of an entirely forgotten personality from the 1940s and '50s.
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One of the only elements of modern life even more relentlessly unpleasant than online sparring is the advertising trend sometimes called "brand Twitter," where corporations lean on winking tongue-in-cheek voices to convey hipness and relatability.
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However, it seems that the campaign is finally catching on, according to Politico: But even as Clinton's hipness comes under question, her aides say she'll embrace her age—68, which is actually two years younger than Trump—and inner policy wonk.
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This balancing act can be incredibly difficult for a director—make a film that's too reverent and it feels like a dull homage, too snarky and it curdles in its hipness—but for the most part Chazelle confidently walks the line.
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While the neighborhood is still home to generations of working-class Polish-American and Latino families, the winds of hipness and creative energy (and higher rents) have blown north from Williamsburg, as Robin Finn described in The New York Times.
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At the brand's peak of hipness she presented collections full of her cool-girl aesthetic, styling the models in thick black glasses and long, straight hair to look exactly like her (or, as she described it, "Little Edie goes to girl scout camp").
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There many be a hipness factor to coworking, but it's also becoming a larger part of the gig economy; the Intuit 2020 Report suggests that 80% of global corporations plan to significantly increase their use of contingent labor over the next few years.
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Fashion industry veteran Ellen B., who asked that her last name not be used in order to protect her privacy, likes that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "brought a 'hipness' to the country" that many had formerly considered on the boring side.
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Yet they have tried to borrow hipness -- and thus reach the sort of viewers who might otherwise roll their eyes at the thought of sitting through the telecast -- by tapping of-the-moment hosts, motivated in part by a desire to reach a younger audience.
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In a weak compromise that fails in both respects, Bridget Jones's Baby de-prioritizes romance and emotion in favor of eventfulness, and overt displays of social, cultural, and global hipness get walk-on roles as slogans and punchlines without affecting the movie's ultimately conservative narrative course.
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From the late 80s into the 90s, coalitions of anti-drug advocacy groups, willing advertising firms, and media companies annually pumped out hundreds of millions of dollars worth of PSAs that largely built on the faux-hipness and specious arguments that folks like Bono spewed decades earlier.
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In addition to YouJoon, an inflight streaming system that passengers can access on their smartphones, laptops or tablets, Joon's hopes to signal it hipness with a visual identity that has at its core an electric blue color featured in crew uniforms and in the airline's livery.
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The movie makes a point of showing him striking out with a beautiful young woman (the music and dance artist FKA twigs, whose casting indicates the hipness quotient to which the movie aspires); young Otis then picks up Dad's slack and starts an intimate friendship with her. Harsh!
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" Margot at the Wedding " (2007) was no less neurotic than the figures who twitched and chattered through it, and the calculated hipness of "Frances Ha" (2012) has not worn well, whereas the new work takes a step back and observes its crowd of souls with a calmer eye.
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I am unsure if my maternity makes me old, putting me in the same category as my own parents — beyond hipness — or if my maternity simply makes me other, no longer capable in the same way of partaking in youth or intellectual or avant-garde or party or travel culture.
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It's there on two hip-swiveling homages to hipness, "Night People" and "Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky," both featuring the vocals of Mr. Neville and the alto saxophone of Maceo Parker ("If everybody went to sleep at the same time/ Every night the world would just die, die, die").
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You've finally found all the things the Playboy Club was supposed to stand for—elegance, at Peacock Alley; sexiness, of a sort, at the Pink Poodle; hipness, at the Palladium – and that's just places beginning with P. You grab a cab back uptown because you think you should give Playboy one more chance.
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For better or worse, Op Art became another emblem of the swinging Sixties, even if Riley's star faded (in those lean years, "I was eating paper" she told Moorhouse), only to shine again some two decades later, thanks largely to the promotional efforts of the recently deceased London art dealer Karsten Schubert, who recognized its uniqueness and hipness factor.
