Monthly Archives August 2012
Acholi cooking lesson with Doreen
August 29, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Last month, students who raised funds to build Schools for Schools projects came to visit Uganda and learn more about Invisible Children programs, the history of northern Uganda, and Acholi culture. Doreen gave them an introduction to Ugandan cooking, teaching them how to prepare dishes like boo and malakwang. Doreen even agreed to share her [...] Read More
Young Cairo: “Ghosts” Music Video
August 29, 2012 by Alex Naser-Hall
Listen Before You Buy is what all music fans aspire to be – obnoxiously current. The website dedicated to cutting edge has become a staple for music discovery, and with the feature on Young Cairo‘s “Ghosts,” there is zero letdown. Young Cairo is cool kid (more officially: artist/designer) Andrawis George. After leaving his band Kid [...] Read More
Beasts of the Southern Wild? Yes please.
August 29, 2012 by Judith Pendergrast
Have you heard of Beasts of the Southern Wild? Here’s a rundown of the film as told by Sundance: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in “the Bathtub,” a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a [...] Read More
Madeon: “The City”
August 29, 2012 by Alex Naser-Hall
Listening to Madeon severely makes you reconsider your life. At eighteen years old, Madeon, actually named Hugo Pierre Leciercq, has already released several critic + public-approved tracks, toured the world, and produced some of Lady GaGa’s new album ARTPOP. At eighteen. Shameful. His newest single is the most polished in the French teen’s career – [...] Read More
Who knew light graffiti was a thing? Not us.
August 28, 2012 by Judith Pendergrast
If you were to take street art, add LED lights and water guns, then you’d collectively come up with the coolest art project I’ve seen in a while. Water Light Graffiti is a project that started in Poitiers, France in July by creative genius Antonin Fourneau and his friends at Digitalarti Artlab. Basically they cover a [...] Read More
Two LRA rescued by Ugandan military
August 28, 2012 by Invisible Children
On Friday, August 24th, Ugandan military clashed with LRA forces led by ICC indictee Dominic Ongwen, freeing two LRA and capturing LRA supplies. Via NewVision: The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) has captured ammunition and household equipment in a fresh attack on Joseph Kony’s LRA rebels in the Central African Republic (CAR). The UPDF also rescued [...] Read More
safe ha·ven: A place of refuge or security
August 28, 2012 by Invisible Children
Today, the Enough Project released its latest issue brief and map illustrating access that troops pursuing the Lord’s Resistance Army have in the region. The publication details the issue of LRA safe havens in Congo, the Central African Republic, and Sudan and offers solutions for battling this continuing problem. In all three countries, the existence [...] Read More
Album of the Week: Cat Power – “Sun”
August 28, 2012 by Alex Naser-Hall
[ photo by Jenni Li ] Chan Marshall, publicly known as Cat Power, has returned from a four year hiatus of real life to create one of the year’s finest, most confident releases. I think she’s saving music a bit, so her record Sun is this week’s Album of the Week. Marshall’s ninth album (yes [...] Read More
Calvin Harris + Florence Welch: “Sweet Nothing”
August 28, 2012 by Alex Naser-Hall
Calvin Harris is a certified jam maker, and Florence Welch has the dominance on the “ethereal songstress” game. Fresh off their UK chart-topping collaboration “Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix,)” the duo have unleashed their next track set to overtake the world. “Sweet Nothing” is the freshest single from Harris’s upcoming third album 18 [...] Read More
Burma’s continuous struggle
August 28, 2012 by Juan Frausto
Since its independence in 1948, Burma’s history has been written by a string of ethnic and political rebellions in what has left the country in a state of civil unrest. This past May, tensions between Arakan Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims escalated after reports of three Muslim men fatally attacking an Arakan Buddhist woman. On June 3, a group of Arakan villagers retaliated [...] Read More
