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...here. While each ethnic or social group (ranging from the singer-storyteller caste known as griots to the Fulani and Tuareg tribes) has its own musical tradition, modern Malian music throbs with the influence of Cuba. The result? A heady m?lange that spans infectious Afro-pop, Latin grooves, hip-hop and a mosaic of traditional genres...
...commerce, and partly due to shared rhythmic heritage. Yet each ethnic or social group (ranging from the singer-storyteller caste known as griots to the Fulani and Tuareg tribes) has its own musical tradition. The result? A heady mélange that spans infectious Afro-pop, bluesy grooves, hip-hop and a mosaic of traditional genres. That mix is best encountered at La Refuge, tel: (223) 223 3799. It has no street address, so taxi drivers might have trouble finding it. Listen out for the chocolate-smooth Cuban rumba drifting out from the rutted lanes, a stone's throw from...
...cycle. On top of the non-partisan get-out-the-vote drives aimed at youth, there are forces marshaling against President Bush that are influential with Generation Y, and it looks like young Americans—generally more liberal than the population at large, and therefore more likely to hop on the anti-Bush bandwagon—are responding...
Online sales are still a small portion (less than 5%) of the celebrity-clothing market. But driven by suburban America's growing fascination with hip-hop (about 40% of this apparel is sold outside urban areas), Web sales have doubled over the past two years. So it's fitting that when rappers decided to peddle their wares online, they turned to a techie suburban couple: Foy, 33, and his wife Jennifer Silano Foy, 31, president of eFashion Solutions. The company, started four years ago, operates websites for, among others, Rocawear, Eminem's Shady line, J. Lo by Jennifer Lopez...
...grew up in upstate New York, and Jennifer, who is from New Jersey, fell into the hip-hop world. Soon after eFashion launched as an online marketing company, a former colleague, working for Baby Phat, threw the Foys some business. Baby Phat's Web sales increased, and once a Simmons gives a blessing, other rappers get in line. "Sometimes we just laugh about winding up in hop-hop," says Jennifer, who never listened to rap music growing up. "I mean, if we turn down an invite to a J. Lo party, we feel we have to turn down a party...