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...radio. These audio gadgets look like regular radio receivers but can tune into the 10,000-plus stations around the world that stream music, news and chat over the Web. All you need is broadband and a WiFi router, and you can listen to anything from Malian blues to Tongan talk shows. Not sure which Internet radio to get? Here's some sound advice on three of the best...
...Australia before premiering in syndication several weeks ago on HBO. The format of the show is a “mockumentary” that follows life at a public high school in Australia by means of three characters: Mr. G, the school’s drama teacher; Jonah, a Tongan troublemaker; and Ja’mie, an exchange student from an all-girl private school. The setup sounds familiar, but all three characters are played by the same guy, Chris Lilley, who also writes the entire show.Lilley’s chameleon-like ability as a character actor is unmatched...
...clear those players were pioneers. The current crop of Maori and Islander players (the sons mainly of poor Tongan and Samoan immigrants) forms a quarter of the ranks of the NRL. To put that in perspective, a group that has a 1 in 200 representation in the Australian populace has a 1 in 4 presence in the country's premier winter sports competition. It's a similar, if less striking, picture in New Zealand, where Maori and Islanders comprise 17% of the population, yet of late have made up more than half the players in the country's five provincial...
...Creative connectivity was the festival's theme. Some artists, like Samoan-New Zealander Graham Fletcher, found the similarities between cultures more striking than their differences. Sharing accommodation with Maori and Tongan artists in the New Zealand compound, "We spent all night talking, basically," Fletcher recalls. "It's amazing the connection between all of our languages and customs and everything. We're much closer than we think...
...Other foreign observers have been surprised at how quickly Tongan girls have learned to surf - from being scared, at first, to paddle out beyond their depth, to within weeks showing competence, upright on a board, 100 m out to sea. They feed, suggests Australian visitor Amber Mercy, off the enthusiasm of their friends. Many Western boardies regard surfing as a largely solitary, internal experience. "But Tongans are a very social people who like to do things in groups," says Burling. Between sets one morning the girls are whooping it up. Tongan Idol is back on television and they...