Word: la
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SCOTT WALKER, mayor of Reeves, La., which will change its phone prefix from 666 so that residents won't have a number that is associated in Christianity with the devil...
...Wire, Simon and a staff of top-shelf crime writers like Richard Price are free to make things up. But in a way, the show is a variation on old-fashioned populist reportage à la Studs Terkel. It elevates the lowlifes and mocks the highlifes. It's steeped in lived experience, with voices as distinctive and regional as a crab boil. Simon may be angry and intellectual--The Wire differs from most TV drama, he says, because it's based in Greek tragedy about fated individuals, not Shakespearean tragedy about heroic individuals--but his show doesn't play like...
...believe that French people are megalomaniacs, who crave the world's attention? French culture doesn't have to depend on others' desires. Anissa Desuzinge, LA GARDE, FRANCE IN A LETTER TO TIME...
...Mexican public was particularly shocked by the slaying of singer Sergio Gomez, who founded his band K Paz de la Sierra while he was an immigrant in Chicago. He had scored a recent hit with Pero Te Vas a Repentir, or "But You Will Have Regrets," a love song so catchy that half the country was humming it. Gomez was abducted after a concert in his native Michoacan state, beaten and burned and then strangled with a plastic cord...
...literature than is any other country. French culture isn't in decline. France's population has only become more ethnically diverse, which wasn't expected. If France isn't understood today, it will be tomorrow - it will always be a part of the world's culture. Anissa Desuzinge, LA GARDE, FRANCE...