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It would be easy to blame network television's efforts to keep up with the hipness of premium cable, or to the success of Adam Mansbach's one-joke bedtime manual for children, or to the reduced presence of gatekeepers in a world in which the president posts policy on Twitter that he has not run by his advisers.
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By choosing to wear all black, the women of Hollywood (and now men, though to be fair, men announcing their solidarity by wearing black tuxedos, or even black tuxedos with black shirts, most recently a style chosen to denote the hipness of the wearer, is a little like a tree falling in the woods) aren't taking fashion off the table.
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It can be disorienting to slip down the familiar, twinkling alleyway that, since 2004, has led to Freeman's Restaurant, a woodsy-chic standard-bearer for hipness in the aughts (beards, mounted antlers, taxidermy), and be whisked up two flights of unfamiliar stairs, down a dim hallway, through two sets of doors, into a low-lit room filled with oil paintings and trendy young professionals.
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Tom, who strongly admired Justin's hipness and idolized him, became extremely disappointed by the break- up and reacted like a child whose parents are divorcing.
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"Maslin, Janet (April 28, 1995). "Hipness to the Nth Degree In a Candy-Colored World". The New York Times. C8. Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film "a hopeless and hapless attempt at cool.
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2–5 All the while, Steranko spun outlandishly action-filled plots of intrigue, barely sublimated sensuality, and a cool-jazz hi-fi hipness. Writer Steven Ringgenberg assessed that Captain America #111 (March 1969): Steranko's signature surrealism. Inking by Joe Sinnott.
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Nearly every large market had a "progressive rock" album station, a forerunner to AOR, and a "beautiful" music station. Both approaches had some early success. The baby boomers gravitated to the better audio quality, fewer commercials and "hipness" of the free-form rock stations.
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Wulff was 36 years old when her husband was elected President; she became a media star for "her looks and her glamour, her height and her elegance"; the tabloid press was fascinated by the fact that she had a tattoo, "as if it were a badge of hipness".
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It indicates an open and modern set of mind.” In addition to the charity aspect, the “gay hipness” surrounding the heterosexual guests is therefore another reason for donations. The homosexuals in Austria alone would not be a big enough crowd to get companies to make such generous donations.
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Chibnall describes the flower power imagery as "what seems like a desperate and misguided attempt to suggest the hipness of a genre which had largely fallen out of favour".Chibnall, p. 90 However, movie poster expert Sim Branaghan liked its eccentricity, calling it was "that kind of quirkiness you wouldn't get these days".
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Metropia is a Canadian television soap opera, which aired on Omni Television from 2004 to 2006.Joel Rubinoff, "All the hipness of a stuffed bear". Waterloo Region Record, October 22, 2004. The series focused on the lives and loves of a group of racially and sexually diverse young men and women living in Toronto, Ontario.
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Section 7, Page B, F. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly assigned a grade of D+ and wrote, "The visual cues that signify retro hipness — wraparound sunglasses, red convertibles, gaudy Las Vegas — take the place of true style in this self-satisfied riff on pulp- fiction themes."Schwarzbaum, Lisa (May 12, 1995). Movie Review: Destiny Turns on the Radio. Entertainment Weekly. p. 44.
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Funky Squad was a short-lived 1995 Australian comedy television series which satirised 1970s-era U.S. police television dramas, such as The Mod Squad. Only seven half-hour episodes were produced, which were broadcast on the ABC. Real television commercials from the 1970s were shown during the program's "commercial breaks". The show featured four "funky" undercover detectives: undetectable as police, given their "hipness".
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" District of Columbia economic development officials were "pitching the city's urban hipness and proximity to Capitol Hill power brokers" to Northrop Grumman. Maryland promoted its highly educated workforce and its large number of federal facilities, while Virginia marketed itself as a state with relatively low taxes.Haynes, V. Dion. "D.C. area jurisdictions vie to become the new home of Northrop Grumman headquarters.
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According to Ivan Kreilkamp of Spin, "Steely Dan speaks to us from that 'cold and windy day' when the trappings of hipness and sexiness fall away to reveal a lonely figure waiting for a fix. 'Will you still have a song to sing when the razor boy comes and takes your fancy things away?' Fagen asks a generation stupefied by nostalgia and self-involvement".
