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Like The White Stripe’s “Fell In Love With A Girl” video, “Dream” takes its visual motif from the toy bin. Instead of Legos, “Dream” features bubble-headed marionettes and dollhouse-scale tin cars and airplanes...
...lush forests, where villagers collected and hunted much of their food. Poverty on the plateau is endemic. Children often die in infancy. Crops routinely fail. Hunger is a fact of life. A few kilometers from Keng Gnao, developers have built a model village complete with sturdy houses topped by tin roofs, electricity, running water and irrigated gardens. Some of the villagers have visited the site, and their minds are made up. "We're tired of life here," says Duong, 30. "We're ready to move tomorrow." For better or worse, tomorrow is nearly upon them...
...singing style that springs from an immigrant's fascination with her second language. On Poor Little Rich Boy she stretches words like girlfriend and café into epic solos, then crams long sentences into her mouth and spits them out in a few exuberant bars. Her music - from Tin Pan Alley to Carole King-style folk - is also a stylistic melting pot. Kathleen Edwards Back To Me Were Edwards not Canadian, her second album of alt-country old-flame songs might be too vicious to take. But because she sings with a sleepy, almost polite affectlessness (like Beth Orton...
...spent seven years crunching numbers as a corporate planner for a multinational oil company. He surveys the tiny one-room lean-tos where teeming families live shoulder to shoulder in spaces that double as hole-in-the-wall shops, goat sheds or miniature factories producing dyes, glues and shiny tin boxes. It just doesn't seem possible. "Look at this place," he says. "Look how they adapt...
Allan Dizon grew up to the shrill squeals of dying pigs. His family home-a humble, jerrybuilt affair of concrete, wood and tin sheeting-stands in the township of Lorega, Cebu, close to a municipal slaughterhouse, but a distant remove from the white beaches and luxury resorts that many people associate with the Philippines' second city. Lorega is a tough area of backyard swineries and poverty, where the chief alleviators of misery are cockfighting, illegal gambling machines and drugs. For a brief time at least, Dizon was one of its more fortunate sons, working as a photojournalist at a local...