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...novel is written in an imaginative mix of English, Punjabi, Urdu, profanity, gangsta rap and mobile-phone texting. (As in, "Shudn't b callin us Pakis, innit, u dirrty gora.") Its multiculti flavor has led to Malkani being hailed in the celebrity-hungry British press as the next Monica Ali or Zadie Smith in a line of hot young "ethnic" writers. Could any first-time novelist live up to those expectations? Well, the more serious gora (white) critics won't b callin im gr8, but Malkani does tell a lively tale. He also captures the soul of a subculture that...
KCRW MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC Band interviews are interspersed between full-song performances on this show out of Santa Monica College...
...June 12, 1982: At four that morning, while a boarder in the Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." Summoned by Haddad, police "found Bettie in the shower with her clothes...
...Horovitz, the event took over a year to plan, inspired by a similar screening at another college where “The Little Mermaid” was shown to a pool-bound audience. “Clearly a lot of planning went into this,” says Monica M. Renta ’08, “I mean—the Swedish fish.” “I thought it was awesome. I mean, what a random thing to do,” says Patrick G. Mauro ’07. “We need...
...veritable bass line. The show continued to gain momentum, but a technical malfunction halted the fifth group of the afternoon midway through its performance. The music for “Traveling Without Moving,” a piece choreographed by Wendy S. Cortez ’07 and S. Monica Soni ’06, stopped unexpectedly, and the dancers froze with anxious expressions on their faces. As the group waited for the problem to be fixed, one performer began to talk with her friends in the audience, which detracted from the energy and professionalism that had shaped the event...