Art & Culture

Send this article to Twitter!I have had a very authentic weekend and since I like authenticity, I’m going to talk about it. I decided to try out this new Peruvian restaurant that I’d read about. I was pleasantly surprised when I got there because you could tell that the owners really wanted you to...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was watching the Chicken Noodle Network CNN las night and there was Ahmadineeeee (how the heck do you pronounce his name?) standing in the middle of what looked like a presidential palace, greeting these British hostages and offering them back to Blair as a “special Easter gift.” I must...
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve finally found an article that has been willing to expose Bono’s naive adventurism in Africa (or maybe I should say that I was actively looking for an article that agreed with my conclusions about Bono and I was not trying to be objective about this conclusion) Anyway, it appears...
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Send this article to Twitter!“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul.” You’ve probably noticed that I’ve had a number of articles on diet and weight loss in the past couple of weeks. Why? because everyone I know is trying to lose weight. This includes both men and women....
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Send this article to Twitter!I decided to turn on CNN last night to catch up on some news (since I hadn’t watched the news in a couple of days) — So, who pops up on the screen? My “favorite” newscaster Anderson Blooper Cooper. Now, before I proceed, I’ll say this: I am a news...
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Send this article to Twitter!Someone was telling about this new soap opera/series/drama….I’m not quite sure what it is yet (the description on the website makes it sound like a “sex & the city” offshoot, but from an African woman’s perspective) Anyway, it’s written and directed by a woman from Botswana and most of the...
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Send this article to Twitter!That’s what I was listening to on the way to work. It sounds a bit like taarab and you’ll even recognize some of the Arabic words with your background in Swahili. The most famous Rai singers are probably Cheb Khaled with his hit song “Didi” and Cheb Mami with his...
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Send this article to Twitter!A woman at work today just came in and told me that she’s stressed out about all the christmas shopping she has to do (I made the mistake of asking her how her weekened went) — after letting out a big sigh (inhale/exhale) — she started complaining about how many...
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Send this article to Twitter!About a month ago I posted an article on Brooklyn based Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu. I was reading Vanity Fair magazine and saw a profile on her. Yesterday, I was reading the New York Times and they had another short profile on her. The thing that got my attention this...
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