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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...audition featured poi, a juggling-dance routine with glowing spheres that was set to the techno song Sandstorm...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class of ’13 Vies To Show Talent | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...There is much to learn from ARCI’s anti-discrimination campaign, not simply from the poster, but also from its powerful and somewhat eerie slogan: “Il razzismo e un boomerang, prima o poi ti ritorna—Racism is a boomerang, sooner or later it comes back...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman | Title: Racism is a Boomerang | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

...1970s, and even though my suburban menu included Velveeta, Saucy Susan and Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, we did not eat Spam. So when I tried it in Hawaii--by far the biggest Spam-eating state, thanks to an influx of World War II soldiers, poverty and a palate used to poi--I was surprised that it wasn't bad. Kind of smoky and not at all gelatinous. With many of the top restaurants hurting, I figured I'd ask some of the country's best chefs what kind of cheap dishes they could make with the stuff--since they might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome Back, Spam | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Friedman, who favors black cowboys hats and western wear, is partial to black dogs. "The Friedman [dogs] are all mutts, poi dogs as they call them in Hawaii," Kinky says of his own five dogs - Mr. Magoo, Perky, Chumley, Fly and Brownie (the lone brown dog in the bunch). "The only thing wrong with having four black dogs and one brown dog is when I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I stumble over them," Friedman says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Black Dogs Face Discrimination? | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

...haven't heard anything until you've heard thirty steel drums banging simultaneously with an orchestra." Hirsch says the Sinfonietta had also hosted concerts with bagpipes, and once featured an Indonesian gamelan orchestra, using gongs and mallet-struck instruments. Two years ago, the Sinfonietta collaborated with alternative rock band Poi Dog Pondering in a "remix and re-invention" of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. The concert was so popular that the Sinfonietta's coming season will again pair the band with the orchestra for a performance of Bizet's Carmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Symphony for Cell Phones | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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