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...Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair, a U.S.-educated economist, is readying his city for the surge. He has rehabilitated a long-neglected urban canal, allowed expat jazz bands to perform next to 300-year-old temples and supported a public arts district along Hai-An Road where, several years ago, local artists began painting giant murals on the sides of abandoned homes. One eye-popping example, called Blueprint for its rendering of an architectural drawing, spawned an adjacent pub by the same name-one of many in the district that draws late-night sidewalk crowds quaffing Belgian ales...
...addition to presenting her platform and modelling swimsuits and evening gowns, contestants were required to showcase a talent. Sinnott—who has experience with genres such as ballet, jazz, hip hop, and Irish step—performed a Fosse-style jazz number...
...Mark A. Terrelonge ’10, featured a lot of hair twirling, floor-work, and sensuously twisting body movements, as well as the unmistakable dance move known as the “Dutty Wind.” The piece combined elements of hip-hop, jazz and reggae for a very successful product. “Step Into My World” was choreographed by Layla Amjadi ’10 to Jennifer Lopez’s song by the same title. With the dimming of the lights, this piece took the show down a softer, more lyrically-influenced path...
...Emmy-award winner Burns is noted for TV series chronicling everything from the Civil War to the histories of jazz and baseball, but it's his new opus on World War II that has earned the ire of Latino groups. The 14-hour film War, set to air in September, focuses on the lives of 40 Americans in four U.S. cities - Waterbury, Conn.; Mobile, Ala.; Luverne, Minn.; and Sacramento, Calif. And the fact that not one of the 40 subjects is Latino that has Hispanic veterans' groups and politicians crying foul...
...hisname does not sound familiar, that's just how maverick clarinetist Tony Scott wanted it. Among the loudest horn blowers in jazz and a venerated sideman for greats like Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, he was one of the rare masters of bebop--a jaunty sound previously deemed incompatible with the clarinet's soft tones. The arranger and composer also branched out to embrace sounds from countries like Japan and Senegal, helping launch the genre now known as world music. In doing so, he skirted classification--and high-voltage celebrity. "Without experimenters," he said, "jazz would die a lingering...