In a business where publicists could sprain major joints falling over themselves to market a new product, where was the record-company hype on Marky Mark, the budding pop icon from Dorchester's royal family? After all, isn't Marky Mark really Mark Wahlberg, brother of...

RCA Records, in conjunction with the college radio trade publication CMJ, just released a compilation album called "Ten Of A Kind," a collection of what is termed "America's best unsigned bands." (Four of the groups, all of whom played Axis Thursday night, are based...

Energy: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is spoiling for a fight, but the Bush administration won't give it to him. So now he's trying to provoke U.S. oil firms. This time, he may be in for a surprise.Even Chavez's own energy officials are getting nervous about the...

Q: I am the office manager of a small insurance firm. I have been here nine months and have noticed that our work environment seems pretty poor. Some of our employees do not seem very motivated, don't care about their jobs or have bad attitudes....

Side one [of Low], where Bowie works within more conventional rock trappings, is superior to side two's experiments simply because a band forces discipline into Bowie's writing and performance. Sandwiched between a pair of spacey instrumentals are five brief but well-defined pop songs combining quirky lyrics and a band driven by sharply cracking drums and riffing guitars. At their best, the songs are funny—only a stoneface could resist smiling when hearing Bowie's hurdy-gurdy voi...