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...blogosphere after their 2006 debut, Beirut was lumped into the same Eastern Invasion category as Gogol Bordello, simply because both bands cited gypsy influences. However, Beirut eschews Bordello’s hedonism and registers as a slightly more ethnic Neutral Milk Hotel. “The Flying Club Cup,” Beirut’s second album, seeks inspiration further west of their old sonic haunts and finds it in France. The influence is evident, superficially in the pretentious Francophone chatter at the beginning of songs, the French song titles on eight of the album?...
Chak De India is not your average Bollywood blockbuster. The film, released on August 10, may star Shah Rukh Khan, but the A-list heartthrob plays a disgraced field-hockey player who redeems himself by coaching the Indian women's hockey team to win the world cup. Khan doesn't get to show any cool dance moves while wooing a beautiful female lead, or display his well-toned muscles in fight sequences with bad guys. In fact, the film gets by without a single song-and-dance routine at all. Yet, it ran to packed houses even two months after...
Akpan broke onto the national soccer scene last winter as part of the United States’ U-20 team for the CONCACAF Qualifying Tournament in Panama. There, he helped to earn his team a bid to the FIFA U-20 World Cup, scoring a remarkable hat trick against Haiti...
Unfortunately, his impressive showing in Panama wasn’t enough to guarantee Akpan a spot on the final World Cup team. However, after battling through various training camps over the summer, Akpan was asked to join the U-20 team as they represented both themselves and their country in Canada...
...becoming one of only seven collegiate players on a team composed highly of professional international soccer stars wasn’t enough, Akpan added another notch to his belt during the latter part of the summer, when he made a quick transition from the U-20 World Cup team to his home club team, the Dallas Texans 88 Red.Even after missing the beginning of the season, Akpan led his team to the James P. McGuire Cup and the youth national championship title...