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LNN has been compared to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart by the local and international media. Commenting on the comparison, local comedian Riaad Moosa says about Gola's performance: "There's a young hipness to the way he does it; Jon Stewart is more of a comedic newsman. Loyiso is a bit more flippant." LNN was nominated for an International Emmy Award for best comedy series in 2013, and again in 2014.
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Also featured in the series are scenes from hundreds of hours of "video diaries" shot by the students themselves. This remarkable combination of professional footage and student-shot video provides a window into what it's like to be a teenager growing up in America today. Brimming with exuberance, hipness and stylish editing, American High boasts authenticity as well as addictive drama. "They trusted our crews to tell their stories truthfully and honestly," says producer Cutler of the students.
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Rize is a documentary following an interview schedule of two related dancing subcultures of Los Angeles called Clowning and Krumping. The first series of interviews introduces, describes and develops the dance style known as Clowning. A descendant of 1980s breakdancing, Clowning is a contemporary street art all its own, characterized by speedy, flowing limbs, feverish shakes, hipness, and confounding athletic tricks. Tommy Johnson, better known by his alias Tommy the Clown, is a former drug dealer and a man with a mission.
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Serious Business artists have been featured in Time Out NY, Allmusic, and the Allmusic Blog. The Homosexuals have received accolades from Pitchfork Media, the Washington Post, and Spin magazine. The Two Man Gentlemen Band has been on the covers of countless local papers as well as Paste.com and Blender magazine. Allmusic writes this about Serious Business Music: > You have to love a record label that isn’t driven by profits, hipness, or > some misguided attempt to capture and define a style.
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Janet Maslin said that the "likable" film owed a debt to the screwball comedy genre. She continued, "Preston Sturges might have made a movie like Trading Places - if he'd had a little less inspiration and a lot more money." Gary Arnold said the film was too inconsistent to be compared to those older films. Vincent Canby said that the screwball style had been updated for the "existential hipness" of the 1980s, but the film lacked the same morality tale that often espoused that money is not important.
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Carnaby Street, circa 1966. The owners of Sibylla's sought to attract only the most elite figures from the burgeoning Swinging London cultural scene. In his book on 1960s London, Shawn Levy states that, in their policy for Sibylla's, Macdonald, Howard and Higham allowed exclusivity based on "hipness" to replace the old class divisions of "breeding, schooling and wealth". Levy adds, "Of course, it worked", as 800 of the people they contacted agreed to become members of the club, at an annual fee of around £8.
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" Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Grace has it all—a highly videogenic image, an angelic voice, and the ability to write material that deftly straddles commercial viability and underground hipness. She has already wooed punters in her native U.K. with this silky slice of trance/disco, and early reaction from tastemaking radio-programmers hints that even greater stateside success is on the horizon." Music & Media commented, "Not over yet? No way, it's only just beginning, the renewed appreciation of synth or electro pop-of course in a fashionable new dance coat.
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Green Day singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, with bassist Mike Dirnt to the right Punk music in the late 1970s was anti-conformity and anti-mainstream, and achieved limited commercial success. By the 1990s, punk rock was sufficiently ingrained in Western culture that punk trappings were often used to market highly commercial bands as "rebels". Marketers capitalized on the style and hipness of punk rock to such an extent that a 1993 ad campaign for an automobile, the Subaru Impreza, claimed that the car was "like punk rock".Klein (2000), p. 300.
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But as an afternoon's diversion for a handful of misbehaving kids—both within the movie, and within the movie theater—it's authentically winning." Michael Ordona of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "There are no great surprises, no shocking reveals (except to the characters themselves). But there's so much to appreciate along the way that it's a real page-turner." Kenji Fujishima of Slant Magazine gave the film two out of four stars, saying "Jorge R. Gutierrez subsumes the film's darker themes in a relentlessly busy farrago of predictable kids'-movie tropes and annoying attempts at hipness.
