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...Spaniard wife, he launches himself on a foolhardy mission: travel around northwest Spain and eat as much pig as possible. Snout, marrow, heart, bladder, head-all of it. Along the way, he tells the tale of Galicia, a cold, rainy, and stubbornly independent piece of Spain on the Atlantic Ocean. It is "a patchwork of small, low-intensity farms...real working countryside" and home to Don Quixote's Miguel de Cervantes, longtime Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, and the Castro family (of the Havana Castros). Barlow's gastronomic travelogue manages to make the place sound utterly depressing and enchanting...
...countries in the Middle East as well as from places across Europe and the Balkans. She said that Olivero has bridged the gap between the past and the present, pioneering a new way to express classical music. “Listening to her music is like swimming in an ocean and when you pick up your head you can see the traditions she is weaving into her music,” she said. One member of the audience, Arkadig Abramov, said this concert will hopefully introduce more people to the composers’ work. “I normally don?...
...still tell horror stories of being beaten for speaking their native language in public, many of the 1978 changes to the state's constitution crystalized the renaissance in Hawaiian culture that included a resurgence in hula dancing and the practice of navigating canoes over thousands of miles of open ocean while relying on only the natural elements of wind, waves and stars - a technique known as "wayfaring...
...Indian Ocean island nation of the Maldives has weathered cyclones and tsunamis, but never before has it experienced sweeping change of the sort ushered in on Oct. 28. By the next day, it was clear that President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom - whose 30-year reign marked him as Asia's longest serving leader - had been toppled in the country's first-ever democratic elections by a man whom he had imprisoned just a decade ago. After coming second in multi-party polls earlier in October, 41-year-old Mohamed Nasheed beat Gayoom in a run-off contest by a nearly...
...that, though. “So Far From Me” has some nice, simple, sensitive lyrics: “If my heart wasn’t such a jungle / Maybe you wouldn’t feel so all alone / If your heart wasn’t such an ocean / I wouldn’t sink like a stone.” The second half of the album is generally better than the first, which would seem like emotional growth if “Who Do You Think You Are” weren’t two tracks from...