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Mehdi Savalli eschews the rituals that bullfighters typically use to ward off gorings and other misfortunes. He doesn't pray to the Virgen de la Estrella; he doesn't stand in front of a homemade shrine of religious prints when he slips on his traje de luces, the ornate, sequined costume worn by matadors; he doesn't cross himself before he steps into the ring. But these breaches of bullfighting tradition have not kept him from becoming one of Spain's most promising young toreros. Two Sundays ago, he was again demonstrating the skills that have earned the 20-year...
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...spot, opens his backpack and serves a hearty meal that he makes from scratch: "We had ham, melon, grilled peppers, cheese and tea prepared from herbs picked along the way," says Geneva-based writer Paul Sochaczewski. He and a friend went with Zuppiroli on a seven-hour hike to La Tournette, a 2,300-m peak above Annecy, admired "views to die for," and saw meadows of Alpine flora and a herd of wild goats along the way. What a rocky-mountain high. www.a-different-view.com
...Movies slated for screening include Safi, La Petite Mère, directed by Burkina Faso's Raso Ganemtore, in which an 8-year-old rescues her newborn brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumière by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative...
...compositions, such as the jazzy While I Wait for You and the retro '50s-ish Caught Up (performed with Memphis Horns founder Wayne Jackson, who played with Elvis and Aretha Franklin), showcase her songwriting skills. Her quiet duet with Daniel Lanois, in the waltz La Merveille, is a heartfelt tribute to her Francophone heritage...