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Summer in the Global Village: Brasil Summerfest – Part One
Brasil Summerfest 2012 kicked off with the NYC debut of São Paulo’s Criolo [...]
Summer in the Global Village: Carnival Arrives Early in Brooklyn
On a raw and rainy July eve I headed to Celebrate Brooklyn to check out Trinidadian soca star Machel Montano [...]
Summer in the Global Village: Catching up with Kinky and closing out LAMC
The final few days at the 2012 Latin Alternative Music Conference were filled with free outdoor shows.
Globalization, Olympics-Style
The other day we took our 4-year-old to the local sports center because we’d heard that some national Olympic teams were based there, ahead of their move to the main Olympic site in east London. Our little one wanted his photo taken with an Olympic competitor. When we got to the local sports center, we immediately ran into Singapore’s national table-tennis team [...]
Voices of Arabia Part II
Saudis of a certain class know the United States. Many have traveled here. They’ve studied and have homes in the US. I, however, was woefully uninformed about Saudis [...]
Summer in the Global Village: Snapshots from LAMC 2012
Here’s a video mashup I shot during the recent Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City.
The Old Harki: Escape from Algiers
Once upon a time there was an old Harki who lived in a little house on the outskirts of Paris. In practical terms, Harki means a man without a country [...]
Summer in the Global Village: Latin Alternative Music Conference – Part Two
Back at the Latin Alternative Music Conference, day two’s showcases kicked off with a speed round of acoustic sets at SOB’s in SoHo [...]
Summer in the Global Village: Latin Alternative Music Conference – Part One
This is the first installment of a blog series for The World that will cover music from all corners of the globe as it converges upon New York City this summer [...]
Kosovo: A State Stuck in Purgatory
A few days ago, I was helping my friend push his 1998 Renault across the Macedonian side of the Macedonia-Serbia border [...]
Coal Miners’ Revolt Gives Frustrated Spaniards a Voice, and Some Rockets
In recent years, in more prosperous times, people in Spain have tended to bad mouth coal. It’s dirty, it’s polluting, it’s unsustainable as an energy source. Coal is an anachronism as we move toward a world of renewable energies. The sooner we wean ourselves off the stuff, the better.
Documenting the Law
Israeli documentary filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s “The Law in These Parts” casts a critical eye on the unique legal system Israel has developed over nearly a half century in the occupied territories [...]
Voices of Saudi Arabia Part I
Saudis of a certain class know the United States. Many have traveled here. They’ve studied and have homes in the US. I, however, was woefully uninformed about Saudis [...]
Leatherback Turtles, Bulldozers and Human Nature
This week’s news about the disastrous deaths of thousands of young and still incubating leatherback turtles in Trinidad reads like something out of a dark comic novel, a gross parody of a cascade of bad decisions resulting in an epic disaster [...]
A Flower Market Wrapped in Chaos and Monsoon Muddiness
The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee sends a snapshot of a whole-sale flower market in the Indian city of Kolkata.
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