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New York Times: > Dozens of fans, some with faces similarly decorated, were lined up to join him on a chartered ship called the Jewel, and they knew exactly how to react when they saw him and his musical partner, Shaggy 2 Dope, the nom de clown of Joseph Utsler: At maximum volume they began chanting, "Fam-i-ly! Fam-i-ly!" > > "We're going on a cruise!" Violent J shouted back. > > For Insane Clown Posse, this three-hour tour of the East River was an occasion to celebrate a recently concluded concert at Gramercy Theater, the group's first New York show in roughly a decade, and to unwind before a planned performance Sunday at the Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, N.J. > > When Violent J, the alter ego assumed by the husky Detroit native Joseph Bruce when he performs in the rap duo Insane Clown Posse, arrived at the Skyport Marina on East 23rd Street in Manhattan, it was just after midnight on Saturday morning, and he was still wearing the greasepaint that makes him look like a demented distant relative of Emmett Kelly. Read and comment. From nytimes.com. New York Times: > A couple of decades ago, if you were visiting Manchester you were probably there for business, or perhaps because of familial commitments. But while staggering unemployment and urban decay didn't inspire much in the way of tourism to this post-industrial English city, it did inspire a movement of disaffected youth whose music still resonates. Indeed, while the grim years that inspired the depressive romanticism of bands like Joy Division and the Smiths have made way for large-scale urban development, Manchester's prolific musical energy hasn't dissipated. > > Today, in the once-derelict Northern Quarter, record stores, live venues and sonic-minded galleries and pubs hold dominion. Dive bar jukeboxes are impeccably curated wonder cabinets. And even in the gleaming, rebuilt glass- and-steel city center, it's not uncommon to hear rare late-'60s Northern Soul tracks or jagged '90s post-rock songs booming out of some garishly lighted all-night convenience store. Looking over the last 40 or so years, one can see Manchester as a kind of English New Orleans — a moody hedonist's stomp defined by water, weather and, above all else, music. > > Some 20 years after the Mancunian blend of indie and house music championed by bands ... Most viewers turned on their TVs to watch footage of the Royal Wedding. But the event was also big online, breaking livestreaming records and sw… New York Times: > "It is a short walk," Vladimir Nabokov said, speaking of writers and critics, "from the hallelujah to the hoot." It's an especially short walk if you're a pop singer who's written a less-than-electric protest song. Think of Michael Jackson and "Earth Song," or 4 Non Blondes and "What's Up," or Sting and "Russians." Each of them, along with "We Are the World," will be in heavy rotation on the Pandora channel in hell. > > The lively British rock critic Dorian Lynskey — he writes for The Guardian, among other publications — spends some time in his new book, "33 Revolutions Per Minute," chewing over why most protest songs are heaped with scorn. They can be "didactic, crass or plain boring," he writes. Those who warble them onstage can seem "shrill or annoying or egotistical." Read and comment. From nytimes.com. Alex Rodriguez hit a run-scoring double in the Yankees' big fifth inning against the White Sox. Game coverage is at nytimes.com. The NYTimes is front-paging a raft of heart-stopping pictures, stories and video from last night's record-setting barrage of tornadoes: Tuscaloosa--At least 285 people across six states died in the storms, with more than half -- 195 people -- in Alabama. This good-time college town, the home of the University of Alabama, has in some places [...] New York Times: > IF one were to tell a life story through the houses one has lived in, Moby's would be particularly rich. A descendant of Herman Melville whose real name is Richard Melville-Hall, he was born in Harlem, when his father was a graduate student at Columbia… Read and comment. From nytimes.com. That's a standard saying among animal trainers and management consultants, frequently used to point out that every instance of 'rewarding' bad behavior (by inattention or favoritism or an unwillingness to admit imperfection) negates hours of half-hearted positive reinforcement and/or lip service about mandating quality at every level. It was my first affirmative thought in response [...] Donald J. Trump on Wednesday talked with reporters from his limousine Newington, N.H.. More photos at nytimes.com. Source: JENNA WORTHAM, www.nytimes.com New York Times: > The Web site photograph depicted an elegant array of orchestra musicians in a glowing hall. A video clip showed an earnest young conductor leading players in a Tchaikovsky symphony. Below the picture, an official biography described the "Tschaikowski" St. Petersburg State Orchestra as "an ensemble