A few months back on a beautiful summer evening in Toronto, I attended a CD launch party for Twitter-friend and internationally renowned pianist Grace Nikae.  Hosted by Toronto fashion designer Rosemarie Umetsu at her Avenue Road studio, Grace gave us a sneak peak of her latest CD, Chopin | Schumann: Sonatas.
The event itself combined both [...]

I’ve always believed that Hip-hop at its best is, first, poetry; and, if explored in that context, it can hopefully be more easily accessible to those who profess, “I just don’t get it.”
Below is a video clip of Emmanuel Jal, former Sudanese child soldier, speaking and performing at a recent TED conference. It is [...]

Here’s some links from the last week or so that you may have missed and may be worth a look:

The longest solar eclipse of the century - some extraordinary images from Boston.com’s “The Big Picture”
China Launches Arabic TV Channel – BBC.co.uk reports on China’s launch of an Arabic-language television service for Middle East and North Africa viewers
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