Paper's Guide to Pop Culture; Tramp art

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PAPER'S GUIDE TO POP CULTURE

PAPER'S GUIDE TO POP CULTURE:
FROM ABFAB TO ZEN
edited by Kim Hastreiter and David Hershkovits
Paper Publishing, 1999
206 pages, paperback, $24.95

   PAPER (www.papermag.com) is that hip culture magazine that no one reads.  Unless you're in it, and they've just taken nice photos that you want to keep for your album.  O.K., maybe someone did buy an issue.
   This book ("36 fabulous PAPER stickers inside!") has photos and brief summaries of all the usual pop culture subjects.  Here are some items that could be considered language-related:

Afrocentricity
Black hair
Banjee queens
Celebutots
Cocktail nation
Club kid fashion
Drag kings
Disneyfication
FUCT (a skateboard and streetwear company founded by Los Angeles artist Erik Brunetti--not to be confused with FUBU or FCUK--ed.)
Give face
Glam
Goth
Hair hoppers
Heroin chic
Jungle music
Ketamine (Special K)
Lesbian chic
Multi-culti style
Moshing
Old skool
Phat
Pussy power
Quality of nightlife
Restaurant chic
Riot grrrls
Ravers
Scandinavian chic
Vintage clothing
Voguing
Word...Slang for "you said it."  Exclamation of affirmation, as in "word up" or, back in the day, "word to your mother."
X (drug--ed.)
Xtreme sports

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TRAMP ART

TRAMP ART:
A FOLK ART PHENOMENON (1999)
by Helaine Fendelman and Jonathan Taylor

Pg. 11 (Introduction by Bonnie Grossman--ed.)  In my almost half century collecting tramp art and thirty years of showing and selling it, I've found the dearth of reference material a great frustration.  The only resource previously available was Helaine Fendelman's _Tramp Art: An Itinerant's Folk Art_ (1975).

Pg. 40  What's In a Name?
     Prior to the publication of Frances Lichten's "Tramp Work: Penknife Plus Cigar Boxes" in 1959 (Pennsylvania Folklife magazine, Spring 1959, pg. 7--ed.), the terms _tramp work_ and _tramp art_ were unknown in print.  Lichten reported that she first heard the terms from a woman who remembered the "old-time vendors of edge-carved work."  It was this woman who dubbed the carved pieces _tramp work_.

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MAX CITY GUIDE--NEW YORK

MAX CITY GUIDE:
COOL GUIDES TO HOT CITIES
NEW YORK (1999)

Pg. 89  Culture: Interesting Facts
The original hot dog was invented by Nathan Handwerker in 1900 for Nathan's Famous.

   Nathan's opened in 1916.  What the author meant to say was that, in 1900, Nathan invented the Bloody Mary.