Arts & Entertainment
'Japanese Jazz Opera' spectacularly odd
A video making the rounds online features actors dressed up as peasants singing American jazz standards with Japanese lyrics.
Ex-Gitmo detainee's one-man show
A play opening in Sydney might make for uncomfortable viewing -- its star Mamdouh Habib based the play on his experiences as a Guantanamo detainee....Broadway musical meets Afrobeat royalty in 'Fela!'
Broadway has brought figures like Jesus and Thomas Jefferson to the stage; Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti is the latest....A dancer's remarkable journey
Yuriko's journey from a WWII Japanese internment camp to the world's stages as lauded dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company....Ghetto Biennale art show in Port-au-Prince
The Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, is traffic-snarled, chaotic, and terribly poor; but for three weeks, it was also the site of a unique art event. ...Traveling the world's roads
Writer Ted Conover talks about the many roads he's traveled on the way to his new book, "The Routes of Man."...'Walden by Haiku'
West meets East in a new book that rewrites Thoreau’s classic work in haiku form, reviving the glorious imagery of "Walden."...Inglourious Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino on "Inglourious Basterds," nominated for eight Oscars, and why he's a filmmaker who is in love with movies....'Avatar' in the Amazon
A group of indigenous leaders from the Amazon in Ecuador’s capital Quito, see the film "Avatar" on the big screen in 3D....Rounder Records looks back on 40 years
Rounder helped launch Alison Krauss and George Thorogood and the Destroyers, and also preserved a wealth of folk culture....Oaxaca's musical treasure
Some towns make handcrafts or goods for niche markets, but one indigenous village in Oaxaca produces highly-skilled musicians....More from Arts & Entertainment
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