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...writer Oscar Kightley of the Brash prescription. "But (in the past year) I'm also hearing a lot more things, racist stuff, on the street from ordinary people. That talk used to be confined to extremists on talkback radio." Kightley, of Samoan heritage, is one of the creators of bro'Town, a satirical animated sitcom set in Auckland. The show's characters are mainly Pacific Islanders and Maori - who together make up 22% of the population and growing. "As any parent says, you're only as happy as your saddest child," says Kightley. "If you look at the statistics...
...series about a prison break would seem to carry the seeds of its own premature conclusion (Scofield must bust his bro out before his execution in three months). But there is a wider, more shadowy scheme at work: people in the government badly want Lincoln dead and silenced. That could sustain a long run, as well as intraprison intrigue, including a simmering racial rumble. And who knows? Maybe, 24-style, Scofield could break out of a bigger and better prison every season (Rikers Island! Guantánamo!). Sure, that would take some strenuous plotting gymnastics. But in its confident debut, Break...
...rappin' is the latest form of talkin' the blues/ By the bro's from the Bronx in their burgundy shoes./And now their story's on the screen at the Multiplex./ (Ralph Farquhar wrote the script; Michael Schultz he directs.)/ And the boys who made the noise are in their very own show:/ Run-D.M.C., the Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow./ Then there's Blair Underwood, a kind of Poitier hunk,/ And Sheila E. (Prince's princess) in her foppery funk./ Now there've been fights at the Plexes, kids've got out of hand,/ But they must've spiked...
...Just over Dronning Louises Bro (bridge) is Barbarellah, tel: (45) 3332 0061, a caf?, restaurant, lounge bar and fashion store. Barbara Bascunan and her brothers Daniel and Pablo opened the caf?, which is full of their customized flea-market acquisitions, last July, and virtually everything is up for grabs. "You can basically buy everything except the bartenders," says Daniel, who sees himself as part of a new movement of caf? innovators in Copenhagen. "We recognize there's a concept that links us and we see each other less as competitors and more as colleagues." Injecting a note of cooperation into...
...pore over any of 4,000 secondhand books on sale. Icelandic owner Fridrik Weisshappel Jônsson says people have warmed to the concept "because modern-city living places importance on saving time, and here they can have lunch and do a daily chore." Just over Dronning Louises Bro (bridge) is Barbarellah, tel: (45) 3332 0061, a café, restaurant, lounge bar and fashion store. Barbara Bascunan and her brothers Daniel and Pablo opened the café, which is full of their customized flea-market acquisitions, last July, and virtually everything is up for grabs. "You can basically buy everything...