With their unique sound, energetic personalities and international appeal, Hashish Punk, hailing from Argentina, are trying to earn their place in the music industry. Performing in English, Spanish and Armenian, Juan Abajian, Levon Hassassian and Ernesto Vaneskeheian have been crunching out pop- and punk-rock inspired melodies since 2000.
Ninety-two years ago, 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered in cold blood by the Ottoman Empire. Ninety-two years after the fact, we still struggle to have it recognized by not only the world, but by the very country and government that carried out the mass killings.
With its rich creamy texture, irresistible flavor and lingering aroma, it’s no wonder chocolate was once considered “the food of the gods.” Chocolate, or cacao, from which chocolate is derived, has captivated society for thousands of years, from the Mesoamerican civilizations that created it, to the Maya and Aztec which cultivated it and to today’s billion dollar chocolate industry that is gearing up for next week’s national holiday of love: Valentine’s Day.
God Grew Tired of Us” is a heartbreaking and heartwarming documentary that chronicles the story of three Sudanese refugees who have been displaced from their country due to a bloody civil war and resettled in the United States of America. After escaping Sudanese death squads, boys and young men walked more than 1,000 miles from their homelands in southern Sudan.
Originally Published November 9, 2006 Mention magic to a typical college student and they are bound to think of one of two things: David Blaine or the more recent magician who has been making headlines, Criss Angel. If their knowledge of magic is tied to the glitz and glamour of Vegas life, they might even mention Siegfried and Roy or Lance Burton, stage magician of the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino.
Irish songwriter Damien Rice’s sophomore album “9″ is an emotional, ballad-filled record with substantial tracks that do not disappoint. Other tracks, thoughs, with their perplexed lyrics and awkward pauses, act as cushioning in between, hardly supporting the other well-written songs with enough padding to carry this album to its end.
Off the Black, a coming of age story about a disheveled and disillusioned high school umpire who forms an unlikely friendship with a teenager who is coping with his own distant father, is in the long term a major home run. Written and directed by James Ponsoldt whose credits include “Junebug and Hurricane” starring Janeane Garofalo, “Off the Black” leaves you both satisfied and wanting more.
When public relations professor Jeffrey Duclos went on a five-day United Service Organizations tour that took him all across Iraq, he encountered a country constantly brewing with violence, risky and sometimes dangerous situations and, perhaps most important of all, soldiers who in the midst of war were able to keep up not only their spirits but their humor.
While Argentina is consumed by celebration after winning the World Cup on June 25, 1978, a girl is born to a mother who will never see her daughter again, as she becomes one of the thousands known as the “disappeared” of Argentina. In “Cautiva,” meaning “captive” in Spanish, Cristina, portrayed by Barbara Lombardo, who is a teenager living in Argentinean suburbia is plucked out of class when a judge who bears news that turns her life upside down summons her.