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Danville's Centre College's 'African Voices' festival celebrates African and African-American culture
Centre College will present an “African Voices” festival that celebrates African and African-American culture Friday through Jan 18. Scholars, musicians, dancers and authors will give lectures and performances as part of the festival’s...Tags: Trinidad and Tobago, Festive Events, Martin Luther King Jr., Entertainment, Dance
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Five nonsmokers' paradises
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe world's biggest tobacco-consuming countries, including Greece, Russia and Austria, are also among the top travel spots, but the opposite isn't quite the case. Countries with the lowest reported adult smokers, as you'll notice in the list below, don't...Tags: Health, Egypt, Dominican Republic, Los Angeles Times, Congo
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PASSINGS: Christoph Schlingensief, Franz Schurmann
Christoph Schlingensief
Controversial German theater director
Christoph Schlingensief, 49, a controversial German theater director and performance artist, died of lung cancer Saturday. His death was announced by organizers of the Ruhr Triennale cultural...Tags: Health, Government, Cancer, Entertainment, San Francisco
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Seeking a new understanding of voodoo
The Religion WorldIn the west African nation of Benin, a voodoo priest has sought to bring the practice of his faith, which goes on mostly behind closed doors, out into the open, according to the New York Times. Many people in Benin practice voodoo, or voudoun, along... -
Weekend's top shows: Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars, Heartsfield, Van Dyke Parks
Turn It UpSierra Leone Refugee All-Stars: Originally based in West African refugee camps after escaping from a bloody civil war in their homeland, this group has come to international fame with their plaintive harmony vocals and exuberant dance grooves, 10 p.m.... -
Singing students survive again on 'Amazing Race' [video]
Culture MonsterCulture Monster is keeping an eye on the new season of CBS' “Amazing Race,” enjoying the escapades of a harmonizing duo of Princeton students who sing in Nassoons, the school's a capella group. On Sunday's Episode 2 ,the race moved...... -
IRAN, NIGERIA: Heroin and hand grenades sour Abuja-Tehran relations
Babylon & BeyondIran may have sought to cast the recent Nigerian arms smuggling scandal as a "misunderstanding," but it will be difficult to make the same case for at least 286 pounds of high-grade heroin found hidden inside a shipment of Iranian...... -
Two men charged with stealing credit cards to buy gift cards
TribLocal - Orland Park NewsOrland Park Police recently arrested two men on felony credit-card theft charge after finding more than two dozen gift cards in their possession. Aly Sylla, …... -
Peace Corps celebrate 50th anniversary, reflects on service
TribLocal - Barrington Area NewsStories of the better side of humanity filled a room at Harper College in Palatine last week as about 40 former Peace Corps volunteers gathered …... -
Your morning adorable: Rare pygmy hippopotamus born in Swedish zoo
L.A. UnleashedAt the Parken Zoo in Eskilstuna, Sweden, the birth of a rare pygmy hippopotamus is a big deal. The baby, a male named Oliver, was born Feb. 15 to mother Krakunia. As a newborn, Oliver had a bit of a...... -
Obama warns new Ivory Coast leader on governing inclusively
Top of the TicketU.S. president pleased with what the French did in Cote d'Ivoire.... -
Debate: Is it time to retire the Peace Corps?
Opinion L.A.Is the Peace Corps just a government-subsidized vacation for well-to-do white kids? Nonsense, writes Jessie Seiler in an Op-Ed about her experience in the Peace Corps that ran in Sunday's Opinion pages. Before I joined the Peace Corps, I had......
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