Politics of Fashion: Palin, McCain, Obama

Fashionistas haven't had this a good deal to say about political wardrobes since Jackie Kennedy inhabited the White House.
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That's because trey of the women on the front lines of the 2008 presidential race -- Michelle Obama, Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin -- all dress with their have sense of style, even if, in the case of Palin, it's anti-style.

Palin herself told Vogue magazine publisher, "A newsman once asked me about it [her appearance] during the campaign, and I assured him I was trying to be as frumpy as I could by wear my hair on upper side of my head and these schoolma'am glasses."

While each woman approaches fashion from a different angle, all three ooze out strength and confidence in the path they dress.

To find out more about what the clothes state about the women, ABCNews.com spoke to Jennifer Goodkind and Jayne Chase, the co-hosts of the radio set show A Fashionable Life, which pose on WGCH 1490-AM in Greenwich, Conn., as well as the Web.

Sarah Palin

Chase: She aforesaid she's a hockey mamma and the only departure between a hockey mummy and a pit bull is lipstick. I'm a hockey momma, and by and large that's a serious Polar Tech crowd. She aforesaid it, lipstick is credibly the only fashiony thing she has an interest in. Fashion is not a piece of her program or her package.

Goodkind: She let her hair down concluding night just it was still very contrived. It was a "downdo." She has that agenda of appealing to every woman schlepping her kids to school. Fashion is not going to be the focal point for her or her campaign, for that thing. If she gets overly glammed up, she's exit to move away from the voice that's her strength. Still, she should lose the schoolmarm eyeglasses and trade wind them in for a modern frame, lose the "updo" and go for a haircut that has movement and frames her beautiful face. She has a bunch to work with. Play up, never play down.

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Showbread

   
Artist: Showbread

   Genre(s): 
Hardcore
   

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Discography:


   
 No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13

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Christian-minded post-hardcore outfit Showbread is known nearly as much for their fashion sense (frequently sporting duplicate red and black outfits) as they ar for their spastic, self-described "rude rock" music and energetic live demonstrate. Hailing from Savannah, GA, the seven-piece band comprised vocalists Ivory Mobley and Josh Dies, lead guitar player Matt Davis, bassist Patrick Porter, guitar actor Mike Jensen, drummer Marvin Reilly, and keytar player John Giddens. They self-released deuce EPs in 2001, Human Beings Are Too Shallow to Fall in Love and Goodnight Sweetheart, the Stitches Are Coming Apart. Showbread signed to Solid State/Tooth and Nail in mid-2004. Working with producer Sylvia Massy Shivy (Puppet, Johnny Cash), their label debut, No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical, appeared that October. Extensive touring commenced with bands like Versus the Mirror, Sullivan, and Dead Poetic before the guys (now wear smutty and common outfits) followed up in August 2006 with Age of Reptiles. Reilly was credited with playing drums on the criminal track record, simply was no longer a phallus of Showbread by its release. Subsequent dates with Paulson, the Finalist, and Roses Are Red were played in support.





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8Ball & MJG Quit Bad Boy Records

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Apparently T.I. revealed the news that the Memphis rap duo had signed to his label on Saturday (June 14th), during a performance at the Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash in Atlanta at weekend.

Now 8Ball & MJG are expected to drop a new album in late 2008 / early 2009. Their last was 2007's 'Ridin High' and last year's greatest hits collection 'We Are The South'.

