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| By Dominique Gill Crisp |
03/31/10 |
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Duccio Nacci, photographer, husband and father of three,was born and raised in the heart of Tuscany, in the gemstone town of San Gimignano which was founded as a village in the by the Etruscans in the third century. Perched on the top of a hill overlooking valleys below, postcard San Gimignano has been an active part of history, standing through attacks by the Huns and accommodating pilgrimages by Catholics in the Middle Ages and Renaissance travellers on their way to Rome. |
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| 03/21/10 |
 From the Scheramitova airport, with the self-proclaimed taxi drivers noisily vying for passengers, to the potholed highway, causing our bus to swerve precariously into on-coming traffic as we headed 180 kilometers east, I was already taking mental notes that would eventually make it into my book. Ot... |
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| 05/22/09 |
 A three-year-old girl sits on a window-ledge at the battery-recycling shop where she works. Her eyes stare blankly at the camera, showing no hope or happiness. This is just one of the dozens of startling images in David Elliot Cohen’s new book “What Matters.” |
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| 03/28/09 |
 Tinariwen -- meaning “Empty Spaces" in the Saharan Language of Tamashek -- hold the honor of being the first band of the Tuareg people to use electric guitars in their music and in their music they seek to stand up as the champions of their people against the injustices of the Malian government. |
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| 03/23/09 |
 Very few folk bands have the raw energy and power in their music or the ability to make people dance like an Ibiza nightclub than the Hungarian band Besh o droM, meaning, "ride the road" - just like horses in the Lovari gypsy dialect of Central Europe. |
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| 03/04/09 |
 To combine the music of the many different cultures in Los Angeles might not be the easiest job for musicians. Gaining their respect -- while performing political activism -- isn't either.
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| 01/06/09 |
 With his death in Idaho in 1961, American author Earnest Hemingway left behind a bibliography attributed at ten novels, ten collections of stories, and some fifteen works of non fiction that spanned a continent and a world. |
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