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Senegal's capital was unusually subdued for a Saturday night in late February. In Dakar's popular Sicap Baobab district, the normally packed Toucan restaurant was empty and quiet, save for the voice of local pop star Cheikh Lô coming from speakers above the bar. In 1996 Lô hit international fame with Né La Thiass (Gone in a Flash), which warned about sudden changes of destiny. With Senegal emerging from a tumultuous election, the most keenly contested in its history, that lyric is timely again, echoing sentiment about the country's tippy democratic traditions and life under...
...true that in his youth the President of Iran was the drummer for the British pop-music band known as the Beatles?-Lionel Bartram, Rittman, Ohio [Laughs.] Not that I'm aware of ... that's funny...
...great offensive pop,” Allard says...
...have to be an 8-year-old to feel a little hesitant about the idea of spending 30 seconds alone with Michael Jackson. But here in Japan, fans were lining up - and paying up - for face time with the King of Pop. Earlier this month Jackson came to Tokyo for a series of "fan appreciation events," including a VIP party on March 8 for which guests shelled out $3,500 a ticket to enjoy a buffet dinner, a concert by Japanese Jackson impersonators rather than by the King himself, and a brief one-on-one moment with Jackson...
...says, laughing. "Obviously I'm going through the script and saying, Oh, this might be a funny thing to try here. But I don't prepare. They're comedies! I'm just trying to live within the scene on that day, and 80% of the time things will pop into my head and out of my mouth...