The Scene Rising from the prairies of South Dakota, the Black Hills give the impression of being the gateway to the West.
In the late 1970s, Adams was a leading figure in a seminal vertical skateboarding scene rising from a seedy section of Santa Monica and Venice known as Dogtown.
From Dublin, Henry McDonald sets the scene: Rising star in the main party of government, Fine Gael, Brian Hayes sets the tone for today's budget by portraying it as a range of measures to help the "coping classes" of Ireland.
Something about the passage seemed so familiar and emotional as I read it in the bookstore: the sad, repetitive nature of Scrooge's early memories; his rapid transition from tears to laughter and back; his conviction, as each scene rises magically before him, that "it was all quite correct; that everything had happened so".
Their self-titled 2008 debut stormed L.A.'s indie rock scene, rising far beyond it when the band signed to Island Records in 2009.
— The elaborate Nativity scenes rose in a city park along the oceanfront here every December for nearly six decades.
Mentored at the start by Joseph Beuys, the scene gave rise to Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Anselm Kiefer, Jörg Immendorff, the Neue Wilde neo-expressionists, and, as it disintegrated, Oehlen's close friend and collaborator, the lyrically self-loathing artistic provocateur and intermittent genius Martin Kippenberger, who died, at forty-four, of liver cancer, in 1997.
While even the best-known pub groups Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, Dr. Feelgood, Bees Make Honey, and Ace never achieved widespread popularity, the pub rock scene gave rise to a number of critically acclaimed performers, songwriters, and producers (often in the same person).
Ever since Alexander McQueen moved his catwalk shows from London to Paris six years ago, the accepted wisdom has been that London fashion week, the lovable-mongrel underdog of the international fashion scene, would rise again when the new McQueen appeared on the scene.
