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...Mali's feisty feminist diva, is the resident headliner at this famous venue. From the southern Wassoulou region, Sangare casts an electrifying spell over the audience with her ethereal vocals, which often lambaste men for their polygamous ways. tel: (223) 228 7373 FOLYBLON: If Hotel Wasulu is having a quiet night, try the perennially popular Folyblon. Situated in the Hippodrome, Bamako's new trendy district, it lures a sharply dressed, mostly student crowd with bands like the Makossa ensemble Mouv' Africa. To hear percussive panache, drop by on Thursdays for the djembe (African drum) sessions. Friday is griot night when...
...place is safe from the postmodern obsession with all things natural and New Age. Not even the medieval English town of Totnes. Nestled in the lush pastures and wheat fields near Dartmoor in southern Devon, Totnes for decades made a quiet living from cream teas, antiques and postcards. But these days, it's a magnet for urban refugees running the kind of bohemian business normally associated with trendy metropolitan neighborhoods. Twenty years ago, Totnes' idea of radical was reduced-fat cream. Now, a stroll through its Tudor-period Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
Disputes emerged over “lifestyle disparities”—“lifestyle disparities” being the euphemism of choice for virtually every issue imaginable. These ran the gamut from so-called quiet hours (I thought I left those behind 10 years ago), to rules about having people over, to the cleanliness of the house, to what food was served and when, to how we would split the bills. Was the house throwing too many parties? Were the frat boys taking over the living room? Was the Harvard contingent unfriendly and antisocial? In other words...
...trying process, and often, each new day would bring a new complaint, be it about the abundance of empty beer cans in the living room or about a demand that a party be shut down at 10:30 p.m., or about music being played too loudly during quiet hours...
Stephen M. Marks ’06, an economics concentrator in Dunster House, is a news editor of The Crimson. He spends his weekdays working from the (abandoned) house, enjoying the peace and quiet...