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MUSIC-CUBA: Hip Hop Sidelined but Still Rapping

March 21st, 2007 by Dalia Acosta
HAVANA, Mar 19 (IPS) - Cuban hip hop music is past its peak, and is struggling to survive in a context where it lacks performance venues, receives only weak institutional support, and has to compete with more commercial music styles alien to the critical discourse that the movement has promoted since its origins.

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CHILE-PERU: Censorship or Prudent Relations?

March 21st, 2007 by Dalia Acosta
SANTIAGO, Mar 14 (IPS) - Fears of censorship were triggered by a decision by Chile's public television station to postpone the broadcast of a documentary on the 1879-1883 war between Chile, Peru and Bolivia in response to a request by Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley, who had been contacted by the Peruvian government.

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ARGENTINA: Digital Library for the Blind

March 21st, 2007 by Dalia Acosta
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 13 (IPS) - Armed with a computer and their passion for literature, a group of blind people in Argentina have created the first digital library for Spanish-speaking people who are visually impaired. It already has some 20,000 volumes and over 3,000 subscribers in 40 countries.

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Movie Review | ‘Blessed by Fire’: A Short War Lives Long in the Minds of Soldiers

March 21st, 2007 by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Tristan Bauer’s film portrays the Falklands War in 1982 as a mismanaged, vainglorious spasm of nationalism.

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Movie Review | ‘The Go Master’: A Prodigy’s Life Is Played Out in a Japanese Game of Skill

March 20th, 2007 by A. O. SCOTT
Tian Zhuangzhuang’s biopic is a stately and respectful reflection on the life of Wu Qingyuan, one of the 20th century’s top players of go, a Japanese game said to rival chess in complexity.

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Photographer’s new show rises from the ashes

March 20th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
A CITY photographer who famously set fire to ?20,000 pounds worth of pictures over a dispute with the city council is about to unveil a new exhibition.

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Staff sculpted into action

March 20th, 2007 by Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Arts
A MASS volunteering event will take place in the Capital next Thursday for staff at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

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Movie Review | ‘Dead Silence’: Murder by Dummy

March 19th, 2007 by MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
The playfully self-aware touches of “Dead Silence” distract from its leaden pacing, three too many final twists and various behavioral idiocies.

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Movie Review | ‘Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon’: A Killer Kind of Comedy

March 19th, 2007 by JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
The serial-killer parody “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon” has nerve, rapier-sharp observations and a firm grasp of tone.

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Movie Review | ‘Nomad: The Warrior’: Action in Kazakhstan

March 19th, 2007 by NEIL GENZLINGER
“Nomad: The Warrior” looks and feels like an old-school American western. Not a great western, but a reasonably good example of that genre.

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