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Pop Culture Historian Says Boombox Gets a Bad Rap
By David Moye - AOL News
(Oct. 18) -- The boombox was popular for only a short time, but its effects are still being heard nearly 25 years after the invention of the CD hastened its demise. That's how it sounds to Lyle Owerko, a New York-based photographer and filmmaker who has immortalized the portable sound device in a new book, "The Boombox Project: The Machines, the Music, and the Urban Underground." "These devices have not been in vogue for 20 years, yet not a day goes by where I don't see someone with a boombox silk-screened on a T-shirt," Owerko told AOL News. For those born after 1990: A "boombox" was a ...
Chin Up, Gen X'ers: Obama's Right There With You
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyWhen I offered unsolicited advice, guys, I didn't mean to crush your Generation X dreams and hearts like a cigarette butt. If you don't want to, you don't have to grow up. I'm 14 years old at heart and still think I'm going to live happily ever after with Simon Le Bon. (Although I did get into a wicked argument with him circa 1998 after a Duran Duran concert, and he broke my heart into tiny pieces when he acted so rudely. But that's another story.) Punk Peter Pans, stay young. Keep playing video games. It's OK to still long for Asteroids. Get giddy about the new Tron movie. Please believe ...
New Cubs Owner Asking for Money From Local Celebrities
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsTom Ricketts and his family put in the winning bid to purchase the Chicago Cubs back in January, but the details of their offer have yet to be finalized four months later, and Ricketts is looking to find some other investors to help back his $900 million offer for the team. He doesn't need the help with the $850 million he's raised with a loan and selling some shares in the family business, TD Ameritrade, but if you can get it, why not? The latest group of people he's checked in on to see if they'd like to invest in the team includes just about every local celebrity Cubs fan in Chicago. He's ...
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