Word: fusions
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...multitasker and enjoy the odd shot of java, then Copenhagen may be the place for you. In the Danish capital's rapidly gentrifying Nørrebro area - where the city's café culture has long flourished - a wave of young entrepreneurs has started a new trend by opening "fusion cafés." The term is not a reference to any cross-cultural cuisine on the menu. Instead, it designates a place where you can "fuse" your coffee drinking with some other activity, from shopping to getting your laundry done. Rubbing shoulders with the more traditional...
...host of new belly-dance videos with titles like Cardio Shimmy and Pure Sweat to show how it's done. "What we're doing is creating physical movement that has nothing to do with having an emotional connection with the culture," explains Berkeley, Calif., instructor Suhaila Salimpour, whose Fitness Fusion series of videos was released early this year...
...show, the guitarists began to strum their old classic, “NYC.” The slow fusion of deep guitar chords and light keyboard tones melted into mellow vocals and suddenly the New York City nightlife manifested itself in the conservative Boston venue—two large disco balls appeared in the back of the stage, turning the entire theater into a tranquil disco club...
...Philip Cornwel-Smith argues, one defining quality of Thais is their embrace of all things un-Thai. The country is a cultural fusion of East and West, old and new, all effortlessly assimilated. The Thai horoscope, for example, is a baffling hybrid of Chinese, Indian and Western systems. Thai beauty queens still scoop their hair into a style called a faaraa, as in Farrah Fawcett. One of the most beloved singers of Thai country music is a Swede called Jonas. This ability to digest foreign influences is sometimes literal: villagers plagued by Bombay locusts 10 years ago solved the problem...
...following this ancient dance form was the much more modern “Chutney-Soca Dance.” The beat of the song, as well as the contemporary wardrobe of the dancers, clearly separated it from the previous act, and the obvious African influence established it as a fusion of cultures, and thus as an excellent representation of the theme of the festival...