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Girls playing guitars...the comparisons are easy to make: fans of Ani DiFranco and The Indigo Girls will not be displeased. There are times when they sound a little like PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea too. But the mix of folk, rap, driving acoustic guitars and the perfectly paired voices is something no one else can match. The first track on This Business (called, appropriately enough, “The First”) is a ball-grabbing, attention-snatching coming of age cut that includes lyrics about how, “They...
...might have been simply a love song, only Tegan keeps on telling you, “It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown.” The lyrics are savvy and young at the same time, a rare and precious mix. The story is that their live act has more attitude than Bono in a sunglass store, and I can believe it. They’re playing Paradise May 18. Sounds like a great way to ring in exams...
Once, not so long ago, no one wanted to be Tiger Woods. Especially Tiger, with his cafE-au-lait complexion and American serviceman father. Today, Eurasians are the flavor du jour, not only in the U.S., where mixed-race citizens personify the American melting pot, but even more so in Asia, where race-conscious policies are often encoded in law. In Indonesia, where until recently ethnic Chinese were barred from writing in their own script, the hottest celebrities are indos, or mixed-race folks like actors Karina Suwandi and Ari Wibowo. In Bangkok, where the local skin trade has spawned...
Fashionistas love the new Eurasian world. Top Asian modeling agencies can't stock enough mixed-blooded girls, and many have begun scouting for Eurasian models in Europe and the U.S. to bring back East. One of the top imports is 20-year-old Maggie Q, a Vietnamese-American who grew up in Hawaii. "When you look at Maggie, you see the whole world in her face," says film executive Logan, who cast her in the hit flick Gen-Y Cops. "She sells because she appeals to everyone." The publisher of Indonesia's top-selling women's magazine, Femina, says...
...botanicals, she decided, weren't the whole answer. Wellness meant stress management too. It also meant being willing to use the powerful if hard-edged tool of Western medicine. So she returned to school, earned her M.D. at the University of New Mexico, and now practices a rich mix of healing arts. Her clinic is a place where pain may be treated just as easily with acupuncture, kava kava root and preparations from the black cohosh plant as with prescription drugs. "Illness is a message," she says. "Western doctors see it as something to be destroyed, but it can also...