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SXSW Music Highlights: Santigold, Janka Nabay, Hindi Zahra
My third day at South by Southwest kicked off once again with interviews… this time I talked with two bands from last night, Chile’s Kali Mutsa and Kenya’s Sauti Sol [...]
SXSW Music Highlights: Buraka Som Sistema, Kali Mutsa & Spoek Mathambo
After an early afternoon chat with Portuguese electro-kuduro group Buraka Som Sistema, I wandered downtown to catch a few songs by The White Eyes at the Taiwan music showcase [...]
Harvey Weinstein: Oscars in Hollywood, Silver Medal in France and Brewing Controversy Stateside
Two weeks after winning a handful of gold statuettes in Hollywood for his French silent movie, “The Artist”, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was awarded a silver medal in Paris [...]
SXSW Music Highlights: Mirel Wagner, Anoraak & Lila Downs
To be at SXSW is to know you’re missing out on a lot of good music. Fortunately the music you do see makes up for the difference, and very often it’s the unexpected showcases, the things that weren’t on your radar until that very moment, that end up being the highlights of your experience [...]
Joseph Kony: He’s Long Been Famous in Atiak
Rewind 17 years. Back to 1995. That’s when I traveled to a dust-blown corner of Uganda to try to find survivors of a massacre perpetrated by the child soldiers of Joseph Kony [...]
Israelis in Southern City of Ashkelon Hope for Calm
Business was slow at the outdoor market in Ashkelon today. Usually, the lunch hour is pretty busy, said a Russian-born Israeli woman who gave her name as Ella [...]
Show Producer’s Blog: Kony 2012
I have written for years about heartbreaking issues of war and atrocity and the shortfall between international rhetoric and action. I’ve often struggled with the apparent mismatch between the horror of what’s going on and people’s blithe ignorance of it. But knowledge isn’t everything [...]
KONY 2012: Terrible or Terrific?
The film “Kony 2012” has been an Internet sensation. Some people love it, others hate it. The film is rife with controversy – it’s inaccurate, it’s simplistic, it’s self indulgent. Add to the list of controversies, a photo and a photographer.
Tagging Dakar
In the hustle to cover elections in Senegal two weeks ago, there was a story about graffiti I would have loved to have pursued, but didn’t have time to [...]
Dimitrios Georgas, Vintner-Philosopher
“Do you want to see some dolphins?” Dimitrios Georgas asks me with a broad smile, as we stand in the middle of his family’s 20 acres of vineyards. In any other circumstance, it might be a surreal question for a vintner to ask you [...]
Tulips for International Women’s Day in Moscow
Setting off for the Moscow metro today, I noticed an unusually high number of people clutching bouquets [...]
From a Cairo Apartment Syrian Activists Spread News About the Revolution Back Home
I visited the Cairo office of the Activists News Association on Monday and talked with the founders of the group. Rami Jarrah is a Syrian national who grew up in London [...]
Boarding the Bus Through the Back Door
Many Greeks are angry and sad, and for good reason. The country has been in recession for a few years now. Wages have been slashed, and new taxes have been imposed [...]
Russian Poll Watchers Strive for Clean Elections
As Russians voted on Sunday, they knew there was not much suspense about the outcome. Even Vladimir Putin’s opponents conceded his victory and voters I spoke to told me as much today as I toured polling stations [...]
Jordan Welcomes (Mostly) Libyan Medical Patients
When I mentioned to Jordanians this week that I was doing on a story about Libyans seeking treatment at Jordan’s hospitals, most of them grumbled a bit. “The Libyans are taking up all the space and now the taxpayers of Jordan,” the complaint went, “well, we have to wait!”
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