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...that remains of the mud-and-concrete church building that nestled on the side of a pretty, eucalyptus-studded hill near the town of Kanungu, in southwestern Uganda, is a few sheets of corrugated tin that twist and snap in the wind. More than a week after leaders of an obscure indigenous Christian cult led, or perhaps forced, their followers into the building, poured gasoline around and then set, or had their followers set, fire to the place, the site has become a macabre graveyard. Police bulldozed the building and its grisly contents--at least 330, and perhaps as many...
Packing a bagpipe and tin whistles, Henry and Fran Frantz will head for the mountains this summer. With their children Becca and Hank, the Decatur, Ga., couple will be making music at the Swannanoa Gathering held at WARREN WILSON COLLEGE in Asheville, N.C. From July 9 through Aug. 5, the campus plays host to six one-week workshops led by fiddlers, pipers, guitarists, step dancers and folklorists from around the world. Three of the workshops--Celtic Week, Sing Swing and String Week and Old-Time Music Week--welcome adults and children...
...Folk Erotica: Celebrating Centuries of Erotic Americana is a compilation of sexual paintings, drawings, carvings, and other arousing art. Those like "Cowboy Blow-Job," created mainly of tin cans and featuring a cowboy receiving a ten-gallon hat's worth of oral delight from his favorite ranchhand, fancifully combine fantasy and humor capable of eliciting an hearty "Yee-haw!" from an appreciative audience...
...festival so unusual, according to comic writer Sean Kelly, who has composed routines for the show's galas, is "the outpouring of devotion to an American sitcom star and the very European stuff going on in the street--the contortionists, the guys making human pyramids or balancing 300 tin cans on a beach ball." Among the festival's most famous alumni are Jim Carrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Chris Rock, Jay Leno and Janeane Garofalo. --By Valerie Marchant...
Three years ago, an Indian from the Amazonian backwaters arrived at the house in Manaus, Brazil, of biologist Marc van Roosmalen holding a tin can with a little monkey shivering inside. "'Oh, no. Not another one,' I thought," recalls the Dutchman. He didn't need another monkey. Already he and his wife Betty, an artist, were caring for 50 orphaned monkeys, who swung in and out of mischief in the garden. Gingerly, Van Roosmalen poked a finger at the small ball of copper-colored fur. It squeaked fearfully...