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...gimmick that cut outs before it wears too thin, whetting the appetite instead of turning the stomach. The poppy chorus of “BIT RATE VARIATIONS IN B-FLAT (Girl)” can’t fail to please, while “GAMEBOY/HOMEBOY (Que Onda Guero)” finds him once again attempting to rap with typically mixed results...
...only Latin film to win the foreign-language Oscar, and Brazil's poignant Central Station (1998), the Oscar-nominated tale of a cynical Rio woman who helps a street urchin find his family. But starting with Central Station, Latin American directors have found what many critics are calling buena onda, a consistent "groove" of relevant, top-drawer filmmaking that uses distinctly regional stories and styles but makes a connection with worldwide audiences. "These directors have developed a hybrid of U.S. and Latin American storytelling values," says University of Miami film professor Rafael Lima. "This wave will last - in fact...
...than the New York City-based nonprofit Red Hot Organization. Over the past nine years, Red Hot, working with various record labels, has produced a dozen albums, each one featuring some sly subgenre mix, with all net profits going to the fight against AIDS. Red Hot's latest compilation, Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon (Bar/None), features music from Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Angola, etc.) crossed with clubland beats. Obscure? Maybe. Cool? Definitely...
...newest release, Onda Sonora (Portuguese for sound wave), explores similar territory. It's a challenging album that offers peformances by Veloso, k.d. lang, Cape Verdean singer Lura as well as the enchanting sound of Fado--a kind of Portuguese folk-blues. Next up: a CD featuring R.-and-B. stars tackling the music of Duke Ellington. Looks as if Red Hot will stay that way for a long time...
...Zedillo seems torn between the hard-liners (``dinosaurs'') and reformers in the P.R.I., veering first one way, then another. He may learn, and he will have to do a delicate balancing act in any case. But for the moment, all his moves keep bringing up that deadly question: Que onda...