Word: chaka
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...person, there's a jukebox full of CD compilations that let you sample the local sounds. One of the best series is produced by African Cream, a Johannesburg company started in 2001 by former hotel developer Alex Agulnik. The Great South African Trip features tunes from local favorites Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Johnny Clegg, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Hugh Masekela; Lullabies from Mama Africa is a wonderful collection of traditional songs sure to soothe crying babes. The Winds of Change is a fascinating collection of songs associated with the struggle against apartheid: folk ditties mix with snippets from famous speeches, including...
...frustrating example of the difference between the tone of the two films comes as Bridget tries to deal with relationship disasters. In the first, after a typical episode of dastardly behavior from Daniel Clever, Bridget declared her process of healing as follows: “I choose vodka. And Chaka Khan.” In the second movie, a similar moment of heartache has her “enjoying a relationship with two men at once: Ben and Jerry.” Watching women channel their emotions into cookie dough ice-cream? Nothing has a higher yawn factor...
...person, there's a jukebox full of CD compilations that let you sample the local sounds. One of the best series is produced by African Cream, a Johannesburg company started in 2001 by former hotel developer Alex Agulnik. The Great South African Trip features tunes from local favorites Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Johnny Clegg, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Hugh Masekela; Lullabies from Mama Africa is a wonderful collection of traditional songs sure to soothe crying babes. The Winds of Change is a fascinating collection of songs associated with the struggle against apartheid: folk ditties mix with snippets from famous speeches, including...
...Chaka?fighting writer, Japan aficionado and Cleveland native?is back in the land of the rising sun for Isaac Adamson's second hard-boiled mystery, Hokkaido Popsicle (HarperPerennial; 329 pages). Banished to the northern island's remote Hotel Kitty for punching a film director in the face, Chaka is left to analyze the innermost thoughts of his roommate, a "six-pound female Japanese bobcat of distinguished-merit parentage" before an elderly porter abruptly keels over in his room. That same night, Yoshimura ("Yoshi") Fukuzatsu, leader of Japan's most popular rock band, turns up dead in a run-down Tokyo...
Yoshi's death unleashes our cooler-than-cool journalist into a series of life-or-death situations that Chaka takes as nonchalantly as Roger Rabbit's pal Eddie Valiant took Toontown. And Adamson, as he did in his book Tokyo Suckerpunch, evokes an animated Tokyo-as-Toontown that is simultaneously vivid, vibrant, gaudy and in glorious decline. It's a big adventure, but Adamson's teen rag writer takes it all with a shrug...