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...citizens. A tour is now practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa, to see how much the country has changed and how far it still has to go. Both Jimmy's Face to Face Tours (www.face2face.co.za) and Max Maximum Tours www.backpackafrica.com offer quality guided visits. Nearby is the Apartheid Museum www.apartheidmuseum.org) at which visitors are randomly assigned a racial classification and then enter the raw concrete-and-steel structure through one of two doors--white or nonwhite. Inside are exhibits, photos, video and posters chronicling apartheid's repression as well as the optimism of the 1994 elections. The newly opened...
...glimpses into South Africa's history. On the Rainbow Curtain township tour run by Grassroute Tours (www.grassroutetours.co.za), you visit District Six, once a mixed-race suburb from which all residents were forcibly removed in the 1960s. In Cape Town's harbor sits Robben Island, site of the prison turned museum where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years behind bars. The windswept island seems a lifetime removed from the vibrant multicultural city across the water. Stay at the Africa Studio www.sa-venues.com/wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants and the bohemian neighborhood...
...That’s why we try to get residences,” Chung explains, referring to programs where artists are given space to live and work at reduced cost. After finishing a residence at MIT, they are returning for another stay at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. There have also been obstacles in combining Chinese, Japanese, and Korean varieties of zither in the midst of ongoing political tensions between the three countries.“It’s one of the reasons why it’s been very difficult to get this together...
...Night at the Museum The Museum of Fine Arts offers free admission on Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Stroll through the museum’s permanent collections or check out the new exhibit “Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection,” which is comprised of mixed media works by 107 artists from 20 different countries. 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 2) Jake’s not in it, but… The cult classic movie “Donnie Darko?...
...said fellow archaeology graduate student Gideon Hartman. “She would open the door, and smile at you and suddenly, your whole day was made right.” Wood met Rossel in the fall of 2004, when he first glimpsed her outside a lecture room in Peabody Museum. “I looked into her eyes and there was just this light glowing about her,” Wood said. “I had to tear my eyes away or I would have just kept staring at her like a crazy person.”The couple...