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...Since going solo in 1990, Taha's output has been eclectic. He produced two rock-based albums before going decidedly electronic with Olé, Olé in 1995. In 1998, Diwan went gold - selling over 100,000 copies in France - fueled by the hit single Ya Rayah, a popular north African song of exile that takes on a roguish air with Taha's rough vocal. Despite some commercial success, Taha's mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation and beats, and his habit of singing in Arabic, has often led critics to classify his records as fusion or world music...
...cool dance club. Despite its compactness (it holds only about 300 bopping bodies), it has hosted superstar DJs like the U.K.'s Adam Freeland and James Holden-guys used to playing to crowds of 20,000, but who still find time to travel down to Tassie's little ol' pub on the wharf. Now you have every excuse to do the same...
...singer Isaac Brock crows about various misadventures that inevitably melt away ("Even if things get a bit too heavy/We'll all float on") while the rest of the band makes bouncy, happy noises in the background. It's how Nick Drake's Pink Moon might have turned out if ol' Nick had been just a little happier. Perfect for a backyard sing-along as summer's last party winds down...
...clothing and film empire. Slouched in his leather seat, Dash grabs control of the CD remote and makes a selection. It isn't Roc-A-Fella superstar Jay-Z, with whom Dash launched the company from his Harlem apartment eight years ago, or even Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, another player on the Roc-A-Fella roster. Dash listens to a fiddle and starts to bop his head; he has settled on the 1980s cult hit Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, whose Irish lead singer introduces the chorus by belting, "Toora loora toora...
There's still one form of correspondence that hasn't been taken over by email: kids' letters to Santa. At Santa Claus Village, 8 km north of Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, ol' St. Nick gets nearly a million letters a year from children worldwide-especially from Japan. And now he even writes back (for details, go to www.santagreeting.net and expect to pay about...