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...Aryan describes most of the southern and eastern European and Asian immigrants that crossed the oceans with the Siegels, Shusters, Kahns and Kurtzbergs in the late 19th and early 20th century. For the Pulitzer-prize- winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer, World War II-era superheroes embodied the American dream shared by the countless foreigners. "It wasn't Krypton that Superman came from; it was the planet Minsk or Lodz or Vilna or Warsaw," wrote Feiffer in his essay The Minsk Theory of Krypton. "Superman was the ultimate assimilationist fantasy...
...also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall in Sydney's eastern suburbs, he and the Labor Party are hoping some of the old magic might rub off on the local candidate. "Let's go," he says...
...channel will be different. Sure, there will be stars like Elissa, Nancy Ajram and Amr Diab, but Yanez wants a little less melodrama. "We are always weeping in Arabic music," he complains. He plans to mix it up with Arab hip-hop, a genre that thrives in the Middle Eastern club scene but has been ignored by the music channels. A new MTV Arabia show, Hip HopNa, travels to four cities looking for the best local talent. In the last episode, audiences pick the best...
...eight different styles in Indian classical dance. “Kalpanam” will feature three of them, including Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest and most common styles. One of the dance numbers will showcase two other styles, Odissi and Kuchipudi. Odissi is a unique type of dance from Eastern India; like Bharatanatyam, it was originally performed in temples. Kuchipudi is an energetic and graceful style that shares some elements with Bharatanatyam, but is newer and intended for a wider audience. A dance drama in the Bharatanatyam style will be performed during the second part of the production...
...Syria, still inscribed with Koranic scripture. The throne "tells a story," says curator Stefano Carboni, "of cultures in tune with each other, of mutual understandings." Venice declined as other European navigators explored and came to dominate the far greater waters of the Atlantic Ocean, but the legacy of its Eastern adventuring still dazzles and inspires. For more details, see www.museiciviciveneziani.it