
Brakpan
Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul‘s images

Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul‘s images

A mix of French hip hop and smooth R&B dominates this installment, Number 5, of music from the French capital. Paris is a Continent.

This is our third Music Break post. It is curated by anthropologist Tom DeVriendt, who may just take a liking to keep doing them.

71-year-old GAL draws a weekly cartoon for the Belgian magazine Knack.* More of his 2011 work
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Q10g_Mov4&w=600&h=349] From an episode of American comedian Drew Carey’s sketch comedy show, “Whose Line is it Anyway.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRwz-flV2dE French IAM member Akhenaton and Faf Larage (brother to other IAM rapper Shurik’n) clearly had
We presume you’ve had Tumi and the Volume’s latest album, Pick A Dream, as much on

We’re tinkering with our design. Stick around for a few days while we’re figure this out.

I am no contemporary art expert. Sometimes one has to start with a disclaimer. The term
From Maputsoe, Lesotho comes a new video for Kommanda Obbs’s ‘Hona Joale’, recorded in the city
We read that the balafon is being considered for inclusion on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

Over the past week, it was hard to find an article published in a major international