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It's the sound of angels singing
This year, women are very much in charge of the Congo Square Theatre's annual production of "The Nativity." Starting with the new director, Ilesa Duncan, and extending all the way up to Gabriel. That archangel is played this year by Alexis J. Rogers,...Tags: Theater, Langston Hughes, Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Arts and Culture
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Bigger Gorillas Better at Attracting Mates & Raising Young
Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living in the rainforests of Congo seem to be more successful than smaller ones at attracting mates and...
Tags: Endangered Species, Natural Resources, Arts and Culture, Culture, National Parks
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Conflict Minerals -- how your electronics help fuel a violent conflict in Africa
jscherder@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Could your mobile phone, your computer, or even your gaming system help create violence somewhere thousands of miles away? According to one advocacy group, they do. "You don't think a lot about the purchases you make every day,"...Tags: Electronics, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Science and Technology
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Congo Park Expanded to Protect Chimpanzees
The Republic of Congo has formally expanded Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park to protect an increasingly rare treasure: one of Africa’s most pristine forests and a population of “naive” chimpanzees with so little exposure to humans that the...Tags: John Robinson, Natural Resources, Endangered Species, Conservation, Wildlife
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‘60 Minutes’ on Easter: musical miracle in Congo
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelOther stories focus on the European debt crisis and Polo model Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras, who is trying to make polo more popular in the United States.... -
Westminster native climbs a mountain for a cause
With visible excitement, Chris Glass runs his finger across a large wall map of the world at the world headquarters of the nonprofit, IMA World Health, in New Windsor. He carefully traces his route to Tanzania, then taps his finger gently on Mount...Tags: Human Interest, Rape, Cancer, Trips and Vacations, Diseases and Illnesses
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Fashion's Night Out
Fashion's Night Out is an unprecedented global initiative created to celebrate fashion, restore consumer confidence and put the fun back into shopping. For one night only, this Thursday, September 8, 2011 designers, celebrities, models and fashion editors...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Fashion Shows, Politics, Consumer Confidence
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Congo Square makes a move
Chicago's Congo Square Theatre Company is moving to Stage 773. The African-American theater company, known for the quality of its work and its administrative struggles, was formerly working at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, now leased to a...Tags: Minority Groups, African Americans, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Handcrafted, everyday beauty from Africa on display
Beauty can be found even in the utilitarian.
A recently opened exhibit of African art at the Baltimore Museum of Art makes that point powerfully, with a varied array of elaborately handcrafted personal objects from across the continent — from...Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Arts and Culture, Museum of Modern Art, Fine Arts, Hobbies
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Fundraising concert at Busch Gardens to feature Don Felder, J.D. Souther and Sam Bush
The James River Jam, an event subtitled "A night of music, a world of change," will bring a crowd of big-name musicians to Busch Gardens Williamsburg on Nov. 11. The list of stars playing the fund-raising concert includes Don Felder, John Oates, J.D....Tags: Human Interest, Rape, Music Industry, Rascal Flatts (music group), Palace Theater
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From the desk of: Some favorite summer treats
I have been going to the San Diego Zoo since I was a little girl. I love going there. I just don’t remember getting so worn out even when my husband and I used to have five young children in tow.
When we recently visited the zoo my...Tags: Fishing, Arts and Culture, Trips and Vacations, Photography, Central Africa
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Brickyard 400 Media Day: Juan Montoya ready for redemption
Fox59.comFor ten minutes, he never let his smile get away from him-even after two races did at the same venue the past two years. Juan Pablo Montoya chose to focus on the positive during his NASCAR media session at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Friday in...Tags: Human Interest, Juan Pablo Montoya, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Jeff Gordon, Ryan Newman
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