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...main hall, an array of blues musicians smiled down from bas-relief portraits on the walls and ceiling, which resembled a low-roofed country chapel. The stage was a slightly raised area at one end, which gave immediate contact between artist and audience...
...That's right, there are two. There is, of course, the Angkor Wat that has graced a million postcards, with its soaring stone towers, its lily-strewn moat, its bas-reliefs and labyrinths, its babel of tourists and silky-tongued touts who can con you in five languages. And then there's the Angkor Wat in Dy Proeung's front yard...
...between 1870 and 1950: Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists, Nabis, Fauves, Cubists and Surrealists. Many of the names are second-tier - Marie Bracquemond, Charles Angrand, Henri-Edmond Cross, Suzanne Valadon - but most of their works (especially Bazille's Family Reunion on the Méric Terrace and Gauguin's bronze bas-relief Three Breton Women) are first-rate. From the moment you walk in the door at the Musée de la Musique, to the sounds of Little Richard and Muddy Waters, it's obvious that Jimi Hendrix Backstage is going to be unlike anything you've experienced...
Thomas Mapfumo was invited to play at the House of Blues as the pinnacle of their celebration of Black History Month last week. This is high praise from a venue that has it’s ceiling covered with bas-reliefs of black blues greats of the last century. But Mapfumo is great, one of the few non-Western musicians these days truly deserving of the title legend, with all the history that such praise suggests. It is not solely because of his long dreadlocks that Mapfumo invites repeated comparisons to Bob Marley. He embodies a certain a type...
...rare interview granted to TIME, Manh took the question head-on for the first time. "It is not true," he said, sitting at Communist Party headquarters in Hanoi beneath a huge bronze bas relief of Ho. And that straight answer says a lot about Manh and what he wants to bring to his struggling land. For more than a decade, Vietnam has had the potential to break with its war-torn, poverty-ridden past and become Asia's newest tiger economy. Transparency, or the lack of it, has held Vietnam back. The country is ruled by a secretive group...