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Locals in Trinidad and Tobago call it "the big lime" - Caribbean slang for a serious shindig. But the national semifinals of Panorama, an annual music festival that this year takes place on Feb. 12, serve up something headier than fruit juice. The exuberant competition pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens...
...prep school his single father can't really afford, the lonely Loren Foster tries to keep up with his AP classes but becomes more interested in hanging out with his ne'r-do-well pal and tweaking on crystal meth. While filling the story with atmospheric details like Hawaiian slang ("baku" for meth; "haole" for a non-native), Johnson's remarkably confident artwork drains the lush world of its color, leaving just the deep shadows. Night Fisher brings a chill to the tropics...
...this endless series of student epiphanies, another six speculate that Harvard’s drug scene “seems like the kind of thing where if you’re looking for it, you can find it.” Consider the examples of local Boston slang in the Harvard section. Without the book, non-locals might never have figured out that a “frappe” is a milkshake and the “Yankees” are the New York Yankees baseball team. Nor would any incoming freshman be respected...
...hop“The Wu-Tang Manual,” written by the RZA, reveals the diverse inspirations for his philosophy and art—the nine chapters are called spirituality, martial arts, capitalism, comics, chess, organized crime, cinema, chemistry (read: drugs), and Wu-Slang Lexicon. There is no one like this man working in entertainment today.The Crimson interviewed the self-described “organizer, producer, and mastermind of the Wu-Tang Clan,” because he is promoting “Derailed,” the trashy new Clive Owen-Jennifer Aniston flick, in which he plays...
...chillax. Don't go splashing your bust a grape mozzarella on Britneys, hench - pick up two new nang Richard Snaries. The dope Cassell's Dictionary of Slang is dropped on Nov. 17. Five days later hail the buttery New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian...