Word: basement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also asked that an officer watch Canaday basement, where Muslims gather five times a day for prayers, and has advised Muslim students not to walk alone at night...
Shah Mohammed has urged members of the Islamic society to take precautions against personal attacks, even though he said he has faith in the “reasonableness” of the Harvard community. Nevertheless, he has asked the Harvard University Police Department to keep watch over the basement in Canaday--where Islamic students meet and pray--and advised Muslim students not to walk alone at night...
...skips down stairs leading to the basement of his 10,000-sq.-ft. colonial manor in Brookville on New York's Long Island. Half the basement is being turned into a bar. The other half bristles with expensive, high-tech equipment and is littered with CDs, papers and recent photographs of friends and family taken by his wife, Dayanara Torres, 26, with her new digital camera. For the past three weeks, Anthony has spent entire evenings down here, smoking more Newports than usual, as he gets closer to completing his album. He digs through a pile of CDs. "This album...
...explains, has been arranged with a unique instrumental prelude that highlights a particular global sound: an African clay flute scampers across one track, an accordion moans on another, a Uruguayan quijada (jawbone of a donkey) scratches on a third. "We're creating world music in a Long Island basement," he says with a laugh. The song speeds up and, wanting to show off some complicated turns, he asks to have this dance. He's clumsy but an emotional dancer. Then, without warning, he starts in on the chorus of Eres Mia (You Are Mine), a song that he says reminds...
Cuban hip-hop is brimming with a we-can-change-the-world idealism, the sort of idealism American rappers cashed in long ago when rap became about Big Business and acquiring homes in the Hamptons. At outdoor block parties in Havana, in the basement of darkened theaters or in nightclubs that throw open their doors and go bust a few weeks later, raperos touch on themes ranging from racism to ecology. The city's hip-hop scene is alive with the kind of resourcefulness needed in a place where nightly electrical interruptions and the unrelenting tropical swelter can turn music...