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Seela is known for an expressive vocal range, "one moment she rasps like a Jersey deli queen, the next she's cooing coquettishly."Raoul Hernandez, " Seela, Something Happened," Austin Chronicle March 3, 2000. This is evident in her solo work and when delivering jazz standards with the Jazz PharaohsJay Trachtenberg, "Old Man Time, Lament, One," Austin Chronicle April 23, 2004. or with TOrcH where she has been credited with "unswerving hipness" succeeding where others have failed "in melding her own style with those from the past."Michael Pronko, " Concert Previews, LIVE Torch," Japan Times May 8, 2005.
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" TIME magazine wrote that apart from the show's supernatural elements, "Passions would appear indistinguishable from almost any other soap opera." Unlike the Orlando Sentinel, Time approved of the Princess Diana link, stating that it showed that Passions was not "devoid of promise" and that the storyline showed "flashes of a certain kind of genius." By 2001, Michael Logan of TV Guide remarked of Passions, "There hasn't been this sort of buzz about a soap since the Luke and Laura days on General Hospital...It's unlike anything else out there. There's a real sense of hipness to it.
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The final volume of the collection documents another revival-of-sorts that took place in the 1980s by singer-songwriters influenced as much by 1970s punk rock as 1960s folk. As the liner notes by Barry Alfonso explain: > Of course, folk as a genre had never gone away, just slipped out of the > limelight. The rediscovery of the acoustic tradition by punks and other > upstarts was newsworthy to rock critics and other arbiters of hipness. But > trendy or not, the folk music community had never ceased to exist, and some > of its members were dubious about the recent converts asking for admission.
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The film was criticized for its slow start, its complex plot and a final twist that negated much of the preceding action. The Washington Posts Stephen Hunter said that "it all ends on one of those infuriatingly sloppy notes where, having dramatized narrative events WXYZ for us, which we have taken on good faith, it suddenly and arbitrarily delivers narrative events STUV, which completely invalidate events WXYZ." Newsweek said that "while it looks like the cast is having a blast and a half, the studied hipness can get so pleased with itself it borders on the smug."Ansen, David (2004-12-13), "Style Over Substance". Newsweek.
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In 1997, Davis Square was listed by the Utne Reader as one of the fifteen "hippest places to live" in the United States.Jay Walljasper and Daniel Kraker, This reputation has continued; in 2016, real estate company Cushman & Wakefield rated Davis Square as one of "Top 100 Cool Streets" in North America, giving it a score of "Prime Hipness". In 2005, The Boston Globe reported the first million dollar condo sale in Davis Square, which marked a major shift for a neighborhood once known as affordable and working-class. It now contains some of the priciest homes in Somerville and is significantly more expensive than the average for eastern Massachusetts.
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The ultimate goal of the game is to become a cool Super Dude by visiting the kinetic clinic with the excellent ray as a treatment. To achieve this, the player has at first to collect the ingredients of ultimate hipness to increase the Dude-O-Meter: the Heart of Rock 'n' Roll, a Magnetic Personality, and the Gift of gab. Further gameplay features include the Excellent Ray to start multiball, Big Shot - a bully figure that insults the player, the Molecular Mixmaster - a spinning disc with a rubber post on it, surrounded by targets and a Gazillion point shot with scoring that potentially can reach multiple millions of points.
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When Ilhan Ersahin opened the Nublu Club in 2002, it captured the budding synergy between hiphop turntablists, the avant-garde jazzers who were still in the Lower East Side, and DJ's and players from Europe, Jamaica, Africa and Brazil. Nublu's jam sessions captured the freewheeling rivalry of cutting sessions at clubs like the legendary Minton's Playhouse's in the bebop era of the 1940s. The club's hipness was underlined by the single blue light outside the door and lack of a name signboard, giving the club the feel of a secret speakeasy adventure. Bands and DJ's performed in the middle of the club, among the audience, giving it the ambiance of an underground event.
