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MIT's Media Lab, which hosts the Computing Culture Group in their postmodern playroom, is a bizarre department that blends technology, art and agitprop in idiosyncratic and sometimes nonsensical ways. Students here don't string together theories about the origins of the universe; instead they contrive high-tech ways to jolt governments, scientists and ordinary people out of their complacency toward machines. Far out is only one way to describe the research that CCG conducts; another is subversive.

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In a development that could provide an impetus for the burgeoning cinema advertising marketplace, Nielsen Media Research Wednesday unveiled Nielsen Cinema, a new unit that intends to do for in-theater advertising what earlier Nielsen syndicated ratings reports did for the TV industry - provide context and continuity for advertising marketplace transactions.

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Last year about this time, Miami New Times published a special report on the City of Miami, which had recently earned the dubious distinction of being named America's poorest big city. A year later, even as real-estate developers rush to build a sea of high-priced condos along Biscayne Bay -- wiping out modest apartments and single-family homes in the process -- New Times revisits the territory it explored last year, paying followup calls to people struggling to survive and the politicians who've made promises to help them.

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The Chicago Tribune weighs in on the youth- paper movement and manages to move the ball upfield, reporting that single-copy sales of the Chicago Sun Times have declined amid the titanic struggle between its own free daily, Red Streak, and the Tribune's virtually-free RedEye. The Stranger's Dan Savage calls the new free dailies "like a cross between Us magazine and AP wire."

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Following a nine-year absence, former account executive Lisa Rudy (pictured) returns to Detroit's alt-weekly to replace David Jost, who resigned as publisher last month. Rudy says Metro Times is her kind of paper: “I like everything it stands for. It’s just so community-based. It's hip, but it's real. I like the kind of reader that is interested in Metro Times, readers that like to be challenged.”

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The small, 24,000 circulation weekly, founded in 1996, appears to have published its final issue sometime around mid-August, reports John Ferri. The Reporter was hit hard by 9/11 and the brutal Pacific Northwest recession, which cut its annual revenue in half, according to the paper's owners. When talks to sell the weekly fell through, the undercapitalized paper couldn't hang on.

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Ian MacKaye's Fugazi has survived 15 years in the music biz without ever coming close to selling out to a major label, all the while holding firm to the quaint notion that it's actually possible to give one's fans more than their money's worth. What could possibly be wrong with that? Plenty, says Michael Little, who complains that the band has "cast a long pall over the Washington, D.C., music scene" and saddled the area with humorless, moralizing music made by people who don't understand that rock is supposed to be hedonistic, degenerate, and lewd.

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The offices of Denver’s alt weekly were transformed into a movie set last week for director John Sayles’ (pictured) next movie, Silver City. Presently lensing in the Mile High City, Sayles' film is about a “George W. Bush-like” character, played by Chris Cooper, who’s running for Colorado governor. Westword Editor Patricia Calhoun will have a small role in the movie if she doesn't end up on the cutting room floor.

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