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China Disco: More Indie Than Seattle Coffee?

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

I spent July studying film through the University of Washington Cinema Studies Department in Beijing. We watched artistic films about Communism and Chinese women’s roles.

Fortunately, China is also the home of Peking duck, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and a feverish unsung nightlife. With only three days of lecture in an average week of class, I was able to sample some of the ancient city’s more recent attractions.

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The American Music of Old Europe

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Europeans have eclectic tastes in American music, the vast majority of it fairly well chosen. For a music writer it can be a little astounding. Their top forty stations play all genres of music from mostly the US. Their regular airplay includes styles ranging on some stations from trip-hop to heavy metal. All that music [...]

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