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Another 2006 innovation: Traditional Christmas music channeled through African percussive instruments. No lyrics, just carols made tropical. The effect is truly relaxing and highly unusual.

You may know Ellen Burstyn as an actor, the kind of natural performer who isn’t self conscious, but did you also know she’s a deeply spiritual person with a passion for Sufism? Read Valerie Reiss’s interview with Burstyn here. An excerpt: “I try and have the first words out of my mouth everyday be ‘thank…

I’m attending a birthday party next week in a shoe-free home. The invitation warns all guests of this in advance, and has playfully suggested that we come in “clean socks!” Of course, I have no problem with this, but I’m wondering what you guys think. A lot of people ask guests to remove their shoes…

Here’s a hugely important article by Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein. It reveals the sorry truth that government officials of both parties don’t always know who’s who and what’s what in the Arab world. Five years post-9/11, it’s everyone’s personal responsibility to study Middle Eastern history and bone up on its religious conflicits.
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