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In addition to the original albums, two compilation albums were released: Double Hipness (2000), a collection of early tracks with the 1993 reunion demos; and Singles (2004), an extended version of Popera – The Singles Collection which caught up with post-1990 material and included the cover of Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging". In 2002, The Glamour Chase (recorded in the years 1985–87) was finally released as a set titled The Glamour Chase & Perhaps. Finally, Wild and Lonely and Mackenzie's solo album Outernational were repackaged with bonus tracks in 2006. The Tom Doyle book The Glamour Chase: The Maverick Life of Billy Mackenzie, first published in 1997 and reissued in 2011, documented the band's career and Mackenzie's subsequent life.
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Screenwriter Michael Tolkin's 1994 film The New Age examines "cultural hipness and spiritual emptiness", creating a "dark, ambitious, unsettling" film that depicts a fashionable LA couple who "are miserable in the midst of their sterile plenty", and whose souls are stunted by their lives of empty sex, consumption, and distractions. The 1999 film American Beauty examines the spiritual emptiness of life in the US suburbs. In Wes Anderson's 2007 film The Darjeeling Limited, three brothers who "... suffer from spiritual emptiness" and then "self-medicate themselves through sex, social withdrawal, and drugs."The 2008 film The Informers is a Hollywood drama film written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and directed by Gregor Jordan.
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According to Peter Drucker, a management consultant, it was not just the rigid discipline of the assembly line, or the speedup of operation, but rather that the workers almost unanimously felt they could have done a better job at designing much of their own work than GM's industrial engineers (hence the need to include the floor workers in part of the plant design process).Drucker, Peter Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, and Practices, pp. 277–278 Due to their "hipness" long hair, and mod fashion, the strikers were referred to by Newsweek magazine as an "industrial Woodstock". The Lordstown Strike of 1972 was part of the broader mass labor unrest of the 1970s, an era which witnessed the second most labor strikes after 1946.
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In Club Cultures: Music, Media, and Subcultural Capital (1995), Thornton examines the shift from live to recorded music for public dancing (from record shops to raves) and the resistance to recording technology's enculturation of the "authentic," valued cultural form. The book also analyzes the dynamics of "hipness," critiquing Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital with her own formulation of "subcultural capital." The study responds to earlier works such as Dick Hebdige's 1979 book Subculture: The Meaning of Style. It does not see media as a reflection of social groups, but as integral to their formation. > Contrary to youth subcultural ideologies, "subcultures" do not germinate > from a seed and grow by force of their own energy into mysterious > ‘movements’ only to be belatedly digested by the media.
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The show's essential hipness, which was underlined by Hardenberg's crisp announcements and the visual and thematic backdrop of the city of Berlin, infuses the subsequent documentary pieces with a certain esprit. Thematically, their scope ran from coverage of political and social movements to current trends in underground and popular culture, whereby one piece was usually biographical in nature, setting it off from the more panoramic style of the rest of the show. Less serious segments often echoed the satire of the keynote feature. Regular items included the (usually biweekly) "Berlin for Beginners" ("Berlin für Anfänger") and the show's end note, in which Manfred Dumke, an elderly pensioner, shared his curious insights on current affairs with the rest of Germany from the comfort of his own living room.
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Colasanti is usually Zanardi's helping hand in exacting revenge. At the same time, he suffers from his lack of culture and hipness and is prone to fits of rage every time his mates remind him he is "such an ignoramus". Petrilli, while being the group's best born and possibly best educated member, is the eternal loser. He is constantly abused and humiliated by Zanardi and Colasanti, is often in love with some nameless and personality-less girl at the same high school he attends with Zanardi and Colasanti only to see her succumb to the charms of his hateful but more attractive friends, and always gets the short end of the stick in the shady dope deals Zanardi sets up.