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88 Fingers Louie

   
Artist: 88 Fingers Louie

   Genre(s): 
Hardcore
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Split with Kid Dynamite (EP)

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 6


   
 Back On The Streets

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 Up Your Ass

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 27


   
 Dom Years

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 Behind Bars

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 12


   
 Back On The Street

   Year:    
Tracks: 16

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With Chicago's early reputation based on being a city infested with organized crime during the turn of the century, it's only fitting that 88 Fingers Louie took their name from a piano-playing mobster, even if it was from an older Flintstones episode. Not that whatever of them was tortuous in the Mafia. They exactly started out lacking to flirt baggy, play punk for themselves back in springtime 1993. Later on that class, 88 self-released their number one EP and appeared on a couple of local compilations earlier getting hooked up with Fat Wreck Chords in 1994. By cathartic their EPs Go Away and Wanted, they were mechanically dubbed as some other "Fatty Wreck Chords isthmus" thanks to their galloping pop-punk heavy, not-so-serious lyricism, and occasional harmonies; comparisons to NOFX and Lagwagon where normally submit in every review. Rocco Records released the 10" Tootin' 40s and Fucking Shit Up that same yr, earlier Hopeless Records issued their number one full-length, Behind Bars, in 1995. With their next EP, Chicago vs. Amsterdam, in 1996, a all-out circuit followed short with gigs all throughout North America and Europe. But several months into it, stripe tumult and the focus of being on the road kicked in, resulting in 88 Fingers to abruptly break up in July of that class, even with a unharmed bunch of U.S. dates left over. While the absence of the stripe took place, Fat Wreck Chords released The Teacher Gets It EP and The Dom Years 10" in 1997, while Hopeless re-released all their vinyl-only and hard to find material on Up Your Ass. But after a yr and a half of being on hold, original members Dan Wlekinski (guitar, aka Dan Precision) and Dennis Buckley (vocals) cherished to extend on their 88 Fingers bequest in 1998 by adding Joe Principe (sea bass) and John Carroll (drums) as their newfangled speech rhythm section. Back on the Streets was dubbed as their swelled "riposte" album that same year, fifty-fifty though merely deuce original members remain in the band. A split with Kid Dynamite followed a class later on.





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David Shankle Group

   
Artist: David Shankle Group

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Ashes To Ashes

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13

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Brandy, Lenna, Israeli Artist, Iranian Artist, the East and the West Uniting for the First World Peace For Life Concert

LOS ANGELES, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Among other artists,
the American singer Lenna will be once again on the scene this Saturday,
June 21, 2008 at 6:30 pm, at the Los Angeles convention center for a
benefit concert organized by World Peace For Life, a non-profit
organization that has the goal to promote peace and conciliation across the
planet and to help to raise money to build schools, education centers,
hospitals.

The concert will be simulcast via television, radio and Internet and is
aiming to reach and touch millions of people to spread out a powerful
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from every culture on earth. Israelis, Arabs, the East and the West will be
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Lenna will use her voice and her pop/rock rhythmic to show people that
accepting each other's differences is a crucial issue in today's world. Not
only is she an ambassador of peace, she is a woman gifted with multiple
talents: singer, musician and composer. She describes herself as an "idea
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music, which gives her songs a special spark.

Lenna has been mesmerizing audiences all over the world ever since her
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Within the last year Lenna has had two successful chart hits "Evenly" and
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song in the Netherlands "Flying Blind," her fans will be waiting anxiously
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in Luxemburg, Vietnam, China ... she is now back to Los Angeles for the
first World Peace For Life event. Prince Ali, a prince from Afghanistan and
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major cities around the world.

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Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, etc.), Rouben Hakhverdian (Armenian singer,
Twice Best Armenian Male Singer) and many others.




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“It's total nonsense. It was NOT that kind of a shoot,” an amused Kidman told the UK’s Daily Mail.

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Artist LeRoy Neiman donates $1 million to Harlem youth arts center

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Neiman, who is best known for his colorful and energetic paintings of sporting events and portraits of such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, the Beatles, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra, plans to attend the ribbon cutting for the Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center Tuesday evening.

Arts Horizons has been providing after-school arts programming for 30 years. The center will become its first permanent home. It will offer classes in painting, computer animation, photography, pottery, and video- and filmmaking on weekday afternoons and weekends.

Neiman, who says he's a product of the Depression and a broken home, is making the donation to give children "an opportunity to express themselves in ways they never thought possible."

The center is scheduled to officially open next month.

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