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...player: P: Choral pieces for my choir, Counting Crows. V: Dave Matthews Band, Madonna, Radiohead, Beatles, some random pop, lots of Bollywood songs, some classical music...
...Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom, from food to the way a town's sewage system works. Exciting new writer Zakes Mda also mines South Africa's past for his feisty novel, The Madonna of Excelsior (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a fictionalized account of the arrest in 1971 of 19 small-town citizens for breaking the Immorality Act by having sex across the color line. Like so much in South Africa - past and present - expect it to challenge your prejudices...
...point of view." Vittorio Sgarbi, an art historian and critic, says that Filippino emerges from the show as "more interesting than Botticelli - richer in doubts, in uncertainties. He's a more modern figure." To simplify the task of comparison, the exhibition displays the paintings thematically. A gallery of exquisite Madonnas includes Botticelli's Madonna Adoring Her Child, from Edinburgh's National Gallery of Scotland, rediscovered only in 1998 and on show for the first time in Italy. Filippino's Madonna with Child and Angels, owned by a Florentine bank, is widely reproduced but rarely seen. A Canadian musicologist recently transcribed...
...marriage ranked dead last among 14 issues of concern to American voters. But that was before pictures of same-sex postnuptial smooching forced the issue into the hearts and minds and TV sets of people whose prior exposure to the idea may have been limited to that thing Madonna did with Britney Spears...
What music plays in this kitchen? Bjork, Madonna, Joan Baez, Frank Sinatra, The White Stripes...