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New York: Billboard Books, 2004, . Michael Gray maintains thus: :"Black Crow Blues" is itself terrific for the way that it tears into the blues structure with something so fresh, so invigoratingly off the wall, that it makes you laugh just to hear it. At the same time, and without sacrificing any of the hipness paraded by "wasted and worn out" of "My wrist was empty / But my nerves were kickin' / Tickin' like a clock", he nevertheless brings to it, particularly in the last verse, a special rural feel: ::Black crows in the meadow ::Across the broad highway. ::It's funny, honey, ::I don't feel much like a ::Scarecrow today :so that in the end it is a strange sort of country blues.
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Stewart Mason of Allmusic states, "these limp retreads, apparently aimed at a middle- of-the-road audience that was reaching for hipness but didn't want to be confronted with anything too out there, are utterly unnecessary. There are a handful of good tunes here; although it's unclear what the genial funk groove "Attica" has to do with the 1971 prison riot of the same name, it's got some hot tenor sax solos and a rollicking electric piano solo by composer Neal Creque. Similarly, the mellow and soulful "Summer Melody" has some exquisite electric piano and trumpet over its gentle conga-led groove. An album' s worth of variations on these two themes would have been a minor soul-jazz classic, but unfortunately, Bernard Purdie's overreaching ends up giving him the, um, Shaft".
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AllMusic reviewer Stewart Mason stated "1976's Feelings is an atypical set for Milt Jackson. Usually the epitome of cool jazz hipness, the title track finds the music's pre-eminent vibraphonist squandering his talents on Morris Albert's gloppy pop hit to the accompaniment of an uninspired, violin-heavy string section. Both concept and execution are dire ... The remainder of the album picks up significantly from that abysmal beginning; producer Norman Granz and arranger Jimmy Jones wisely keep the orchestra well in the background, adding the occasional lush, Ellington-like flourish at the beginnings and endings of the tunes but otherwise staying out of the way of Jackson's sublimely melodic vibes ... It's not the average Milt Jackson album, but after a potentially devastating start, Feelings turns out not to be half bad".
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A representative for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (of which the Shepherd Express was a member) was quoted as saying that three dozen daily newspapers had rolled out weekly free publications during the past year alone. He characterized them as "usually pretty fluffy" and presented with "faux hipness," and said of MKE: "Milwaukee's a little different because they've actually come out and said there's no news at all," and predicted most of the new free newspapers would fail in the long run because they lacked the "idiosyncrasies and oddball charm" of true alternative weeklies.Kirchen, Rich. "Leading Edge: Journal Sentinel targets 'party' crowd," Business Journal of Milwaukee, July 23, 2004 Described by local reporter and media critic Michael Horne as "pretty darn lame", it never found a profitable marketing niche; ad revenues peaked in 2006 and never recovered.
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" Mitch Easter later wrote that Game Theory defied the dogmatic "guitar aesthetic" of that era, and it was therefore "an initially disconcerting and ultimately delightful breath of fresh air to arrive at the Game Theory session for Real Nighttime to find an electronic drum kit, somebody's ancient modular synth, and other taboo devices being cheerfully employed by the band, seemingly with no awareness or concern that these were, er, questionable items in the prevailing fashion. This boldness never left." Easter added that he was "inclined to think that Scott was so fantastically and entertainingly aware of the minutia of pop culture that he probably foresaw the latent dangers of using all that ... and charged ahead anyway." Easter credited this to Miller's appreciation of a cyclical "time stamp factor" of hipness becoming dated, and sometimes then "evolving into Genius.
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After finally meeting Minnie Mouse, Dweeb is taken on by the Director. After seeing Elton John sing a duet with Minnie in "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", Maxwell feels he has it figured out and displays his new hip personality with clothes akin to Elton's, but the Director stops him saying that it is just not him, and that hipness does not equal emulation of another's style. Minnie takes Maxwell on a shopping spree; then the Director, impressed by a newly madeover Maxwell Dweeb, decides to date him. The film is intershot with various musical numbers (including the duet "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Minnie Mouse and Elton John) and excerpts from early Disney shorts, including a D-TV number of Janet Jackson's "Nasty" with a montage of male Disney villains such as Black Pete and Captain Hook shown.
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