Arts & Culture
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Fun summer music: Shakira’s “Sale el Sol”
Anyone who watched last summer’s World Cup should remember three things: the U.S. actually beat England in a soccer match, vuvuzelas are annoying and made the stadiums sound like giant beehives, and the official anthem of the event was Shakira’s Waka Waka (This Time for Africa). The soccer buzz may have faded, but Shakira’s music [...]
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A really suave portrait
Artists run in my family. My grandmother is an artist, and so are some of her children, while I like to dabble in painting and collage. My husband’s family also is artsy; he’s a graphic designer and photographer, and his late grandfather was a painter and photographer as well. Unfortunately, I can’t reveal his name [...]
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Digging Nelly Furtado
When “I’m Like a Bird” came out in 2000, I kinda liked it. It was different from what was being played on the radio (always a relief) and since I was a B&N music manager at the time, I was constantly on the lookout for new and cool stuff. Then a couple of tracks from [...]
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