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...casually chosen word. "We're influenced by so many things that we're able to balance and combine everything," says 23-year-old vocalist and keyboard player Armi Millare. "We would get bored if we got stuck within a certain style." She, along with guitarist Carlos Tañada, 25, bassist Paul Yap, 25, and drummer Ean Mayor, 23, cite eclectic musical reference points, from the fey electronica of Zero 7 to the studied cool of David Sylvian. It makes for music that manages to be both thoughtful and sensual. "A band like this doesn't come around more than...
Zing! Boom! Ta...
...Whether Siegel really did say "ta-da!" while opening the entrance to the Cheese Room's humidified walk-in cabinet is something I can't quite recall. But the facility certainly deserves fanfare. To describe the air inside as "smelling strongly of cheese" is not quite capturing it; it is as if the air comprises nothing but swirling molecules of brie and stilton, violently bombarding your person like so many solar particles. Arrayed on the shelves, in perfect storage conditions, are golden wheels whose names speak of rainswept farms, dark cellars and expense: Ardrahan Large, Innes Log, Stinking Bishop, Ticklemore...
...nearly two weeks, a foreign ministry spokesman finally confirmed the test on Jan. 23 - although he insisted that the government remains opposed to an arms race in space. Those disinclined to trust China's protestations might cite "Space War," a 2001 book by Chinese colonel and miltiary academic Lee Ta-kawang, which argues that "The essential principle of war in the 21st century is to achieve victory through space...
...when he used a racially loaded term to denounce young men rioting in the suburbs last year - an outcry that also coincided with his jump in polls. The street patois of those ethnically diverse projects, meanwhile, has also long contained its own racially aggressive "shock" element, with the rejoinder "ta race" (your race) a kind of generic, all-purpose slight. Clearly, the political "filter" in the U.S. public square that prompts a Michael Richards or a Mel Gibson to grovel apologetically following publicly recorded racial insults is considerably less developed in France. Indeed, last year's riots were a stark...