CHILE: Exhibit to Celebrate Indigenous Art
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - More than 100 artists from Chile’s nine indigenous groups will take part in the second biennial exhibition of indigenous art in the capital Oct. 17-Nov. 2, which hopes to draw at least 30,000 visitors.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Architecture Students Visit 50 Cities in 40 Days
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - A group of advanced architecture students and graduates from Argentina will tour more than 50 cities in their own country, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay to discover common characteristics in the architectural heritage of the Mercosur (Southern Common Market) countries.
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BRAZIL: Spreading the Cultural Tentacles of Inclusion
By Clarinha Glock
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil - "Negro F" tells how the Manos Grafite (roughly, "Graphite Hands") group started. In 1996, he and his friend Alex were walking along a street in the outskirts of the capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, when they were struck by the colours and forms painted on the walls.
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BOOKS: ‘Descent Into Chaos’
By Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON - News coming out of Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent months has unsettled many assumptions about the U.S. war on terror. To most casual observers of the war on terror, Afghanistan served until recently as a reassuring contrast to the grim and bewildering conflict in Iraq - - the "good war" as opposed to the "bad war".
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Q&A: "Longing for the Past Yet Belonging to the Present"
Interview with Niloufar Talebi, editor of Iranian literature
NEW YORK - Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, thousands of intellectuals, activists and poets have left Iran, many fleeing to Europe and the United States. A new book brings together the work of 18 Iranian poets from this diaspora to share their experiences with a wider audience.
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THEATRE-US: Native Son Rising
By Lucy Komisar
NEW YORK - Edwina, played by de'Adre Aziza, an attractive young lady in the church choir, has her eye on "the Youth" (Daniel Breaker). She informs him, "And after we marry and you've got a job in the corporate sector, you'll buy me a sprawling two-storey house fulla African sculptures from tribes we know nothing about, kente cloth couch covers, and Malcolm X commemorative plates lining the walls of our airy, peach-coloured breakfast nook?"
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BOOKS-US: A Path Out of the Wilderness
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - Helena Cobban's new book, "Re-Engage! America and the World After Bush", is not aimed at a target audience of officials, policy wonks and Washington elite think-tank types. So much is clear from a tagline running across the bottom of the cover: "An informed citizen's guide."
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POLITICS-US: My Big, Fat Geek Voter Drive
By Enrique Gili
SAN DIEGO, California - Few events elicit the passion evident at the International Comic Con convention, as fanboys and gals descended upon San Diego over the weekend, braving long lines to marvel at the latest creations of their long-standing heroes.
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FILM: Boys of Mass Destruction
By Katie Vandever
UNITED NATIONS - In a twist of realism, a new feature film, "Johnny Mad Dog", uses a cast of actual ex-child soldiers from Liberia to portray the violent lives of youth forced to participate in armed conflict.
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NORWAY: Make Africa's Tragedies Comic
By Tarjei Kidd Olsen
OSLO - How do you wake up comfortable Norwegians to the distressing realities of child deaths and maternal health in developing countries? Through the comic books they so love.
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