with unlimited musical possibilities." > > But according to one of Russia's best-known conductors, Yuri Temirkanov, there is a problem: The images depicted were of orchestras unrelated to the Tchaikovsky… Read and comment. From nytimes.com. ArtsBeat: > Love may come in many forms, but it has never quite taken the shape seen in Marie Losier's documentary "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," which makes its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday. This film chronicles the lives of Genesis P-Orridge, the experimental artist and musician from the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and her partner, Lady Jaye, who expressed their unity by becoming near-duplicates of each other. The art experiment, in which the couple underwent plastic surgery to create a single, androgynous sexual identity, began in 2003, and continued even after Lady Jaye died in 2007… Read and comment. From artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. New York Times: > The flourishing field of hip-hop studies has lately come to resemble a college English department circa 1950. There are canonical studies, like Jeff Chang's "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation." There's a school of New Criticism, devoted to formalist analysis of texts, er, lyrics; its bible is either the much-ballyhooed "Anthology of Rap," which codifies hundreds of songs, or Jay-Z's best-selling "Decoded," which is lackluster as an autobiography — that feted lyricist proves about as introspective as Tony Montana — but stellar as a work of critical rap reading. And most recently there's Marxist criticism, concerned with dollars and sense: Zack O'Malley Greenburg's "Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office" and Dan Charnas's exhaustive yet vigorous book, "The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop." > > Into this mix comes Ice-T's "Ice," which dabbles in all of the above but is least like "Decoded"... Read and comment. From nytimes.com. ... and some with a "flag of convenience" that allows shipowners to avoid millions in taxes, not to mention environmental, health & safety regulations. Rose George in the NYTimes discusses "Flying the Flag, Fleeing the State": Four American yachters killed; a Danish family of five and two crew members kidnapped: these events in the space [...] The Guardian and the NYTimes have coordinated another release of redacted 'security papers' from Wikileaks, this time concerning Guantanamo. From a quick scan, there are no "shocking new revelations", just confirmation that the DFHs were right… again. Here is the Guardian: Guantanamo files lift lid on world's most controversial prison • Innocent people interrogated for [...] I'd like to see the fine print on this claim: The Times Co. said digital subscribers to NYTimes.com had surpassed 100,000, a figure that does not include print subscribers who receive digital access for free but does include readers who took advantage of a promotional offer. The "promotional offer" I got, along with 200,000 others, [...] NYMag's Daily Intel reports that "Now the Only Evidence That Jon Kyl Lied About Planned Parenthood Will Be the Entire Internet": A couple of weeks after claiming that abortions account for "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" -- it's actually 3 percent -- and then explaining that he had actually never intended [...] ArtsBeat: > It may not compensate for a total lack of dinosaurs, but the Museum of Modern Art is doing what it can to reach out to more youthful patrons: on Friday, the museum said that Kanye West will perform at its annual Party in the Garden benefit, which takes place this year on May 10 in its Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden… Read and comment. From artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. (John) The 2012 election is a long way off, and much will happen before the GOP selects its presidential candidate. Still, if these results from the NYTimes/CBS poll are reasonably accurate, the race has already taken a pretty definite shape. As everyone knows, quite a few Republicans have thrown their hats into the ring. But this graphic, which sums up the poll results, suggests the ultimate shape of the race. Click to enlarge: To be clear, I think highly of everyone on this list, with the possible exception of Donald Trump, so the point here is not my evaluation, but how the public is sizing up the candidates so far. There are only two candidates who are both widely known to the general public and also viewed favorably by non-Republicans: Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. Romney has been through a high-profile campaign and has a modestly positive overall rating, which is all one can expect in this polarized era. Mike Huckabee rates even better among both Republicans and all voters. I am not surprised by this: Huckabee is the most talented politician now working in either party. 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