In Chicago, 101.1 FM had been a beloved alternative rock station known as Q101 before turning to news.
The Shins, which he founded in Albuquerque in 1996, became one of the most beloved alternative bands of the 2000s, exploring evergreen topics like romantic anxiety and adult growing pains with a jangly, idiosyncratic sound and Mr. Mercer's strikingly naked vocals.
One of the nation's most beloved alternative-rock bands, the Feelies have run the gamut from beautifully twitchy (their début, "Crazy Rhythms," released in 1980) to beautifully pastoral with occasional moments of twitch ("Here Before," their stellar fifth album, released earlier this year after a two-decade hiatus).
The beloved alternative art space New Langton Arts ended its run in 2009, and dozens of galleries closed their doors.
One summer, Surkov arranged for a beloved Russian alternative rock singer, Zemfira, to perform at a pro-Putin youth camp in the countryside.
For Hobbs, whose own father had killed himself years earlier after a decade of depression and alcohol abuse, the older broadcaster had become an alternative, beloved father, and she wanted him to know it.
Their energetic and fresh sound set the tone for a high-spirited night that also featured beloved Shanghai-based alternative rock band, Duck Fight Goose, whose performance shook the concert hall with trembling guitar riffs and abstract keyboard melodies.
Luckily for the passionate RSS users out there, there's a solid pool of alternatives to the beloved Google Reader.
Its first titles include "Breathless" by Sophie Jordan, described as a companion novella to Ms. Jordan's popular "Firelight" fantasy series about a dragon in human form, and "Stupid Perfect World," a futuristic novella by Scott Westerfeld, author of the beloved "Leviathan" trilogy, which mixed alternative history with science fiction.
Fujifilm has released an alternative to the beloved Polaroid camera, and calls it the Instax mini50S.
