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Culture lies across the river. Even if you can't tell a diva from a rapper, you'll want to see a production amid the neo-Baroque grandeur of the Paris Opera (Palais Garnier, Place de l'Opéra), where prices start as low as 7 euros. The Baccarat Gallery-Museum (11, Place des Etats-Unis) displays all sorts of glittering goodies, such as Czar Nicholas II's custom-ordered giant candelabra, crystal thrones created for India's maharajas and dessert plates made for Coco Chanel, complete with etchings of delicate scissors. Skaters can cut the ice with the locals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter Winners | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...psychedelic folk family band whose records are highly sought after in the collecting world. The collaborative approach highlights the talents of some of the most innovative producers out there (including Danger Mouse, Caribou, Koushik, Kid Koala, Belle and Sebastian’s Chris Geddes, and Def Jux rapper Murs), while maintaining a sense of cohesion and respect for the original material that is unprecedented in remix projects of this ilk. Part of the success on this front must be attributed to Nobody (known for his work on the L.A.-based Plug Research), who curates the whole project with a light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors' Summer Picks | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...wasn't so sure. But in 2004, when he released his single Gua, on which he raps in Arabic, English, Dinka and his native Nuer, all of Kenya went crazy for it; it stayed at No. 1 there for eight weeks. Although Jal is widely described as a Christian rapper, he dreams of secular peace in Sudan, of a day "When my people will plant seed in their land/ When my people will be free in the land." That message resonated with Abdel Gadir Salim, a 58-year-old traditional Arab singer and oud (a type of lute) player from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Songs of Experience | 9/25/2005 | See Source »

...discovered and trained Rain, is a talented dancer and songwriter who has worked with U.S. artists like Mase and Will Smith. Since setting up camp in Los Angeles last year, Park has been shopping his prot?g? around to U.S. production companies. Rain almost managed to score a track on rapper Lil' Kim's latest album?but the plan fell apart after Kim was convicted of perjury and had to start serving a jail term, according to Jimmy Jeong, an executive at Rain's management company. Just a minor setback, says Jeong: "We're targeting the global market. Rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: Music | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

KANYE WEST, rapper, during a celebrity telethon for Katrina victims on NBC, which later distanced itself from his unscripted remarks that ended with "George Bush doesn't care about black people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Sep. 12, 2005 | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

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