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With members British DJ First Rate and Brazilian-Swedish poet and vocalist Yarah Bravo, the name “Russian Percussion” just doesn’t convey the band’s musical and ethnic diversity...
CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction. City of God screens...
CITY OF GOD. Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction. City of God screens...
...President. Gil, 60, knows that in today's new and optimistic Brazil, he's not the headline act. Lula is. "That's no problem," Gil says a few days later in his new office. "I'm always the second guy. Even with Caetano Veloso" - the most famous partnership in Brazilian music - "he's No. 1 and I'm No. 2. I'm quite at ease with it." Gil is also at ease in Brasilia, which is a shock. After all, this is the man who in the 1960s led the musical opposition to Brazil's military dictatorship - he was exiled...
...HONORED. RONALDO, 26, Brazilian football superstar; named by FIFA as World Footballer of the Year for the third time; in Madrid. Ronaldo scored both goals in Brazil's 2-0 victory against Germany in the final of the 2002 World Cup and was the tournament's leading scorer with eight goals...