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It can can take quite a time for outsiders to appreciate the good things that come out of Africa. This spring's National Theatre production of Death and the King's Horseman by Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka proved a revelation. Some 35 years after the play's composition, London theatre-goers at last had the chance to savour its spectacular blend of Greek tragedy, Yoruba tradition, ...
Summer's here and the living is easy. Last week was nothing but hot days, warm nights and quiet evenings enhanced by the sound of ringing ears brought on by pop bottle rockets and firecrackers. Some say the Fourth of July doesn't start until around one o'clock on the 28th when the actual sale of fireworks can legally begin.
With her striking, idiosyncratic sense of style – part Grace Jones, part Andrews Sisters – and a musical approach for which she cites Ruth Brown, Elvis Presley and video game sounds as influences, rather than the standard R&B checklist of Whitney, Mariah and Beyoncé, young British singer V.V. Brown makes a refreshing alternative to the general run of production-line soul divas.
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Hey Dan Deacon ! If you're going to make a video in which a CGI lizard with a thick Long Island accent bitches about random objects that float by, you're going to have to deal people thinking you're on acid. Even if you're not, it's kind of an understandable mistake.
Like many weeks to come, the week was all about Michael Jackson's memorial. The week was also filled with lots of new music, ranging from Havoc to Killer Mike and Royce Da 5'9". Stalley and Nakim both come from the family that helped push Mickey Factz in the lime light, so those are definitely two [...]
How often do people remember their UPS guy? Or better yet, how often is it that your UPS guy remembers you, or even your birthday?
Santa Cruz poet Robert Sward pens an homage to his adopted home. You want a sunrise? asks the poet, I'll give you a sunrise. Eggplant cirrus clouds, pinky smoky blue and gray, pink, moss pink, pink nether flower sunrise, sunrise yellow white silicon chip foghorn, windchime, no-color haze.
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The CRTC ‘investigation’ traffic throttling / net neutrality in Canada is now into Day 4. University of Ottawa student Yael Wexler has a report of Day Three on Michael Geist’s blog. Here are the official CRTC transcripts of Day One and Day Two, and we’ll run the CIPPIC’s Twitter reports of [...]
CTV Toronto has learned the city hs declared six of its temporary dump sites to be potential public health hazards. Earlier, the leader of the striking outside workers said a summer-long strike is possible.
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